What Are You Selling? .:. Ph's Shorts 🩳

I like this series as most of the time, I have an idea for a topic, but I'm still not sure how I will get to the point of a story... The best thing to do is to start from the beginning, and try to explain my thought process (it could sound like rambling, but stay with me... it will make sense until the end... 😃)...

Firstly, I have finally listened to others who said to me to use more of my personal photos and not photos from the Internet... So, this one (the photo in the background) was taken in Graz, 3 weeks ago while I was walking by the river Mur... The message is so simple, but we don't like to listen to it... It's easier to turn on a TV and shut off our brain... (that's what I was doing an hour ago)...

Secondly, recently, I'm in talks with @achim03, and wider @liotes community about the idea of starting the YouTube account where we would share our experiences with crypto, dapps that we are using, but also some business experiences, maybe AI stuff that we research, etc. We asked our Liotes community about this idea as we want to integrate others too, and we got some great feedback! (Thanks, guys!)

Thirdly, obviously, we are aware of our "inexperience" about running a YT channel and we wanted to check out a number of people who are doing similar things... Some who are "reachable", and where we could get in a few months/years... While I was in the #PYPT show run by @shadowspub, @bookerman mentioned the website https://socialblade.com/, where you can check out visits, rough earnings, etc. of your favorite YT creators...

Fourthly, even before having those stats (visible), when we were developing the idea of running a YT channel, we didn't have any expectation about YT earnings... The main focus would be on providing value to the audience, creating a community around, networking, eventually presenting apps (potential referral earnings), and of course, promoting HIVE in an organic way...

Fifthly, while joining different Discord HIVE meetups, I heard a few complaints about our chain... I mean, most of us are aware of issues... Someone doesn't like a specific person, someone doesn't like the specific proposal, or a community, or downvotes, or HiveWatchers, or... Hive isn't ideal... It has its pros and cons... As it is one big community, it is supposed to be different opinions and views... On the other side, as it is relatively big, if you don't like someone, you don't have to interact with that person at all...

Lastly, all that I wrote here in the post happened on HIVE or around HIVE! I heard many times that the most commonly used argument for HIVE onboarding is: "You can earn by blogging"! None of the things that I listed got me any direct financial benefit (maybe earnings on this post will), but what did I get?

• I gained knowledge about things that I didn't know
• I made a new challenge that will help me learn new skills and things
• I mentioned a few people in this post to show my appreciation for their help
• Highlighted the importance of the community
• etc.

None of this would be possible without HIVE!

So, what are you selling on HIVE? Only your words in the post, or does it go far beyond that? Please, don't "Miss the forest for the trees"! Don't miss the fun, the joy, making new friends, inspiration by others, inspiring others... The money will come... Hive is more than author's and curation rewards...

Thank you for your time.

--ph--