The sad reality of creating content on hive
I don't create content on hive as much as I would like. When I heard about the idea I was very excited to try it. Unfortunately, my dreams of earning a living by creating content on hive ended when I saw the response from readers, or in this case, no reaction at all.
Is discouraging to invest time creating content on hive and not seeing results in the form of votes, comments, anything.
I was disappointed after seeing the results, but I remembered I quote that I hear many years ago in a forum: “Once you found a way to make a cent on the Internet, now repeat it again and again”.
That was not an invitation to spam hive, but to keep creating despite the first results.
Writing is an investment
I was very naive to expect upvotes from my first post, with all my mistakes and in a new platform. As everything worth pursuing, it will need time.
Time will allow more traffic, the consolidation of communities like GEMS and other communities that are making an incredible job by selecting content worth reading. We need more efforts like this.
I hope some day I could write content worth reading and with this and the effort of the communities we are going to build a platform were readers want to spend time in it.
I am planning to use this young platform as a tool to learn how to write more useful content, be more efficient and be part of it from the start.
This is a long term investment. The “profits” will be visible in the form of writing skills, knowledge of what hive readers want, a more mature hive and the experience of being with a platform as it grows.
If you write, time is your friend
Is very optimistic to think that your first post is going to be notices in a sea of content. The truth is that it will take time until you build a “net” big enough to start drawing attention to your content.
The key is consistency and quality. Hoping that communities like GEMS will notice your work and help with the visibility of the work.
With time you content will be noticed and followers will begin to upvote your quality content.
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