Following Up with Action

In a way as a follow-up of my previous post about SEO and social media marketing, I decided to start acting myself.

And what better thing to promote outside the Steem ecosystem than SteemMonsters, a website and dapp which captures a big chunk of my time recently?

Well, there are a few other great choices too, but it is true my selection of the website to promote outside Steem is not purely altruistic. It has an affiliate program and anyone who joins it using my referral link earns me a commission for life, on their purchases, from Steem Monsters.

But that won't stop me from promoting other dapps I use regularly and am pleased with in the future.

I started by writing a blog post on a website before I left on vacation. Still no feedback on that, but I think the novelty of the Steem Monsters concept when combined with the blockchain, even if it has its roots in niches people understand, still needs some time to grow people's readiness to make the step, spend the $10 and join. Much easier for those who are already involved in the crypto sphere, at least that's my impression. However, gamers and novelty go very well together, and if we find them and make them interested, and trust is not broken, because money is involved, the whole thing has the potential to grow much larger.

Yesterday I went one step further and created a classic 468x60 banner to add on a website with over one million members. I am curious about the CTR on this one and if banners still work in this particular case.

I also posted on Twitter and Facebook, but since I haven't used either accounts in a while I don't expect much interaction.

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I ended my post from yesterday like this:

The worse mistake you can make is to be self-sufficient, and do neither of them. After a while your base of users/members/readers erodes, and you will have done nothing to replace it or increase it.

I was referring to SEO and social media marketing, in a general sense. But this applies very well to Steem and whether or not we create content relevant to the outside Steem ecosystem or not. And in this type of content, mentioning Steem, Steemit, its dapps, the community etc. makes no sense, unless you want to make a point why someone should join. But I would rather see those points made on other platforms. It will be more credible. I wonder if we can pull this off.