Wow. Just wow. You know, I recently wrote a post about how I wrote quality content yet I don't get curated. I mean, for the past four months and I've only made $20 twice. Nothing more than that. And I know I write quality content. I know I'm good. Yet for some reason no one checks out my blog to vote for me. Even if you don't vote, just read my stories and leave an encouraging comment.
When I got frustrated, I tried offering a service on steemit. I make whiteboard animations and I uploaded samples on steemit. By the the third post on my whiteboard animation videos, I got tired. Because people still didn't engage with my posts. I was frustrated and tired, and I resigned myself to getting $0.2 or $0.01 on my posts for the rest of my time on steemit. One time I gathered all the 32sbd I had saved up and took the advice of a friend and Upvoted my post using @jerrybanfield and one other bot. The upvote was sooooo weak I nearly cried. To make matters worse, the value of steem dropped. Dtube also took it's own share. Long story short, the post paid out about 12 sbd. My experience on steemit has not really been a favorable one, because as you said it is capitalist favorable. The underdogs have no chance.
But reading your post today I've gotten a wake up call. I have so many skills. I'm a promoter, a blogger, I've written a few books, I can create whiteboard animations, I'm a website designer and a graphics designer as well. But I just can't get a market on steemit, even when I use the steemgigs tag.
But I've checked out your posts and I've learned a few things. I will try again.
Broseph, a month ago nobody knew who I was. Even if your content isn't good, you can use the bots to upvote your post to the Trending page consistently. I lost money the first few times I did it. Now I gain every time.
Some of that is from upvotes from real human beings with high value accounts. If you have an opinion and can get your point across in an entertaining way, people will reward you.
You say your stuff is good. Great. Do you have money to promote your work? If you do, then get to it. If not, then it looks like you have another problem to solve.
Also, don't take advice from your friend. Take advice from me. I'm your new friend.
Good luck.
"I just can't get a market on steemit"
did you try other platforms like youtube or fiverr?
What I like about his posts are the fact that he says a lot of things that other people think but don't actually say. :) Also, having others find your things by using tags may NOT be your fault.
As a new person here, I can tell you I cannot search by ALL of the tags that exist on either Steemit, eSteem or Busy. The list either doesn't list them all or when you attempt to search by tag, the results are 1 page long and or do not correlate in any real meaningful ways.
There HAS to be more good content under the tags I'm interested in but the platforms, just do not allow you to actually effectively search for them.
I hope this changes SOON! So, all of that to say, people not finding you if they are trying to search for you, may NOT be your fault.
It's a flaw in the system. I would dare say A BUG and I hope somebody somewhere has made a ticket for it. Nobody has yet been able to help me search effectively for the tags that don't appear in the list on either of those platforms -- leading me to believe nobody has the answer -- leading me to believe it's a flaw of the system that really needs to be fixed.
There isn't. Maybe you could write some?
Don't. Just don't. It's always your fault. Even when it's not your fault, it's your fault. Believing that you can control the outcome is the only way to motivate yourself to improve your situation.