It's been posted about since the beginning of this website. Almost all major websites that are trying to secure some serious traffic are involved in affiliate marketing in some shape, way or form. Amazon's affiliate program does wonders, silly Fitness stuff makes a killin' and even dull Hostgator ads bring in some players.
The affiliate program wouldn't need much to get off the ground. There's multiple routes that could be undertaken, but I see 2 options.
This is mainly to bring in some power players (whales), celebrities and social media figures. It gives more incentive to those who have large followings to promote. More money for BOTH parties + easier signups = more cash and traffic. It's an upwards spiral.
Here we have stuff from last year:
And if you search it up, there's pages full of posts:
Hopefully it does come into realization eventually (an official one from Steemit of course).
Btw, while I've got your attention.. why does Steemit cut off my YouTube thumbnails? Any video posted here has a black bar (hence why I reuploaded my thumbnail at the top, to get better quality).
I love Steemit and hope to see it expand to great heights :)
Agreed. https://steemit.com/steem/@snowflake/unleashing-the-power-of-wom-could-a-decentralized-referral-system-be-possible
Agreed, it would make the process of grow much faster. Anyhow it is difficult to explain new people/friends how the payment system is working. They don't believe it, while their posting their whole live on FB.
Agree with both of ya'll. I love Steemit, and wish everyone else knew about it! This would help our community grow much quicker!
There's nothing to not like about a Steemit affiliate program.
First person to comment what their favorite example of affiliate marketing is... gets a full 100% power upvote from me. It's not much (sorry my 100% is below 20% charge) but it's something! yay
Steemit does not need affiliate program, its upvote program is enough, wait a while it will blow up and will be bigger than face
Oh I definitely know Steemit will continue to grow, just I believe that this would help it grow at even faster pace. It's more so aimed at those influencers who would need more incentive.
An affiliate program would ruin steemit.I mean when i advertise steemit i do it to migrate my community and friends from crappy social media to this, and i often get asked what's in it for you and lot of people label steemit as another "pyramid scam" and wonder how curators actually get paid.I wonder how something like that would affect the reputation of steemit.Although it would be nice if it was done by the community as the ad campagne done by Jerry Banfield (Steemit doesn't have an ad campagne for a reason).
It's funny how something so simple can affect public opinion so drastically. It's like I'm at a point where I could care less about certain individuals joining Steemit, it almost feels like a hidden gem from the public. Of course I'm happy about it growing, but I just don't mind when some call it a scam and dont want to even research it. We don't need people like those here anyways..
100% this. I think it's a bad idea too
Yeah I'm honestly powering up and just keeping everything.. fuck Polo
ROFL, waht's better bittrex or bitshares DEX ?
i'm using bittrex atm
I agree with you. There are a lot of things could improve this website. Also editing the story could be more flexible with some auto image correctors, text redactors. to make blogging more easier faster and eye catchy
I want affiliate program... it can boost new signups
An affiliate programme is a good idea but I think you should get an invite code and everyone that joins via the code and actually spends bitcoin on there account the person who invited should receive up to 10%.... Unless this wouldn't work...
The % from each affiliate each time they earn something probably would be the best option if it doesn't get too OP. For example: User2 uses User1's affiliate and User1 receives 10% of User2's income. How ever if User3 uses User2's affiliate, User2 gets 10% and User1 gets 9% since he's the one who invited User2. And so on... Obviously Steemit would have to come up with some kimd of formula, but you get the drill.
That would get a little messy if U1 gets affiliate % from U3. I think it should just stop at U2 (although U1 would make less money..). It'd be hard to keep track of that
oh good i will folow you
Thanks mate, I did see you comment a few times before.. please more substance.
ok sorry
This would be really good actually, you could drop it on your videos!
Oh of course, I'd go crazy with it ;) And eyyy I like your username, thanks to theladbible I got a bunch of Subs back in February
haha bro, i just stole it I guess. hope that isn't illegal lol
Plenty of sites do well without the circle jerk that is affiliation. Look at twitch, its affiliation program pretty much wrecked them and now Amazon is giving "partner" out like the CIA gave out Cocaine in the 80's
Could you give specific examples with Twitch?
Well in this case i was talking about the affiliation twitch had with streamers, it was a great idea in theory but after awhile in practice it became a problem for the company as a whole. If Amazon had not stepped in many agreed twitch was on its way out. I pretty much look at it in the terms of "a man cannot serve two masters".
You know, honestly I don't want steemit to turn into a facebook. Facebook is so boring compared to steemit.
I am new so I might not have much influence, but I would hate for steemit to turn into some place where people just post there funny dog videos and spam the comments tagging friends names. I like steemit because many posts are actually worth reading. It feels like a hidden gem right now.
Steemit will never be on the same level as Facebook, nor is it trying to attempt that (at least I think so). I just am looking at the long term price. I mean.. if there'd be 10M+ users next year instead of the 1-2M, I don't see why the price wouldn't go 10x. That's a lot of money there.. enough incentive to go full out.
About being on the same level, never say never. I am just hoping it will be a platform for people willing to invest in the platform and in the content on it. I used to use Facebook more as a newsstream but since I discovered steemit I barely opened facebook. Quality of the information is just higher here most of the time. I am a bit afraid that when the 'sheeple' find out about steemit the quality/quantity ratio of the posts will become worse..
Lol @ never say never.. I know ;p I mean hell, It'd be dope if Steemit reached FB levels. We'd all be whippin' the lambos
I think no need a affiliate program.
To each their own opinion. Obviously I'm biased (being a marketer) but I think it'd do more good than harm in the long, long run
That is a great idea, it would help grow the community which help all of us make money!
Mo money - mo problems.. OKAY NO JUST KIDDING :) It's time to make some sweet, sweet cash!
thats what we are all about on the steemit community!
Affliation programs will make steem it fun.
I not agree. It would mean less curation reward for everyone. It would also mean steemians exploiting the work of other steemians and hierarchical relation with Steem Power... We are not in a MLM company. If we can have affiliate rewards, people will not share Steem because it's a awesome platform, but because they can personally use them. The slogan "Comme for the reward, stay for the community" will loose its meaning.
You have to think long term though. If Steemit would go "mainstream" (it will never reach the likes of Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, etc. in its current state unless it undergoes some serious changes, but I think Steemit could hit 10M+ followers) then the price of Steem + SBD will go up. If that goes up, there may be less rewards but the payouts still will be much bigger if the price doubles, triples, etc. I think at the end of the day, people are selfish. If there wasn't incentive already, there'd be way fewer people here.
I don't know if it would with the voting system as is. Because let's say Steemit did get FB HUGE - minnows would drown. People with influence with hoard their votes, even the average person would hoard theirs. All categories would be filled and your (general your, not you lol) post would never see the light of day .
The already super famous with massive platforms would just spread on out over here, see that they could make even more money, and become instant whales.
I don't know. I want Steemit to stay small for a while. I'm not an economist - so maybe I'm being pessimistic, and I could be dead wrong - but imagine that ridiculous family famous for nothing else but plastic asses and being uber rich on here? Imagine seeing the feed full of that crap?
Good idea
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I think I was your 800th follower! Hah. Thanks for the vote on my other post! Definitely agree that Steemit needs an affiliate program. With the right incentive, that could spark huge growth.
Thank you for being the 800th follower :)
I agree avilsd, A steemit affiliate program would be great. 👍🏼
Hello steemit !
I would also love to see an affiliate program setup.
I really do want more Steemit pictures on google ;) havent seen this gif before yet, neat