One week goes quickly. I started my journey more or less one week ago on 31st of December 2017. I thought this might be an excellent opportunity to look back and share with you what I have a learned. And equally important, to thank those of you who have helped me get started here on Steemit.
In the first couple of days on Steemit, I was logged in with my master key. Don’t do this, use your posting-key when you are on Steemit. The posting-key lets you vote, follow and post.
Keep all of your keys in a password store like KeyPass or 1password. Do not lose your keys. There is no password recovery on Steemit!
Read is article by @jerrybanfield to learn more.
I read that it is not possible to edit an article after seven days, but thought that it might be a mistake. It is not, the Edit button on my first post is not there anymore. So, no edits after seven days. Make sure to correct any typos before you publish :)
I have not tried this yet because I do not have enough SBDs at the moment, but here is what I learned about promotions so far:
You have five tags. The first tag you set is used to define the category of your post. Always make use of all five tags. When writing through Utopian, you only have four tags, as the first (utopian-io) will be set by Utopian automatically.
The different currencies on Steemit still confuse me. I will have to learn more about it, but here are some learnings from the first week:
Is this correct? Please comment if you know better.
Most tips in this section come from 
I have not used an upvote bot yet. I’m not decided if one should use these, but I can say that bots are very popular. Here is a list of bots I came across while curating posts this week.
Are you using upvote-bots? Let me know in the comments.
Here are a few sites I came across in the last seven days. The one I used most is [Steemnow](https://steemnow.com “Steemnow”).
The most important achievement this week was to gain 35 new followers. I’m thankful for that because it shows a minnow like myself that I’m adding value for some of you.
The second important thing I achieved this week was to increase my reputation score from 25 to 30.
I got my first author rewards: 0.012 SBD, 0.000 STEEM, 0.002 SP for my first article My Vision For 2018 And Beyond.
I wrote two more articles:
I would like to thank all of you who helped me to get started here on Steemit. If you are new here as well, I would recommend you follow 
I enjoy using Steemit; so much that I plan to invest some of my time and savings into the Steem blockchain.
Have a great week.
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