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For a certain time I haven't written any posts on steem but this doesn't mean that I've been idle. I've tried and tested most of the games available on the steem blockchain and worked on some other steem related projects like my own HVOTE token.
To understand the readers, you need to become one
But above anything else these last weeks, I've taken the role of the active reader of articles posted on steem. I focused my attention on the people that I'm following. There are not so many but most of them are writing good content and I read the things that seem interesting. Most of the time I also left a comment and tried to push the interaction with the author.
The problem of steem: not enough readers
I believe that one major problem about steem is that most of the newbies believe that they have to post content in order to earn money. So they write a couple of posts that tend to have zero value. It is not surprising that many of them give up after that. There are so many posts that are simply not read by humans that I can't help to think that there are not enough readers on the blockchain.
During my self experiment I made an important discovery:
When I take the time to read a post, to upvote it and to give a comment, I expect something in return!
The minimum would be an answer to my comment but I felt that when I didn't get an upvote it was not enough. Just following my guts I ended up reading and commenting only the posts of the people where I was sure that my comments would be answered and upvoted.
Reward your readers
To get more readers we have to reward their time and interest with answers and upvotes. If you have not enough steem power to give significant upvotes it doesn't matter. It is the intention that counts. Another way to reward your readers is to put a steem bounty on your post, like that you can give an additional value to your upvotes.
Stand out from the crowd !
There is so much content on steem that we simply cannot cope with everything. We need to filter the information and in the end we will need to focus our attention on posts where not only our interest is caught but where we also can expect a financial return. In the end most of the people are also on steem to earn some coins...
When rewarding your readers it is much easier to build up a long term relationship with them. The fact that you reward your readers will be news that spread quite quickly over the blockchain and you might get even new readers like that. More readers means more traffic and this means more comments, resteems and upvotes...
What do you think about that? How do you feel when you read, comment a post and don't get any answer?
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I reward my readers: Every meaningful and related comment will be answered and upvoted. Please be patient, my time on steem is limited ;-)
My projects:
@help.venezuela : a program that supports steem users from Venezuela.
HVOTE : A token that is underlined with a real steem account. With the sales of tokens, the Steem Power of the account is increased. The votes are sold on smartsteem and together with curation rewards, the account produces real economical value. Big token holders get upvotes from the account.
Ref-Hunters : Cryptocurrency faucets. Get free coins every hour.