If you're posting on steemit just for the money - You're doing it wrong

in steem •  8 years ago 

As the days go by I'm starting to see more and more doubt radiating from user comments. This is pretty natural, some people have been posting for weeks and haven't made so much as a dollar, however this shouldn't put you off.

Odds are if you are feeling put off by this, It's because you are here for the money, this is wrong. Steemit Strives on producing quality content, informative, useful and funny posts that people actually want to read. If you're writing for the sake of money, you'll be focusing on what you think will be the most successful post, you aren't putting your heart into the subject, you're doing a job.

If you look at a large amount of high profiting posts, they're created by people with experience in it, people who live and breathe either the subject they're writing about, or the actual act of writing. If it's the latter then they will have researched the subject they're writing about, because they know that writing about a subject they know nothing about doesn't produce the best quality content.

I'll use @dollarvigilante as my example.

People may look at him and think; "I've put much more effort in, I've made way more posts but still haven't made any money*
Well look at his content. This is a man that literally lives to write, he owns a very successful newsletter . Aside from that he also owns a business that's very closely tied to Blockchains. A lot of his life involves working with the very subject this website is founded on.

So my advice to you is to stop posting just anything you think will be popular, take your time to sit down and think to yourself; "what am I really passionate about". Find the subject you're willing to pour your heart into and stick with it because at the end of the day, even if you don't make money doing with it, at least you're enjoying the time you spent.

Thanks for reading

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man I just made a post that pretty much made this exact same point
see it here
Good to know there are more of us on the same page

haha it was bound to happen. It goes to show though how many people around here are sour for not making money. It's nice to see not everyone is like that though. Despite the salt from a few users this website is still great and it feels amazing to be part of its growth.

I Just want to see a variety of content, it would be great if people would just post about the things that actually intrigue them and the things they are passionate about.

It really would. Although it might not sound the greatest thing, I'm actually really enjoying about life improvement guides, getting over depression and such. Its something so close to my heart right now that i find it really important and maybe if I cover enough subjects I might just end up helping someone.

I just realised actually, this other post of mine quite neatly ties in with this one: https://steemit.com/steemit/@mrkuujo/please-be-kind-to-the-whales

Well said. I was thinking of making a post making pretty much the same point. You have my up-vote.

I upvote U