RE: Steem’s Mining Difficulty is Too High for Content Creators?
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If you want to make money being an influencer, you need to influence.
There is also the issue of dedication to the platform, if you power down and pull off all your 'rewards' people will notice and stop supporting you.
There is also the ability to make money solely from investing and this is curation. You can delegate or just follow a skilled curator and make more Steem doing this than ever before.
I like the new system better but that is because I am slowly learning the subtle art of both. I don't think my content is very good or anything, but for the time being, it's good enough. I feel I can stay on top longer especially if I slow down.
For people who can't influence or trend without cheating/using bots, I suggest you take a careful look at what is trending. There are certain topics that are more likely to trend. Also, you need to engage your followers and their posts, too. If people are ignored or neglected, they will leave.
I think tribes are a very good start for this and the best way to do it is not to join the most successful tribes, or worse all of them, join a tribe where you have something to offer in terms of content creation and consumption. If it doesn't interest you, I can promise your posts will not be that good.
These are some really fantastic points. The idea of carving out a following and dare I say... doing research 🙀 about what kind of content to create, how to formulate your titles, making a good cover, etc. are lost on so many Steemians.
People think that blogging on Steem is somehow different to blogging on other platforms. Fundamentally, all the main aspects are the same. We've just got some extra benefits piled on top and we have a more tight-knit userbase.
The strategies of putting yourself out there and researching what the audience wants are still key components to the overall "game" of content creation and "influencership" (is that a word?).
Tribes are definitely a major benefit to the mission of encouraging more great content on Steem. It's way easier to sort through content now that we have tribes and I can also support and read content that I actually like (which is why I started SteemLeo for investing content) rather than sift through the great sea of irrelevance that is the Steemit new page.