If you've been blogging for quite some time here on Hive and some of your friends in real life asked you what it's about, how would you respond? You'd say oh, it's a blogging platform. Then you'll see them do the face where you don't know if they're interesred or not but most probably would let you continue speaking. Then in the effort to find something to relate it to, you'd say something like "Oh, it's like your social media."
Then you get them to nod and say, Oh, okay. in a tone as if asking why the need to post there when it's just like FB or IG. You'll then go a little bit defensive as if trying to tell them you're not wasting your time here in the platform amd you'll say Yeah, it's a bit like that but you earn here. You probably should have stopped there but now you're a bit invested and would want to convince them that Hive so much better than your aveeage socmed platform. You'd say something along the lines like "And it's easier to earn here. The hearts are equivalent to money." Then you onboard them with the mindset that they can just post here the way they post in their socmed accounts, expect money and that's it.
But the sad thing is it's not as simple as that. No, it's not easy to earn money here. Yes, you earn through thebupvotes but there's more to Hive than just posting so you get upvotes, withdraw your earnings, rinse, repeat.
I've been here a long time and I've seen a lot of people come and go, come back, then vanish again. I know, people just go where the money is. It's nature. It's how our species survived. Our ancestors migrated to where the food is, set root, and once the food supply is scarce, they'd go again looking for more food. It is what it is.
I used to tell my friends that yeah, if you post here, you earn money. I still do tell them that this is my source of income. My puny contribution to the household finance. So I cannot fully say that there's no money in Hive. That would be a blatant lie. But that doesn't mean I should go around telling people that Yeah, Hive is such a gold mine. Get in here and get your share!
I observed that if expectations aren't set properly, there is a low chance of retention on newbies here on Hive. Although I know a lot of onboarders in the community who are doing an exemplary job in showing their newbies the ins and outs of Hive. They are going the extra mile to explain that Hive is not just a blog to earn platform. I mean it is, but it is also so much more than that.
If the person who invited you here isn't telling you that, better go out of your way to look for someone else who would teach you. Otherwise you'd get lost here real quick. And if you are someone who invites people in here, please do everyone a favor and just you know, assist your newbie. Don't just tell them "Yeah, you'll earn a lot of money here" then leave them. Show them the ropes. The do's and dont's. At least tell them that they'll earn money but they'll need to work for it. Hive is not an earn money real quick kind of thing. Please. And thank you.