I Want to Congratulate All the Early Users of Steemit.
All the trials that we went through as a community are now paying dividends. It is not easy being a pioneer. Making a new path instead of taking the old worn out road is difficult. People thought we were crazy, accused us of being part of a Ponzi scheme and generally treated Steemit as a scam. Now we are reaping the rewards of having the ability to stick with something.
I know the pendulum is swinging towards huge growth because I am seeing many of my social media peers joining Steemit. These people are the ones who have hundreds of thousands of followers across social media. They will carry the Steemit banner far and wide. Steemit links will soon be found on every major social media site on the internet.
The one thing I found lacking on the platform was the lack of sharing content across the web. There is no easier way to attract people than to share our content externally. If you keep your content within the Steemit bubble then the only chance for others to see your content organically is via Google Search and that takes time.
Sharing across other social media platforms can have immediate rewards via more views. The long term rewards are that people begin to regularly visit Steemit and then sign up. This is exactly what happened to me with Medium.
