I have seem more minnows asking some questions about steemit and how to go around it and others falling for the same mistakes we made so decided to redo this post just to help you along this journey
As you begin to use steemit you find its not what you expected , there are challenges that you have to overcome as a minnow, most people realize that the rewards are hard to come and you try your best to make the most of it writing great articles without been noticed, some give up early and drop along the way, this article will try to get you through some challenges.
N.B. am not an expert in steemit but a user who has tried and failed and tried again and has learnt some few tricks along the way
the first thing you do when you join steemit is to back up your password, its hard to recover an account so always have both a soft copy and a hard copy of your password, this is very helpful in case you have forgoten your password or want to use other steemit services and may require steemit password
do a good introduction of yourself using the tag introduceyourself, the best way to do this is to go to those who have been here before and learn how they did it, you can also ask around, it doesnt hurt to ask. Be candid and use photos as you tell your story, photos attract people to post, good photos. Dont use this introduceyourself tag for other articles, you will be warned or even flagged
Steemit likes original contents so when writting make sure its your article, plagiarism is not allowed on the platform and if you do a bots called 
One thing that most of minnows do is to try to get followers by commenting on their post and asking them to follow back(i did this a lot). This is not bad but dont spam, most guys are lazy of commenting on post that they copy paste the same message across the platform, this is called spaming and is frowned on the platform, when you do this you will be flagged and lose reputation. i lost 7 reputation points for doing this. My advise is read the article and comment based on what you have read and then invite someone to follow back, most people are likely to follow back when they know you took time to engage their hard work
when posting use the appropriate tag for the appropriate post, tags are suppose to point people to the right articles, dont use tags like photography on article that does not have anything to with it, i once used kr (korean) for an article that isnt related to korean cause i saw it was trending and was warned, ignoring the warning could lead to been flagged , by now you know what flagging can do
always ask for help when you feel lost or not sure, steemit has several way, you can ask 
https://steemit.com/minnowsupport/@joendegz/minnow-support-welcome-to-steemit-let-get-started
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