Regardless of whether the price of Steem is rising or not *("not" seems to be the prevalent leaning at the moment),* I find myself having a little more confidence in this venue, following the recent HF.21-22 changes... arriving at what many now call **#NewSteem.**

Earlier today, I found myself revisiting some thoughts from *many* moons ago, mostly centered on the idea of using this platform *(or one of our many different front ends, to be specific)* as simply a place to post for broader web consumption.

![1098-Open.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmUAhPLRzFQEh7D7Po3sgNcgyiKvhVB4V61BxRNmCgWBft/1098-Open.jpg)
*Are we open for business?*

## *What MOST of Us Currently "Do..."*

Typically, most of us around here tend to create content designed to be "consumed" within the community. That is — to put it as simply as possibly — *"posting FOR Steemit."* I'm just using the term *"Steemit"* very loosely here... I could be referring to Dtube, Actifit or any number of other venues.

That part is not what matters. What matters is that we tend to focus on creating content that's going to be served primarily to our *"local"* population, not the greater internet.

Of course, nothing really *wrong* with that... after all, we get paid for *"member upvotes"* not for *"global pageviews."*

But what if we were to take a bit of a chance, and cast about with a larget *"net?"*

Let's think about that, for a moment. If we truly want to increase the user base, aka *"attract new people"* and move towards some version of *mass adoption,* then we need to put our content *in front of* those new people, right?

![1098-Crow.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmRYNVM9KV1cbkjeFb7mGMG4WvvcZmMRZ5WByGKbrmrtMS/1098-Crow.jpg)
*Crow in the tree top*

## *How I Got to Thinking About This...*

Mrs. Denmarkguy and I were talking about the Fall Season for our respective businesses, and she mentioned that she was interested in running some kind of *"Fall Relationship Special"* on her counseling/coaching sessions, using my artwork as an add-on giveaway.

I told her that I would create some promotional posts for her offer, and post it to various social media.

At which point I thought to myself: "*And WHY am I not including Steemlandia in my interpretation of social media to which I could post?"*

Which got me to thinking about the fact that we *do* tend to isolate ourselves on our own little autonomous *"Island"* here... and — save for a handful of people who do lots of promotion on twitter — rarely do we cast further afield. And, to a fairly broad extent, content creators here don't do a lot of off-chain publicity for their content here. 

Back in *"the day"* when we still had view counters on our posts, I did send a few to my greater social media network... and a couple got upwards of 3,000+ pageviews. I can't help but think that we need *more* of that, regardless of whether we get *rewarded* for those pageviews.

![1098-EveningGrass.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmQPDSPh9sdFwCuau1zqsNZTKNNA3b5R788o1EMTYTytpD/1098-EveningGrass.jpg)
*Evening light...*

## *Considering Our Audience...*

Fleshing this out a bit further, there's a difference between promoting an external service to the people of Steem... and simply writing a post that is 100% focused on the actual *content,* purely designed to reach *anybody, anywhere,* with zero regard for whether or not the outcome is lots of upvotes... or none at all.

For example, I use Facebook and some of my other blog sites simply to *"promote."* I don't care one whit *where* the readers come from. I'm not looking for WordPress readers for a WordPress blog post, and Facebook Friends for a Facebook post... I am just looking for *people.*

That's not an approach we take here, very often...

![1098-Purple.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSWfdNQGSbxDUuGjAX2wKSUyrBQ8SFpcmVuyKWCnXR46q/1098-Purple.jpg)
*Purple flowers...*

... for the simple reason of *"there's money involved."* In other words, it doesn't do me much *"good"* to get 10,000 hits on a post here, if nobody *who's already HERE* is  going to upvote me.

And, in a sense, that's rather limiting... and I also mean *"limiting"* in the sense of attracting new faces to our community. Stated a little differently: Community growth is not incentivized!

So now I find myself pondering creative ways to make *"externally appealing"* content... here.

What do you think? What would you do? WOULD you do anything?

Thanks for reading!

*(Another **#creativecoin** creative non-fiction post)*

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Created at 190923 23:48 PDT*
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