Hey Steemians !
In the past 15 days (while waiting to be accepted), I have been talking to all my friends (especially small bloggers, online trainers and youtubeurs) about this platform.
Unfortunately, Steemit is something complicated to explain (nobody believe me when I says that they can create content on this platform and get paid by the blockchain for that ... !).
By the block..what?!
So, this morning, I saw this video, this TRAILER for the Steemit Platform ... With less than 2000 views on Youtube. By the way, it's a Bitfilm Production (source : Youtube).
How this is possible that there is not more than 2000 views ?!
Everybody who create content (and believe me there are A LOT out there!) can be interested to publish it here... and make money (because you know... money).
This trailer talks to the person like me. The not aware of the crypto-currency world person...
From my side, I have a blog with more than 100 articles written in 1 year along with a (quite small) youtube channel and I have never ever receive even a cent for that. I am still doing it because it has an impact on people 's live (my reward for that job are the messages I get to tell me that my blog help them and all the gratitude they send me) and I am still passionate about it... But you know : gratitude doesn't feed you.
I also do remember how hard it has been for me to come here.
The day my husband told me to registrer on the platform... It was like this :
" Hey babe* look what I found and registered today : the Steemit platform ! You post great articles and people will vote for it. You should registered too and share you advices and stories about how you try to declutter all our home because of your dream to live your life with a small bag on your shoulder to travel and to spare aaaaalllll our money 💰 to retire at 35 to travel and never come back again. And they need French speaking people! Go head!"
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Nhaaa in fact, he doesn't call me babe.
Nhaaaa why would I do that ?! Why whould I register on yet another social network...
I have already a blog were I wrote every week. I have already a Facebook Page. I even have a Private Facebook group (+1000 persons talkiiing about money and minimalism all day long). I am on Twitter, Instagram and even Pinterest... Oh, I had almost forget, I also have a youtube Channel – let’s be crazy ! – 170 subscribers, Oh yeah… hum. ).
And by the way : this is something (for me, a girl not aware at all of the world of crypto-currency) that sounds like a scam (pleeeeaase don't blame me to have had this kind of thoughts... but really, have you tried explaining this to your parents without them asking "what's the catch?" ? ;-)!). And if I had this thought, my guess is that a lot of people non aware of the blockchain like me, should or will have this thought too. Hopefully, I had my husband to convince and reassure me.
Sometimes later.
« Hey babe, can I show you something ? »
OMG ! They may/will PAY YOU FOR THAT !!!! ???
WHAAAAAAAAaaattt !!! ?? You are telling me that you may earn money (No monopoly money! Real one!) by posting interesting things .
I know you have upvoted him because of it's very nice handmade t-shirt, you geeks!).
Then I registred and I had to wait 12 days (and contact Steemit from different way who turned me crazy). I would really stop and continued my life out there but I believe that I can bring something to the platform and I really really want to give it a try. I feel this could be different : No censorship, no ads, a welcoming community and ... money :-D
And here I am.
And it's only the beginning... I want to write in french and I see how hard it is to gather the french speaking community. But this seems somewhat difficult: everyone here seems to write in english (as I do, by the way ;-)) to get more visibility.
So, now. What's next ?
If we want more and more (and more) non-initiated people on Steemit, let's spread this trailer (see above) everywhere in social media network. Let's start with our friends. We want our friends and family to be here, no ?
concerning the non-english speaking community :
--> let's start to speak / write in our language to attract those communities.
--> let's use only ONE and only one tag for all the articles written in that language. For french, it seems that the tag #fr is the one in use. I didn't know when I arrived so I posted with belgium, france and french ... this is too complicated !
--> Why not create a bot that welcome users in french (for instance) when tags introduceyourself and fr are present ? It could give additional link to the FAQ (in french) and a curated list of topics containing posts in french ?
--> let's create this kind of video clip together but in other languages!
Who is in ? It's shouldn't be too complicate (look all the beautiful things we can make with a smartphone today!). I am in Brussels if anyone wants to join me for the french one... _ . Let's make the french community grow !
Any others ideas ?
Ps: About the Steemit Trailer : share it to (ALL) your friends (especially the one's with big community and the ones who have great content to share and who need to get known!) ;-) & don't forget the french community.