I think a lot of people are still behind the times when it comes to all of these opportunities to make extra money.
I’ve been trying to talk my coworkers and family into joining Steemit. I’ve had almost no success doing so. I think it’s seems so far fetched to them that you can make money blogging.
I think very few truly understand just how many opportunities blockchain and crypto will give us. It may take more time for the mainstream to get a hold of it.
Yeah what's really crazy to me is how people come up with an idea on their own for something that already exists ie I remember I was doing dropshipping like 8 years ago before I even knew it was a thing, I just thought I had a clever idea to sell things I didn't have in my posession.
I'll often hear people online say things like could I find a company to pay me to sell their stuff like affiliate marketing or various other ideas. There's a lot of things I wish I had learned way earlier in terms of online hustles amazon merch kindle book publishing all types of stuff.
As far as crypto I intiially tried to get a lot of people in my personal life as well as my Youtube subscribers to come over to Steemit and tried to get them excited about the concept of potentially earning off content they create, heck they create a ton of free content for facebook and instagram already and get paid nothing.
Ultimately I think the rewards are a bit underwhelming and while I love this platform, its not based on creating great content, its based on knowing how to play the game so I think the "you can make money' pitch doesn't really go over well because the money for most is small and the system is kind of stacked. Hopefully this platform continues to grow and get a wider user base, we start getting a wider array of people and content and hopefully content starts to take center stage instead of everyong buying their way on to hot and trending as is what its currently all about
I agree. I joined over two years ago now and for a month or two was on often and posted several stories. My friends told me it was mostly my mistake for how i formatted the stories, written and published with a few readers in mind, forgetting the way the rewards work, and not accounting for peoples short attention spans (i was told my stories should have been broken into bits to garner attention and more time to be upvoted which i see now is true). While i did receive some positive feedback and well wishings, for the time i put into creating the original content, the rewards were exactly what you said, underwhelming. Seems like with the social media driven generation and those of us adapting, pictures and click bait like headlines are 'tricks of the trade'. While i too have hope that steemit grows and eventually cuts out its own space, seems the rewards go to those with large followings from other platforms, and those with bots set in place to reap the benefits of curation. Such is life.
I can totally relate to that! I convinced my colleagues to join this platform. Out of 10, only two tried. And they only posted once and off they went!
Truly sucks to see people missing on such opportunity.