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RE: Expecting nothing is different from not having a plan
Good points. I have had a web presence for more than 2 decades. And yes making money is hard. Especially if you have ethics. I got into the game to promote foraging. Mostly herbs in the start. I started programming to deliver content at first in Delphi then in Perl. I now deliver content over multiple sites using Perl and MySQL. To cover the cost I had to provide hosting services to others.
I joined steemit.com because it offers many opportunities. Both on creation and on commenting, a part of earning most here ignore. Upvote a comment and it promotes good content.
I have also added steem payments to my hosting services. I would really like to add voting to my site to pay contributors.
Thanks for the post.
Ethics, as you said, are an important factor, one that I didn't mention in the article.
I can't even remember the amount of times I chose to not get views and attention simply because I considered that the main ways to get those things are unethical.
I couldn't make myself leave stupid "hey, check out my content too" comments on other people's articles, or to talk about my work as being this amazing thing that people should definitely check out.
A lot of those who get a lot of attention do those things, one way or another, and while it works for them, it's something I and others are not always willing to do.
Making money online is, as you said, hard, and with 2 decades of experience, I'm sure you know what you're talking about.
And while Steemit is indeed an opportunity, there are things about this website that aren't as good as they could be. One of them is, in my opinion, the fact that people are following and giving money mostly to those who already have money, instead of people who are just starting out and actually create good content.
Then there are people who steal content or post only images or stolen jokes instead of actually creating something themselves, hoping to get a lucky upvote and make some quick money.
The Internet is like a jungle in a lot of situations, and, from my point of view, unless you're willing to "fight" with everyone else for attention, it's gonna be hard to get any.
Many good points. I try to create my own or value add. As a part of education and pointing my fallowers to otherz good content. I want to incorporate steem to my own sites. To reward both programing input and site content such as new and updated data in say the herbal database. Removing the 7 day limitation to post is another.