I've been wondering recently, how many Steemians promote Steem outside of Steemit or Busy? I'm being serious about the question, because it seems to me that many of the cheerleading posts are mostly meant for vote farming, and that seems pretty silly to me. Silly and completely unproductive.

What's even worse, or at least it is to me, is that there is a group of people who believe this is the only way to garnish support. I've read quite a few times, that us Steemians are obsessed with writing about Steem, but that observation was never meant to be a compliment.

It's important for me to clarify my position on this matter, since I am one of those Steemians who writes about Steem quite often. I'm not saying its not good to do so, I'm saying that if a post about Steem is just straight out cheerleading, that post is as valuable as a fork to eat soup. If the post was never intended to leave this ecosystem, as to be shared with other platforms, then the post in my opinion is quite worthless.

We can and maybe should help

I've been trying for a while to bring more attention to the Steem ecosystem. I've done my fair share of recruiting too, even went after some youtubers at some point in time and I'm glad to see that they are still around, still posting. However, I'm not sure I stand in some sort of majority. As a matter of fact, I'm willing to bet there is probably just a handful of people trying to put the word out there at best.

What are these for???

Let me ask you, in case you've never thought about the reason behind these little buttons. Why would Steemit Inc want people to share Steem articles on other platforms? To brag? To virtue signal? To troll? - I'm being ridiculous because I suspect many Steemians have never thought about the idea behind these little buttons.

The big idea, sort of speak, is to bring more traffic to the platform, increase the users and help everyone who participates of the ecosystem effectively increase their stake. It's really that simple. As a matter of fact @transisto a while back had a bounty for any Steemian who could get an article about Steem trending on Reddit. Well... Why would he do that?

The answer once again is simple, as an investor he is trying to increase his ROI(return on investment) and for that he needs for the platform to grow. A smart investor understand that he/she won't "moon" as they say simply by writing articles, but by bringing more people, more investment to the platform and creating what's called the network effect.

Wikipedia - Network Effect

A network effect (also called network externality or demand-side economies of scale) is the positive effect described in economics and business that an additional user of a good or service has on the value of that product to others.

So, whats the plan I'm proposing?

Start using those little buttons. Are you also on twitter? on Reddit? on Facebook(I puked in my mouth a little bit)? Then share some articles, tag some people, do your part.

Yes, some Steemians may not have the investment capital to buy up the cheap (imo) Steem at the moment, but that does not mean there is absolutely nothing that a good Steemian can't be doing.

I've recently started to tag some people on Twitter, because, Why not? I even wrote an article about someone who is semi-famous and tagged him. Professor Gad Saad is someone who is very active on twitter and he has a big following there as well. I figured, What the worse that could happen? As it turns out, I got a couple of retweets from some of his followers. I would call that a small win.

Listen, I'm not saying for anyone to be making posts about Steem and sharing them on twitter or anything of the sort. That could also be a bit lame. I'm proposing that if you are making some great content, you share it on the other platforms linking back your post to Steem, that is all, make some noise, simple as that....

Anyways, a small call for action, something that takes a few clicks and can help us get back up in valuation. I think its worth a shot, don't you?