How to bring more Nigerians to Hive
To be completely honest, I had given up on telling Nigerians about Hive. I often find the conversations to be draining and very unproductive. However, thanks to this campaign by @hive-naija in the Nigerian Hive community, I got a new lease on life and started telling a couple of people about it.
In the process, I learnt a couple of things and corrected a lot of assumptions I had in mind. I realised that while certain aspects work for you, it may not work for the next man and also that our discussions about Hive are too streamlined to certain aspects.
Blog for money doesn't ALWAYS work
I use to think that telling people of the prospects of "simply post and earn money" would be an easy sell. However, it turns out that not everyone gives a crap about monetising their data.
I know it is perplexing and super weird but that's just how it goes. I'm sure it is even more frustrating when you try to convince them to just do it for fun then, or maybe just crosspost their shitpost from other platforms into Hive and test it out, but they're still resistant.
The truth is that not everyone is cut out for the blogging life. In fact, not everyone enjoys and if they don't enjoy it, they won't do it. Whether you like it or not, Hive puts a lot of pressure on you because of the prospect of earning money and if you've been around for a while, you will know that your time will come.
For a new guy just getting in, and seeing all the "serious" blogging stuff going on, it might not be so easy to bear. It's even more difficult when the person doesn't derive pleasure in the activity, so forces themselves to do it.
With that said, if you want to go through the "blog for money route, it is important that the individual or individuals you're telling are people that;
- Are active on social media
- opinionated people that always have something to share
- Nigerians with a history of blogging or vlogging
- Nigerians that have tried to monetise their blogging or vlogging
- People that are open-minded
I think Nigerians with all or most of the traits above are going to easily absorb the "blog for money" aspect of hive. However, that's not the only aspect of Hive and this brings us to the other part.
Talk about EASY money
Let's face it, Nigerians don't have time for all that long term account building that you need to benefit from earning from blogging, they want it NOW. So instead of telling people to build from scratch, tell them how they can make "easy" money on Hive.
There are many ways to make "easy" money on hive. These opportunities are technically stressless and require no technical knowledge as well. However, for Nigerians to benefit from this part of hive, it is important for them to know certain things like;
- Understanding how keys work
- Explaining how to use the DEXES on hive
- Understanding how to convert Crypto to Naira
These aspects represent the most difficult part for anyone joining Hive for the first time. I believe that if we can devise a way to simplify this process for Nigerians, we will have more Nigerians investing in multiple projects that include Cublife, Utopis, Bro, LBI, Dhedge and all the other projects that pay a dividend or simply holding.
Also, with the new changes thanks to the recent Hardfork, there's an incentive to hold HBD in a Defi sort of way and that is easy money. Nigerians don't have time for long-term stuff and that's not unusual for a country with a large population of poor people. We want it now and you has to make it available or we go somewhere else.
In summary
Don't beat around the bush with people. It is important to know your audience, so you won't be feeding grass to a carnivore.
Some people have the patience for long term stuff, so teach them how to get it for the long term. In reality, I believe that hive is meant for medium and long term investors, so keeping people in this category happy will not be difficult. They will be open to games, blogging and other long term potentials on the network.
The real issue is with those who want it right now and they are the overwhelming majority. You have to find a way to explain everything they need to know and then bring them to your level. Coincidentally, people that want it NOW are also the ones with a higher chance of investing money into the network.
Either way, bringing more people increases the network effect and that will inevitably trickle down into the value of the community. I believe that if we use this approach I discussed, we will bring more Nigerians into Hive.
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Or just hive them 10 Cubs if they learn :p
lol sounds like a plan. We like easy money.
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Ye exactly! I did think of something like this basically giving out free money if you sign up and such. It could be doable since the APR returns on Cub is crazy..
Also thought of a project, where all of the money from the Project would go into CubDefi and the holders of the tokens would receive 95% of the income on a weekly basis :D
But with caps at every person can only hold 100 or 1000 tokens, so I can get as many low-income people in the project as possible who really needs the money and then cap the tokens at 200k or something ^^ :D
Also ye, we did or well I don't know. But I know we won :p
Let me just call it, we will win the EM this year ;)
Never thought there’s a lack of them on Hive.
This could apply for any other country tbh. I was doing the post for the contest and to squeeze out SEO ranking in the process.
Thank you for putting this together. It could be a tutorial for Hive in general.
You are right, if we are going to promote the blog for money, find people who are truly bloggers. At this point, unless promoting games, that is what we have to offer.
That said, I will toss out there the fact that commenting for money might become a thing. With the new changes at the hard fork, people might find that commenting can really add to their accounts.
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Yeah, @belemo. Taskmaster here was wise enough to point out content consumption habits can also be monetized here. Not everyone is a content creator but everyone is a consumer, and it's really easy money on top of that. This earning through consumption element is almost always overlooked. Consumers are typically the ones who spread the word by sharing content and such, so having thousands/millions here just having fun enjoying the products (content is a product) we offer would be a step in the right direction anyway. I'm honestly shocked this element gets overlooked so often, since consumers play the most important role.
You are very correct on this. Trust me it takes a lot of strength as a Nigerian to try and start building for a long-term outlook.
I guess this might be as a result of things changing rapidly each day over here(Nigeria) and we are all prepared for the worst to happen. It might be hard as a Nigerian to build on the block chain because there's this mentality that it might crash anyday, which I think is untrue as far as I have been on here.
I believe with time this mentality with change, just need to educate each other more on how to plan ahead for the better future.
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Nice work @belemo these are amazing points you've highlighted. Thank you for putting the word out there and we do hope to see more Nigerians here as time goes by, so far we have seen a lot of growth in the community.
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Did you see @purepinay 's recent event? Perhaps you could do something similar with support from ocdb ?
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Easy money theory will work fine in this case, i think. Many are coming to blockchain from Nigeria. its great and hopefully many will join the party soon in the future.
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Definitely not everyone can be interested. Most pple don't have the time/patience to be Here. For me, I was already tired of other social media platforms that sometimes I just don't get active for boredom sake. The same pple I have on fb are on ig and ofcourse on WhatsApp so twas very boring n I was literally giving up on those platforms until I was introduced here. I accepted easily coz I was very interested in something way different from what I have been used to.
I told my husband there after but trust me after his introductory post , he's left his account. No time he LL say lol. Sometimes what's convenient for me might not be for u . Besides Ponzi scheme are everywhere that they don't really trust hive ain't one of them.
You're so right on this, the era of blogging for money doesn't freak guys again since they've suffered in the hands of many fake ones.
. The best is to bring in bloggers.
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This is why I think Dbuzz is good for onboarding due to the short form aspect, it takes the pressure off of "blogging".
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Thanks for putting this together and it's just the truth. I want to add that the average young mind here just don't really want to work so hard especially with the seeming complexities with Hive operations and final conversion to cash. We would have had a big Nigerian traffic to Hive if it operated like a MLM.
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U don't need to give up, all you need is continue telling them.
Sometimes thing we need is the easy may somehow difficult and what I know is that they still enjoy it.
This is so wonderful point about how is important for nigeria to know certain things like; understanding how keys work,explaining how to use the DEXES on hive, understanding how to convert Crypto to Naira.