"Promotion Challenge - Steemit Promotion Design on Facebook & Instagram".

It feels good to see this contest being brought back in this community. Steemit Promotion is one of the reasons we are on this platform and it's interesting to see the userbase of this platform has increased by 20%. On a daily basis, we see people post their adverts, promote their businesses and get traffic. These traffic gotten makes their products visible to the open public.

Many don't know about steemit as a new and decentralized social media platform, that's why the steemit team has put up the twitter promotion innovation so that many can get to know that such a platform exists. Asides this social media platform for promoting steemit, I took to promoting mine on Facebook and WhatsApp, social medias I'll be able to contact people, converse with and follow up.

The below shows my promotional activities last week. According to the contest, we're expected to design a flyer that would be used for this promotion. My promotional materials includes;

Flier created on canva

Screenshots of dome of my contents created

Motivating texts to pass a message

Good question. I can't be dependent on a fixed salary when there are other ways to grow financially. Have you heard about steemit? This is a social media platform like Facebook and WhatsApp but the difference is that while Facebook is web 2, steemit is web 3, meaning steemit is a senior brother to Facebook. If you check the post I just shared, you'll see dollars at the bottom end. Facebook can only give you likes when you create Contents but steemit supports you with something that can earn you a living. On Facebook you need a particular number of followers to start earning but it's different on Steemit because your followers aren't responsible for your growth. It's what you post or create that speaks volume. I just shared one of my purchased foods and got this. You can share anything on steemit. You can even share how your day went. The benefits are numerous because asides the financial incentives the platform offers, you get to learn new things that are academically inclined. Steemit is free. It's a social media. It's not an online business. You don't need a particular number of followers to earn or minimum withdrawal limit. I'll be hosting a class on Saturday 1st June so as to throw my light on the platform and also give you guides on how to go about it. Time: 9pm, Venue:WhatsApp, For those interested in sharing their contents and also get paid for doing so. You can send a message below

These are processes I took in preparing this flier. I took to visiting the canva app and then choose a template that is on landscape and not portrait. This landscape makes it possible to promote without making the viewers look at it as unprofessional. When I saw the perfect template, I took to restructuring it by first putting my picture.

When making an advert that's not official, it's sometimes advisable to use your personal pictures for conviction sake. When people see your picture, they have this measure of trust that whatever they are working on would be legit at some point and it would be very much catchy than the official logo of what you're advertising. This depends though on what you're advertising as using personal pictures sometimes makes it unprofessional.

I'm not just advertising steemit, I'm creating a medium whereby I can get an audience of people to mentor. Telling them about the platform and then dropping sign up link may lead to not knowing or keeping track of who joined through you and how to mentor the person. That's why I added date, time and venue for the class I'll be hosting about the platform.

Asides the picture and class information, I took to bringing up a catchy text that would speak volumes in the minds of those seeing it. The title of your advert has to be catchy as it is a determinant to if a person would be interested or not.

After ensuring these texts are laid in place, I took to taking it up on these social medias. These are my promotional activities on WhatsApp and Facebook. I tackled what people are focused on now which is the tapping of the screens to claim shit coins. I used this as a hook to get them into cultivating particular interest on the platform called steemit.

Screenshot from my WhatsApp account and Facebook account

You don't need to depend on tapping your screen your whole life. It will come and go at some point. Take up a skill that will help you for a lifetime and this is portrayed in the social media platform I want to talk about. On this social media platform like Facebook, you get dollars instead of getting likes. I posted a food I bought someday and talked about it. It was educative and I got paid in dollars instead of getting likes and comments that can't be converted to money. All you need to do is write, post and earn. It's a free social media the way Facebook sign up is free. Not an online business and you don't need any minimum requirement to earn from the contents you create. Don't waste your data on getting likes. Those beautiful contents of yours can be monetized and supported. If you are interested in knowing more, dm

I was able to reach an audience of 12 people as I created a group where this class would be held. I introduced myself and also spelt out the purpose of the group before the actual class is held. These were how I promoted steemit on these social medias, particularly WhatsApp as it's more convenient and easy to mentor than other social media applications.

	screenshot of the created group

This is the group of which I created to ensure this class is held and that the message about steemit is relayed. This promotion was done online using my phone. Network was a serious barrier to me though as it made me do a lot of things late.

I acknowledge the contest host @irawandedy for bringing this contest up once again. It's been months. I also invite @mosesstones, @patjewell and @okere-blessing.