RE: IF I WAS A MINNOW ON STEEMIT I WOULD... - PART 2
Hey, was waiting for the second part, since the first one was really good.
I totally agree that everyone should pick up a niche and try to stand out from others and like you mentioned in your other posts - it is very important to actually do something in order to get more experience.
However, there is a tiny problem here:
If the minnow is a real professional in something (same marketing, design etc), it will be easy for him/her to find what to write about or offer particular services and the most important they will be in-demand in a short period of time .
The real problem lays with minnows who are semi good at something, they kind of understand a niche and interested in it, but they cannot provide any valuable information. As result, the content provided by minnow won't be interesting to the public and that in its turn will lead to 0 chance to raise any money on an article.
I am not denying that minnow should write more, read more and learn a topic and only then his content will be really appreciated.
I am just saying that it is very hard to grow from a minnow to some other bigger fish :) when he is not a professional at something.
I have highlighted this issue, because I want to understand, what a minnow should do - when he is very small and inexperienced in everything.
This is a good point @flowily! I think @cryptoctopus point is well made. But there are many people who are a "Jack of all Trades, Master of none". And finding the place where we can add to the community in a real and useful way can be difficult.
I think one of the solutions may be to find an established project to become a part of. If the project is something that you can contribute to, even in some small way, and the project gets the attention of a whale or two, then you earn by being a part of the bigger mass. Becoming a school of fish rather than a lone minnow if you will.
I find myself trying all sorts of things to bring eyes to what I am doing. Taking a shotgun to the problem and spreading buckshot all over the place to see if anything hits. Plus we all have diverse interests, so throw out articles that feed to your interests and see what happens.
I really appreciate the advice in articles like this one, it really helps to have guidance, as well as to know there are big fish out there who genuinely care about the little guy.
We need bigger shotguns indeed :)))
It's not fair but that how this universe of ours is made:
"Therefore take the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten talents. For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. " Matthew 25:28-29
The first thing they should do, is become more valuable to other...if they can.
I don't think it is necessarily unfair. It is something we all have to work for. If it was easy, then there would be a million millionaires on Steem already.
This right here. Earlier this week @stellabelle posted a link to @dan 's intro post: https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@dantheman/daniel-larimer--co-founder-of-bitshares-steemit
I gathered from that, we are in a community that was built for the purpose of helping each other out. It would be so easy for people to make their Steem and just sit on it like a dragon sitting atop his treasure horde. But so many whales are out here trying to continue to help the community up.
I think it is the minnows who learn from this lesson and continue to strive to help others who will be the next generation of dolphins and whales to share what they have learned and boost up the masses who are coming in this time next year.
I love "Renaissance" man statement in your blog, it well describes your character as you have revealed. ...sounds like I just need to keep on keeping on...Thank you for focusing here on a minnow topic ...it is reassuring to myself and many I am sure...The biblical tells me much also...will be looking for Number 3. :)
Cheers,
Melissa
That is exactly why I think not everyone should strive to have it's own "ultimate" plan or project to share with the world, but rather participate in others...