Thanks! I think the witness route is feasible only if you are are true IT expert. Even then, you have "blog incessantly" and spend a lot of time growing a huge following, which is detrimental to doing high quality work in my business.

So I just sort of disregard the "payment" system here.

In my business, having 'deep dialogues' with a few people is far more helpful and interesting than having "5,000 followers". After all, there are lots of excellent professions where one professional has only a few clients (less than 100) at any given moment.