If you are a minnow, steemit term for newbie or referring to small fish, in this platform you will be like a small fish drifted in the ocean. You need help from bigger guys, the whales, to help you out and survive.

Steemit Strategy #2 - Upvote and Comment

One of the amazing feature of steem platform is the upvote mechanism. Although what we need to make money from our post are the votes from other member, you can also make money by upvoting. This is referred as curation. 25% of the total income of a post is given back as a citation reward to all who invited the post. It shared proportionally based on the voting value of the of the curator. So everytime you upvote, you earn.
Aside from upvoting, writing comments can help you earn a few Steem dollars.