My funny experiences with Steemit while promoting Bitfilm of the Day.
My first day in our new venture Bitfilm of the Day leaves me a bit puzzled. We cannot complain about the feedback. I wrote a guest post on @knozaki2015 and gave an interview to @sirwinchesester. Thanks, KNosaki and Tony, for the great support!
These two posts plus our "introduceyourself" on @bitfilm and a short piece I wrote on my own account together received 471 upvotes (at the time of writing) which are worth about 208 Dollars. That's awesome - thanks to everyone who upvoted!
Yet the post that contains the film has only received 16 votes worth 41 Cents so far!
(Update: this has changed significantly, maybe because of this post?)
This makes me wonder where that big discrepance may come from. The reactions in the comments to our competition in all posts have been overwhelmingly positive.
I also can't believe that people do not like the first film Over Time. I think it's a great piece of art and it has won numerous awards around the world.
Didn't we make our message clear enough? It's nice to get all that attention for the promotion, but it's the post with the film that collects the votes and the money for the film makers.
Is success on Steemit really only a matter of luck or of close personal relations to some whales, as some critics say? I don't think so, but I have still no clue why some things work out great and some things don't.
What can we do better? Any ideas from your side?
Is Steemit a Lottery? You may find your answer here: http://steemloto.com/
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I do sympathise whit what you are saying. Right now video posts tend to get overlooked a lot. I think people prefer to use this as a reading platform.
I have no idea either...I find the whole thing baffling....but every system has it's weakness...
Well done re Bitfilm of the Day.
I would say yes - whales distribute those big incomes. They push you if you are good for marketing "See this famous person is now also on Steemit - already earned big money" ... but once you try to start to build a sustainable income from posting content you are not much of interest anymore and you just get whats distributed by the rest of users that dont have much power - and thats pocket change.
Coming from the dogecoin community - this is a known pattern from the coins early days, to push your cryptocurrency. But at least doge community did much charity stuff and very fast accepted that tipping pocket change in the long run is cool too - not making too much promises that you could make a living on doge tips - its more a fun thing now - to be just a part of it and feel rich because of so much dogecoins. But Steem is making the promise that you can make real profits from your content and is showing earnings in USD - so thats different in the long run.
I like the experiment they are doing. But the rule seems simple at the moment - drive attention to steemit an you have a good chance to get supported by whales. Try to drive attention to your own agenda and live with the pocket change.
Maybe whales will pick some projects to push as an example "see this guy is wrong - xyz is making constant money" ... but to prove me wrong, steem needs to show more than some single PR examples and show that it can have real impact by empowering a large user base - not just a Steem-Aristocracy.
I conclude that the best strategy is to find something that drives attention to Steemit and to your own cause.
That would be the best fit and try to get a whale to be your aristocratic patreon.
At the moment, if we reference what succeeded in real life, this might solve a ton of issues: https://steemit.com/steemit/@jacor/how-do-we-create-a-middle-class