Just like anything in life it's all about who you know. The little secret that they don't tell you is that you can get to know the right people. Part of that goes back to your post.
It takes an investment to make money anywhere you go. The investment might be time grinding or terrific content or money, but there will have to be something that makes you stand out and be different from all the rest of the posts and that attracts special interest in your post.
If you spend your time adding value to a project, through time, effort, ideas....whatever it might be. At some stage people will notice. Once you are running in the right circles it is much easier to get to know the right people.
Why would whales vote for newbie's that they don't know when they have so many people already in their own circle. Fair enough you can argue that it would be good for the blockchain but what i've seen lately is a lot of delegation towards good projects on the blockchain. I think that this is far more beneficial to the blockchain as people are supporting projects that will add value to the blockchain and in cases like actifit actually distribute steem across large numbers of account with active users.
The opportunities are here to do better and do more but it wont happen without an investment at the start. Nothing ever does.
I'm glad you brought up the networking part! It is huge. It is a social network, not an Author's guild.
True. I think that's it partly the design of steemit that doesn't really make it that easy to network. If you only use this site is is pretty much impossible. That's why people have to use a combination of sites like steem chat, discord, steemit, dlive....ect....
I found that very strange when I first joined. That you needed to sign up to so many different sites to make it work properly. And having to find out about each of them separately as you go along. I know that there is a team that tries to welcome newbies and help them down the right path ut it took a long time before I found out most of this information. It would be great if there was a start up package when you join to show you what's out there and what paths you could take to get started. Just a thought.
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