I know we must all feel the pressure behind posts we make on Steemit. Coming from a business background it's quite prevalent. How do you balance having good content while catching the audience attention for an appeal that will spread like a virus?
When I started posting a month ago I had the greatest of intentions to stay active in the community, too often I create content just to blow it away thinking... That's NOT GOOD ENOUGH. My Google Docs account is flooded with lengthy articles that NEVER MADE IT HERE. And I know I can't be the only one.
This morning I woke up at 4:00am via my internal clock, got my nephew to school at 5am for JROTC Raiders just like every other day. I came back to find that my 5 y/o nephew had wet the bed; gave him a quick wash and changed out the sheets. Made a couple of banana white chocolate macadamia nut pecan protein shake, got the kids off to school and headed to @giftedgaia's place for some fun and laughs. Got home around 9, checked my email; got blown off again by the state regarding an issue I've been very patient on since September. Proceeded to Coinbase to watch my Lightcoin. And then I looked at the browser tab with a Steemit post I've been working on for the past week+. Which lead me to erasing the entire thing and writing this instead.
I'm just a carbon-based lifeform who doesn't think her life is all that exciting, who over-analyzes Steemit posts to the point of having no content at all.
My punching/kicking therapy after deleting a Steemit post.
I still have hope to get a better grip on this. Watching the post of some of people I Follow has been very inspiring: @papapepper, @giantbear, @poeticsnake, @slothicorn
Keep Steeming on!
About Me: Intro Post
When I first started..I spent soooooo much time on my posts, writing...editing. Then I spent even more time actually 'marketing' my post on here. I could easily put in 8-10 hours between it all..on a single post.
Admittedly disheartened, and after a while also worn out...I found a different way to approach it. I started trying to look at from the eyes of someone in my preferred audience.
This person doesn't really care a sparse spelling error, or a rare missed word. They also don't have a ton of time to read something as in depth as I had written before. While they do appreciate a well thought out, ordered and well formatted post...they also appreciate concision. They're here to either learn something on a person/topic/experience, be entertained, see something cool.
Not every post has to be the 'taj mahal'...just have fun, find cool posts or people. I got to a point that I chose to accept a piece for what it was and move on to the next one. Now a days...most my posts take me about 2 hour to put together...that's what I'm comfortable investing into a single piece. I do have the ones I devote more time to, but those are spread out a bit. Obviously you don't have to hold to any specifics here...just find that balance that works for you.
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Thanks! All great advice. Writing about the kids and business is easy... It's the posts that entail passion that I can't seem to commit to or stray from until it's finished. I keep saying, I need to hire an editor but these may be the posts that pay the least. ;p
Thank you much for the well-thought reply. I will undoubtedly continue to work on finding that balance! <3
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Not all your posts need to be a masterpiece. Especially as a 'newb'. Use this time to develop your voice. Just put stuff out there and in the future you can look back and have a great chronology of your development. I too put lots of work into each post and am disappointed when they get just a couple of views and votes, but I hope that in years to come my body of work will get me noticed. I also agree with @sykochica 's points.
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OMG are you me? Because deleting ideas and posts that are just not good enough?
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I want some boxing gloves like those, that might help my cause ;)
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It's helping my fitness. Just convert some SBD to Amazon gift cards and order a pair. 12oz, Everlast, pink. Get some wraps too as they get stinky without hand-socks.
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