RE: Walking Advertisement | Accounts We Should Be Supporting On STEEM
Great post. When it can take 2-3 weeks to get a new account approved and when it's difficult for new people to get any meaningful votes, then there's probably a reason you haven't seen much marketing yet. The conversion and retention rates have been too poor to justify the expense; as someone who has plenty of energy on marketing and outreach myself, I can say that most of it has been too premature.
As the platform matures (with development producing SMTs and communities and with new apps joining the blockchain), marketing's time will come. When it does, your idea is right on target because influencers from other platforms are the easiest and cheapest way to grow the platform in a hurry. I've long argued that we need to find support for them when they come here and I've used some of my votes for that purpose.
Thank you! Really great points, and I do agree.. I don’t think we are quite ready for the masses as I hear many people pushing for recently. I believe we are doing something here that has never been done and therefore takes time. I just have heard a big push for outside advertising lately and so this subject has been on my mind a lot. It’s a shame to see such valuable individuals on this platform go unnoticed.
I know you work pretty hard to support these folks and many like them, thank you for that. I believe this sort of support is the reason many of them stick around, and become as addicted to this place as we are haha.
I think SMTs will be such a game changer and am excited to see how it changes the face of curation and communities alike. I think even though most agree that we still have a ways to go before we are ready for mainstream.. we all want to support those that add value here.. to keep them here for the long run. Thanks for being such a huge part of that.