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No matter what you do online , your major interest should be how you tell your story. Stories is one of the things in Life that binds us together as Human beings

It is through stories that we will be able to connect with the deeper parts of different individuals

When I mean Story telling, I don't really mean the traditional form of Story telling we are all familiar with. A fiction blogger can do that and experience growth. What I am talking about here is how we all should represent ourselves online In general

Online Story telling involves the process you take in telling people about what you do, or what you care about. It also involves all the steps you take in trying to bring people value online

The number one commodity online is attention and Social Media is a place that has humongous amount of attention. This commodity called attention is available in huge amounts but it is still scarce at the same time

The total estimated number of social media users online in 2017 was 2.46 Billion. Now thats a whole lot of eyes, and for you to actually break out you have to provide what is capable of holding people attention

Before the invention of the remote control in the 1950's people who owned televison had to watch advertisements because they were too lazy to stand up from their seats. Television ads had more Impact because people actually watched them

The television remote gave people to flip through as many channels as they like without getting up to change the channel from the knob on the Television body, this saw a gradual decrease in the effectiveness of television ads

Social Media is the televison remote on Steriods, people can easily scroll past a post that took you three hours to write and you may never get a second chance for them to view it again

So whether you are a food blogger trying to tell stories of your dishes, or a back-end developer trying to tell us how one line of code frustrated all your work. You have to tell these stories in a captivating way that draws people in

Humans value their time a lot. It is one thing which is very limited,but ends up being wasted a lot, so people have learnt to put up filters to determine the kind of things they spend their time on. They also like to dictate how they spend their time even if it is spent doing things that they enjoy

That's why you will see a season film of 13 episodes and someone will want to finish it in one Night. I remember those when we will have to wait for another Thursday to get the next episode of Super Story which is a popular story series in Nigeria

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Context is Queen

Content might be king but, context is queen. You need context to grow relationships on any platform, be it Steemit or Facebook

When it comes to Steemit you have to learn to Market your difference where the eyes of people are, and the best place to do that is in the comments section. Many people still underrate the value of commenting.In building my blog, commenting contributed 80%

Another Important thing on social media is letting the best quality content get to you based on your actions. I don't follow people anyhow on social media because I know that the value of my following detemines the value of content that comes to me organically

I also study the content Of people that have the valuable Information I need to move forward. And when it comes to seeking out new Information, some people tell me that their post don't make money without remembering the fact that they are also increasing their knowledge

I don't study online content or take online courses just to earn money with the posts those content will inspire. I do it because I know that the knowledge will open me up to more opportunities in the long run

In the social media world, attention is the only commodity you have to give reverence, find out different ways to get It and you will excel in your field

And the only way to do this is to act Human and bring people value

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