Something Important I'm slowly noticing

A lot of people will come in and judge hive that traction is hard to get when posting on here. If you check out @bozz's most recent post it only exemplifies that message. Effort in posting seems to go wry on hive.

Interestingly enough I was talking to @livinguktaiwan last week about how I'm very negative on the whole experience of putting effort into posting. I've always put effort into what I say on here, give it that little oomph but my posts never seem to stack up any significant revenue.

One thing that has done to me recently is that I've stopped really trying and I've opted for just the safe bet. The low effort posting per day that racks up just enough revenue to get by. Some of you think that my posts are good, but realistically, for me, I could do quite a bit better. A lot better.

For example here is a post I did for the Newton community on twitter. I spent significant time and effort doing this and it took me way longer than half a day to research, make sure everything was on point, and deliver the message to the inside community as best as I could:

https://x.com/BroTokenHive/status/1912651815423995922

A worthless endeavour for people's interest here on hive, but I've already seen at least 10 verified follows from this post alone (so far) -- something that takes me a good week of traction normally. The effort was worth it, especially as I'm looking to get monetized on twitter so I can build some external revenue for our community here on hive.

However, to pivot this posts message I took up @livinguktaiwan's advice about just posting better content. She didn't say this to me directly but this was her underlying message to me about posting on hive.

One thing I tell early starters is to make waves in the discords to get yourself known. You don't need to dm whales, or be in your face with everyone, but just be useful and helpful in some way or some form and people will notice you.

I've done all that -- I did that years ago, and I'm so well known here that when I am on different platforms on blockchains miles apart, people always recognize me and say hi.

So I have the known part licked, but what I haven't been doing recently is trying very hard. I've just been like, "meh" - and throwing out a post that's informational but not that inspiring to people.

And my posts have been met with just that -- uninspirational upvotes haha. I mean don't get me wrong, I'm wildly happy that these posts make $10-$20 a day, that's more than enough I can ask for.

But two nights ago I actually tried for once on my personal account, @raymondspeaks -- something I've just been lazily dumping content onto there when I have a few moments to spare for the last year. But I thought I'd give my friend's advice a try.

And the difference was quite clear -- I nearly hit $10 -- which is a fairly decent upvote for hive price right now as the way it stands. This was double (sometimes triple) the amount it had seen in months.

So maybe I'm going to get back to my roots with writing I feel -- back to inspiring people.

Granted, there isn't much I can do on this business account because I am limited on what I can talk about -- but the world is my oyster on raymondspeaks.

I'm going to get back to my clear roots and why I was writing on big platforms in the first place and writing to truly inspire. Like in the old days.

But I think to answer good old bozz's question the equation on hive is two fold. Hive isn't like a massive platform where the audience finds you, you have to seek out and figure out what people are interested in, what the current focus is, and inspire that way.

And you also need to be known.

So like it's hard for a beginner account to get any traction here unless they do the rounds and add in their own blend of wisdom to our many discords. People always look and take note.

I think if you blend that formula well together then you're going to have a good time on hive. People will want to read you if it's content they are interested in, and people will read you anyway if they know you.

I think a lot of people (including me) misses that key element. Hive audience is small -- so you have to lean into what people are interested in.

Anyway, that's my thoughts for now.

Peace!