I'm planning to invite some non-cryptocurrency-enlightened friends to Steemit and I'd like to help them with a smoother onboarding. From my experience I can say that the entry barrier to Steemit is still rather high. So I've got an idea of making a checklist with the most important things to do and I'd like to ask you to add more to it.
What I've got so far:
- Explain that joining Steemit means a commitment to invest time and effort. I liked someone's analogy with a snowball: it starts small and if you add up work, it grows big.
- Help to sign up (and explain the SP delegation thing).
- Explain the difference between Steem currency, Steem blockchain and Steem-based projects like Steemit, ChainBB and others.
- Ask about the interests my friend has and help choosing the right people to follow.
- Explain how to write and promote a really good self-introduction post and prepare some good photos. When I see trending posts under this tag I start thinking that I should make a reintroduction :)
- Explain the point about the three currencies – STEEM, SBD and Steem Power.
- Help understanding the money making possibilities on Steemit: posts, curation, Steemgigs, Beta testing, wikification
- Explain the curation rewards and voting rules (Facebook experience is rather misleading here).
- Tell the story about minnows, dolphins and whales.
- Invite to Steemit Chat.
- Tell about help projects such as Minnow support project, Steemtrail, Whaleshares
- Help creating an account on crypto exchange and converting some STEEM to BTC.
- Point to people, places and projects where to get further help (thanks @sykochica! :)
The list is open, feel free to add more suggestions! Resteem to help me reach more people and collect more ideas!
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