This post is for anybody new to the Steem community or anybody that is seeking the real value in making money on Steem.
When it comes to making money online I have gone the full circle. I started off in my early years making tiny websites with affiliate links using a platform called click bank. I gradually moved became a member of the eBay partner network and the amazon associates program and using those. At one point I even had an electronic cigarette review blog that whilst didn't earn a huge income. It brought floods of free e cig kits coming through the post for review. Random but I was never short of e liquid!! I am now running a digital marketing agency helping other companies generate leads online. I have become the person that actively seeks out the bloggers to help promote our clients. I am telling you this because over the years of seeing the potential of earnings from a blog. I have never seen anything like Steemit.
The potential earnings on Steemit is huge. Despite the complaints of it being difficult to earn at the beginning, if you compare it to how long it takes for a standard blog to earn money it's phenomenal. In the first two days here I earned around ten Steem. This isn't anything special but I remember it being months before I saw a penny from some of the blogs I started years ago.
I now tell all of my friends or anybody for that matter who is actively blogging they need to take a serious look at Steemit right now.
Whenever I talk about Steemit there are often a few key things I end up saying as selling points for the platform so I thought I would share them with anybody new here so you see the direct benefits to the old way of blogging.
You get paid for everything
Most bloggers are used to dashing around Facebook and Twitter. Constantly engaging with people to build up their personal brand and their followers. They do this not for direct monetary benefits. But so that people know who they are. Just so that there is a chance that those people will remember that blogger and maybe one day will go and check out their site and then maybe they will benefit from that user clicking an ad one day. Sounds like hard work...
When you tell a blogger that on Steemit they get paid directly for the up votes their content gets, get paid for commenting and for even up voting others people content. Watch their mouths drop as their mind is blown.
Put simply, the other ads driven platforms cannot compete with a block chain social platform like this. Especially for a new blogger starting out.
The income is far higher than ad clicks
The next selling point is the actual income itself. Again bloggers know that it is almost habit for people to engage with something they like on social media. Be that a like, a re tweet or an up vote. It is almost second nature for people. Apply that to a platform like Steem where up votes drive revenue and you can get a well paying system.
Steem has found a way of driving funds directly to the content creators and at a much higher rate than google and Facebook etc.
No need to worry about off page organic search or SEO
Most bloggers will be aware of the amount of time it takes to build up an authority website. It is years of hard work building partnerships, relations, doing PR jut so that your website can get mentioned in other places on the web so you can then rank in Google for articles that you write.
With Steemit there is no need for this. You are already writing on a domain with authority that has strong backlinks and attention from search. This means that the content you create from day one will already have the best chance to rank. It allows you to spend more time on your content and less time worrying about building the website's reputation.
No hosting required
I have seen some bloggers actually debating shutting down their website to focus fully on Steem. Whilst I don't quite agree with this yet as it is very early days, I do understand their point.
When you have a platform that is paying more than any ad platform has in the past. Add to the fact that all the content is self hosted. You start to think about whether you need a website at all and could potentially save costs.
For anyone thinking about this, i say wait a while for the number of Steemit users to build up. This is a great idea however the number of users of the platform is still tiny compared to internet users.
It is early days...
This bring me nicely to the final thing and probably the most important point, Steemit is very much in its infancy. Starting to create content on Steemit now is like being one of the first few discovering Reddit or Facebook. The audience is small but it also means that the amount of other content creators is small. This means you can build a following much easier if you are new and starting out. In 2 years time, Steemit will be flooded with millions of content creators and it will be much more difficult for your content to be noticed. Get on it now whilst it is easier.
So for all new Steemians out there like myself. I hope you are as excited as I am about the fact that you have found a platform in it's infancy where you can start creating content today to get a footing before the main stream audience comes in.
Happy Steeming!!
