"Why my amazing post received just a few views and some cents? Is it worth spending hours in creating good contents for such a poor feedback?"
I'm going to reveal a secret to you about that ;)
(Well, probably it's just a bunch of the obvious)
What would you think of a writer that spends years writing a great novel, then puts it in a bottle and throw it in the sea? And then he also complains about no one reading it or publishing it.
Yes, right, that writer seems a little dumb. How can he be a writer and not know how things work?
Well - here is the big secret! -
when someone writes a great article and just posts it on a social media, he's doing the same of the dumb writer.
In the past century, and before it, your creative content had its paths to gain visibility and give feedbacks, and you have to use those paths. In the social media world it is different. You need to build a network, to interact with other people, to be... social. ;) (No, it doesn't mean commenting like "Nice!" or "Please read my blog!" or "I upvoted you <wink!>")
Publishing a content and just wait to get feedbacks is senseless. It is like the Invisible Man stands in a corner waiting for someone that talks to him.
So, when you finished writing your amazing content, you are just half the battle (unless you have already a network and a reputation).
And yes, if you are not going to finish the job interacting with other people and creating a network, then writing and posting your amazing content was a waste of time.
You're welcome ;)
(Disclaimer: I'm not saying that it always works this way, on Steemit or other social media; nor that doing all the job will give you positive feedbacks for sure.)
You can expand the reach of your posts to social media by publishing to many.
The best tool I know for this is ONG.Social. You can publish to all your channels at once from this one hub - easy!
Better, you get a share of ad revenue (unlike fb)
Better yet, there is no censorship for being controversial or political.
Still better yet, by being built on 2 blockchains your content is protected, not centralized, and you control it.
Social media is still a good idea- it just needed a few tweaks ;)
Good point. The ICO ongcoin is scheduled on 11 aug. Currently it is number 2 in the coin ranking offered this month. The project is backed by IBM and it looks like a good project to me
Social media is a huge thing right now and really important for millions of people. But it hasn't changed much in the years it has been around. Share of revenue, censorship free publishing, and protected content are some important steps that are long overdue and IMO really impactful!
Well put! I have my good days and bad days due to medication. I often can't remember spelling of words and punctuation. Some days I go in the pantry and have no idea why I am stood in it. The crazy thing is that I worked in education for 15 years but I carry on as I enjoy being here on Steemit.
I'm very sorry.
keep writing and commenting and giving your experience and knowledge to people!
there's more to that ;)
the writer must have not believed in his own work so he hid it in the bottle
or .. he posted it and did not believe it would do well
and other uncontrolled circumstances of course
yes, believing in your own work is necessary too. If you don't believe in it, how do you expect people to look for it? ;)
exactly :)
Yes, there are no gatekeepers (or few) in social media. It is like reading the news wires unedited. You have to be creator, writer, editor and advertiser. Otherwise, delegate some of those duties.
I had to send out 5-10 bottles a day before anybody found one!
that's the story of almost every writer, as far as I know ;)
Thanks to good people like you and Silvia- looks like I might make it!
Yeah choose an interesting topic and stick with it, soon or later people will notice you
I love your illustration of the dumb writer. Well done!
thx Old Dog! I did the illustrations fastly so they are a bit poor. I confess that drawing the illustrations is the most pleasent part of the posting for me ;)
totally and 100% agree with you whatever you said in this post , i was also a victim of the same thing means in the begning i was worked for hours and hours on steemit and make posts with my level best and always think that people will give tons of votes after my publish on steemit but the result was 360degrees in reverse mood always , i never get upvotes and just cents recieved in payout by those posts than i came to realize ,
that whatever im doing so far was wrong this is not the whole thing that im doing here on steemit writing a good content is always good but by just posting a good content on steemit and wish to get good votes is just a fairy tail , as you said in your post that its a half war to create content just and wish to get upvotes,
so i realized that this is not enough and i started to interact with people on steemit and i read posts of my favorite topics and interests on steemit and started to give my level best on those posts and interacting with people on steemit ,
but one thing i mentioned here i never ever begg in comments for upvotes i just give my feed back to people about their posts by reading their posts and extract the pupl of their posts and summerize them in my comments this is what my strategy is ,
and beleive me now people like me and they always like my content also with even a single request because i think its nothing without jumping in to the pool and in the same way we have to jump in the community and make the people aware about us and make them and feel them our existance on steemit so that they will look on to our posts other wise as you said it will be a waste of time , i my self totally agree with your thoughts in this posts because im already doing the same that you are talking about in this posts, by the thanks for your advises in this great post , hope you are fine and healthy , stem-on and aware us more and more about how to run on steemit, thanks
thx to you for your story in this comment. glad to read you insisted and found the way :)
thanks dear all the joys for you my friend
You are right my friend, and without a network you might as well tie a rock to the bottle as well.
"tie a rock to te bottle" is a good completion for my metaphor ;)
Nice...ahahaha! (;
Very true
You are a very creative and convincing writer.
Congratulations. Mr
Credo che Steemit sia uno dei migliori esempi di come, se non sei promotore di te stesso, vai poco lontano. Grazie per questa bella riflessione
True words!
From the bottom of my heart, I am saying that this post inspired me a lot and yes I was not doing this till now. I only wrote my content and posted it in this ocean just to drown, suffer and then die. Creating a network never came in my mind. Anyways Thank you sir for this awesome post. :)
thx to you.
very glad that this could be useful :)
Started following you for more motivational and practical posts like this.
thx :)
True, simply true.
Very good explanation, I agree with you!
Completamente d'accordo, farò leggere il tuo post a qualcuno che ancora non si convince del potenziale che ha ed affronta solo metà del percorso ;)
grazie :)
Hey m agree wid u...
Oh yeah!
I absolutely agree with you! Amazing content is not enough. But I have serious difficulties of English language. Twice as long I can write a few lines than others. And even then I'm not sure if I wrote it correctly.
Kalemandra you do a great job with the ColorChallenge, thanks for that!
I have that problem too, so my posts have to contain simple concepts :)
@kalemandra: I know what you're talking about. If english is not your first language it takes more or less longer to finish an article. But I have to admit that I couldn't tell by the things I already saw from you that you're struggling. You're doing great!
Good comparison with a bottle in the sea dear @paolobeneforti!
paragonare i nostri nuovi post come le bottiglie di castaway è geniale. grazie alla tua esperienza sto capendo tante cose di questa nuova isola che è steemit. TANK YOU!
you're welcome.
la cosa geniale di Steemit (frutto della mente di Dan Larimer) è aver creato un sistema in cui tutti guadagnano solo se la qualità, in generale, è considerata.
Non posso far altro che concordare, su altri social sono presente in vari gruppi, e quando scrivo post inerenti ai temi del gruppo condivido sempre i miei articoli, così che non solo le persone possono leggerli, ma molti di loro che non conoscono Steemit possono scoprirlo e iscriversi!
In effetti in diversi articoli ho molte più visualizzazioni che votazioni, e mi va benissimo così.
That's true. Self publishing may have removed the "gatekeepers" but we have to remember that there are still gates to be passed through!
I'm going to write a post about how social media selection can overcome Tocqueville's idea about the flattening of culture in a society without mediation
I look forward to reading it!
Yes I agree. Initially it's all about making connections and interactions. But do keep on creating good original content regardless of the feedback. Make it a habit to create top notch posts to the best of our ability. No feedback doesn't give us an excuse to pumping out crappy posts in hope to make some quick buck.
right.
btw, what give you rewards can't be so easy and fast ;)
It applies to all areas in life. If we want positive results we have to put on lots of elbow grease.
absolutely :)
A good post I really like.salam from @imranroza
Great article and great analogy! Thanks
Man, I don't know... Generally I would say you're right on this. But... I've seen the comments sections of a bunch of high earners on this platform that are really low quality. And I've seen some comments sections from people that earn maybe a few dollars per post that are most of the times filled with quality and thoughtful discussions.
the low reward doesn't mean that commenting didn't worked. you see the comments and the reward, but you can't see who read the comments and their reaction ;)
Have you heard about John Kennedy Toole, writer of the brilliant ¨A Confederacy of Dunces¨? He tried and he tried and he tried... Until he eventually killed himself because his depressed persona couldn´t deal with the rejection.
Later, his mother got his manuscript published and it went on to win a Pulitzer.
Was his writing a waste of time? Would it have been different if he had access to social media? I doubt it...
I know that book. There's plenty of that exceptions, surely. Don't see what is supposed to mean, regarding my post, though
That not all writers want to network, and this most definitely does not make them dumb. Some people just write because they like it.
Thanks to the internet we have E.L James being one of the most well paid writers-- and I think we can all agree that she is far from even being remotely good... But, she is very good at this networking game.
TLDR; being good at marketing your work on the internet will only lead to temporary (monetary) success but is in no way an indication of quality of work.
I've not said in any way that a writer must network or even find readers.
and obviously I don't think that getting feedbacks means quality.
Then I didn´t understand the point of your post.
the point, as you can read, is that a writer that actually wants to find readers and have feedback (success, sometimes) has to do certain things, or to find someone that does it for him (a mom can be enough, sometimes ;) ). if he thinks to get readers keeping his work in a drawer (or just uploading it somewhere on the web), well, he is a dumb for sure.
I just tried to share this similar thought the other day but I think it got misunderstood https://steemit.com/steemit/@inber/are-we-still-in-the-terms-of-steemit-ideology-or-it-s-completely-lost-after-hf-19#@cryplectibles/re-inber-re-cryplectibles-re-inber-re-old-guy-photos-re-inber-are-we-still-in-the-terms-of-steemit-ideology-or-it-s-completely-lost-after-hf-19-20170806t173521027z
My least paid posts but most viewed are because outside the Steemit network. You can find Crypto Collectibles on Twitter, tumblr, OpenBazaar, instagram LBRY, Reddit, Giphy, Imgur, and who knows what else I've signed up for.
I love running into Steemit users in other places (like I know I see your name in /r/Steemit). I hope people understand they do not necessarily have to create brand new content in every avenue they use, but be respectful that every social network has it's users that only about that specific network and at if people comment or reply in other networks, be social in those places as well . Having had a reddit account of years and enjoying the awesomeness that it is, does not take away anything from the awesomeness that Steemit is.
Sorry my reply is all over the places, I just enjoyed reading this post and took a bit more out of it, and hope the people who read and understand it will go with the thought and spread whatever content they are creating or curating.
I want to give a shoutout to another user I have "ran into" outside of Steemit and on Steemit who is super solid in his social media, @the-bitcoin-dood
thx @cryplectibles! I found and followed steemit users on other media too.
of course, one have to choose 1-2 social media to really interact. It's hard, in my opinion, to be truly social in many communities at the same time. unless you just want to market your activity/sales.
Agreed. Keeping things to Steemit and Twitter as the social beasts , Reddit and Youtube are back up fun, Pinterest, tumblr, Instagram, I feel are just to share images with links for the most part.
Every social media has a different purpose, and should be used differently. Trying to do all at once is hard.