What do you think about having more than one Steemit account? Pros & Cons? Is it allowed?

in steemit •  8 years ago 

Obviously, managing multiple accounts means that you are dividing your time up - and unless you are a master multitasker - or have a team of minions churning out content for you ;-) one account could suffer. I know from my work in marketing and content writing that it's generally more lucrative to focus all efforts on one project for a given time period (say 3-6 months) and grow it, before moving on to something else.

That said - I can totally understand why someone would want to have more than one Steemit account. A personal Steemit, and a business Steemit, for example. Sometimes we may not want those two identities interlinked for any number of reasons.

Then again, does it go against the ethos of Steemit? Is it disingenuous?

What do you think?

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That's a good question! I have 2 accounts as of today but that is because I am leaving one and going to another. I can see how someone would want a business account and that it wouldn't be for personal posts, but posts for just their business updates. I personally can't imagine running two accounts. So, I have asked people to communicate with me with my new one.

Yeah - I've always wondered. One big account I can think of that has at least 2 is RandoWhale. I think the longer steemit's around, the more clear that answer will become. Of course, it could easily be abused. If someone starts to turn Steemit into their own personal content farm - running multiple accounts - and hiring content writers to manage them.

I found a few consequences of switching but because I was so new, it doesn't really affect me. If I was on longer, no way.

Yeah have 100 account if you want. A lot of people have segmented their Steem Power over to other accounts for partial security reasons. (Don't keep all your eggs in one basket.) Those are people with hundreds of thousands or millions worth on here.

Some people have the multiple account to do testing or to run bots to perform certain functions.

Thank you for the @randowhale vote and the ReSteem. I won't forget that.

:-) Your posts clearly do really well - but I was surprised to see they aren't making the triple digits per post for the value they offer. All new Steemians should follow you. Thought you deserved the RandoWhale lotto !

I always think its strange that we can see in each other's wallets - like it leaves us vulnerable. Good call to have a separate not active account to store $

Thank you and things have been getting better. I have gotten to a point where for the most part a post is going to get me $10 at the very least. before the hardfork it was $5. So I'm heading in the right direction. As my following grows I should be able to get that up to $50 / post hopefully.

Definitely. I'm sure you will hit that and even more. Seems to be a numbers game - and of course, doesn't hurt when some random whale (no, not rando lol - preferably an unpaid whale) stops by. I think that's the real secret behind $1000 posts!

Well a lot of those $1000 post guys on the trending page were part of Bitshares or joined this way back when it was in the Alpha stage and the payouts weren't being released yet. So they kind of secured their future a little bit for the time being. Now @sweetsssj just randomly found out about this and got on here and started posting.

I think her looks certainly don't hurt her when it comes to succeeding on here lol. I don't mean that in a catty way - she's probably the first Steemian Celebrity - she just gets it and it comes through in her posts. No crime in combining A+ genetics with marketing know how - Hollywood has been doing it forever! She really is a success story.

I need to read up more on the history of Steem. I kick myself every day I sign into my coinbase account - there's a memo on one of my BTC transactions from 2012 or 2013 that just says "for protoshares" (now bitshares). No idea where it went, and can't find the wallet it went to. Talk about depressing lol.

That is interesting. I actually tried to Mine ProtoShare back in 2013. I didn't really know who Dan Lerimer was back then. I ended up not getting any and I ran my computer for 2 days. I was so pissed.

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