Agreed, the onboarding process is difficult. I am impressed by all the work that is happening there in the Philippines with onboarding!
Agreed, the onboarding process is difficult. I am impressed by all the work that is happening there in the Philippines with onboarding!
In my own experience the onboarding is easier than retention. Back in the times we were all steemians I had an hour-long presentation, no Zoon, real people in the same room and then about a third of the 50 people present created accounts. Few of them still post but the most of them shortly left after I wasn't able to answer the common question "why the article by this other blogger, with similar quality get hundreds of rewards while mine doesn't". Bloggers will change for HIVE for the rewards mostly and the rewards are a rather fair valuation of their content. No or low valuation, they feel not appreciated and sooner or later they are gone.
I agree that retention is the most difficult part, but I can say that the onboarder has little influence on that. What we're doing at OCD in terms of retention is good, but it's difficult to scale up as it really requires work and even then, we are not sure if the individual is still willing to stay the 4 months in the incubation program.
Actually, let me be, again, 100% honest :)
In my opinion, the incubation program needs some balancing. Giving new users' posts hundreds will just give them the wrong impression it's easy money. And once they are out of the incubation and their rewards go back to the "regular" values their motivation to post quality stuff will evaporate ;)
It took me few months on steemit in 2018 to get my posts above $1. Probably that's one of the reasons I am still here, lol :)
Also, I think Incubation drives some people to abandon their old accounts and create new ones just to get under your radar. Or just create and create new ones. I know it must be hard and time consuming to filter good from bad but pumping new users that much gets noticed by everyone too. Not many will comment though.
Thank you! Some of the most passionate onboarders are here in Cebu, so I'm just blessed to have them.