I hate self-promotion ... but here goes...
Don't get me wrong... I love seeing and supporting genuine self-promotion 💖, but can I do it for myself? Aargh...I usually prefer to just let my words and actions speak for themselves. But that's not going to cut it this week!
You see, outside of my day job, I play for the best Dreem Teem on Hive, led by the wonderful and caring Dreems (aka @dreemsteem). I say 'play', because it's hardly 'work', right, when you are doing something that you love and you feel like you're making a difference, even if it is quietly in the background. And Dreemport is one such project and teem that you cannot help but love.
@dreemsteem launched a staff contest today and we are supposed to go out and promote ourselves in the community and ask Hivians to give us named support in their posts when they drop them into Dreemport each day.
When you drop your daily posts into DreemPort - let us know who you're rooting for at the bottom of your post! Only one staff member per day! (and yep you can root for someone new the next day!)
example:
👉"For my Shout Out for DreemPort Staff, I'm cheering for tEEm@favoritedreemer!" (fill that tag with whoever supports & loves you best!)👈
So, if you get a chance, and you decide to drop any posts into Dreemport this week, or if you've never done it before and want to try it out, I'd love it if you supported me in Dreems' staff contest this week hehe (aargh did I mention I hate self-promotion ... but I'm trying...for Dreems lol as she says we have to try to drum up support for ourselves this week). Her post about it is here.
If you don't know how to sign up to Dreemport, you can watch Dreems' video here How to use Dreemport
If you're already supporting someone, then I'm pleased you're supporting one of us💖 Just asking any of you makes me feel ill 🤢🤣 ...I kinda thought ...hey ...maybe it will get easier as the week wears on ...and it will wear on... if I have to keep doing this hee hee. Then I had a better idea:
Just do this once
Well twice if you count the shameless comment I made on @liftslikealady recent post 🤣🤣🤣. Anyway, so I thought ...
Sam, you just have to bite the bullet and make a post about it and drop it here, shamelessly tagging a bunch of people on the way 🤣 and if others see the post and any of them decide to support you (or even choose to support someone else on Dreemport), then hey, job is done 🤗, and I'll enjoy reading all your posts on the 'port, regardless of who you shout out for 🙏💗 ... but spare me a thought ...and somebody please leave me a mention 🤣😂🤣
So I hope the following peeps don't mind being tagged...and yes, I am shamelessly spamming 😂😂😂Sorry, not sorry!
@chincoculbert, @mmykel, @corporateay, @calumam, @flamistan, @khaleesii, @merit.ahama, @liftslikealady, @itsostylish, @consciouscat, @khoola, @jaxsonmurph, @barge, @diebitch, @nevies, @thealbytross, @ifarmgirl, @drakernoise, @doziekash, @lordbutterfly, @beeber, @nonsowrites, @blezyn, @erh.germany, @funshee, @litguru, @alekst7, @cynshineonline, @ryzeonline, @dibblers.dabs, @infinitytg, @vikbuddy, @maxwellmarcusart, @dandays, @frost77, @angie08, @tdctunes, @lordemmy, @infinitytcg, @scholaris
Anyway, now that's I've broken the proverbial ice on this, so to speak, for me anyway, you may see me adding a bit more to my comments this week about Dreemport and this challenge ...because I like to support the things and the people that I love, so to the Dreemport teem:
...now that is out the way... hehe ... back to my Christmas shopping 🙏💗
I promote the crap outta @ryzeonline but doing it for myself is like eh lol. So I totally know the feeling. BUT if you're gonna do it, don't say you hate it...use the negative as a positive and say something like...
"I'm totally out of my comfort zone here by self-promoting but I give tons of value and I'm hoping that y'all see that and show me some love" - this reminds them that you've left valuable comments and given them value and it makes them want to reciprocate like I'm doing with this comment 😉 and then tag the crap outta people.
You can also say something like... "I'm tagging people who I find incredibly valuable" (stroking their ego a bit) "And people who I feel find me valuable too"(reminding them you're valuable) "And tagging some of the smartest people I know" (more ego-stroking) "Cuz if you do this then I get xyz" (people love helping others) "If you don't know how to do the dream post thingy then please friend me on Discord (insert your discord here) and help me out please??? (again people love helping others). Just some suggestions from a serial Ryze promoter lol!!!
I hope that helps and if not then that's ok I'm still gonna vote for you after you explain to me how on Discord LOL.
Lots of love, Cyn
This comment is just the best hehe. Thank you, Cyn. And of course, I am more than happy to help you in discord to help me on Hive ... I still don't like all the attention haha ... but I've waded this far in now ... far beyond the tiptoeing that I'd initially intended ... 🤣 You guys do have a wonderful way with words!!! Bookmarking this 💗🙏
I'm always happy for you to tag me in things, Sam darling 😊 And I totally love how cleverly you dealt with your discomfort in self-promotion 😋 It was hilariously clever. !LOL
And... this the first I'm hearing of Dreemport. I read both of dreemsteem's posts that you linked to. I still don't really get it. I also think I'm not up for (time-, energy- or mental-brain-space-wise) to test out an emerging platform 🤦♀️ HIVE is challenging enough for me 😝
So all that to say: Hi 👋 I see you. You did your promotional post ☑️ Good job. And I'll skip Dreemport for now/until further notice. But that doesn't mean I don't totally love you 🧡 Because I do 😘
CC.
P.S. Happy Solistice!! ☀️ And Merry Christmas!! 🎄 And... talk to you before we get to the new year 😉
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haha completely understand, there is absolutely no pressue... I'll try explain it a little better below so if you are interested down the line you can just ask me and I'll happily tag someone lovely from Dreemport, one of our ambassadors, to take you through the process, and then if you like what you see, you can give it a try. It is so easy.
Dreemport is a platform where people can link their posts from their home blogging platform and they will be curated by other members of the public just like you and me. So for example...if you want to get more eyes on your posts in Hive (from other Hivians and readers from other blogging platforms), you go into Dreemport and look in the curation tab and read the 5 random articles assigned to you. You then rank them in order of preference and save your preferences. Then that entitles you to link one of your own posts. Your post will be reviewed by Dreemport staff and then released on Dreemport for the public to curate and vote on the next day. You still earn your tokens off your own home blogging page, but you also get more eyes on your post and you earn some Dreem token too just for using Dreemport to get yourself more exposure. Registration takes 2 minutes and most of the random articles assigned are in Hive anyway at the moment. There is no obligation to upvote them or even comment, although it is always welcomed by authors.
So Dreemport lives and operates alongside other blogging platforms and effectively brings people together from those platforms. When others read your post, they actually just follow a link in Dreemport straight back to its location in Hive lol. But I understand that we are going into Christmas now and you have enough on your plate as well as being new on Hive is an overwhelming amount of info to sift through lol.
I appreciate you Caroline and thank you for your awesome reply. I really do mean it ... I hate self-promotion when I'm the one having to do it! haha...but I am completely comfortable promoting something or someone else that I love and believe in. Have a wonderful Christmas and Solstice and I am sure we'll meet in the comments again soon. Much love🤗💗🙏
Awesome. Thanks @samsmith1971 🙏😘😃😊🤗
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hehehe jsut so you know - its actually NOT a new platform :)
it works alongside Hive - or ANY platform that you choose to write on.
We decided instead of pulling people AWAY from their favorite platform and making them choose how to divide their time.... we would pull people TO their favorite platforms
No pressure to try it out! Just wanting to clarify that it's actually not a new competing platform.
But rather a place where posts get read MORE by submitting their already-written URL (from Hive - or wherever) to us :)
the only "cost" is that you read 5 other random posts given to you, before submitting your own. so it's a great way to not only meet new bloggers - but have yours guaranteed to be read by new people too hehehe
(again - not pushing for you to try! I was just here reading Sam's post and thought I would drop a better explanation since the video /post you saw wass probably for people who had already been exposed to what we are doing!)
thanks for supporting Sam either way!!!! hehehehe
Noted! Thanks for clarifying @dreemsteem. I hope it's going really well 😄 And yes, if you somehow have @samsmith1971 on your "staff" then you are a lucky human! 🧡❤️💜💙💚
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you know what??? even though you felt like this was self-promotion - i actually saw you supporting the project and the team just as much -if not more!!!
cuz that who you are :)
you did great!!! way to go putting yourself beyond your comfort zone hehehehehe
love you!
you see... an epic fail on the self-promo bit 😝😂 but yay a big tick for Dreemport promo... I'm made up by that alone though 😍 Like I said...I'm happy letting my words and actions speak for themselves... but I'll play the game cos I'm a teem player hehe. Thank you for scooping me up so lovingly into Dreemport, Dreems 😘
no no - not an epic fail.
it was absolutely perfect Sam - truly :)
it's so you. and that is always the loveliest!!!!
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@samsmith1971, I joined discord and @dreemport now. Now, I just need help to walk me through posting on there so I can give you a shout.out. ♥️🤗
hehe no problem... we can go through it step by step here if you want... are you good to go now?
or you can get me on discord. I just DM'ed you
I am trying to find a time to get on there, we have a lot of family over right now.
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Get in there when you love something there is absolutely nothing wrong with throwing all in behind it, I haven't used the dreem port yet, but I will try to get around to it soon and when I do I will be happy to tag you in that post for evryone to see all the great work you do around hive.
@samsmith1971 you are an asset to every tribe you write on and I would be happy to support your ongoing work, even if it is shameless self promotion !LOLZ
We all do it at some stage, we might not like it and more often than not prefer our content to speak for itself, but ever now and then it can be a good thing.
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aw thank you, Jaxson 😍Hey, I'd love to see your posts in Dreemport. The staff contest is only for this week and next week. It is so easy to sign up and use and you can get more eyes on that great pobpunks content of yours too hehe.... or some of that wonderful creative storytelling that you do so well... but don't seem to get around to as much these days ...I do hope to see you back in WOTW when it starts up again in the new year. But if it's a step too far for you with the festive season and your project... please don't worry about it lol. I'll be happy if you make your way across at all, as soon as the timing is right for you. !PIZZA !ALIVE !LUV
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I will try to get a post in there sometime over the coming days, is the front end on dreemsteem.io or dreemport.io, I remember looking at it at some stage but was too bust at the time to get round to using it, buy hey anything that gets more eyes on your work is always a good thing Lol
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I've been having some off days but good luck to you. @beeber pretty much post on dreemport your post here but at the bottom just be like I support samsmith1971 as the staff on the bottom of whatever your post if I am reading this correctly. I don't mind being tagged.
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I have zero clue what all this is, but I encourage self-promotion (just... do it well.) 🙏
haha thanks J! It's Dreemsteem and Joe running a Dreemport staff contest to throw some light on those working behind the scenes and drum up some lurv for them hehe.
Ahhh, I see, well I love it! (And I trust you had a great holiday-season so far.) 🙏
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Woot woot, go Dreemport! Big players indeed (just not in the way that most understand! Come to think of it, that statement could have many meanings for the Dreem Teem 😃)!
Successful self-promo, successful Dreemy promo, double thumbs up 👍👍
hehehehei agree - not in the way that most understand.
and we kinda think that's a little bit fabulous LOLOL
thanks Cal!
I don't know how you guys do it all! Aliens, it must be! 😄
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Hehehe, we're all quite shameless afterall. It isn't bad to promote yourself when you get the chance to, it's actually the way to go.
I'm glad you summoned up the courage to do it, lol. I'm honored to be part of your tag. I'll check out the Dreemport site today. I already registered but haven't done anything there yet. So it's a great way to start, you know you'll always get my support
Thank you Chinco, that means a lot 🙏 Give me a shout if you need help getting sorted on Dreemport. It's pretty easy to do. I think I explained ita few times over in various comments in different ways lol before I realised that everyone could see the first comment anyway ROTFL ...that's what happens when you are working the day job and replying to people on Hive in between on your breaks hehe.
You know I Got you any time any day😊 I don't really know any other dreemport staff on here. So it's definitely going to be you on my post all week..
If I'm not getting it wrong.. Make a post daily [ normal everyday post], mention you at the bottom of the post, and upload it on dreemport ...yeah?
You have it down pat, absolutely correct hehe. thank you @doziekash, I appreciate you. I look forward to reading your posts as always. You post so regularly, I can't keep up with you haha ...trying to spread the love around... but you always do post quality stuff! 💖
Hehehe.. Not so much recently. Didn't make a post so much last. But I'm coming back in track this week lol. Thanks for your steady support.
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you know more DreemPort staff than you realize. What @samsmith1971 is doing, and others on the staff is stepping out of the shadows they have been working in the last several months building the project. So put her in the light. :)
Thank you @shadowspub 🙏 yes, getting out of my comfort zone slowly this week. Hoping I'm available Thursday for my first PYPT (yikes!). And yes, I suspect @doziekash probably chats to a few staff members every week without necessarily realising it hehe. I think quite a few of us interact with the same peeps regularly. One of the people I tagged was already supporting another staff member for the week ... so it's all good fun (I think!🤣). We are all part of a bigger family and that is what is most important. We are in it together💗
So true. I just realized my buddy kenechukwu the king and my officer kemmyB are part of the dreemport staff.
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Quite honestly, you don’t have to beg for support and it’s far from shameless. YES! Excuse me what do I have to do?
aw thank you @itsostylish. If you take a look at my reply to @funshee in the comments, hopefully that will answer your question, but tag me again if you need any more help. I'd love to see your posts appearing in Dreemport 💖🤗🙏 !PIZZA !ALIVE
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I joined and followed the prompts, but did not see an option to vote for you @samsmith1971 ?
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Hm, I saw this in dreemies posting, but to be honest, I did not understand how its meant to be. who is staff? anybody who curates on dreemport, so me too? and how can I support you samsmith personally on dreemport?
haha you see I dont have a clue what it means ;-) but thank you for tagging me
hehe Hi @beeber 💖So there is Dreemport, which is Dreemsteem's baby. Then dreems has people who work behind the scenes in tech, screening, guild etc who process what ends up on the port for the public curators to vote on. I'm one of the peeps behind the scenes lol. For some reason, Dreems wanted to throw us all into the light of day hehe. So if you currently use Dreemport then all you need to do is add that little quote at the end of your post to say that you are supporting X staff member this week in the staff contest hehe. I have no idea what Dreems and Joe are up to ...lols, but I guess it's just their way of saying thank you to the Dreem Teem. So if you want to support me, I would truly appreciate that. If it seems too difficult at this stage, then please don't worry. Just being with you here in the comments is enough for me, really it is 💖🙏 !PIZZA !ALIVE
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hi dear @samstmith1971 sorry for the late reply, I was really busy with my Advent Calendar action. Hmmm, ok I think I understand it now but... its too late now? is it?
And how should I know who works behind the dreemport scenes ;-) ok, now I know you do.
Our dear Dreemy confusing everybode LOL
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Would have voted for you but I am already supporting Kemmy, sorry babe.
hey Khaleesii hun, thank you, and absolutely no problem at all. I am really pleased you are already supporting Kemmy 💖 It's all in fun anyway hehe !PIZZA !ALIVE
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I hope you do great.
I don't mind being tagged and nor does Bargey....DP looks a great project and we watched DS's vid together a coupla weeks ago. Neither of us can commit to anything much (except each other I guess, but that's the subject of a post on a Dawgblog), even 5 lil' art-tickles per day.
Excuse me, gotta go coz Barge has applied a poultice on my left hind paw, it's ITCHY AF and I'm determined to get it off as I have the last dozen or so until he figured out how to up the bandaging to the next level...damn!
I LAWV Shameless Self Promotion and do it AWL the time ;D
lol and you do it so well hehe. thank you for the supportive comment@flamistan. I appreciate you. No pressure my dawgie friend. The fact that you even read my posts and found a way to talk to me is more than enough for me 🙏💗 I hope your paw gets better soon ...what on earth did you do to it? 🤗 !PIZZA !ALIVE
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You're unlikely to get a response from Flame about her foot coz she doesn't like it being given attention and she never complains about it. She lets me dress it nowadays but in the past all I had to do was think of doing it and she'd run off. It's an old injury that hasn't gone away in two years :(. Manifests as abscesses. They are local to the bottom of her left hind paw and haven't spread further. Had an Xray even surgery, vet in Portugal saying it was a 'seed of grass' and that she managed to get 'half of it out' (Flame 'bit' her three times before she could be anesthetised - allegedly, coz I wasn't there to witness lol, but I know Flame DID NOT like her much). Antibiotics twice but the abscess returned. Always seems like it's healing up but just not quite. Painful to see her limp (mostly when tired). We're hoping it'll clear up soon but there've been many false summits.
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I haven't heard about @dreemsteem, I am checking out the community already. When we need to promote ourselves I really don't think there is a big deal to that, after all, we are usually the best persons to promote ourselves.
I'm really pleased you are already looking at Dreemport. It's a truly great project. I do hope you register there and I look forward to reading some of your posts 💖You are right, we are best placed to promote ourselves. It's just not something that I find easy to do. I am fairly transparent, so what you see is what you get lol. I prefer for my words and actions to speak for themselves as to who I am.
Hey @samsmith1971 I'm very cool for you tagging me, and I want to support you but how do I go about it?
hi @funshee 🤗 so if you are not yet registered on Dreemport, then go onto Dreemport.com and register, it's really simple. Once you are registered you should see a curation tab. You will need to read the random 5 posts in the tab and accept them or reject them. You will only reject...things like spam or plagiarism. Then Dreemport will ask you to rank your accepted posts in your order of preference (ie: vote on the posts)...which you do by dragging the posts into the order you prefer. Finally you submit your response and then it allows you to open the tab to link your own post from Hive and submit it to be curated and voted upon by the public the following day. To support me, simply copy the words that I quoted from dreemsteem in my posts and pop my name in as the person you would like to support. You can choose to support one person all week, or you can support a different person each day. You don't have to use the Port each day, but when you do use it to get more eyes on your own post, we simply ask that you review 5 other posts in dreemport first, and this is what everyone does and how you get eyes on your own posts. It's a lovely way to get more exposure. thank you for wanting to support me. If I can be of any more help in getting you comfortable in dreemport, let me know 🤗💖 !PIZZA !ALIVE
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Don't mind the tagging and supporting (I'll support you all the way! 🚀) but my name pop up on my phone with:
I was like what the hell.. what did I do 😭! hahahaha.
I read about this supporting the staff a few days ago but I still don't understand how it works. couldn't log in to dreemport due to bad weather days ago, and when I do log in I get cut off during curation or it says no submission as of today.
which is confusing.
Anyhow, so as far as I understand.. I need to drop my post into Dreemport and at the bottom say "I salute @samsmith1971 ehem, I am supporting!"
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Its all good, I'm totally fine by it all myself. I haven't been hanging with dreemport but I'll look into it and see if I will be dropping something in there, and if I am, of course I would cheer for @samsmith1971 😊
Way to break the ice😀
hehe... I really did find this difficult! I can promote others to the end of the earth..but myself... aargh...and thank you...
I'm like that too 😅 and when you're like that nothing invokes your envy more than seeing other people promoting their own selves very well, and when you see them getting a lot of results from their self promotion you're just choking with envy at this point 😅
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I admit I don't know what this is about and what you are applying for? Is it a position in the dreemport platform? And if so, how can I judge from here whether you are the right person for it? Can't you just apply and say: Hello, take me into your team, I can do this and that and would like to contribute this and that? So I don't really get all that, I'm sorry. I didn't get much smarter by following the link either. LOL - good luck anyway!
haha. ...no I am already part of the Dreemport team. @dreemsteem is running a contest for staff for the festive season. If you already share your posts in Dreemport to gain wider exposure and earn Dreem tokens, or if you'd like to, then you just go about the process as usual but edit your post that you are sharing, to add a note to the effect that you are supporting x person in the Dreemport staff contest...you can support the same person all week or a different person each day. The idea behind it is to support those in Dreemport who support you in the community by giving them your 'vote' so to speak for the staff contest. It's ok though, I appreciate your efforts to try to understand this. If you don't, then don't worry, and thank you for trying anyway hehe. But if you do, then all it requires if for you to add a simple appreciation line for a Dreemport staff member at the bottom of the article that you are sharing in Dreemport 🤗
Thank you :)
All those tokens out there are running away from me. I don't have the breath to keep up with it all and I'm a bit of a slow mover in that respect. 🤗
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yes - you should just apply! hehehe and tell us that you're amazing and we already believe this hehehehehehehehehe
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Oh my! I'm just seeing this, I've been offline for sometime. Is it too late to cheer for you?
haha hi @Blezyn, no it isn't too late. The contest continues for the whole of next week too so if you want to support me, I'd love that thank you. I look forward to seeing more of your articles appearing in Dreemport ❣️