Do You Respect Your Business? Do You Respect Yourself?
How much is your Steemit account worth to you? What if I shared with you that, with hidden assets that you have at your disposal, your Steemit business starts at over $50k? What have you done to take advantage of this disruptive opportunity? Have you branded yourself and demonstrated transparency? Are you viewed with integrity? Do you have an excellent rapport with both your existing clientele base and your prospects?
Have you any idea that Blockchain protects your intellectual property rights? Do you realize that you are an early adopter of a joint-venture business that millions of people will soon embrace? The stampede is shared not out of hype, but rather that the crush of AI (artificial intelligence) and robotics will have taken its toll upon millions of jobs.
Do you think that massive businesses such Target and Walmart are losing customer base, sales, and revenue because of the online presence of Amazon and others? Well, yes, in part. Is Amazon’s business model superior? It isn’t. Amazon had the same problems that Walmart and Target are experiencing at present. These corporations’ culture was rotten to the core. If you went through mistreatment numerous times, would you feel compelled to go back?
In my values, I rarely go into Walmart and have not bought anything through Amazon for the entire 21st Century. I bought several hundreds of dollars of books through them and selected expedited shipping and paid accordingly. However, the order was sent ground and took several days to arrive which caused several problems. Amazon’s customer service was arrogant as could be and refused to refund my shipping costs. So many today rave about Amazon. I am not moved.
Why did I address the previous two paragraphs? The reason is that most folks on Steemit lack business culture and treat their prospects and clientele like crap. There are peripheral communities for various interests connected for Steemit. Most in these communities treat them as a place to spam rather than building relationships and therefore their loyal clientele base.
Since Steemit will become the business for millions of people within two years and you are on the ground floor as they say, why would you treat your livelihood and survival with contempt? How long would a brick-and-mortar store stay in business that NEVER answered their phone? So then, why do you not acknowledge cogent comments to your blog posts?
If Sears, W.T. Grants, Compaq, E.F. Hutton, MCI Worldcom, and Woolworth’s were represented on Steemit, with a 75 Reputation, started being indifferent to their prospects and clientele base, how long before they Reps dropped and also their followers? If a start-up concern went into a Target store with flyers and proceeded to hand them out, how long would they last?
How many folks became best-selling authors by standing at a busy intersection, waiting for the light to turn red, and waving a homemade-cardboard sign, “Please follow me, upvote my post, and resteem me?” Within the peripheral communities of Steemit, there exists teaching and profession-style promotional ideas, tactics, and strategies. The stress here is communities. One must be a giver. Purely takers will dry up and blow away.
Cryptocurrency and Steemit are based on decentralized philosophies and execution. Therefore, the strength lies in cooperation. State-free societies existed and flourished for a while until conquered. They were subdued because they did not ready themselves for mutual protection. Steemit is a state-free society protected by Blockchain.
Steemit does not have a Police Department. What Steemit possesses is individuals of integrity who will reduce a parasite to nothing. It is much like the role of judges in state-free societies.
Yesterday, at a business conference, a speaker shared about the need to move toward digital assets. Your cryptocurrency account[s] and your Steemit business is the culmination and collection of your digital assets and your online presence. Respect yourself and your business and do not defecate on your dining table.
Agree 100% with you. We need consistency, patient, and integrity in here. Affraid of having no followers, no vote, no income are actually suffering, we better focus on quality and writing. Compete with yourself to be the winner in the future. Warm regard....
Hi, @mariskalubis ... yes, focus on quality. I like your mention of competing with oneself. Most ideally, we concentrate on becoming our best so that others are best helped in becoming their best. @aedroberts often says in interpersonal conversations, "We are all both strong and weak at the same time." When we appreciate the meaning of that expression, we realize and appreciate how our strengths and weaknesses go together; and we thus team up with others who have strengths to compliment ours to bring about an end result of strong community.
Yes, we always need others to grow and to help others to grow, to help others we need to compete ourself, according to my opinion, since we are tend to follow our ego and will. Ego and will is important in art, but when it is too much it will kill ourself. If we can control ourself, be wise, and able to accept all the truth with open mind, we can do the best and help others to be the best, as we all hope. Anyway, thank you @kennonfort... thank you also to @aedroberts... i do believe we all can do something not only for ourself but for all, for a better future... warm regards from Indonesia.
Thank you kindly; you are getting there.
agreed! treat every person as if they are a customer and show them the utmost respect. We are definitely on the ground floor of the potential of blockchain and the integration of the sensor markets and AI into our daily lives. Systems are going to be running even faster and companies need blockchain technology to increase their profits.
Great content ! resteem and upvoted for sure!
About the police-less society in Steemit, I will probably refrain myself to agree on your point of view for now.
Otherwise it is very true. One needs to be both giving and receiving; a mutual support is the most important thing and there's just no take, take, take and be constantly prosperous; not even in the real world.
But how many out there could actually understand self integrity is more crucial than the rewarded stake? That's the good question.
Often development countries or even under development countries have its citizens bound and chained in a poverty mindset and this is just another gold pots for handouts and they must grab it as fast as they could.
Such mindset if not corrected in them will only lead to one disaster to another, be it real world business or digital business platform.
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I understand where you are coming from on "... police-less society..." on Steemit. There is a difference between a police force and in a volunteerism mechanism. Certainly, there are those who have taken upon themselves to be the "police" on Steemit. However, as I subtly infer, those within that genre, can have the game change on them quickly.
About the poverty mindset, it exists also within industrialized nations. You will notice my response to one commenter. This is why deforestation has spread throughout the world. Have entities such as Man-Satan (Monsanto) Corporation caused great damage? Yes; just look at the Amazon Basin. Still, the Sahara and Sahel have expanded and now many parts of Asia are on the brink of an ecological disaster. The mindset is just what is in front of an individual without any plan for tomorrow. The strategy of this post was to break that mindset of even one individual.
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100% on all accounts, thanks for addressing this cultural deficit. Remember folks, even in a throwaway society, the blockchain is forever, and reputation, good or bad, can have lasting effect.
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@neuromancer Excellent and indeed; have the Blockchain work for you instead of against you.
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You bring up some excellent points and I agree we must develop our skills and continue treating each other with respect. The balance in power will come with time if Steemit is to continue to grow. The struggle is real for some and just fun for others. :) enjoyed your post.
That struggle comes in the mindset. I get to earn on Steemit while sometimes telling stories, including children's stories. It could hardly be better than that unless someone will pay me for eating tomato sandwiches.
Roberts , it's a long road until steemit becomes trully decentralised. For the moment, the power is in the hands of the few.
Yes; this is why I allude to some who sit high and mighty can fall if they continue on an arrogant course. Steemit is presently a tiny nation with only a few of its denizens being lucid as to what they portray and how they interact. The percentages will NOT likely change. However, when there are five million folks on Steemit, there will be a large block (and bloc) of those who get it.
These are great points. In business, building trusting, meaningful relationships go a long way. No business can stand idly by and say "I can't help you with that" when knowing full well they can at least try to help the customer.
Do more than enough with your loyal fan/customer base without burning out. Yes, it's possible to do that. Or you can hire people to get the work done for you while you focus on other business priorities. Now, I might be digressing from the actual point of this post, but sometimes I say what comes to mind.
Overall, well said.
Yes; when a business grows folks are hired to assist that growth and to share in it. I have already made the decision that when I get big enough on Steemit then I will hire a virtual assistant to bridge things until the next step.
I feel we are the luckiest one who has found out this platform quite early. One think for sure, if we need to get success treat every person out here as your business partner, success to them means success to you too and vice versa.