RE: I Will Upvote Constructive Comments by 5-10 Cents - Let's Improve Content on Steemit Together
Hey,
I noted that you don't really divide your articles up. It helps to not be a page of text by using headings and subheadings.
It's also great to get ideas from articles by answering the questions that people are asking, like when I wrote about the top 100's returns over a year, the strategies I use to manage my portfolio, and why I value my portfolio in BTC, each of these were questions that I got constantly.
Outside of formatting, steemit is about relationship building, there's a maxim in blogging and in social media marketing: curate resources and help people and you'll quickly succeed.
Curate in this case means bring in and promote quality content by resteeming, sharing outside links, and linking to other posts in your posts. Helping is answering questions, building relationships. Both of these things help steemians help each other.
Fantastic, thanks a lot.
I am learning about formatting and have several markdown editor guides bookmarked. I will definitely be thinking more about the formatting of my posts from now on.
You sound like you have experience in creating blogs, did you have one before/outside of Steemit?
I have blogged for a few different companies and am considering an offer to write for a mainstream finance publication's digital edition on cryptocurrency.
Why am I not surprised? :D
However that makes me curious, why work to make someone else rich when you have the skills and ability to build up a significant following on a platform like this?
I'm considering it because of the leeway offered as well as the audience and ability to put a link in the byline. I also am not in it for the money, I'm in it to help people get into crypto safely. If a mainstream publication is publishing information on crypto, then it will be a taken a lot more seriously. I'm only taken seriously by those already in crypto.
You got my attention with that astute insight.
Social media marketing could also include other strategies such as gamification (subset of psychological matching and manipulation).
I added a link to your blog post above in one my comments.
Note I stopped using the Steemit follow feature, because I need to have my head down in coding, and not reading others. (Head in the sand focus is essential for me to have any chance of achieving any of my goals) But most people are not going to have that problem. I will need to be pinged if someone has something they really think is important for me to read. I do understand the importance of reading others to pick up ideas I would not have thought of. It is a tradeoff. I’ve been very socially interaction on BCT for past few years and now is time for coding.
It is all about the size and demographics of the audiences. Which is why I am looking at a different model for onboarding than Steem’s. But I am not quite yet ready to publish that idea.
You’re confirming my Knowledge Age theory which I re-summarized in a recent comment.
@ashr upvoted for insight. Seems appealing to me because a big part of my motivation is also to teach people about crypto. However, I think I need to spend another few months writing and learning about crypto before I could be considered for paid content on crypto media websites.
If I get a few thousand followers and start earning anything reasonable on Steemit I will reinvest a lot of that for advertising my Steemit articles and content on other social media platforms.
Quite a long way from doing that considering I need to first finalize my ideas for my next 40 blog posts or so (have ideas for about 20 right now).
I have a list of about 50, with 15 already written. I'm just working on something else this week and am super swamped.