Yeah, great article @kevinwong
I am on Steemit for ten days, but I see the potential in it, and I already started investing in myself by promoting my posts. The only thing about promotions here, that bothers me is that your promoted posts get in the Promoted bar.
I dont think that user will be clicking on that bar at all, they will check Trending and New posts tabs, but I highly douby anyone is going to click the promoted bar.
I think promotion must be somehow more widely shown, not just to users in the Topic they are viewing, and especially the promotrd bar.
Best practice I think, would be showing your promoted posts to everyone, just like it is on Facebook, just without the target audience. So when I promote a post, it be shown on the homepage of all users, and maybe there should be some rates announced, like for 1SBD your posts get shown in the feeds of 1000 people or less, but there deffinately should be some rates, so we know exactly what are we paying for.
Okay, this is just my thoughts on this subject. It went a bit lenghtly, I maybe should make a post about it.
As far as I know, there are people definitely looking into the Promoted page, even upvoting stuff there! In any case, promoting actually burns steem dollars, so it'll raise the floor price in general. So far, I think it's far better to engage with other users and figure out what people would like to value first, before going for the stuff that really interests you :) Yeah make a post bout it! All the best.
Okay, I am trying my best to engage and comment mindful stuff, but its hard for us the little sardines. I appreciate your upvote on my comment. Even though i never made a good post, with enough reward, i know that i can always make a buck or two while commenting.
Try to lessen the resteem and shortposts at the moment, try to build a meaty blog in the beginning, so when a whale comes by they'll see what your blog is about. You can be more casual once you've built rep and all - but that's just my suggestion!