Steem is great. Steem is awesome. Steem is splendiferous...I've heard it all, and certainly agree that steem has so many great benefits as a social media platform: Multiple front-ends, multiple tokens to be earned, source of information and learning, a place for fun and enjoyment and a place where the everyday person can earn a little something through content-creation and curation.
But...How about steem as a business?
Some of you may have seen posts by steems' premier upycler @steemmatt in the past. He has a penchant for wandering the streets in his neighbourhood and a talent for finding discarded items which he upcycles and sells on for fiat. It never ceases to amaze me what he finds and subsequently sells it for.
But it's not just about money with Matt; He gives things away to needy people and also enjoys saving many pounds of stuff from ending up in landfill sites.
Anyway, business...
Recently Matt found some Lego and after some back and forth ended up selling it to legit Lego dude @brickmanbrad all the way down here in Australia, land of awesome people. The transaction took place using steem.
Bloody beautiful job Matt and Brad!
From there word rippled outwards as it tends to do here and a super-star called @carlgnash jumped on board with what ended up being his largest ever purchase made with steem...More Lego from Matt of course!
Nice work to all concerned.
On the back of that early transactional success @steemmatt decided to expand his fledgling steem-oriented business and has offered other items.
You can see the link to the latest sales post here offering a few items to the community, all of which can be purchased with steem.
It's cool right? I mean, I think it's cool to be able to buy Lego with steem as I love lego but think about the opportunities here...Buy stuff with steem you earned by blogging here on steem and commenting and curating. Too good to be true? Nope, it's happening.
Not long ago I purchased a custom made hunting knife that I had the awesome @freedompoint make for me...It shipped from the USA to me here in Australia without an issue and whist I didn't pay with steem I thought it was the coolest thing; Using steem to connect and purchase stuff.
We have a way to track conversations and transactions via the blockchain plus the ability to transfer payment securely and also to make payments with steem earned here for literally nothing...Other than some writing and curating.
I wonder how long it will be before it starts to really gain traction? Imagine that someone makes some sort of craft, my mother in-law and her greeting cards craft for instance...Make a post about it, earn steem and then sell some items making even more steem. Kind of a no-brainer right?
Oh, speaking of steem, our upcycler mate Matt has made...
1,085 STEEM from 3 sales in just 4 days
Sort of makes one take notice huh?
Imagine if steem prices went to $5USD...That's $5425 Matt just made. I don't know, sounds cool to me.
I wonder if there's opportunities here for others.
Do you draw, paint or make something? You could have a market here and earn some additional steem for your account. I'm sure the boffins would have way more ideas than I do about it as I'm just non-digital analogue dude, but to me it sounds like a reasonable opportunity to open up a marketplace. I heard there's a new steemleo shop around as well so there's another example of things being on the move!
Maybe we need a...
Marketplace Community?
I wanted to bring this to the attention of those in the community at large and also to ask @steemmatt to tag LEGO Community, that's #hive-142010, as his first tag if he has lego sales happening. That will post it into the Community. If you're a Lego person make sure you look out for it, there maybe a good opportunity to grab some steem-funded Lego!
Thanks for reading...Get selling...And buying y'all!
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