It takes real world experience of talking to people outside of Steem to be able to form a pitch properly.

Even myself I struggle to pitch Steem to my non Steemian peers.

2 person I know who can pull it off are @bitrocker2020 (who recently just did another Steem talk) and @danieldoughty.

Talk to @bitrocker2020, he's done it a thousand times.

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I have been in this same position.  I was at a conference and I was trying to explain to a group of people what Steemit was.  I showed them my account and everything, but really it was just a bunch of blank stares.  There were a couple people that were smiling, but I think I lost most of them as soon as I said crypto currency.

Exyle one big tip I stumbled upon is script it.  Write in 350 words about the topic and read that follow that story line I'm gonna do that too again. Because I'm gonna share more about my projects in a professional way.  In Dutch and English on my YouTube account greendeliverence. On my game account I just put all my frustration into steemmonsters gaming Tell something about my day look my last video of 2 hours I was broken at home send my cards to my personal account because the server could be hacked and then with the private key they could grab your funds and cards.  But I needed to go to my own level again... But with some cards on cooldown you get funny moments like me reacting offensively when I only needed one win to go to the 1000 points and losing that battle 🤣😂🤣😂 ending up trying to win 3 times again to the 1000 points where you can get 5 cards for your daily.  😁 and I talk about my live the cards and my day.  Trying to stay within 30 minutes screentime.  😈 


Buttt if you really want to spread a message script it print it pin it down above or just under the camera so you can look in the camera and connect to everyone at the other side of the screen.  But you did already a few vlogs so I think you already know that.  😁 nice seeing you Sunday again.

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Keep trying it should be a good one.

Great photo collection!
Why explain it to all these noobs?
One day they will get it. Ok then it is too late for them, but why should you care?

Keep up!

I agree with @revisesociology that you probably know too much about the subject to explain it coherently. And it's not an easy sell. Steemit would fail the "elevator pitch" test. 
But... so would the internet and email in their early days! I started using the internet and email in the early 1990s. But I simply could *not* get my friends and family to understand what they were all about. I'm not a techy type, so I certainly wasn't blinding them with science or jargon. At my workplace there were four of us who were interested in it, and the others thought we were mad - their eyes would just glaze over. 
It took a few years, but they got it in the end!

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It's harder than you think isn't it! I wrote a few of the scripts for the first @steemonboarding videos (website hopefully coming online in February). 

As an A-level teacher (16-19) I've accepted it's not possible to simplify something without getting the whole truth across. It is just impossible to translate complex social theory into something even a reasonably bright 17 year old is going to understand without upsetting someone who has a 'higher knowledge' of that theory (dumbing down is something of an irritant to HE social theorists)...

So it is with talking about steem to new steemians.... I'm fully expecting a lot of purists to moan about the onboarding videos being innacurate or misleading.... it's inevitable, but also unrealistic to expect that not to be necessary if you want to get the word out to the masses. You have to start somewhere! 

Maybe that's why you're not finding your flow..... you know too much about steem!

baby steps you will get there just need to try and break it down into it's basic elements.

I would say it's like digg meets blockchain. 

You will need to know your audience as most people probably barely know anything about bitcoin on a technical level.

In the old days people would have their name written in a book and to change ownership the name would be crossed out. This is just a secure and more distributed version with each book keeper checking each other.

Then maybe move onto publishing and creation how that works traditionally and draw as non technical comparisons as you can. 

a lot of people watch TV, Twitter or Facebook. How does steemit compare to these systems? Art industry or Music industry how does talent get discovered what's a curator? this kinda thing.

Yeah, I’ve run into this problem recently, too. This magazine in town wants me to write a few articles about crypto, but every time I pitch them an idea, they come back to me saying, “Can you make this so a non-crypto person can understand this?”

It’s frustrating!

Let us know if you come across any tricks to ”dumb yourself down” for the masses.

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Yeah, I’ve run into this problem recently, too. This magazine in town wants me to write a few articles about crypto, but every time I pitch them an idea, they come back to me saying, “Can you make this so a non-crypto person can understand this?”

It’s frustrating!

Let us know if you come across any tricks to ”dumb yourself down” for the masses.

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Great experiment and learning curve :D 

I truly DO believe that for onboarding we should talk about one App that matches the specific interests of one person first. Get him to see the App, the ‘earning’ you can do within the App, and how to do more by buying STEEM/Power Up (non-Steem games sometimes need to be bought with money too, or you need to buy credits to play certain items... should be explainable).

Then, once the person is playing show him he’s embedded in an ecosystem and that the earning he does in one app can give him opportunities in the next (upvote strength, delegations).

Curious to see if you in the end will make a video for non-Steemians - it’s definitely important to reach out!

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if anyone can do it, you can! :)

This looks like a great blooper video to me!
Where's the video? 😀