Promoting STEEM is now officially bigger than religion!

in #promo-steem7 years ago (edited)

The greatest reward is knowing that what you're doing is changing the world.

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I've been tracking with great interest the amount of payouts on the platform of the #Promo-Steem tag over the last couple of weeks. What has become abundantly clear is that it's growing faster than pretty much any other tag, especially when you consider that this tag is really only a couple of months old.

123,000SBD paid out in less than 3 months!


At the beginning of the 2018, less than 50,000SBD had been paid out in rewards which featured the #promo-steem tag. Which was still pretty good to say it was only about 6 or 7 weeks old at the time.

Now, at not quite the end of January, it's more than doubled, and is currently sitting at over 123,000SBD.

As a comparison, the #promo-steem tag is now bigger than Religion. It's bigger than cooking, it's paid out more than sport, cannabis, gold, cats, sex and flowers. It's in fact FIVE TIMES bigger than trending, amazing, beautiful and dog!

How #promo-steem is changing lives


A great deal of the payouts on the #promo-steem tag have been going to promoters in places in Africa, where there is a great deal of poverty, mostly thanks to centuries of colonisation, slavery and the ponzi economic system. What we are now seeing is teams of voluntaryists getting together, promoting in their communities, and earning fantastic rewards for doing so. When you live in a place where the average earning is less than $1 a day, a post which is rewarded to the tune of $10, $20 or even more (and we aren't even taking into account the growing SBD price here), this is lifechanging for some people. Who wouldn't want to be involved in something where you have fun, make money, and change the fortunes of people around the world? This is good work, it's necessary work, and it's altering the paradigm of how people think.

I've just had a conversation with a friend of mine who has worked for the British Foreign Aid and Overseas Development Office for years. He is utterly blown away by what we are doing, and likens it to the work of a decentralised NGO, but one which isn't begging for charity money. He told me that we are becoming more effective than the British government in being able to help people change their lives overseas. Now THAT is something to be proud of!

I personally spend a lot of my time and energy going through #promo-steem posts and making sure the vast majority of my voting power is spent on these guys, especially in places like Ghana, Nigeria, Indonesia and the Philippines, who are tireless promoters. We are in the process of building a promo-steem system that will reward great promoters from around the world, and we are looking for new ways to generate publicity for the STEEM blockchain.

Where is it going to go next


Over this last week, I have been having conversations with some of the greatest Steem promoters I can find, and the news is extraordinary.

Watch out for a UK TOUR of disruption events with the incredible @dannyshine. Get ready for the STEEM promotional cars, and the pop-up city centre STEEMSTALL. We are actively approaching, and being approached by, some huge vloggers and podcasters across the world to give interviews, and we are looking at formats where we can get STEEM into mainstream view.

If you're in the UK, especially watch out for what we get up to on budget day March 13th in London at the gates of Downing Street!

We are doing all of this because we want to have a lot of fun, and show everyone how you don't need a lot of technology or resources to promote STEEM and Steemit. Our goal is to get people talking about it, create a big noise, and make sure that people we meet enjoy our activities, and get into it.

So, for the UK based Steemers, if you want to be involved, please comment below. We are going to take this all around the country, and do a promotional tour like you've never seen! Details will be coming out very soon, but let us know if you're interested in getting involved. If it's the first time you've done any promoting, we promise you will love it.

Big thanks to all the supporters of #promo-steem and @steem-ambassador

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I am a bit concerned about Steem becoming a new god, but I suppose compared to the old god of governments and fiat, power and religion it’s a big improvement! Long live Steem.

I think it's more like one of those demi-god type things from the movies, that looks human, but has superpowers.

I'm very happy about this. I'm happy I found Steemit. I'm happy Steemit has changed my life and I'm happy someone told me and that's why I'm not relenting telling everybody like I did here https://steemit.com/promo-steem/@udembahenry/promo-steem-launching-of-the-second-steem-accelerator-hub-stach-in-uyo-a92cd6c5211b yesterday. Esp to youths who engage in different kinds of crime as a result of unemployment and lack of money. This Steemit will help reduce crime rate.

I even went and talked to some friends about Steemit today but I'll be making a post about it tomorrow with pictures.

I must appreciate @ejemai and @samstickkz for promoting Steemit by establishing a steem acceleration hub in my community to enable Decentralisation of offline and promote Steemit here in Nigeria that one cant boast of $1 a day. Incase you love to know more about the Steem acceleration hub, read this https://steemit.com/promo-steem/@udembahenry/promo-steem-launching-of-the-second-steem-accelerator-hub-stach-in-uyo-a92cd6c5211b promo-steem post I made about it few days ago.

Thanks to the whales who are on the lookout for #promo-steem tags and reward people.

I’ve been aggressively promoting steemit in the last couple weeks! I will be adding these tags in my future posts! Thanks for the post!

We are getting to the top, #promo-steem at No. 1

Yes, there's a long way to go yet, but I reckon this year #promo-steem is going to be in the top 10!

Stat of the Week: In the Payout Category of 100,000. SBD+ of which there are approx 130 tags - promo-steem is the 7th fastest growing by percentage over the course of the last week. Phenomenal community work centred around this tag.

Wow. There is value in you accountants, telling us all how well it's growing! (joking....maybe?)

This is great news man, I'm excited to be part of this community

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hahaha so true, i afraid that with in few years steemit became a religion, but i am happy that at least someone think about us, they care for our time they pay for our time investment i love this respect steemit.. steem on cheers

Looking forward to having a ball with all this naughtiness.