I just wondered last night if Steemit could be used to run a small business?
-Services could be advertised on here and customer orders posted on the blog.
-Instead of email, use the comments section instead - replies and comments are much easier to navigate than email.
-Build a reputation and feed all the funds back into your small business.
-Accept STEEM and get all your customers to pay in Bitcoin via the STEEM wallet.
-We'd need a longer wallet history though to keep track of all the customer funds etc.
Just a few thoughts, cause if Facebook can do it for small businesses, then so can we!
Steem on!!
You could add that Google is ranking posts on Steemit rather high and for SEO purposes it would be very useful to write about your business on Steemit )
Who needs Google Adsense for business now! With high SEO + SteemSense = A KILLER BUSINESS APP!
SteemSense will come later, but I'd start a business just for the high SEO search rank on Google right now :)) A business bonus!!
Definitely can be done.
I think so too. Thanks for supporting me idea @billykeed
Steemit, the end of email. Sounds good to me!
I need a business idea now!!
Synereo will mark the end of Email.
YAHOO!!
(@thecentreofitall great post! Please add the #usesteem tag to it, we promote it!).
It is a great idea that many projects are trying to implement, yet I don't know of any that succeeded.
We need a huge user base for this to work and at least one niche market. That is not easy to find so we had better start working soon!
-- @develcuy
#usesteem tag now installed. Profits from the business side of Steemit could help fund the personal/social side of Steemit and fund new authors etc. One great ecosystem.
I really hope the devs come out on this one, because it would really help fund the flip side of the Steemit coin like you say.
A most EXCELLENT idea for the Steemit devs...Steemit for business! Up-voted and Resteemed!
Thanks @mindhunter I really respect your opinion in all of this.
The best idea I've seen on Steemit today - and I've seen a lot!!
No Clinton emails here eh!
The FBI will be after your comments next!!
:)
As some people have posted, steemit isn't really a social media site, it is a blogging/commenting site.
I would totally put a very well written Blog about my business on Steemit.
It is free, and is a free link back, and it is great for clarity and presence.
Steemit is not good for people to find you. The search features are not what they need to be for a blog system yet, let alone a customer interaction system.
Too many blogs already disappear into the black abyss without ever being seen.
Steem could be exchanged directly for goods, as long as you do not mind the lack of trace and fulfilment features. There is no customer support pieces in place, or deemed to be in place on the developers calendars. Adding a customer feedback, again, is not even on the radar.
So, I would make a great blog about each of your products, just to have its presence on the interwebs.
For the normal Steemit, yes, interwebs, but it can also have a business log in and slightly different interface like Facebook has too i.e. that for goods and services.
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How very clever of you @builderofcastles
Ooops! Cat keyboard time!
I don't want to see all of these ads on my feed page! I'd rather have the option to go through ads than be forced to skip them; it is very fucking annoying, and it (among other things) is turning off to FB. There could be an ad/shop page in where one could/would have the choice to look at different ads and what-not.
Having a filter for which ads/shops one may want to see would be extremely helpful.
Because FB owns the platform, some of the small businesses that built their shop shop around FB were later screwed when FB changed their policies and algorythms. What is going to be done to protect the small business that may want to use this platform to sell products?
I hear yer pain @tristancarax!
hmmm.....good idea, you've got me thinking now