After the success of writing a beginners guide for people who are new on Steemit, I found that it could be very useful to write a continuation for those people who need a bit of help to go one or even more steps up.
So you’ve been a while on SteemIt now and you’ve been diligently making a post on a regular basis. Either you’re a ‘natural’ blogger and just do it because you love writing, or you’re here to earn a bit of money on a blockchain or maybe you see a cool new social network here after the imminent collapse of Facebook. Whatever the reason, you’re still here, but you are thinking to yourself whether there’s more to this than what you’ve achieved until now.
Well, this is where the fun can really start, this is the turning point. Either you’re going to stagnate, get bored and things stay as they are, or this is where you’re really starting to get involved and get hooked to this fantastic new platform and get some RoI on your posts.
Wherever you live, whatever your hobby is, whatever you love doing, chances are that there’s a community for it here on SteemIT. Look for people who share the same interests and hook up on discord or Steemit.chat, start a forum yourself and get people engaged, this is the thing that I love most about the platform, if there is no community on discord, you can start one yourself. For runners there’s the runningproject channel that was started by a friend I met here , for the Swiss and people living in Switzerland I started the Swiss Crypto Community and for Game of Thrones lovers my friend
starter Third Times the Charm.
Whatever your hobby or interest, there’s certainly a channed to suit you and to hook up with likeminded people. The invite links above are free to use, so if these communities interest you, feel free to hook up with likeminded people. You’ll have to bring your own coffee and cookies, but the conversations are free and fun.
If you can’t find a community that suits you or there isn’t one for your interests, it’s very easy to start one of your own. If you need any help, just let me know and I’ll be happy to help you get started.
This is the wallet of a friend of mine who joined recently and is really doing well and got a great upvote from just over a week ago (more about
and other witnesses later)
So over the period that you’re here you’ve gained some followers, starting to gain a bit of influence, you got involved in chats or discussion groups and you’ve even earned a bit of STEEM POWER and SBD’s, but what can you do with it?
You’ve probably been approached once or multiple times by helpful people who promise to re-steem your post to 32.000+ people or promised regular upvotes if you send them some money if you send them only 1 STEEM or 1 SBD. Many of you have come to me and asked me what to do with that and I’ve told them the same as what I’m going to tell you … ignore it. Here are a few of the examples you have sent me:
I am sure that these people will do their best to get you what they promised, but there is no guarantee, just stick to the honest and fair way and you will get rewarded.
Lately there’s been an influx of people’s accounts being hacked because they clicked on phising mails or losing money as they sent STEEM or SBD’s to accounts that didn’t deliver what they’d promised. I want to help you prevent such mistakes.
What do you do when you receive post from someone you don’t know the name or address of? You throw it away … I hope. The same goes here, if it looks fishy or sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
Bidbots
a Screenshot of www.steembottracker.com made by , taken a few minutes ago
One of the most common question I get asked is, what bidbot is the best. My answer is none, this is the truth and everyone who runs one and anyone who uses them will tell you this. In general bidbots only serve 1 person and that’s the one who runs them. If you want to earn something by sending money to a bidbot, make sure you read and understand steembottracker.com. Here you can see exactly how long until a bidbot will pay out, whether it’s profitable, the minimum bid you have to send (SBD or STEEM) and other necessary informations.
In a nutshell I would advice you to follow these steps:
If you follow all these steps you should get a profitable return from the bot you’ve sent the money to.
Let's do a few exercises to get you familiar with Steembottracker.com. Make notes for yourself, I'll put the answers further down below, all the answers are based on the screenshot above at the beginning of this section:
Answers according to me:
I hope this helps you and gives you an idea what to look out for before you want to use a bidbot.
If you want to get a guaranteed RoI, my advice is to sign up for , get whitelisted and use their
service.
Ok, I am slightly biased as I work for them now, but I have been flying their flag longer than my employment and I would not sell something or even join a product that I would not stand 100% behind. This is a professional service that is run by a fantastic guy (ok, bit of a lame name 😉 ). The
service will guarantee to give you an RoI and the better the quality of your content, the better the votes will be.
Off course for this service to be succesful they need people to delegate their VP and SP. I am doing both, they use my VP from 90% and I've delegated 400 SP to them. Once I reach the 1800 I will delegate another 200 and I will try to keep delegating at least a third of my SP to as I strongly believe in this and it truly ensures that we grow together! Join us now, just sign up by clicking on the banner at the bottom of my post or follow this referral link: https://smartsteem.com?r=wolfje, 4 people have already done so before you and are not regretting it.
Another great service and one I do not work for is . They also have a delegation system in place and also a channel where you can gain ideas if you're stuck for a subject to write about. It is run by another great guy called
and you benefit from their own trail of voters. They're a great bunch and really helpful, especially for newbies a great source of information ... besides me off course 😉 but I can also tell you that many qurators have also recently joined
and requested to be whitelisted to use this service, so in my honest opinion and experience, there is no better and fairer way for everyone to benefit than
and
.
Something that many people don't know or take notice off is the witnesses here on the platform. These are the people who make the important decisions and ensure that the platform remains operable as they dedicate their own servers and nodes to keep this platform going. I know for example (as per one of his last posts) that has 8 servers of his own dedicated to this. All this costs money and time and off course they get rewarded accordingly.
What I want to inform you about is that it's very important that if you think one of the witnesses is doing a great job, vote for them. It's very easy and you can't really vote wrong as you have 30 votes available. If you want to vote for the ones you know, just follow this link. If you don't know who to vote for, here are my 10 votes until now and why I'm voting for them, sorted by their witness ranks:
This still leaves me with 20 votes. Soon I will announce my bid to start a witness with some friends as well. I believe in this platform and in building a strong community together and I want to take the next step. Once we're ready I will inform you guys about this, but in the mean time make sure you vote ... but keep 1 vote for me!
Let me know if you need any more help or have any other topics you'd like me to cover. You can also reach me through DM on discord, just add me, my name is wolfje#6587
Thanks,
Doron