by Noxsoma
Twice I’ve posted on this platform a piece I wrote about how gold and silver will not be skyrocketing in value; that their 6,000 year run as “money” would be ending in the light of cyripto-currencies. Bix Weir, a former gold/silver bug and someone who has infinitely more knowledge (and love) in precious metals than I do said as much in his Sunday report. It only seemed obvious to me because I never had the opportunity to fall in love with silver and gold as investment vehicles.
There may be a lot of people who think Bix is wrong… and he may be. Who knows?
But that’s not really what I wanted to get into today.
Here’s a little flash back about my past; Back in the day… the late 1980s I started my own magazine. (I may have mentioned this before, but you may have missed it… or maybe I didn’t publish that article yet.) It became locally popular. It was published whenever and distributed free where-ever. The reason it became popular was because we hit on a niche audience of “scene” people who wanted to learn about local people into “fashion, photography, art and design.” It was an expensive hustle just to run 5,000 copies and getting ads was ridiculous.
Aside from lessons in running a magazine, this experience gave me invaluable lessons in people… but that’s another story. (It’s part of the reason I’m a self-styled “anti-social today.)
Technology has not only leveled the playing field, it’s brought the professional bar down so low that everyone can get a trophy just for stepping on to the playing field. It is said that the cream rises to the top, but so does the scum – and this is what we have with today’s society.
Kollage Magazine, 1991
Platforms like Steemit that offer compensation for crowd-pleasers present a very 21st-century challenge to old school…. (well, maybe middle school) creatives like your humble author. What sells? What does an audience as vast and varied as the Steemit population want? How do we find the audience whose needs we meet?
Who is out there looking for answers to life’s questions? Who needs more personalized fitness and health coaching than they can get on youtube? How do we form support groups?
Since I’ve started paying attention to my Steemit activity, I’ve found a few folks who I’ve decided to follow, (following usually means searching them out) and support. They are not the first ones to pop up in my feed. Conversely, I get a lot of articles from people I’m not following in languages I don’t speak.
I understand that this is still a new system. I don’t want to come off as a complainer, but it’s time (personally) to search out, discover and reach out to the audience I connect with.
Let’s do this thing!
What are you most interested in?
I’ll post a resume of sorts at some point…. let’s find out where we connect.
Your comments as always are appreciated.