For the benefit of Steemit Promotion please read – or at least ReSteem - this post.
I have a number of friends on Facebook. Amongst them, there are people I consider friends but have not yet met – just like Steemit. There are friends that I have met because of Facebook, again, just like Steemit. And there are friends that I know from my real life – just like Steemit.
I’ve been promoting Steemit on my Facebook account and I’ve noticed a couple of strange things…
My Steemit posts don’t seem to be reaching the same numbers as my other posts do.
On FB I can post about my books, my stories and my life in general and I get a fairly good response. If I post about politics of course, it goes mad… but you know, that’s the current climate.
I post about Steemit and nothing… tumbleweed…
So, I copy and pasted one of my Steemit posts directly onto one of my political posts (just a political observation meme, don’t worry, I’m not getting all serious).
That paste-post got a few responses.
Some don’t believe Steemit is paying out real money, some believe you have to pay to get onto the site and some just don’t get it. The money being stuck in the ether by my choice, to power up my account and give voting power doesn’t seem to mean much.
If it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, looks like a duck, it’s a duck and if Steemit looks too good to be true, then surely it must be…? Today I Learned sometimes you have to use a hammer to crack a walnut.
I thought I’d challenge my friends and followers then. I’ll write a series of posts for Steemit with half and half rewards. The half that isn’t powered up will sit in my wallet until my birthday (beginning of December, don’t worry… not too long). Just before the ‘big day’, I’ll withdraw ALL the money out and cash it in.
Added by Edit - I will purchase my gift from the excellent Peerhub site to prove Steem and Steemit can and DOES work in the 'real world'
With that money, I’ll buy myself a birthday present (something I’ve never done) and post pictures of the gift on Steemit, my (other) blog, Facebook and Twitter.
So, this sounds like me being selfish and I suppose it is – I mean, I don’t want to look like a cheapskate by buying myself a pack of second-hand gum, do I?
I’ll make a new tag for this - #experiment
I’m not going to load the bases and have every post of mine in the experiment because I wanted to use all my posts to Power Up and have done so since we had the choice (or close to it… I kept forgetting).
Yeah, I DO want to prove a point and I’m bloody-minded, tenacious and downright stubborn when it comes to supporting something I believe in and I bloody-well believe in Steemit!
So, Steemians and Steemers, please get behind this so I can get myself a brilliant birthday gift – so you don’t have to ;)
We’re all really interested to see how this turns out - 
One post a day, tagged as the experiment, I hope to be proven right (PLEASE) and if I don't get the response I hope for, I'll be tagging all the big-hitters so watch out 
Oh yeah... I have $10,030.040 STEEM POWER and no STEEM right now - here we go...
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