I do like to tell a good tale, and the one that brought me to Steemit is an excellent. Going back some two years I made terrible YouTube videos, including vlogs - somehow I crossed paths with @old-guy-photos and we kept up with our own videos (his were popular, mine were not). Then Paul started to tell me he had joined this platform where you really could get a reward from your work - because YouTube was giving little for views and in fact not so long after stopped monetising small accounts at all.
So I joined Steemit, made posts and they got pretty much zilch rewards - nothing, nada - 0.0001 sbd - nothing. Months I kept posting and got pretty much nothing, totally bemused at why I saw other people getting upvotes and rewards - my content was not amazing but certainly better then others I saw getting decent rewards.
I think that frustration drives the retention problem we have on Steemit - it took me months to work out my mistake was creating a post and waiting for people to find it and like it - that never happens.
Once I worked out what I needed to do was far more then create a post - but sell my post - and myself by interacting with others, commenting on posts making friends, relationships - community bonds that would bring people to me and my content - only then did I see how Steemit works and the potential you can grow from.
Steemit is a stage, and our accounts make us entertainers - we are here to entertain people and the more we do the further we will go - and to entertain you have to find people - like yourself that wish to entertain and be entertained. Once you find that balance - and realise your posts are not important your comments and sharing of others posts are - then you will see the rewards grow and your content spread throughout the community.
We are all made of stars - all we need to remember is to show everyone else we are.
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