Definitely a content creator here.
- I take half the sbd I get out of here daily.
- I reinvest the rest into delegated sp and bots to boost my post payouts.
- I will power down once when my account value is over $5000 and use that to boost my presence more. And again at $7500 etc assuming I get there.
All my steemit posts link out to my other sites and that is the real gold for me. Traffic and sales are up everywhere else I post or sell anything. My affiliate sales are way up and book sales are double from last year. I've had 2 coaching gigs - not from steemit people - from other platforms where I cross post. I'm not sure what else, but it's all great.
I came here for the alexa ranking and to promote my health and weight loss content. I had no idea about crypto or any thoughts of making money here. But now - I paid for my Jan 2018 expenses with Dec 2017 steemit money alone.
I am all in with this and posting 2-4 times a day.
But I do not trust the place for a minute. Too many shenanigans at the top. All the money concentrated at the top. Infighting with the big guys 24/7 when not circle-jerking each other. Little support for gasping minnows.
Now witness idea that they "need" to cut post payouts by 75% asap. Right as the Alexa drops beneath 500. No initiatives to make the place more welcoming - instead - cut post payouts. OK.
I will be here until they pry the alexa ranking from my cold, dead hands, but no - I am most definitely not an investor beyond what I have to be to succeed here.
@fitinfun, thanks for sharing with us some of your business strategies and concerns. Something I hear from you is that you have a plan and you are executing it.
I believe that is important regardless of how comfortable or not you feel with the platform and leaders. If we don't know where we want to go, we rarely make it there.
Thanks for stopping by. I apppreciate!
Yes, I am using this place to the best of my abilities and hoping the big guys don't kill it. If I wake up one day and steemit is gone (like 3 other platforms I have tried in the 10 years I have been doing this work) I will not be surprised in the least.