One of my New Year’s Resolutions was to increase my social media reach. My real reason behind wanting to do this is I’ve more or less peaked here on this platform. The population is not increasing by a lot these days and my efforts are not getting the kinds of engagement I’m wanting.

I’m at 1423 followers and have been in the range of 1420 for ages now. I have also engaged like a crazy person and I even run a community. Chances are if you don’t already know who I am you are not going to unless I think differently. This will also create another issue if you don’t have an account here in being able to reward content I share elsewhere. That is going be an issue to solve another day.

I’ve had https://twitter.com/EnjarTheCat for a while now but I almost never used it. Oddly enough on a couple of times, I have used it those posts seem to have gotten a little more than what I was expecting. My efforts, however, were always on Steemit.

Breaking the Steemit bubble to get more views and show the world there are other options out there is very important. I remember once a Twitch streamer from our Community Hive account@archdruid ask if he could share the discord link. People who joined from that link started reading posts from our community and really enjoyed them. Some of them also wanted to give creating content themselves a try. The net result was onboarding around 10 people in a month that our community took in and even answered the question they had along with helping them out.

For a little while now I’ve wondered what happened when I click that button in the bottom right and just went with it. I put no extra effort into it as I myself don’t use twitter very often and still need to learn more about it. I’ve just never been very big on using social media. I know I’m quite strange for my demographic but I’d rather be doing stuff then just managing a bunch of social media.

I did not add any hashtags or anything else to the window that pop up. I just went with it. I know I could have done better but I’m just testing things out. I was at least expecting it to take my tags and turn them into hashtags –it did not. All it did do is pull the articles title and add the word Steemit.

I also went out and followed a few that I know of or I enjoy else where on other platforms. Liked some content and left a reply or two as well.

A year ago before they removed the view counter I did not get a lot of views on my content. In fact, most of them were from me commenting back and forth with people and the counter going up every time someone came back to leave a comment.

While I’m not 100% sure what “impressions” really means. I’m going guess people who at least have seen my tweet despite the fact I never used any hashtags. I can understand getting the part of 4 clicks on the link to send them here. I even got 1 upvote that I’m aware of from it. With the chance of others possibly coming in from that tweet as well. That 67 is also higher than anything I know I got before engaging with comments over a year ago on my average post. Granted I don't put much trust into that 67 number. I’m sure a few are just from me. Still, it’s just another chance to drive traffic to my content. I’m not willing to pay the high price to bidbots to escape the void for a few hours before just like all content being lost and forgotten about.

The amount of effort this took was less then what I put into a thoughtful comment. While I’ve had some reservations about trying to reach outside of our bubble. It’s time I start approaching things differently.

Now this leaves me with two issues. My branding will never be consistent elsehwere. I never knew this was, in fact, a real name. Heck, I made it years ago back when I use to play Eve Online. It’s a long story – Name Challenge: Enjar. The other monetization of the effort I put into what create. I put a lot of effort into what I do. That I’ll have to save for another day on working on.

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