I'm boring!
Someone had to say this to me.
My content seems predictable and my insights are recycled. I offer nothing new and my content brings no surprise.
Perhaps that's why people are ignoring me.
My content is selfish, I talk about myself, my experiences, all things revolving around me. I need to do something different, like write an interesting story that's not about me, share intriguing insights into a topic or situation, make people laugh and write about something others can not write about (that's if there is).
The only path left is to lean out of the edge and become interesting, noteworthy and yes, remarkable. A hard nut to crack. I don't see me doing noteworthy or remarkable content as I'm just an amateur writer trying to learn and earn and also help push the bitcoin dream forward.
I joined here primarily for earning. but there should be more to it. I have been offered a community who are ready to read and contribute to my success, I can share my thoughts however they come and they still get some appreciation. At the moment, a few individual visit my post probably because I mentioned then in the content or just to support another newbie. What if I stay longer on the platform (and I'm no longer a newbie) and I don't mention any user in my article will they come around on their own to check out for new posts? No one is going to stick around unless they find my content interesting. Being able to interest my readers is a crucial part of growing here on read.cash.
It's never too late to stop being boring.
I have to improve, I have to start being interesting. But am I supposed to do it exactly? How can I be interesting? I have read some content about improving content quality but it’s hard to wrap my mind around their recommendations.
Some of the points I picked from the articles I read
1. Be wrong and Be right
People are trying to do the right things and it becomes so common that many of us are bored by it. If one dares to be wrong, such an individual will find lots of people paying attention to him/her.
You can also gain attention by being right … but only if you’re more right than everyone else. Run a mile faster than anyone else, explain your topic more clearly than anyone else, be funnier than everyone else, and people will take notice.
2. Communicate what others can’t
Be a writer of things others dare not to write about and you’ll never lose their attention. Hmmm... what are other users on read.cash not writing about? Well, is probably sex and sexuality.
Perhaps I should post images of (half) naked women.
This could get me more attention - ever noticed that some advertisements feature a scantily clad woman? That’s because it works. It draws the attention of not only men (as you’d expect), but also women. For whatever reason, nearly everyone finds their attention drawn to it. But then this will likely get the article removed and me banned, muted it moved to spam. Which is won't then been my boring self getting a couple of readers.
3. Make people laugh
I seem far too serious, and forget to entertain. As a result, most of my readership who started with me, end up falling asleep. And what’s the best way to wake people up? Humour. As long as it’s appropriate for your audience, humour can wake your readers up and get them paying attention again. The challenge is that humour has never been my quality. So how do I introduce some humour to my content? it will take practice and I may probably never get it right.
The list of suggestions on how to improve the content to be more interesting goes further, but I will just stick to being me. Of course, I have my readers at heart, so I will work on improving my content as much as I can to make it interesting and worth reading.
I'm boring, but not hopeless. I can be better.
