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Proper Tag's use is highly underrated.
Hey there Steemian!
Whenever you Click Post on your Submit a Story Page your post is then sent to New Section in every Category that you have Tagged and to the Feed of Your Followers.
So If you Don't have a big following, You have Only 3 - 50 Minutes to Make You First Power Upvote. ( Money Upvote )
If you Get the attention with your post and you make let's say $3, then steemit algorithm will now Move your Post to Hot Section.
If Your Post get's over 100-150 Upvotes and makes more than a few-hundred dollars( always depends on how many people are posting and which tags they are using, time of the day etc...) Your post is now Moved to Trending Section.
If you made it to Trending your post will generate lot's of money and many new Followers.
So Your first goal should be to Move Up to the Hot Section as soon as possible. Steem chooses to move up only posts that are generating money Upvotes.
Power Upvotes or Money Upvotes are given by People who Have Steem Power.
If your post is at the right category at the right time when someone with Power is Scrolling by and Upvotes you, You will go straight to Hot.
Tags have to be as relevant as possible ( I have done this mistake a few times myself )
Have 5 Tags at all times! if you don't have a big following. You want as many people as possible Noticing your post.
Now If that post didn't make it to Hot Section than it will go down fast and after 2-3 hours it will be completely dead, making you $0.01.
Real Life example from Yesterday.
This yellow post below made the most money of all my 110+ posts.
The reason was that someone gave me a $3 Power Upvote 4 Minutes after I released the Post. Made it to 1st Place of Hot in #introduceyourself Tag.
It was on the 1st place for about 4 Hours then started moving down.
What Is the Best Time To Post?
First Let's take a look at Geography of Steemit Users.
2,7 Million Users April - 5.9 Million Users May.
Top 5
5: Australia
4: Germany
3: Canada
2: UK
1: USA
This means we have to focus on these countries ( If you are creating content in English)
From 12:00pm EST - To 6:00 pm EST is the time when Most of these countries are awake!
Try to post at those golden hours.
Okay you are really excited about Steem.
What next?
If you ever want to do steem Now is Your Best chance to start. Why? Because the price of steem is still relatively low and most people don't know what to do here yet.
June was a record setting month for Steem by Registrations of New users.
Make no mistake, it will get huge with or without me, with or without you.
But now is your best chance to start
I am starting as strong as I can, would love to share with you how I have 150 Followers in 4 Days.
After 94 Posts I have learnt a few things
There is a lot to know. I will explain everything as simple as humanly possible
Grab your popcorn, If you like music - play this song Below for reading.
Yes, I will also show you how to add music from Soundcloud to Your Posts.
Okay, your first post should be an Introduce Myself post.
First of all, those posts get a lot of attention, and many get actually paid
I made $3.60 on my first Introduce Myself post.
Get as many good pictures of yourself, your interests I don't know pets, books, food.
Post all those pictures, Make it look nice.
Write interesting things about you (not too much, not too little)
Make your post Look Professional. (I will show it all here)
I was lucky to grow 150 Followers in 4 Days. Feeling really blessed. One of my last posts made it to "Hot" Section.
Also I have been getting so much love and appreciation for my posts from you my fellow steemians!
Tons of upvotes and resteems. I really appreciate that!
1st day 25 followers
2nd day 55 followers
3rd day 90 dollowers
4th day 150 followers
What works on Steemit today?
Posts have to be long but not boring
Have good images
Good stories and writing
Be well structured and easy to read
Original posts are highly appreciated by steemians so do your best to write original content. It consumes a lot more of your time but it's absolutely worth it.
Reply to all comments, if that's not possible to as many as you can! Connect with people and they will follow you.
How much have I made so far?
I will have to recalculate to tell you for sure but it's currently around $140 (in potential 7 day payouts)
Although I am not focusing on money at this point. My content helps Steemit newbies to grow.
New steemians don't have any power so I would make $3-$4 while getting 35-40 Upvotes
I am more excited about all the support and comments from you! I love connecting and discussing content in comments since community here is so supportive!
Reposting your Original content.
I haven't seen anyone here talk about reposting your own original content so I would like to share my opinion on that.
In the beginning you have very few followers so even if you write Amazing piece of original content you might not even be noticed.
When you submit a story, your post goes to "new" section and only few people will see your post there since people are posting all the time and your post ends up down on the bottom where no one will read it.
That's why I suggest until you have 300+ Followers, you should repost your older content with some changes. Add more information to your post, add more value and submit it again.
Is it wrong to repost? When you work 4.5 Hours on a post and only 4 people see it because you have 3 followers that's not fair to you and to other steemians.
If you are really sharing valuable content you should let more people see your posts to offer more value to more people I don't see anything wrong with that.
If you get unhappy comments saying that you are "spamming" kindly appreciate their passion, and explain why you are reposting and that you will stop as soon as you get a little traction going with your followers.
Is it too late to start Steeming?
Right now is the Best time to start posting on Steemit
People are signing up on steemit at record rates
That means it will get more competitive with time
So Start proactively using Steemit if you really want to succeed
I have tested the waters for you in these 4 Days.
It is absolutely possible for you to organically Grow Following at a rate of 50-100Followers per week.
That's at least 200 a month
At this rate you grow 1200 followers in 1 year, not considering that it will get more competitive over time.
On the bright side the more followers you have the faster you will grow your following.
Depending on quality of your Content 600-1000 Followers are currently enough for you to make $100-$200 Daily
That's a whopping $3000-$6000 a Month.
You keep that money in your Steem Power. In future the value of steem power will increase so now your $6000 is worth $30.000 without you doing Anything.
Steem's Monthly Visitors. 2.7 million in April - 5.9 Million May. Steemit Doubled their traffic in 1 Month. Also 6 Minute average visit duration is a strong factor of growth.
Who Pays People On Steemit? Do You have to Pay Anything?
Short answer: Steem.
Longer answer:
You Do Not Pay for Anything out of Your Pocket.
When you Upvote you don't Pay Anything. Ever
Steem pays people who get Upvotes.
How Steemit decide how much to pay for an upvote?
Steemit firstly considers Upvoter's Steem Power.
Upvoter's Steem Power is determined by how much money
Upvoter has in his/her own Steem Power Account.
That means if you have 0 Steem Power, your upvotes will be worth = $0
If you want to take this train of opportunity called Steem
If you want to Crush it here, and become rich while giving value to the world
If so, you must Understand How Steem Works.
How do Steem currencies work and where to keep my money, when I make it?
Read carefully thru this Part and you will Understand how Exactly steem currency works.
I will keep the answer as short as humanly possible and to the point.
Let's Look into a wallet:
Using @JerryBanfield's Wallet for an example hope he doesn't mind.
Steem
Steem Power
Steem Dollar
How it works?
You only can turn Steem into real money
You can turn Steem power, within 13 payments throughout 3 months of time into Steem(that you can later turn into cash)
When you want to cash steem you transfer Steem into Bitcoin and transfer Bitcoin into real money.
🅲🆁🅸🆃🅸🅲🅰🅻 🅿🅾🅸🅽🆃 Steem Power Grows in value as Steem Coin value Grows on the Market.
More Steem Power you have More power you will have Within the Steemit community. Your Upvote will earn other people more money than a newbie's Upvote depending on how much Power you have.
Jerry's Upvote will be worth around $2, newbies upvote = $0-$0.01.
It's a lot more valueable for you if Jerry follows you which means potential Upvotes from him in future($0.5-$5 per 1 Upvote) than if a newbie follows you and brings potential $0-0.01 Upvotes since he does not have Power yet.
So where should You keep your steem money?
Answer: Steem Power. Why? Because Steem Power will grow as Steems Market Cap goes up. If you have $20 in Steem power today, 1 year from now that 20 will be worth $100-$200 (depending on how fast Steemit value will go up)
Just take a look at what the most successful Steemians are doing.
I can give you a ton more examples but that's not the point.
Conclusion. Don't overthink it. Focus on making as much Steem Power as possible and hold it until steemit value skyrockets, and you are rich.
What if I told you that you can make money by connecting to people through comments?
You know that already but did you know that you can Comment more effectively?
First you gotta understand what makes you money.
Steemit Influencers. People who have a lot of Steem Power (they are best followers, best to comment to)
Find and Follow as many Influencers as you can and Connect with them, if you make friends with influencers they will bring you consistent upvotes which in this case equals lots of money over time!
Comment when posts are hot and don't have many comments.
If the post has many comments Reply to first Comment and comment there.
You only need the influencer to click Upvote, or even better reply to you.
Use attention grabbing Gifs/Images.
Me and @mirage were discussing effective Commenting a few days ago. He is using these tips and making money!
Important
Don't just Spam. You are wasting time. People can tell a difference between a legitimate Comment and a copy paste Robot comments.
Do not focus on money! Focus on bringing Value!
Note that followers with 0 Power will make you $0, but they will grow their power so if you were there to connect with them and offer them value now, when they have no power they will appreciate it and in future you will make money.
How to make Your Posts look Amazing.
Today we are discussing how You could and should make your posts look great
Centering
You can center Text/Images/Gifs to make your posts look nicer and here is how to do that:
This is what a gif looks like before you Center it.
This is what it looks like after you Center:
This text is not centered.
This text is centered.
2 Steps:
Add before the Picture/Gif/Text
Add after the Picture/Gif/Text
What it looks like:
Use Images and Gifs.
Choose correct sizes for text. Emphasize important moments.
@trafalgar keeps his money on Steem Power.
@mirage were discussing effective Commenting a few days ago. He is using these tips and making money!