Have You Recruited Anyone To Steemit? How Did Do It? Tag Your Friend & Share Your Story

Hey Steemians

So let's take a break from my usual shitposting for one day and talk Steemit for a bit. We're all pretty aware that the Steemit has had the Steem kicked out of it lately with the price dropping below $1. Steemains are leaving or going into hiding, they're posting less frequently, they're visiting less, upvoting less, the morale in the camp needed something to kick it up again.

@stellabelle decided to give it a go with her BANANA PROGRAM: New Steem Project Designed For Bored Humans
which is pretty awesome and I encourage you to enter. It has really brought some life to the feed and a welcomed distraction from all we losing money posts.

Later I found the following really interesting posts about how you would pitch someone to invest in STEEM

and it got me thinking what about how we pitch users to start using the STEEM blockchain. From my personal experience it hasn't been easy describing Steemit, its processes and value to a user. The more I use the platform the more I've learned and the better I've gotten at pitching potential users.

But what I would like to know is how have any of my fellow steemians brought others on board.

There is something for everyone

I've found that to ease people into the steem blockchain you need to appeal to what they know in order to transition them into the platform

For example:

If they like YouTube - Pitch them dTube
If they like SoundCloud - Pitch them dSound
If they like Medium to Blog or Facebook to explore content - Pitch them Steemit or busy.org
If they like Twitter - Pitch them Zappl
If they like Pinterest - Pitch them dLike
If they like Reddit - Pitch them Parley.io
If they like Instagram - Pitch them Steepshot
If they like Twitch - Pitch them dLive
If they like 9GAG - Pitch them dMania or Memeit.lol

Take a page out of Jian Yang's book when pitching new users

Once you've sucked them in with the promise that their current user behaviour could be migrated to a platform that pays them in FIM (Free internet money) help them get set up and then eventually introduce them to all the STEEM blockchain has to offer

Who I've recruited

So far I've successfully recruited four people to Steemit and I don't plan on stopping anytime soon. Feel free to check out their blogs, give them a follow or drop them a comment.

Four sign-ups may not sound like much but its a start. Reach one teach one hey. It was by no means an easy process and took me months to break down their resolve and encourage them to dip their feet into the reward pool just to see how it feels.

Share your origin story

If you have successfully recruited someone to join Steemit or you were recruited by a friend I would love to hear your story. Feel free to share it with me in the comments or if its a really juicy, saucy story create your own post with the tag #steemrecruit, tag me in your post and drop a link in the comments section of this article and let's get sharing

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