Q1) I first discovered Steemit in the Summer of 2016 and was introduced by my friend @quantumanomaly to the platform. He encouraged me to use it as a platform my music, and after much persuasion, I joined in October 2016, and I quickly discovered it was exactly that. A perfect platform for undiscovered or underrated musicians.
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(Q2) It gives musicians an opportunity to “make a living” without “making it,” and giving “making it,” an entirely new paradigmic definition. As a gigging musician, blogging on Steemit, and working a 40-hour a job...it was tough. Now, between the support of the Steemit audience built over time, I was actually able to quit my job last August and focus completely on my creative endeavors. Since then, I have recorded, published and am about to digitally release an album. That wouldn’t have and couldn’t have happened without this platform. Period. Whether it be literally from the upvotes of token support, or the moments of encouragement in the comments section of blog posts have kept me going and kept me writing and playing when I didn’t otherwise have the motivation.
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(Q3) Write your passwords and keys down (Musicians forget a lot of stuff typically), and remember that it takes time for most people to experience any level of success anywhere. Hard work is required in any sense. Sure, we see “celebrities“ pop up every day, but the real people out there grinding for their art are the middle guys and for so long, those middle guys (or gals) have been overlooked because their subscribership wasn’t to the levels it needed to be (or downloads, etc.), but Steemit allows you to earn cryptocurrency out-the-gate, per se. However, it is about quality of content, and engagement.

You have to be willing to engage yourself with your audience as much as they’re willing to engage with your music. You can’t just post and run. It doesn’t work like that here. You can truly develop a fan base of people who truly believe in what you do and why you do it, if you take the time to get to know who is listening to you..and Steemit allows us to do that in a very intimate way.