How to Be a Successful Author on Steem | Good Content Frequently or Great Content Sporadically?

As I continue my hunt to get more authors onto SteemLeo, I’ve been realizing something:

People are perfectionists.

I’m a perpetual shill for the Steem blockchain. Ever since I joined Steem, I’ve been going around to friends, family and even new acquaintances and touting the Steem blockchain.

At first, I told people they could make a lot of money if they joined Steem, invested in it and created content on the blockchain. Mind you, this was mid-2017… it was actually a pretty good time to make money on Steem. A few of the people I told about Steem actually made a pretty penny during the bull-run as a direct result of their STEEM investment.

It was a naive time for me and while the investment turned out well as we went into early 2018, I have learned way more than I could have ever imagined. Steem is not a place to get rich. It is not a “good” place to invest your money.

What I realize now that I didn’t understand back then is that we should be persuading new users to join Steem to learn about the technology and invest in knowledge rather than a scheme to make more $$$.

Steem is a tangible blockchain. While it is complicated, it is still far less esoteric than any other blockchain that I’ve worked with. Joining Steem can be viewed as the equivalent to going to “blockchain university” — one day, people ought to say: “I came to Steem for the knowledge, but stayed for the community”

Good Content Frequently Versus Great Content Sporadically

Back to the story I started with: I managed to get another person signed up to Steem. I should start keeping track of all these accounts that I’ve created for people as I think I’m nearing ~100 accounts that I’ve created for people that I’ve met in real life.

Anyways, it’s been almost 2 weeks since I got this new account setup. The guy has been scrolling through SteemLeo and has been slowly but steadily learning about upvoting, voting power, tokens, vested stake, etc. It’s a lot to take in, but luckily, it doesn’t all have to happen overnight.

I have been urging him to get his introduce yourself post created and start blogging on a regular schedule. He says that he’s started to write it, but hasn’t created something that he would be happy with sharing… “It’s just not up to the right standard”, he told me.

The point of this message is both for these new Steemians as well as some of you more experienced Steemians —> Your content won’t always be great and that’s perfectly fine.

Good content that is posted frequently and on a consistent schedule will always beat great content that is posted sporadically with little-to-no consistency.

There. I said it. Just because this is a blockchain and your content is immutable doesn’t mean that it has to be the epitome of your skills… not every post has to be your Mona Lisa.

In fact, if you make good content regularly, your skills will continue to improve. What was once considered a great piece of content that took days to ponder, will now be a good piece of content that you can produce in an hour. Your good content turns into better content and your great content gets even better still.

If you look at any great writer in history, they produced a lot of shit. They were constantly writing and writing and writing. Not everything made it to print or hit the mainstream.

Historians believe that Leonardo Da Vinci painted over 30 pieces, but the majority of people only remember 1-2 of them. Da Vinci is known for being one of the toughest perfectionists in history, yet he still painted dozens of pieces with only a few being recognized in the mainstream.

The same goes for your content —> you should write frequently. In fact, I recommend writing daily. You don’t have to post every single day, but I would also recommend doing that as well.

I’m a huge fan of Evernote. I make a note every single day with today’s date and then I just write about whatever is on my mind. As I go through my day, I often find things that inspire some sort of addition to the note. Sometimes it's as small as a bullet point, other times it’s as complex as a long-form article (like this one) or even a voice note if I’m driving around in my car and thinking.

I’d say less than 10% of what I write in these notes ends up on the Steem blockchain. It’s a small %… but the key is that I write every single day.

We need more content on Steem. We need more passion on the blockchain. My message to you (and to my friend who is new to Steem) is simply to create more content. Not all of it will be great and that is perfectly ok. Create good content and eventually, some of these pieces will turn out to be great. They will be picked up by some curation trail on Steem and you will be recognized for this great masterpiece that you have created, but you need those intermediary steps of good content to get to the great ones.

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