RE: Qualifying for High Value Votes: How to Provide Evidence YOU ARE YOU and YOUR MUSIC is YOURS
Excellent post and I enjoyed some extra insight that dealt with more personal cases in the comments, very useful read.
However, here is the thing that I still struggle with. In short, I post "track of the day" type of the posts on my account, that feature artists' music I find on Soundcloud as part of my crate digging for my DJ series for Mixcloud. The type of music I look for is lesser known artists because my main goal with the series is to highlight up and coming artists, not play top 100 of Beatport. So I am hoping that with time and with account growth (that I have to put a lot of my own time into), I will provide exposure to young artists and promote their music. Now the possibility of rewards part is obviously where it becomes a grey area, and what I have been trying to do is reach out to each artist I feature on my blog and offer them the share of the possible reward if they join steemit. Now that in itself immediately sounds like a scam when it deals with money and joining a platform they are not aware of, so I need to find a good approach to ease them into the whole concept.
So, without getting too wordy, whats your guys' opinion on curation blogs? I spend my time finding this new music, I also review the tracks I feature on my blog, I do not represent it as my music, but as a music I find from curation on each post? Thoughts, ideas, on how to make it great for everyone involved? :)
I personally would not offer the artist a cut from what you earn promoting their music, but the other way around; When they come to steemit, you take a cut from what they earn! That is how it should work IMHO. Well, best way is maybe just try to get them to Steemit and whatever they earn, they keep. So, selling the idea of Steemit to someone, is a mix of things: They must like blogging, they can use Steemit for various purposes, to promote their own work, ideas and whatsoever, what they do on Facebook they can also do on Steemit. Steemit can just be another social media channel they operate. When they don't like to handle social media, well, their bad, they will not come to Steemit.
No issues to feature someone else work, it is curating as so may websites do. I suggest to add some good writing to the music you feature, objective review, your personal opinions, maybe some links to there social media and all. I personally like the personal opinions and stories around music posts, so when I see msuic post with generic stuff about the artists/band, I get bored and skip them for reading. To many other places on the Internet where you can find that. But not so many places where you can read personal stories around music.
Wow, that is a very illuminating point of view, I guess from my perspective it is their work and it's the fact that I earn something from it that might ruffle their feathers. But I am literally was thinking the same thing as you outlined, that it's not quite simple as that - it takes time and effort for me to build the following around my account, and if it becomes a good place for people to look for music - then it is also a highly targeted demographic listening to these artist's tracks, they get exposure and my "stamp of approval". I dont wanna repeat myself, but thank you for making me feel easier about the whole situation, as I was having conflicted feelings about something that was coming from very good intentions, imho. Really appreciate you taking time to respond, thank you, @edje!
You're Welcome :)