Well, I'm not really trying to recruit anyone yet, I've only been around for a few days (ignore the creation date of my account, it's been inactive for months). But I can see the diffidence, I can understand it.
The thing is, in this day and age, everybody is a believer in something. Social networks create factions, and factions create fanaticism. Everybody tries to sell you something, an idea(l), a product, a cause. If somebody was to come to me with the promise of making money with a "new system", I'd be at least dubious. Hell, I've sat 3 hours in a bar with a friend who was trying to recruit me into Amway by saying "this is not a pyramid scheme. It looks like a pyramid scheme, it works like a pyramid scheme, but I promise you, it's not a pyramid scheme!". It doesn't really help when there's cryptos involved, even now that, as you say, they are out there: most people don't know what to believe, are they "a bubble", are they "imaginary, intangible currency", are they "the money of the future"?
I think if and when I'll try to get people to know about Steem I'd focus on the social network angle, and I'd make sure I really know the mechanisms behind cryptocurrencies, so that I can explain it to them in simple yet effective words. Most of all, I'd specify it's really, really hard work. People tend to be less diffident when you explain that whatever you're offering them is not really for free :)
@ziofeda wow that was a really intercede explanation!! Thanks for that. You hit the nail on the head on that one. It is very hard when you get on the plateform, it’s not easy for a new steminian!! I almost gave up and kinda did for a while!! I know I hate it when someone is trying to sell me a get rich scheme, at the back of my head I’m always rolling my eyes!! I can see now that when I try and encourage people to join steemit it may seem that way. For the most part, for as long as iv been here I haven’t really been an active member of recruiting people, i mentioned it to some friends and I could tell they were rolling their eyes. They were not buying it. Haha it’s probably better that people discover it like how most of us did, through social media or through crypto currency.
Thanks for that, I had a light bulb moment reading your message:)
Love to be of any help at all :D
You're right though, we all love to find out something for ourselves, I think. Life lessons, life partners, little treasures. We don't like to be set up :D
Thank you for your videos! See you around :)