Steem-Promo via social media || 8-07-23 || Increasing this platform's user base by 5

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Promoting Steemit is one of the best thing I've done this year. Seeing people get to know the platform and also benefit from it gives me joy. I've signed up a considerable number of users on the platform who have their achievement 1 Verified. Some of them are;
@kemmynkanang, @gideonpolycarp, @uyisaac, @nsijoro @tomlister and @slimmama.

Yet others aren't verified and this is one of the reasons I stopped promotion. Since I run an online Promotion, I meet people from different states and countries. I've signed up more than 20 users last month. About 11 are active users 3 are unverified for over a month now while 6 didn't do their achievement 1 because they felt discouraged after seeing that others aren't verified and can't join my class.

That consistent spirit they once had died..... Those who are unverified even till now have missed lots of classes they would have joined, but because they are unverified, they remain dormant. These users are @imowilliam and @bettymikki. These are their Introductory posts links.

@imowilliam	Achievement 1
@bettymikki	Achievement 1

Not withstanding the discouragement, I still forge ahead hoping this month would be like last month and that those I'm working with gets verified so I can start a class with them. I resumed Promotion, this time on Facebook......

Facebook and WhatsApp has always been my favorite mediums of promoting Steemit. I get to reach out to as many as possible on these social medias especially students who are looking for ways to support themselves in school. I do comment on people's posts and then get attention from commenters.

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These are the Promotional materials I used to carry out this Facebook Promotion.

Screenshot of my posts and transaction made
Written text about the platform	This is withdrawal proof. The platform is a social media that's decentralized. Facebook would have been paying you guys for posting on the platform but it is not decentralized. It is centralized that's why it only pays verify users who has attained a particular number of followers and has monetized their accounts .

Before embarking on this promotion, I was conscious of my audience and then decided where to post and what to say. I then decided to Comment on a post I saw which asked users to share screenshots of their withdrawal proofs on platform they have benefited. I shared that of steemit and how I cashed out my steems.

This screenshot pulled a lot of traffic on my posts and those who saw the screenshot and writeups messaged me asking how the platform works and how they can join as shown below. Got lot of pending messages that I had to reply concerning the platform.

To adopt uniformity and organization, I gave them a preview of what the platform is and a WhatsApp group link in which they'll join and learn more about it.

The results was favourable though. After all the messages dropped on Facebook, I was able to link up 10 people to join my WhatsApp group and then learn with others. The interest shown made about 5 users to sign up on the platform.

These users are @ucessfuldubem, @kenkennedyy, @shola1863, @bestLevelz75, @Kingsleyosayi1. These users set up their account after signing up and I hosted a 10 minute class on how they would do their achievement 1 post and submit to me as text first. They all responded and are on it. At least, I've increased the user base of this platform by 5. Looking forward to seeing them get verified on the platform so I can commence a class with them.

I face the challenge of encouraging users to forge ahead. In a situation where many joined but some are affected by power outage and data or the likes of them which drags we back. Another Challenge is that of verification. Verification of newbies has been challenge that's making me feel discouraged about promotion.

This has really affected my Promotional skills as I try my possible best to avoid online Promotion and work physically. Asides this, some faced the challenge of joining the platform so I had to help them out. I helped 3 users create an account on the platform of which their usernames are shown below.

_{In summary, I'm still doing what I know how to do best. Looking forward to a time I'll raise both investors and content creators on the platform.}

Cc,
@heriadi
@patjewell

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