The site is ignored in my opinion because most of our stakeholders are not Leaders who understand human motivation.
They are developers, miners and traders who have extensive knowledge in valuable niche fields, but they are clearly not motivators or business people for the most part.
There is a lack of understanding that People control money. Motivate people and their dollars come with them. It's Business 101.
Yeah, you're touching another important point: there's always been a clear focus on investment and development. User experience, UI, content structure, content quality, curation and all that stuff has always been secondary - including the community of average internet users. In the end these are the ones who keep this place alive (and would ensure mass adoption ).
I believe that there needs to be a paradigm shift in management in order to ensure a healthy retention of human beings. Otherwise it'd be hard to seriously call this place a social blockchain...
Yeah, there needs to be a shift, but they could apply the same concept to development projects.
Applications want eyes and users. If Steem wants to attract application developers, a healthy, happy user base is a huge selling point.
I know I sound arrogant, but I totally don't think they get the idea that the value is in the traffic and the endusers. I don't think they get the business case at all.
I don't think you sound arrogant at all, you just struck a nerve and talk straight. That's what many - including myself - appreciate.
50K active users are not attractive or relevant in terms of business to any business. If we seriously aim for mainstream adoption, then we need a different approach. Retention doesn't require magic, but a product that attracts everybody.
I'm planning to voice those ideas at Steemfest and hope to enter some constructive debate.
You are 100% correct. They are niche people. We want them. But they don't understand the bigger vision and the bigger market when it comes to content and advertising and how they should work together. It's all just a bunch of "Where is my ROI?" focus from them right now. What Crypto that goes up and down in cost is an extremely small niche field of humans that are interested in that. There is a way bigger market to tap into.
Yes, I wonder if any of them consider "Who is our Target Audience" and how do we motivate them.
The "Call to Action" should be buy Steem. To those who can't buy Steem, they would try to earn and hold Steem.
This really isn't hard.
Yeah. Content creators are what can start a true movement. 1 content creator can move millions of people.
My little small YouTube stuff made a movement of 654,000,000 views. And that is just from 1 person (me) doing leverage and focusing on 1 niche.
I did a longer video today talking about how you would be able to align everyone's best interest at heart. Content Creators/Stake Holders/Advertisers.
https://steemit.com/steem/@phoneinf/how-to-make-steem-blockchain-into-a-success-the-new-google-solution-by-nonameslefttouse
And it was from reading @nonameslefttouse ideas. First putting content creators first. Advertisers can have ad slots inside Steem posts. At the moment Advertisers and Content creators are competing side-by-side. Which is not how it should be. Content creators picking ads they want to promote would be able to make them earn forever from a post being created. Long term passive daily income.
In this way it's win-win on all sides. And it creates more transparency. It makes so every single piece of content can generate passive income from clicks on advertisements. Google has proven this system works and is ideal. It's mainstream friendly. Billion dollar industry. The Google of Crypto.
Content Creators, but also Application developers are going to be attracted to a blockchain with a community of potential users.