First of all: Yes, I know that I'm not a successful Steemian, but I keep up to date with SteemIt on a daily basis, learn new things, make ever greater progress and get closer to my goals every day. So if you have less money or reputation than me, I strongly recommend that you read this post or watch the video. It will definitely help you to get more upvotes, more followers, more friends, more money and more success at SteemIt.
Most users sign in to SteemIt for the money. The possibility of earning money by "not working" is far too precious not to try them out.
Most people are mistaken: In my opinion, money as a motivator is not a bad reason, but you will have to work hard and invest time in SteemIt! Nothing comes from nothing!
In this post I will give you all the tools you need to be successful on SteemIt. What you do with this tools is entirely up to you and your will power.
It depends on you whether you use a fraction of it and balance the rest with hard work, use more tools but work less, do nothing and ignore this post with all its knowledge or use 110% of your possibilities until you find the success you have been striving for beyond your limits.
The easiest way is often the wrong one.
You won't just write a post, get thousands of upvotes for it and leave this platform as millionaires.
Be prepared to get small or no payout at the beginning as a nobody on this platform even for good posts in which you have invested work. You will make this experience more often at the beginning and here you will also find the point where the wheat is separated from the chaff: At this point many people give up, don't touch SteemIt anymore and flare around like shitty SteemIt is.
I was also facing this crossroad at the beginning of my time and thought about how stupid these whales are, that they earn so much money with partially empty posts while I am doing work and not getting paid for it.
Sounds unfair, doesn't it? It sounds unfair, it is unfair and the whole life can be unfair, but that is the course of things and SteemIt is no exception. You now have the opportunity to either give up or work harder and be more persistent to achieve your goals.
The enumerated whales also worked for their success. Nobody becomes successful without hard work. Some of them maybe rest on their laurels now, but you are supposed to be hungry and strive for more. You will inevitably succeed and achieve your goals if you really want to.
Without some seriousness, you won't make money in the long run. To write for fun from time to time and then wonder why you do not earn money sounds kinda ironic, right? Imagine you own a company, but you only work if you feel like it. You won't have many orders and the company would go broke because you don't take your work seriously. If you want to make serious money and get successful, act like you are serious about the platform, the community and your courage.
"The more difficult the victory the greater the happiness in winning"
― Pele
Work hard every day, and also work when you're not feeling so good and if you don't feel like it. Doesn't sound like the hottest job in the world, but you'll earn money in the long run, both with a company and here at SteemIt.
Improve yourself, improve your posts, improve just everything you can! Make your editing better, work better, harder, smarter, design a logo, make a intro for your videos, just do everything you can to improve!
"Post at least 1 post per day, learn more about Steemit for 10 minutes per day and forge strong connections with 10 Steemians only!"
―@valorforfreedom
Persistence is the key to success. Without exception! At that time I had to learn this in the hard way in sports and on SteemIt it is nothing else. Here you can read dozens of other motivations for persistence. Get it out of there. In my opinion, this is your strongest weapon for success. I just can't do without it and I can't point this out enough!
When it comes to SteemIt,
He takes SteemIt very seriously, earns his money with SteemIt and posts 2 posts every day. Without exception! He also has days when he is not very keen, exhausted or sick, but he still posts 2 posts or more a day for 121 days in a row now!
THAT is persistence and this leads to the fact that he has achieved a reputation of 62 without investing money in just 121 days. Be persistent, be like
"The more you learn the more you earn"
― Warren Buffett
Look at Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Oprah, Mark Cuban and other highly successful human. [...] They are successful because they are lifetime learners. They commit to learning new things EVERY SINGLE DAY.
― Team Fearless (Best Version of Yourself)
You should be clear about the platform through which you want to gain wealth. How it works, why it is the way it is and every day try to find out more about it and better understand it.
Educate yourself! It's the same with your hobbies: you want to get better and in order to do that you have to learn, know and understand more about it. You won't get around it, no matter what you do if you want to succeed! If you want to be better than average you need to work harder than average and know more than average!
Know all the other Steembased platforms and how they work, all the features Steem and SteemIt have, how to stand out on SteemIt, where Steem does come from, what witnesses do, how to formate your posts and so on and so on. You will need to put some work and time into it to understand these things. But it is knowledge you need to survive in the SteemIt-Ocean. I will give you all the links and guides, which will help you and have helped me.
Go to https://steemit.com/faq.html and read all the articles. If you are a little bit lazy or you already educated yourself a litte bit read all the articles you do not understand. Knowledge is power and everything new you learn will help you getting more successful at SteemIt.
Don't be ignorant and read the FAQ. There are exactly 150 articles and you will most likely not know everything. However, the successful people on SteemIt already do; and you want to be one of the successful ones, don't you?
There's so much more than the FAQ out there. The FAQ alone is not enough. You need deeper insights into the matter.
For this purpose I recommend the summary of 
https://steemit.com/steem/@jerrybanfield/steem-guide-january-2018
&
https://airtable.com/shrF00NW4Z99WZX50/tblxbDgjhjN2Lu1jZ
Again, read through everything carefully and write down the most important points if necessary. It will help you. Trust me: Every single piece of information will help you. Start applying what you have learned and you will gain a lot more success at SteemIt; am I right
@valorforfreedomFor 19 days now,
In the future there will also be a separate page about this, where you can access the knowledge from the Steemschool more clearly.
To summarize my opinion up:
Images:
Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 Image 5 Image 6
