Whether it is Steemit or a Business Get Started Today Don't Listen to the Noise.
I have been lurking around Steemit over the last few days and have noticed a bunch of people complaining how they are not cashing in on Steemit.
WTF! Are you serious people? What have you done? You showed up on a platform less than two months ago and are complaining that you are not reaping a $Grand a week yet? This is why get rich quick schemes succeed because of people like this. You have not done jack shit!
Put in the work and then reap the benefits. Sure the Steemit platform is not perfect, that is why were are in Beta. For all I know this whole project may collapse, but take the chance to learn while you are here. I guarantee Steemit is not going to be the only social media network based on the blockchain.
It Could All Come Crashing Down.
If I can teach you one thing during your time on Steemit is that everything goes in cycles. We are in the complacency phase of Steemit at the moment. The greed is subsiding and the true content producers are rising. Have you noticed that the quality content is coming to the surface? I am seeing very few crap posts making profits. This will continue to happen.
I am Putting Out a Call for Everyone to Get to Work!
If you want to succeed on Steemit or any other entrepreneurial endeavor there is a learning curve. If you buckle down, learn, apply your knowledge and hone your skills you can also be a bad ass content producer. Those people who can figure this out will be the Hot Shots of the Steemit platform.
Do you really think that me making $5-$20 per post is worthwhile financially? I have written a post daily on Steemit for the last 6 weeks. I take the time out of my day because the Crypto community is my family. The relationships I build here are priceless. I already went through this process in the Precious Metals and Anarchist communities and have built a successful business around it.
I beg of you to step back and see the big picture. Those of you who can see it, might be the future leaders of this paradigm shift. Join me in changing the world. Leave the complaining to the people who perpetually fail at life.
If You Need Further Convincing Watch this Video By Gary Vaynerchuk.
Stop Whining and Do the Work!
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@hilarski Much needed article. I've taken your words to the heart.
Preach it, brother! So excited about the opportunities here. Not the guarantees, but the opportunities!
You are so right on this. People always want such short term results. Success takes YEARS of hard work and persistent. Work has to be put in consistently over time.
Haha, well said. I'm gonna get to work! Reminds me of something my dad told me once. "If you get good at making excuses, you don't get good at anything else!" ...Work!
Ah Yeah!!
I really like that saying as well @richardcrill!
I am not making money on Steemit; the reason is Social Media like any society has rules . . .
Personally I am NOT following those rules :
Social Media is about a message to create a response in someone else, if you think about Steemit ; Steemit was and IS the ULTIMATE in Social Media : )
Steemit got people to not only interact but to design bots to interact for them ; )
Now i doubt any other Social Media platform can say that ! ! !
If your not " selling " something like a goods or services type thing, then no matter what you always are . . .
Confused ? If your on Steemit your selling - PERIOD ; if it is not car tires or running shoes then it is something . . .
Amusement , sex , propaganda , entertainment , recreation or knowledge or opinion ; but your job is to pass on something to others via Social Media.
So start learning the rules, my Blog Posts gives some Steemit College level education basic hints and tips . . .
If you want to make money on Steemit then your in the wrong place, you need to make your opinions something others value so they reward you ! ! !
Stop complaining or whining and just do it . . .
I thought it was just because you are a @crok!
Bravo @hilarski! I LOVE this kind of locker room motivation. The problem with most people is that they leave what you say in that locker room and don't put it into practice on the field of life!
One of my favorite motivational quotes is a pill that MANY will refuse to swallow simply because their reasons for NOT doing something overshadow their desire to tear through the solid wall of pain that would have gotten them to the other side!
And that quote? "You can make PROGRESS, or you can make EXCUSES...but you can't do both." Progress, true progress, only comes through sacrifice, determination and a desire to be better than the person you were yesterday. And THAT, my friends, takes CONTINUOUS EFFORT! Peace to you and yours!!
Awesome, that was the point of the post. Complaining does not benefit anyone. Getting to work and providing value does.
But it is soooo much easier to just whine Randy...
i tell children my everyday thank you
why would you talk to your children ever day in the year 2016 ?
[ learn 2 text ]
just kidding : )
Ha! Where would you even see them?
Do you like work at a day care something?
Hehehee!
I know, it shouldn't even be funny.............
Thank you very much, Randy, for this post. Most of all I liked these words: "... Crypto community is my family. The relationships I build here are priceless..." I feel the same)
I'm just happy to have another avenue for writing content :-) and since I have no idea how this even works I look forward to the game.
Awe man, all that work for only $12?
How come when I only post two sentences and link someone else's video, I can't even get a nickel?
I know maybe I should try harder, but it would be easier if you all would just upvote it anyway so I wouldnt have to.
You are a true discovery to me! - Great post!
(Thank you for leaving some "footprints", as otherwise I wouldn't find you in a million years.) :)
Amen. Post, comment, network, look for new community members to encourage.
exactly!
Great post. Your Steemit analysis is spot on. Thank you.
Thank you so much Michael, times are changing and some folks just don't like it.
Very encouraging... I procrasinate too much...Now I need to get in to action.
Steemit has really inspired me to write longer-form content that I can use to build on -- anywhere, as you have pointed out in some of your posts. The response and feedback here is better than I would expect just by starting my own blog somewhere. I'm putting your advice to work! I may be slow, but I expect that I will get faster at it with time.
Yes, at least here we have some eyeballs on our content. My personal blog took years to build a following. Here it was immediate but that growth should increase.
And I like having connections with people, like you, who have gone through the process of starting on a new platform, but are experiencing this platform, Steemit, for the first time, too.
And yet again Randy, thank you for such a refreshing post, this needed to be said. I've been in the community for about a moth now and have only posted 4 articles, not very good ones and I have made no money but to me is more important to be part of the community and share what I can when I can. If I make money then great, if not I walk away knowing I was part of something much bigger than myself. I am not the best at writing but I try my best and that is all I can do. I am learning a lot from a lot of people including you. Thank you for the time and effort you put into the community, if no one else does I sure appreciate it.
You are welcome, keep plugging along and keep learning. The skills you learn here can be taken all over the interwebs.
But.. but.. can't I just read another article on how to change my life? ;)
hello @hilarski, I'm just stopping back to let you know that your post was one of my favourite reads for yesterday that I posted this morning. You can read what I had to say here
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