Hand on heart? I won't promote steem.
I only sell what I believe in.
There are serious flaws, that refuse to be addressed by the happy clappy crowd (or the talent less without any desire to change the staus quo- just keep their power - even if it means a sinking ship..)
Believe it it or not, I'm not being negative. But like I said, I won't promote something I don't think is in the right place, right now..
I'll do work for others that do want to promote it.
I'm promoting it because it pays my bills and I believe it can succeed if we have more people here - millions - not thousands. It could easily fail with the shenanigans at the top. But we have to start somewhere and this is the place we are.
We have people actively trying to promote on Twitter, so this is where I am exerting effort now. Trying to talk my friends into joining? No. But twitter is full of people who put effort into social media so I think it is a good place to mine.