Most people see $ signs and our adrenaline pumps. I need more money, and this how easily you can earn it. Write some posts, even if they aren't top notch, you can earn a few cents, and hey, it's free!
If you take a second, and look at the larger picture, #Steem actually provides so much more. Everyone is so focused on the money part of steem, it is easy to forget about the real picture.
What we have here is a new way for top quality, unique content, to be seen by people around the world without censorship. If you have good, unique content, it automatically will generate upvotes and get comments and people appreciating the post.
If you have ever written your own blog before, you will understand this problem very clearly.
"How do I get my blog to be found easier in google?"
- Well, simply buy some pay-per-click ads (that costs money)
- Well, simply advertise in other ways (that costs money)
- You could pay for people to link to your page (that costs money)
- You could get mainstream media to interview you (that is near impossible)
- You could hope you accidentally go viral (that's what everyone hopes for)
OR
Your voice can, and will be heard on steemit. You may not appreciate the response, but that is the community deciding.
- Google doesn't decide. (Yay!)
- Professional bloggers with sponsors don't decide (Yay!)
- Adwords doesn't decide! (Yay!)
- You can do this for free! (Yay!)
Steemit has levelled the playing field and made a significantly fair system.
Don't believe me? A good post (with quality, unique, content) is liable to get voted up and get attention it deserves even if people try to deliberately circumvent your posts to upvote their own.
How do I know this? Steemit's population is growing by the day. There is going to be too many in the community who will want to read and participate in good quality content, because after all, this is not just about making money.
It is about believing in the system. It is believing that something has been created to encourage the world to have a fair place to speak.
I feel a heck of a lot better posting something to steemit, having it noticed and read by people, than I do my own blog!
I have an old blog, with about 400 posts, and mediocre visits sent to me by google. Google would rather I SEO the whole thing to death, speed oodles of money advertising it, and tricking social media into linking to me.
The same blog post can be written right here on steemit. I don't need SEO. I don't need money advertising it. I don't need to trick social media to link to me.
All I need to do, is write something the community will appreciate, and the offset is that I might earn something for it too.
Note: I either post on steemit *OR* my blog. But never both. Any post you read from me on steemit is freshly written, just for steemit.
Most of you reading this might be worried about accumulating as much steem dollars as you can before this system goes bust. I will tell you, it was designed for the long term. Busting this will not happen easily. It won't.
Sure there are features and polish missing. I've even identified some of them.
The point is.. all of a sudden I feel a breath of fresh air on the internet for where I'd like to share my content. I hope many of you do too.
We're now leaving the old method of getting seen on the internet and launching a completely new era.
It's a very inspirational and exciting time!
P.S. Please upvote so other people fixated on filling steem with junk can realize there is more important reasons to use steem. Those people are just cheating themselves. :)