This post set a new (personal) record of 4x "transaction error," then being eaten 3x before successful submission! Thanks, Obama Steemit!
JerryBanfield is, to purloin a Steemit appellation, a minor “super-hero” of internet marketing. Despite his status as a relative newcomer to Steemit (4.5 months), he has accrued over 16,000 followers and is one of the top authors, measured by recent payouts, comments, and views.
Jerry’s primary audience comes from YouTube, where he sports over 200,000 subscribers, and Facebook, where Jerry remains locked in an epic struggle for Facebook dominance with the venerable Jerry Springer. Mr. Springer currently eclipses Mr. Banfield in likes by less than 5% (<100,000), and I would say the trend is certainly intact for an eventual “Jerry-flippening”... unless Springer has a new project of some sort in the works!
Almost unique in his willingness to reveal personal or embarrassing information, Jerry’s enthusiasm practically jumps off the screen in each of his videos. Seriously - Jerry makes things public record in his videos far more than any of us would probably be willing to do. If there’s something you want to learn about Jerry, it’s probably available on YouTube somewhere. "TMI" determinations shall be left up to the viewer.
No stranger to criticism, Jerry has his share of detractors. His attempt to create an ill-advised and over-priced Steemit account creation service went over in the community only slightly better than a lead balloon, with many convinced of ill intent. In the past, he has received criticism for selling guides on setting up a Steemit witness, “pumping” Dash, and the typically erudite critique one can expect from the YouTube comments.
Unfairly, Jerry has also received criticism in the past simply for stating the facts when the facts were uncomfortable. His post “Meet Steem’s #1 Author”, discussing @mindhunter and @tamim, was painted as a series of personal attacks, despite a relatively unbiased, factual, and even arguably respectful take. When he (not unlike yours truly) pointed out the insane APR available from self-voting shortly after Hard Fork 19, he was also attacked for merely pointing out the existent math. (Luckily, I dodged that bullet...thanks for taking one for the team, Jerry!)
Whatever one might think of Jerry personally, he has made what is to-date the only (as far as this author knows) permanent pledge of returning witness rewards to the Steemit community via advertising. Not only has he pledged 100% of rewards back to the community as an advertising budget, he has provided an outline for tracking accountability linked below. Given I estimate Jerry’s current server costs at around $300/month, that ultimately represents him taking a loss to make a community contribution.
This pledge alone, if upheld, is enough to ensure this author of Jerry’s good intentions for the community. Since there are no “witness terms”, Jerry has no motive to lie on this point because he would be instantly voted back out if he renigged. It is difficult to accuse a witness who is already making substantial post rewards of greed when they would probably be making more profit if they simply stopped witnessing and posted more.
Jerry also operates via Twitter and his own video teaching platform, https://u.jerrybanfield.com , however he has temporarily forsaken most of his other work to focus his full efforts on marketing and creating content for the Steemit platform.
Jerry has written numerous guides for Steemit targeted at users of all levels of savviness. Honestly, there are too many to list here - everything from how to transfer funds in and out of exchanges and Steemit to how to maximize Steemit posting or curation rewards. There is a new guide almost every few days. He is also responsible for suggesting this collaboration with yours truly (@Lexiconical), and in fact, informing me of Steemit to begin with via YouTube video.
Jerry also likes to pust general use guides on non-Steemit topics, mostly of the computer-skill or advertising-related variety. He posts regularly on a variety of "potpourri" topics, including peanut butter and oatmeal.
Jerry was responsible for organizing the first-known Florida Steemit meetup, personally footing the bill and handling the organization for same.
Jerry, like several other witnesses, employs @Someguy123 to assist with technical witness management. Jerry also runs a backup node and pre-pays his server rental out one-quarter.
Jerry has quickly risen to prominence through the ranks of other purveyors of internet positivity and at-home entrepreneurship opportunities and is proof positive that if you are persistent, you can cobble together something resembling a stable career entirely from your computer screen!
When not working on Steemit, Jerry enjoys sampling raspberry sorbets and participating competitively in dog agility. He also advocates politically for water park subsidies. Jerry swears by his Pontiak Aztek as “the family vehicle of the future”. His external surface is constructed of cooler, sedimentary rock which gives way to igneous flows beneath the mantle. This whole paragraph was nonsense, couldn’t you tell? (A paragraphical-artifact from a once-too-short report.)
Jerry holds 92,000 SP, a portion of which he has delegated to community projects. He is NOT currently powering down, but IS currently leasing via MinnowBooster for his thread on same.
Jerry will be performing a stand-up routine at Steemfest II in Lisbon - so, please, someone tape that for me! If you're there, don't miss it!
Jerry’s Current Witness Update: @jerrybanfield/1-000-views-a-day-from-google-to-steem-witness-update-3
Jerry’s Original Witness Thread: @jerrybanfield/steem-witness-basic-training
Jerry's Ongoing Witness Project Summary: @jerrybanfield/full-time-steem-witness-update-4
Jerry’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/dukeacem/about
Jerry’s Site: https://jerrybanfield.com/
Jerry University: https://u.jerrybanfield.com/collections
Jerry’s Minnow Booster Thread: @jerrybanfield/earn-24-renting-steem-power-with-minnowbooster-8
Jerry’s 100% Witness Rewards Return Thread:
@jerrybanfield/giving-100-of-my-witness-rewards-to-advertising-steem
Meet Steem’s #1 Author: @jerrybanfield/meet-steem-s-1-author
Jerry's Most Recent Ad Post: @jerrybanfield/new-52-second-animated-video-ad-7-for-steem
Please see the acknowledgement post here.
If you have any additions or errata for this post, please let me know! I will see that they are voted to the top of the comments, and will make the appropriate edits (if possible).
We also have a Radio Station! (click me)
...and a 4800+ user Discord Chat Server! (click me)
Sources: @jerrybanfield, Youtube, Google, Quickmeme
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