RE: SteemWorld ~ Weekly Support ~ #16
Have you considered a subscription model?
Yes, that would be a possible solution, but I'm not sure if the people would still use SteemWorld when it would cost something. Especially minnows would not like it, because they would earn even less than before.
How many hits does steemworld get per day/week/month?
I've currently no counter on my servers, but SimilarWeb shows 330K visits for November. In July there were about 660K.
I'm thinking about building kind of a promotion service for posts. People could make bids for being promoted for one day (or longer) and the highest bid wins. The winner would pay the bid amount and SteemWorld would then display a link with title and picture of the promoted post on the starting screen of SteemWorld for the agreed time period.
With currently ~ 11K views per day their posts would get much more attention and votes I guess. Maybe that's the solution...
I like that "promotion" idea.
I've been on steem for almost a year now. As a new user I wouldn't have paid for any kind of subscription to SteemWorld but as a steemian I might now because
I have SteemWorld open in a tab 100% of the time when I'm on steemit.
I have you on an auto vote so I can support you without missing anything.
If you do decide to go with a paid subscription, I recommend giving free month or two to new users. once they see what SteemWorld is all about they wont want to steem without it.
As per my other comment about newbies, I agree with you, they cannot afford it and it takes most of them more than 3 months to become independent.
The idea of promoting a post by bid...I like it, but maybe it should stay on your front page for 2 days, then, have a button we can click to see the last three posts you promoted (makes them feel you gave them extra value).
Those who want to show appreciation for all you offer us should then reward those bidders by upvoting and/or commenting on their post.
From what you say, you basically need to have at least $20 per day. Set the min bid for 10STEEM - to win the bid, we'll have to bid higher.
At the worst, it should seriously reduce your reliance on voting only.