Organic Growth

You've all seen it happen over the past weeks, Steemit is growing bigger and bigger. We've blazed past 50,000 registered users in no time. At the current rate, 100,000 users will soon be a trophy for the Steemit boardroom. The coolest thing by far is the organic growth and community bonding. Just hang out in the steemit.chat channel for a few moments and you'll see exactly how close people are already becoming.

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Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice

With all that success in the way of organic referrals and recruitment, you'd almost forget that there's other marketing options out there. Indeed, they almost seem unnecessary. Yet, with a bit of sugar and spice, even a great mixture can become even better. With that in mind, I set out to start a Reddit advertising campaign on a shoestring budget of some 25 Steem Dollars that I'd cashed out of a previous post. Sure, it may have cost me a small amount 'out of pocket'; but that cost would certainly be offset by the increasing value of my STEEM holdings and the Steemit network as whole. A small price to pay!

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A Little bit Goes a Long Way

And it doesn't take a large amount of money to leave a big impression!

If the graphs above are a little hard to read, let me break it down into a few simple bullets.

• The campaign ran from August 1st untill August 7th
• During this time 125,176 people were shown a Steemit ad.
• 535 of these people actually took the leap and visited the Steemit website after being shown the ad.

For the small price of $25 Steemdollars, a potential 125,176 new members were shown Steemit. That's double the amount of members we currently have! 535 of these members instantly made a visit to the Steemit webpage, the remaining ~124,000 did not immediately opt to do so, but they are now potentially familiar with the name. They may still visit it on their own volition, or tell others about it. If atleast one of the new members continues this chain of referring friends or setting up campaigns on their networks, the cycle will accelerate. Steemit will keep growing exponentially.

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The Future

Seeing the sucess of the Reddit campaign has me pumped for what's going to be hitting us in the coming months. I'm sure the growth of content and interface improvement will reach new heights and new levels of awesome in the times to come. Add a few hundred thousand new Steemit users to that mix, and the only end result is a winning recipe.

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How do you see Steemit evolve and prosper in the months to come? Have you referred any friends or started ad campaigns of your own? Dicuss it in the comments section below, I'd love to see your thoughts and actions! As always, for more great content, subscribe to my blog @spookypooky for a direct delivery to YOUR feed!