First Steemit Meetup in India: The Worlds Second biggest market!

funnyman (71)in #steemit • 8 years ago (edited)

It’s been a great pleasure to be a part of steemit community. I am learning a lot from these amazing and genius people. It is so addicting meeting with new people and exchanging ideas with each other and support them. So I thought it is time to support steemit as best as I can and organised steemit meetup yesterday(14th Sep, 2016) at QED42, Pune, India.

It was a very amazing, cheerful and informative evening. I started with some great facts about steemit and followed by detailed explanation of Steem Power, Steem Dollars, Reputation and sharing content. I encouraged them to post only original and genuine content or otherwise they are going to get banned. I had to explain all these things because they had never heard of that kind of social media platform. All the people were like “Is it for real?”, “How do they get so much money?”, “Is there is any joining fee?” and more. I answered them as best as I could and motivated them by giving example of @liberosist and how did he started and look where he is now?. The response was pretty good and I felt that they felt motivated.

There are very few people from India who are using steemit and have found only 10-15 people on steemit that are from India. This is way too low percentage. It may be because most of the people have never heard of this crypto social blogging platform. Now, I have set my goals. I will bring as many people as I can to steemit from India. I will be introducing some of my colleagues and other outside people to steemit in a couple of days.

Why to market in India? India owns 18%(1.2+ Billion) of the world population and more than 16%(185+Million ) of people use social media sites.

Source : Statista

This is just the statistics of Facebook users based on country. The statistics shows that there is a huge scope of steemit in India if marketed well. It will probably pump up the steemit community.

Looking for more statistics, Here are the links:

Link for Sproutworth Statistics

Link for Statista Statistics

One more thing, I will be doing my next meetup at Srijan Technologies, Delhi, India in the upcoming month(Date is not decided yet, I will let you know) and it is going to be much bigger than this meetup. I want to give credit to @kus-knee who gave me the idea of having meet up in India, at my office. Special thanks to @aizensou and @knozaki2015 who recognised my content and featured one of it. I also want to thank @dragonslayer109 who put me in hidden-gems list for this current week.

“Can’t Wait to see steemit grow in India”

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8 years ago in #steemit by funnyman (71)

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firepower (79) 8 years ago

@funnyman Congrats on holding the first meetup!

I was talking to @liberosist yesterday about organizing something to this effect in a big way. I have a list of bloggers pan-India somewhere on my drive and maybe we can channel more efforts in this direction in a focused manner. Perhaps with some influencers on board as well! We'll discuss the specifics later on.

For a start i'd love to see some discussions at #India in Steemit.Chat from everyone (apart from sharing of links) so we can start building a community of Steemians from India. If you know users here from India, please add them there including any who've come on board on Steemit from your meetup!

I've created an FB group as well a while ago but I haven't had much success bringing traditional Wordpress-based bloggers on board there or the time to sit and add people. Feel free to assist wherever possible if you want.

Getting our people on board won't be easy due to various factors. Some of which you may know already! I've already tried this in some big blogging circles that I'm part of.

Anyway, as @liberosist suggested a Regional Steemcom is something we can do after we've had 4-5 successful events in the larger cities and gain some traction. Atleast 50-100+ bloggers per meetup will be the real challenge. Although, the skepticism that we see in our markets is not something you'll observe in others. Also, most bloggers prefer affiliate marketing in India.

Realistically, I was looking at initiating this after SteemFest. I'm going, will you be attending as well?

I think December and January will be a good time to put something like this together and get some of our active and reputed Steemians from India on board to some of these events in some capacity. If things pick up a regional meet can be organized a few months down if the city-level events bear positive results.

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funnyman (71) 8 years ago

I am not sure about SteemFest. Yor are right about creating regional events first. Thankyou for creating FB group for India's steemit community.