RE: How to build an audience

Great topic... I fear we believe that our whole audience needs to come right from within Hive. But the best bloggers out there mostly used sites that had a user base of no one and brought people to their content. So I'd say MARKETING is also important. In this case the ability to drive traffic.
Many people on Hive may not be as interested because any outside source doesn't have vote value.
However here are some reasons getting those viewers may still be important.

1. You want those viewers to comment and therefore they need accounts and new referral codes for fast and easy accounts makes you a 3% beneficiary on their account.
2. Once that new follower is a hive user they may decide to get vote value or perhaps to TIP you if you promote that option. (hive,hbd,btc,doge and ltc all tipping options)
3. Probably the most important reason of all of them. Someone who gets lots of views on their content has a lot of potential way beyond votes and tips. No full time bloggers anywhere else require votes to decide if they're a success.
   Number of readers will impact their ability to:

• organize paid sponsorships
• get access to companies, guests and access/connection to other industry leaders,
• Ability to use amazon or other affiliate links.
• And on many platforms shared ad revenue.

On that last note if there was a successful writer (by the viewcount standards of the rest of the internet) I would think PeakD would be willing to discuss doing something helpful for them. We'll discuss that once we have a writer here who has a few thousand views consistently on their content. (doesn't matter how many hive followers you have... just get a lot of viewers)

.... hmmmm maybe i should turn this into a post... anyway thanks for starting the conversation.