As you might have guessed from my library of work, I'm a very focused and dedicated individual. These attributes have led me to become one of the highest-ranked #investing #market analysts in the United States, according to #investment #analysis aggregator TipRanks.
For the life of me, however, I cannot figure out #Steemit, even though I've been here for damn close to a year now. I honestly believed that as a professional writer and investment analyst, my public provenance and my talents would find strong support within the Steemit #community.
Let me just be totally frank and totally real -- it hasn't turned out that way.
When I first joined Steem, I started making serious money inside of two months, and then really serious money in the third month onward.
But by the seventh month, things just tanked to the point where I was making 20 cents a post, something that newbie Steemians are making right now! I genuinely believe that if I started a brand new channel, it would generate much more traffic and revenue, so long as I put a smiley face on a lemon or some other fruit...and of course, the obligatory "technical analysis" forecast with a line pointing up in a bull market.
I mean, really?
The market is ALWAYS right!
One of the critical lessons I've learned is that despite my best analysis and research, the market is always right; meaning, the market can stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent.
Thus, I must admit I have no idea how to be successful on Steemit, or even, how do I replicate the success I had when I first started!
So I'd like to ask, "What do YOU want?"
People loved my investing research when I first started on #STEEM, but apparently, that got old and boring. I tried to do a bit of news and political opinions, and that got too controversial. Now, I'm trying my hands at education, and providing useful tools and tips, but that's also starting to look like a dead-end.
So what would you like to see?
I'm thinking about starting a Steem Ed on computer programming with the C++ language. Maybe that will help some of you develop the next, big #blockchain! Another idea I had was to teach photography -- I used to work at Sony's Alpha Mount Camera division, and we had extensive training in both supply chain analysis and actual photography.
Also, I noticed that many DTube and YouTube folks download generic royalty-free music. How would you like it if I taught you music theory and musical composition?
These are just some ideas I had, but I'm more interested in what YOU want to see! I'd like to pursue content that Steemit users find useful and meaningful, even if it means a video of me farting through my dick.
That last bit was a joke -- I genuinely hope NO ONE wants to see me farting through my dick!
I wouldn't mind seeing you attack things or people who are in the wrong and you can prove it, which I know you wouldn't tackle if you couldn't prove it.
But then I enjoy controversy; I think it brings progress :)
Also anything pandering to flat earth is fascinating for how it shows modern science has some issues and cult following of people believing just because "we're the authorities and we say so."
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I'm going to BRING it! I'm just doing some investigative research right now :)
Hey, by the way, thank you so much for upvoting Julie's work, as well as your incredibly kind and generous support. You are a true, TRUE friend of the crown...please let me know what I can do to help or anything you want me to support! :)
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I don't see much Dtube on your posts lately; from what I see it's easier to make $ now on DTube rather than article posts.
I'm sorta laying low myself knowing the effort is not worth my time yet. If we're not well noticed by a whale (usually it takes building your platform in the OLD steemit days) or producing just off the wall top notch content, we're all left in the desert which is a big problem; people have to READ but many do not want to read unless its crypto/steemit related of course!
I think the problem is too decentralized, too many newcomers looking for a buck. And the old timers don't want to just give away their funds.
Not enough jobs in (America, etc) and thus there could be millions of "writers" but are they all worth reading? No. So I have nothing important to say right now to be writing :( even though I find it fun sometimes and like analyzing things.
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Give them circus, memes and traveling photos and maybe you'll refresh your upvotes. I have less than a month around here, but I think I pretty got the picture. Don't forget about bid bots also...Or just keep on going with what you do best. Lots of new users are entering everyday and the right ones will follow you for sure. At least I do...
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Yeah i felt that too, when i started there was alot more comments and interactions, maybe is a bad time for steemit or you need to get more whale followers that appreciate your content.
Keep pushing, don't give up
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Hi5 @johnycrypto
Looks like we got a little Bullish Community here...Money!
We can do it FELLAS!
Keep STEEM N ON,
Frank
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Thank you for your encouragement; it's just really a matter of keeping at it, and like you said, hoping a whale notices.
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Stay true to who you are and your God given talents, I’ve only been here 3 weeks and have enjoyed your content. Memes can be annoying when it is copy and paste and no meaningful dialogue or opinion to support. I have not been part of building this platform, but I am excited to find my niche and continue to grow Steemit. You have inspired me as a newbie, a thought could be to focus on newbies or maybe vlog. People will watch a 3-5 minute video before they will read 2-3 paragraphs. Just my 2 cents, keep moving forward the sky is the limit.
Look up people “The truth is out there”
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I appreciate your words and allowing me to share what's going on in my head. It's refreshing to hear other people's opinions and it validates that I'm not going crazy!
You are right about the vlogging, as this is something that I've been dying to do...thank you for reminding me, and for your encouragement! :)
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Keeping positive and encouraging others is one of the things that is lacking today. I tell and demonstrate to my children that kind words and actions can make a profound difference. :) I look forward to seeing you on dtube we need some big stars!
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(Fist Bump)
@bullishmoney LIVE STREAM...
#AMA...
;p
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I just joined the other day and you were one of the first people I followed. It took me a whole 1 hour to realize this system is dominated by a very skewed distribution of power (most crypto is like this, roughly 2.5x more than a traditional economy) and well, bots. So I already started experimenting and “playing” the system. Sad but true, but frankly, that’s how others do it and very obviously, it works to a degree. It’s not to say I am not doing my best to add value in the process. But what good is any of that value if no one sees it? That’s how I approach it. Keep on keeping on. Maybe one day we can work together on something! I’ve read all the articles about contributions and solid content, which is all true, but I see people like yourself working so hard yet gaining very slow traction as an end result. I’m not sure if this will work in the end for me due to the way it works around here. The power distribution system is a little too skewed in my opinion and literally encourages spammers to spam away. Top article the other day was flooded with typos and bad advice. So I don’t know. We’ll see.
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This is so true, one of the most refreshingly honest comments I've read about the Steemit network. And really, there's no true point in providing great value if no one cares about it...at this rate, a homeless person makes more money than I do, which is just bizarre!
Perhaps I will do a half-and-half mixture of gaming the system and contributing to the system...thanks for your comments! :)
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Well that’s the other thing: You see so very few negative comments on here because everybody’s trying to make money by kissing everyone else’s ass. I have had a successful blog for years. I come on here and I have to hope and pray a Steemit “whale” just happens to see me at the right time. What are we in Hollywood trying to get an acting job? It’s weird frankly but I’ll keep going forward. I dunno. There are ALWAYS paths of least friction. Just gotta find it.
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#INTRODUCEYOURSELF
Welcome to STEEMIT @swinn just incase you don't use the introduceyourself "TAG".
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Just thought of another very important thing: email updates. This site does not have a native system for doing so. My traffic explodes every time I shoot out an email blast. Dwarfs when I share on social media. It would allow a lot more organic curation around here vs simply displaying posts up and down a feed. I think a lot of changes like this to mirror what goes on everywhere else from a promotional sense would help out tremendously.
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That's a great point -- everything is just so blah here that it's hard to sift through what's good content and what's crap!
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Question regarding photography. Is there a specific camera you’d recommend for someone whose getting into it. Preferably under 1000$ and good for photos and potentially a little bit of video taping..
Trying to pick it up before I head to budapest at the end of the month.
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I do love Sony's NEX series...the higher the model within the NEX you can afford, the better. Great SLR-quality photos but in a compact package...excellent for travel!
Do make sure to verify if the specific NEX camera you're seeking has an external mic for audio. Although Sony makes excellent internal mics on most of their cameras, absolutely NOTHING beats an external, dedicated mic, and not all of their NEX cameras have this option.
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Awesome thanks for the response I’ll look more into The Nex series tonight once I’m home. Thanks for the info!
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If we're being frank, I have noticed that you don't appear to be as good as others at upvoting your readers' comments on your posts. People have often gone to the trouble of leaving a comment and upvoting your post. It seems that those with engaged followers are supporting their commenters with both replies and up votes. This builds a wheel of reciprocal support and would, I suspect, increase your up vote rewards. Just a thought as your content is generally great - please correct me if I'm out of line.
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On what time frame are you basing your observations? Over the past several weeks, I've been conscientiously upvoting comments that were real comments and people who left something substantive or useful to say, not "great job dude!"
Also, you might want to consider that not all comments left on my posts are people who upvoted me, so in these situations, reciprocity doesn't exist.
Finally, you should also take into account obvious spammers, con artists and community abusers -- people who copy and paste others work, who mindlessly spout tired aphorisms, and run meaningless contests, and the like. These folks aren't contributing jack, and are only in it to milk the system and their followers, and hardly a peep!
But God forbid if I forget to upvote a few folks! I think the scale of comparison here is mind-boggling...
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Okay - I stand corrected.
I am in no place to dispense advice anyway as you're way further up the pecking order of Steemit than me in any case! Best of luck with it
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I generally get what you're saying, and I'm improving, and seeking to improve, in this area. Thanks, and good luck to you as well!
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