I share your frustration. Selling Steemit is looked at like selling cancer. The further worrisome part is over the dozen or so that have tried it, only 2 are still active. Two of the inactives even had very good success, post had posts over $100 and quit. Never even took the money out. Its beyond maddening. Oh and btw some of the inactives are the folks that every time I speak to them all I hear is how broke they are!!!!!!!!
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Well, agreed.... and now we get out into the swampy area of "psychological gratification."
Pioneering is really hard work because you're engaged in the business of pulling people outside their comfort zones. With social media, that's even harder... because people are attached to the "investments" they have in the platforms they are already part of.
For Steemit, and bringing people over, some even get started here and then stop... "well, but all my friends are still on Facebook, and I miss the ____________"
For me, Steemit remains a "specialty sell" to a large number of bloggers and writers and content creators... but NOT the "general public." I am poking away at people I was on social blogging platforms with, in the past... and that works slightly better because their base expectations are not that this is "another Facebook," but that it might become "another LiveJournal."
Yes, that's a bit specialized... on the other hand, the biggest of the "social blogging" platforms had 33 million users in 2005. Anyway, my point here is that perhaps the Steemit "target user" isn't on *Facebook," they are Blogger/WordPress users....