I thought by being on here was **promotion** in itself?

Youtube is great way to promote new things, especially when you have audience. Nice vid.

I've been telling many people I know about what I have been doing here on steemit. I even show them things I've bought using money made on steemit. It slowly creeps into them and some have chosen to join. There is nothing like steemit out there right now and people do not know how to react. The idea seems to have to grow on them.

1. A reward for bringing in new people is that you can _almost always_ get them to follow you. Followers are the ones who will consistently upvote your content, and do it early, increasing its exposure to non-followers. They are money in the bank.

2. As the network grows the coin price must scale to maintain the value of payouts. Social networks tend to be worth a lot of money, so this shouldn't be an issue long term.

3. Steemit.com is a website that pulls content from the cloud (Steemit blockchain) and formats it to resemble Reddit/Medium. There are other 3rd party websites/apps that are working to present the content differently. Think twitter, insta, message boards... Check out [Steem Tools](http://steemtools.com )

The Steemit blockchain and the STEEM coin will power a whole ecosystem of apps and websites.

I've been promoting it to everyone I know who already run their own blog as well as people I know who are into cryptocurrency. For bloggers, I explained to them that they could get rewarded for the work they're currently doing for free. For my crypto friends, I explained that they can use their earnings to seed their crypto investments. All of them expressed an interest, but I'm not too sure how many actually checked it out.

Awesome! Now you go on reaching out to some more people! Directly! The people you want to see on Steem! 

To anyone who's seeing this post, this is the kind of outreach I love to see. No matter what the size of your Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, etc., audiences make sure to reach out to them as best as you can. 

Also @tedcarr, please consider voting for my witness or even better put me as your proxy voter. (You'll have to typ teamsteem at the bottom because I'm not in the top 50 witnesses yet.)

https://steemit.com/~witnesses 

If you don't know what are witnesses check it out here. 

[What Are Steem Witnesses And Why You Should Support Them!](https://steemit.com/witness/@teamsteem/what-are-steem-witnesses-and-why-you-should-support-them)

I agree that the new users are your reward since they'll be following you most likely!

Hey. You're right there isn't much promotion of Steemit. I've told a few friends and they were kind of turned off by the waiting process for an account - impatient... I've been preparing to prove to them that you can actually make a few dollars doing the samething they're already doing for free.  I got my partner to join - but she has yet to get fully emerged into all.

One thing that I think would really help out Steemit is an integrated Friends and Chat function. 

Resteemed - and nice too hear from another Canadian ! 
Cheers.

I haven't yet because I am still trying to figure out this platform. I've only been on it for a week.

OH I've been telling everyone on my instagram and YouTube and snapchat and Facebook- the more people we can get in to this community that are interesting and fun to watch/listen to/read! 
I think it's an amazing platform that people that didn't get in early will be upset they slept on this!

Following you @tedcarr! Love to further promote steemit, and love that you are doing what you can! 

Can't wait to see something greater in the future of steemit! Resteemed this!

A major part of the strength of Steemit is that we have crowdsourced marketing, rather than a centralized campaign.

It makes for a much higher quality community when you hand pick the people you think are most likely to be active community members, explain the platform to them, and go from there. Mass advertising might *work* but what kind of user would that bring in?

The INGENIOUS concept of Steemit is what got me going here....hated the idea of pumping out content for dollars on BoobTube with advertisers who don't give a damn about content...

Nevertheless, I'm procrastinating till my reputation rises to the occasion of my coming out of the production closet...just kidding....still testing the waters...running into some technical difficulty finalizing a video series....

I've learned to appreciate what people go through to put out quality stuff....

But we're working on it...YouTube ain't seen nothin' yet! 

Go Team Steemit!

I have been planning to pitch Steemit to my 1.7k subscribers, but first I need to prove it is worth it. I believe it is, but meanwhile, getting .09 cents for my #introduceyourself video and not much more for other posts, I haven't quite figured out how to get a post to pay  like other people yet. While I believe in the long term and that I will figure it out eventually, people are so paranoid about scammers (they should be) - I really need to show my own personal success before I pub it. I could show my "up the slide.." post - it got 15.xx - but thats the only real pitch I can make. So any tips on how to get posts to pay better are appreciated!

express yo self before you wreck yo self!

Every day I post my Steems on to twitter and Linkedin and ask the people how much LI or Twitter paid them for their content today? My mantra is STOP GIVING FREE CONTENT TO BILLIONAIRES"!

Great post upvoted your post.

Nice job!  I agree...everyone can be creative.  In the very first line of my favorite book, The Art Spirit, Robert Henri wrote, "Art is the province of every human being."

Nice video.  Thanks and have a good day.

Is there a link to use to share steemit? i usually just send them to steemit.com/freehouse which is my blog page

I love your message in this video! Thank you ♥
I don't know who said it but I love the saying: If you're not embarassed by your first project a year later, you definitely started too late :D

Good advice, I'm a tech youtuber and I only discovered this today, looks like a lot of fun

I am promoting - got a least 10 new users on Steem at the date )

1) New users will follow the one who bring them here. Number of followers is a good long term investment
2) Payouts overall will be the same short-term - the reward pool is the same. Longterm it will rise cos more people on Steem means more value for our tokens
3) There will be many other specialized sites and apps on a Steem-blockchain, all in one ecosystem. As of steemit.com - it will be a central hub for registration and reddit-like media. 

But I'm personally crave for a FB-like DApp... oh, deams-dreams...

Hello Ted, I like your message a lot, specially that part about being creative, and being creative includes making mistakes. Like you sad I´m in a way a perfectionist and everything needs to be perfect otherwise its not worth mentioning.Its a good way to hinder yourself from being creative but this encouraged me to do something different.

I am definitellyyyy promoting Steemit...on linkedin, twitter, facebook and everywhere else. This platform has so much opportunity. I even wrote an article on how it could become a new version of the internet...https://steemit.com/steemit/@tylerdurden000/steemit-could-probably-become-its-own-internet...also, followed you :)

Awesome thoughts! I'm going to share Steemit with my youtube channel as well. Thanks for the inspiration. Just followed ya.

Just came across your steem. Great to see more vegans and I love the fact that you're in nature in most your videos. Love the content

SOMEONE needed to make this video...and I cannot think of someone more sincere, direct, and with heart such as you :) Always upvoting your stuff...always great material!

Following, good video, brand new here spreading the vegan fruit message, much love to you.

You hit the nail on the head in this video. Often, we don't post because we're either afraid we won't be perfect or we won't be original. This is faulty thinking. Nobody is perfect and few topics will ever be original. 

All we can do is put our unique stamp on our creative exploration of a topic. Good is good enough and making mistakes is the price we have to pay for honing our craft 
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mRkhTAGP2tY/VaLiMqFN-WI/AAAAAAAACSc/JgAc0ozb50I/s1600/perfect-is-the-enemy-of-good_1.jpg

Good work, Ted! I'm now following you. Yes, I need to be creative and express our thoughts in ways that inspire and encourage others. Thank you for putting your message in video as it is a very rich level of communication with facial and body gestures, voice inflections intonations and more. Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing more of your work.