Build Your Steemit Power Through Meet-Ups
Build Your Steemit Power Through Meet-Ups
The Steemit community continues to grow worldwide. I am seeing a surge of people getting involved. Yes, the chance to earn money rather than make other platforms rich from sharing our data with advertisers is good. Hey, we all have to pay the bills.
However, I’m seeing more and more the real power of Steemit is with the growing community of people helping others with ideas, pictures that entertain and/or answer questions, and giving practical advice in a variety of matters.
Recently I had the chance to attend a Steemit Meet-Up in Athens, Greece. It was fabulous to meet so many super intelligent, and very helpful people. I was very impressed with the people, how smart they were about Steemit, and many other important areas in life. More than anything, it was refreshing and delightful to encounter people who genuinely cared and proved it by their assistance.
Here are some take-aways that I got which can help you:
1. Treat Steemit as serious business. It is a social media platform and I find those who do best in Steemit know the fundamentals of what to do
and what NOT to do
2. Honor the protocols of the platform. I wrote about his in our McGraw-Hill published book I co-authored with Gina Carr (@ginacarr on Steemit). As you should not overtly try to sell on LinkedIn (bad form), don’t do it on Steemit. Provide serious value first. As people get to know that you have a lot of sound ideas and can help them, they’ll be more open to working with you. Be a friend and helper first. Then business will naturally flow to you from your article on Steemit.
3. The community matters as much or more than your content. I’ve been using Steemit since August 2016 and attended Steemfest in Amsterdam last November. It takes time to build relationships and, just like in any business, that is most important.
4. Commit to the TME necessary. You don’t do well on Steemit by just posting cute text. It has been tried many times. It doesn’t work. Those who are most successful put in the Time, Money, and Energy (TME) to have good copy, good pictures, good video, good GIFs, and more. Plan on spending 1-2 hours/day to make it work, at least at the beginning. Treat this as your job and then spending a few hours seems more reasonable. Yes, you have to pay the price for success in Steemit as elsewhere.
5. Enjoy the ride. Yes, it is business but you must make it fun. Consider planning a Steemit Meet-up in your area. Hey, consider putting together a Meet-up in a city you will be visiting and see if there is interest. Have fun doing it and you’re much more likely to succeed.
Bonus #6 - Consider being at Steemfest 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal. I’m thinking about it now would welcome discussion from others who are considering it also. I’d be open to some live video broadcasts (I do these a lot in my work) to talk about it and get to know others. Hey, we can have our own video-based Meet-Ups in addition to the physical gatherings. The opportunities are enormous. If you’re interested in being part of this, please leave me a comment below.
Steemit is revolutionary in its approach. To succeed you must know what to do and what not to do. If you do this you’ll succeed very nicely. Consider a Meet-Up as a great way to introduce yourself to other Steemians and many can benefit.
What do you think? Please leave a comment and upvote this so we will know if it is of interest to the Steemit community. I hope this article helps you.
Now enjoy these pictures of some great people who attended the Steemit Meet-up in Athens, Greece.
All the best!
Terry
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What an incredible looking meetup Terry, I see many familiar and fond faces there with you!
Thank you, sweetsssj! Wish you could have been with us. We were sending good vibes and best wishes to you from Athens, Greece. Did you feel it??? :-) All the best!
aww yes I felt it surely !
So many things obstructed me from being able to join you guys this time (my bahamas trip, and me not having a shenghen visa) but hopefully there will be opportunity in the future.
Yes! We are looking forward to seeing you at a future meeting somewhere, sometime.In the meantime, keep up the great work you're doing with your own posts. We love them!
Should give a donation to the people of venezuela, their support would help my family.
Every new relationship or every new task, needs devotion, honesty and time. Totally agree and resteem!
Thank you, tikotiko! Great to meet you in person there! All the very best to you!
Terry I am so happy you made it at our gathering. And proud to know that steemit is the home of such intelligent individuals. I've said it in the past will do once more.
Sreemit's true power is that it brakes borders and connect people in a way nothing in our world can. Welcome to our family.
It was WONDERFUL to meet you, skapaneas and talk with you at the Meet-Up in Athens. Thank you for your comments. You really helped me a lot in seeing how Steemit can work to help our freedom and liberty in life. I look forward to staying in touch!
Every day I am getting closer to deciding that Portugal is a must. Your recommendations are on point and people need to pay attention. Community and comments are the life blood here. Build your tribe and your business will grow organically. :)
Thank you for your comments, merej99. I agree with you that community and comments are the lifeblood here. That is so true in business.I regularly speak for conventions and corporations around the world about the importance of relationship marketing. Our community here demonstrates The importance of relationship marketing in a strong way.
Indeed! I was just commenting with @lelandbest about marketing and Steemit (and business). Communication is a two-way street and people want to connect with people NOT products or services. The days of Fast Eddie are gone, thank goodness.
Resteemed of course!! So happy to have met you and the rest of the dream team 😊 Till the next!!!!
Great post. I am going to see if I can find one where I live. I am sure I can find one in L.A. which is 60 miles from me. Thanks for the post.
Yes, I would imagine that in the LA area you have many, many people who would be interested in it. If you go ahead and schedule a meet up,Please post it way in advance.Many of us are traveling and might be in that area on that day.Much success to you!
Will do!
very good point you got there Terry ! TME is my first advice i give them when they joining the platform ! spend some quality time put some effort , like you are doing in your day job ! i hope we catch up also on the 2nd Athens Steemit & ofc in Lisbon !
Yes, it will be good to catch up if I go to Steemfest 2 in Lisbon. Working on it now and would like to make it happen.
Thanks @terrybrock! Always a stimulating a conversation with you.. perfect for my somewhat lazy (or tired) mind!
Hey, Kevin, with all the traveling you've been doing, you have still enormously stimulating in your thinking. Thank you for sharing what you did. I'd love to stay in touch and even do a video together on Steemit sometime. Are you open to that?
Yup, for sure. Id say probably some tine after I get back to KL? lets say from 5th july onwards :)
That sounds good. Let's stay in touch and we can find a time that works for both of us. Cheers, my friend!
Dear @terrybrock, thank you for this article.
I've a question : how to motivate people to participate in the Meetup ? I've created a meet up invitation three days ago (I have always prefered real life than internet ;-)), and except my friend and husband, nobody reply. I really thought people would be happy to join... and I feel a bit confuse: why nobody even let a comment to says that 's a great idea but they don't have time/possibility/envie/... Any advices are welcome !
And see you probably at SteemFest :-)
Thank you for the upvote, malik.roxane. I know what you mean. Sometimes we reach out and nobody responds. Put yourself in their shoes. Think about why they would want to respond to you. Read your invitation from their point of view.
Find the solid benefits they will get. Talk about, and work to get, important people to be there and/or have great reasons why they should get together. Always think in terms of the other person's point of view.
Let me know how that goes and please stay in touch. I appreciate your kind words and wish you the very best.
Thanks for your reply @terrybrock. I will apply your advices (and apply it also in my every day life, it's a very good advice in fact !). I think people doesn't reply for two reasons : they may not have seen the information. And there are maybe not more than only few belgian people here on Steemit.
About the important people to get there, that's a very smart advice. I even not think about that. You know, I even don't know who are these " important" belgian steemian... I need to look for it.
Keep in touch,
Roxane
Great post Terry, i'll resteem it. I would love to go to Steemfest but i allready booked my holiday in november before i knew it was then.😬Bummer
Thanx for the note, tomber. Even if you can't make it to Steemfest (I don't know yet if I'll be able to) stay in touch here online with posts and replies. I look forward to seeing more of your content.
Thanks man, it won't be the last fest!! Cheers
Thank you, tomber. Keep an eye out for other Steemit Meet-Ups happening around the planet. One of them is bound to be convenient and just right for you. I look forward to meeting you sometime, somewhere.
Likewise, and i will.