Because in most cases that's simply not true and it leaves a lot of people disappointed.
And although most of the time it's because their posts are simply not good enough, somebody told them they were going to make some money and that turned out to be a lie.
There's a growing discontent and something needs to be done about it.
Too many people feel that they've have been tricked, played like a fool ... they did NOT have a pleasant user experience, very much the contrary; they had a negative user experience!
And why?
Because there's something fundamentally wrong with Steemit? No!
It's because somebody created the unrealistic expectation in their head that they were going to make some money, but that expectation didn't come true, so now they feel abused, they feel stupid, they're frustrated ... and I can't blame them!
This while if the exact same person would have been attracted to Steemit for other reasons than money, their expectations would have been met, so they would have had a totally different user experience; a positive one!
Forget about the money and focus on all those other benefits, advantages and unique features Steemit has to offer.
Steemit did create a completely new kind of virtual space, with a totally unique atmosphere, with possibilities and opportunities never seen before.
Stop creating false expectations! Stop telling people that they are going to make money!
Steemit has plenty of other advantages to attract new users;
- No Censorship
- Steemit Etiquette
- Quality Content
- Emancipated
- Human Interaction
- Convenience
- Dynamic
- Open Environment
- NO Advertisement
- Community
- Google SERP's
and so many more ...
Think about it for second; online harassment and bullying, profanities and vulgarity, it's a very real problem on the other platforms. I'm sure from the billions of people out there, millions of them would at least have a look at steemit if they were to hear something about the phenomenal, never seen, absolute unique an evolutionary etiquette on steemit ... and when they then find out that they might also make some money, which will never take too long, that's an UNexpected surpise ... let me repeat; the exact opposite of what's happening!
No Censorship
Although plenty of people simply don't care about any of that, because their cute cat pictures never get blocked, but anybody who watches the political arena can get rather frustrated over it, as it does happen, quite blatantly in fact.
To put it as simple as it is; to attract Milo Yiannopoulos' audience, the censorship issues is very important. Sure, let Milo himself know there's money to be made, but his followers don't need that message ... all it does is create unrealistcic expectations!
Send an email to Milo to convince him that he'll be making a ton of $$$ if he were to simply introduce himself here on Steemit, but don't create the wrong impression by telling the same thing to his 200.000 twitter followers ... who by the way would definitely follow him here, because Milo got kicked out of Twitter ... why isn't he here yet?
How hard can it be to find 100 popular authors that are affected by the censorship? Censorship does occur on platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Contact those people directly, and tell them about the money, but don't spread that message around to the broader audience, as it's counter productive.
Steemit Etiquette
This while what I find the most attractive about Steemit, is how people behave here, it's really remarkable.
Everybody makes an extra effort, people are incredible polite here, they make an extra effort to come up with proper comments! There are hardly any profanities or insults ... anywhere. It's amazing!
It's very real and really significant! Rude and sometimes downright abusive online behavior on social media platforms is a problem. And while they all have their own ways to try and fight it ... none of them has ever succeeded, they're all going the wrong way about it.
While the incentives, and the down flag do the trick on Steemit. This should be the first people hear about Steemit!
Quality Content
Obviously, the main reason why there's indeed more and more really good quality content is because the authors are paid, but again, that's not what matters to most people, they just want the content.
And yes, it does stimulate the popular authors to go the extra mile and publish even better content, as they ever did before ... it pays!
The principle of giving incentives is clearly working, no doubt about that. But most people don't want to create content, they want to enjoy it. And that's exactly what Steemit has to offer
Emancipation!
I'm talking about the fact that there are already a lot of women here, in fact ... they're taking over!
Look at the top tags; photography, life, art, writing, food, story, travel, psychology, health ... I don't know about you, but I don't see Dan and Ned's publishing any posts in there ... I do see a lot of women in there!
The amount of women that are coming to Steemit is quite impressive and I believe that has more to do with the way people behave here, the type of content they kind find and of course the quality and diversity of the content, rather then making money!
Sure, plenty of women that are here creating posts with the hope to make money, and plenty of them are doing so very successfully.
But at the same time there are way more women here that just want to read those posts. Most women that are active here, although they might make some posts themselves as well in between, spend most of their time actually reading the posts, and of course they also upvote and maybe leave a comment, but they're not here just for the money. They are here for the fun of it!
Human Interaction
Plenty of people experience the same when they get another $0.0001 vote ... wow, great! Somebody cared enough about my content to vote for it! Fantastic! Somebody loves me ... finally!
No matter how much $$$ it is, for plenty of people that simply doesn't matter, it's the human interaction that matters.
Convenience
The convenience to post is amazing. Anybody can do it, it takes a little while to develop the right skills and come up with your own style, but not too long ... after a few posts most people are able to come up with nicely formatted post, and of course gorgeous pictures.
It's so easy that it's a pleasure to play around with it.
Open Environment
Personally I'm rather cautious when it comes to sharing personal information, but at the same time I must that I do enjoy reading other people's personal stories and experiences, and there's a lot of that to be found on Steemit.
And whenever it is a heart breaking story, I'm very happy that no matter how small my contribution may be, at least I was able to do something, simply by upvoting the post. This while it's also possible to send money directly or use the promote button to help the story to get the spotlight it needs.
No Advertisement!
While Steemit still manages to generate revenue, that's in fact the most amazing part of it. To create website without advertisement, that's in fact easy, it's paying the bills without revenue that makes it impossible to keep running that site.
It's an economic innovation of which none of us, even hardcore steemers can imagine. This is truly a paradigm shift in the internet world. Never before any website has ever been able to create revenue, while remaining fully accessible. Steemit it took it even one step further than that; everybody actually gets money when signing up.
There are a lot of people out there that get annoyed with the advertisements. Not getting bombarded with advertisement makes reading much more enjoyable. Your brain is not constantly being teased and distracted, which allows your brain to be relaxed and at ease.
Google Results
This is in fact very important for commercial websites. The amount of posts that are taking high rankings positions in the Google search result pages is growing exponentially. And for commercial websites to get traffic, it doesn't matter if the visitors come directly from google, or read their post on on Steemit first to then click to the commercial site itself.
For commercial websites that want to attract visitors this is very appealing. They now need to spend a lot of money to get traffic from Steemit, a lot of it being spend on blog posts already.
This while traditionally traffic coming from social media websites have a very low conversion rate, while when people end up on Steemit, it's because they're actually looking for information, not some funny meme. Those people are good clients, the fact that they read the post on Steemit makes them informed customers, which translate in; sales!
