Hello Steemians,
I would like to present something that I believe will grow the value of STEEM and steemit.com as a whole.
Opportunity
There is a huge community of graphic designers, web designers, and bloggers online looking for free stock photos. There is also a large community on steemit posting their photos online. Royalty-free stock photos are in very high demand and the audience that is looking for them is perfect to target to join steemit. Web designers and bloggers are already in the habit of posting online. It’s actually a lot more difficult to make money from blogging outside of steemit. There are a lot more moving pieces involved with promotion and setting up your own web site. A huge learning curve is cut if they simply switch to steemit.
The photography tag has over 80,000 posts on it already and many of those photos are of high quality and could be used by others in their designs and blogs outside of steemit.
One of the most popular web sites for free stock photos, https://pixabay.com/ gets over 60 million visits per month.
So, steemit has a large supply of something that’s in high demand. Now, all that’s left is making it work.
How will it work?
Certain rules will have to be followed for free stock photos to be posted.
- Post only your own images with the highest resolution available.
- Post a disclaimer stating that “this image is copyright free and is released under Creative Commons CC0, which makes it safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist - even for commercial purposes” https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/
- Use a royalty-free tag
- Provide camera information if available
- Use image tags that describe the image inside the post with a hashtag. I.e. #yellow #sun
- Make a statement encouraging visitors to join steemit so they can follow your posts for more free photos
Future Development
Once the use of the #royalty-free tag takes off, we can develop a web site on the steem blockchain like utopian.io, only will only show stock photos and users will be able to post their photos. On the front-end, this web site would look a lot like https://pixabay.com but will invite people to open a steemit account and be rewarded for their photos.
How does this add value to steemit?
• Access to a large collection of royalty-free stock photos will open up steemit to millions of bloggers and web designers who already post online but don’t necessarily make any money doing it.
• This will potentially result in millions of new visitors and new accounts.
How does this add value to STEEM?
• The more people visit steemit.com, the more people will know about STEEM, the cryptocurrency. This, in turn, will result in more investors and increase in market cap.
• Many web designers are freelancers and will potentially start accepting STEEM for their services. This will add value to STEEM as a currency.
I hope you found this post helpful. I see great potential in this community and technology and have many ideas about how it can grow and improve many lives that I will be sharing in my future posts. Let's leap over any obstacles that stand in our way!
Thank you :-) @leap8