RE: When Two Communities Collide
That's the message we need and perhaps it's something I can do as a standalone blog for the next version of my Bluffer's Guide. Hopefully now with Justin Sun and someone who has marketing presence can work that in to his approach.
And you're right, I struggle to do both creating and curating. As much as I am a fan of both, it's not possible to do them both at the same time well if you're spread out as thin as I am. It's why I follow curation trails that are manually dedicated to this curation stuff and I trust - I'm not overly fussed about the curation rewards but it's a nice perk of buying up over 20k STEEM and powering up.
Would rather have an engaged blog which I seem to be having and I'm grateful for the loonies who have stuck around and commented!
Work to do but I'm confident about things and if it does all fall to shit, I'm not going to stop making music or writing travel posts. But I doubt it will fall apart after hearing from steemit and JS (rather than the other noise going around).
That marketing is something I'm looking forward to seeing, provided it's executed properly. If it's not targeted towards general consumers at all, and it's just the same old "get paid to produce content" spiel... we're going nowhere. People who can create already know they can get paid. They also look for markets so if there's a large audience here, more show up. Big names show up after that, once they see virtual unknowns become successful, because they too will want a piece of that pie, but currently eat a lot of pie, so expanding here with no market is pointless. Show me the money!
We'll see man, we'll see. I'm pretty optimistic. Fresh blood at the top, someone who has a presence and will not want to lose his investment... But "getting paid to write content" has been proven to be a shit tactic lol.