Survivor bias. I have a group of 70 people and only one of them gets 2+ dollars per post. The rest get cents and they make great efforts at posting quality content and at promoting it and getting new followers.
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A lot of success on this platform is likely due to the topic you write about. People who are driven to Steemit are probably aware of cryptocurrencies and therefore interested in economics, technology, and finance. @fredrikaa, your blog looks like it's about mostly tech and crypto (Steem, specifically). That probably has large interest base, here, whereas topics like home crafts and fashion might not.
agreed, there's very little rhyme or reason other than quantity rather than quality. which is garbage.
Which is still 100% more than they made on the platforms they used previously I would imagine?
You are of course right though. It is very easy to feel clever once you've made it. Regardless of whetehr it was thanks to luck or work. But then again, this will also be the case on Youtube, Instagram, Facebook etc. The point is still that it is possible without a prior audience. And also that it can happen quickly in a way that would be very unlikely to occur outside of steemit.
Lastly, I doubt it would have worked out the way that it did if not for community projects such as @steemSTEM and @ocd . There, people spend a lot of their time looking for content that deserves more. Perhaps these could be relevant also to some of the persons in your group?
Finally, the STEEM ecosystem is still young, and many more improvements will have to be made, but the community does quite a lot of good work to make it at least better.
I'm glad that you're here and I wish you and your group all the best on steemit :)
that's not even true, you get far more viewers elsewhere, investing time in STEEM is a gamble in a lot of ways - you're perhaps fortunate enough to actually get good returns on your time, the rest cannot be said for all of us. some of us put in real time and effort and produce quality content, but it makes no difference because we don't have hundreds of posts...
You're also a bit in the wrong here. You get viewers but not money elsewhere, and "not having hundreds of posts" is a problem with you, not with the community. If you want success, work for it. I myself believe that Steem is not some magical golden-egg goose, but I do believe that through hard work, perseverance and good communication strategies, we can have a decent follower-base that will generate more money than other possible jobs that would require perhaps less or perhaps more effort, but that would in the end be less pleasurable than Steemit.