I’m no longer ‘new here’ and so I don’t have an excuse for messing up – or so you’d think.
This morning, looking at the replies to my various posts from yesterday, I see a message from @steemcleaners warning me about the use of the ‘steemit’ tag I sometimes utilise when I’m sharing my stories. You’ll notice the ‘sometimes’ in that sentence. I don’t ‘always’ use it.
Just in case you’re interested.
That message kinda got my back up a bit.
I’m never quite sure if I do this too much or not enough, but blowing my own trumpet is necessary for this point.
I’m a published author.
I sell my stories – just for clarification, people PAY to read my stories.
I share those stories for free in ONLY two places, Steemit.com and Smashwords and only to a limited extent there – Dusty 1 and 2 are available for free but that fact is only publicised on rare occasions and so, those two short stories still sell on Amazon, iTunes and the publisher’s site, Gingernut Books.
They SELL on those sites – people pay to read my stories, and have done for a while – since August 2010.
Having made that point clear, the warning I received for using the ‘steemit’ tag for EXCLUSIVE content, available NOWHERE ELSE grinds my gears.
Stats before I shared the link.
Stats a few minutes after I shared the link
Stats now (10:55)
If I over-used and abused the ‘steemit’ tag on a regular basis, I could quite understand but the story I shared on this platform didn’t get warned the other times I used it and neither did the other story excerpt. I used the same tags on the ‘Dusty’ excerpts to keep the stories in ‘one place’ because they are rarely more than 6 episodes in length.
Still, it’s fine. If that’s how it goes, I’m ok with that, but I’m re-thinking my commitment to EXCLUSIVE part on everything I share on Steemit.
There are 3,584 friends on Facebook, plus the 5667 reached according to my Author page over on Facebook Here
Then the 13.3k followers on Twitter
Not to mention my blog (stats in the pics above).
I have 505 followers on Steemit, so my following is bigger everywhere else.
Still, if I’m not allowed to use the ‘steemit’ tag, I won’t.
Yours,
Annoyed from Nottingham
Challenge30 - day 6
Added by edit I really do need a new phone, this one is borked...
added by another edit This pic is from a moment ago - 14:45 - It appears that my Blog is benefitting from the ONE round of sharing the link.
