Welcome to Hive. I find the site Hiveblocks.com to be quite useful. It shows all of your transactions on the blockchain.

https://hiveblocks.com/@cshields

Wow, you got a lot of upvotes on your first post! Even more impressive: you appear to be one of the few new accounts that realized new accounts should buy some HIVE.

The upvote calculator shows the upvote value of a given amount of HIVE POWER. You have 94 HP. Your upvote is worth $0.001 . A tenth of penny.

Each upvote consumes 2% of your voting power. Voting power regenerates at 20% a day. So, people usually drop 10 upvotes a day.

If you dropped 10 upvotes a day; you would distribute one penny in rewards. Hurray! If you dropped 10 upvotes every day for a year, you would distribute $3.65. That is good interest on your investment in HIVE.

You get the rewards seven days after a post.

Posts only get rewards for the first seven days. Never upvote posts older than 7 days.

Anyway, people love getting upvotes. So the best way to promote your account is to find posts you like and upvote them.

Don't upvote comments. HIVE wipes away rewards less that $0.02 as dust. Since your upvote is worth only $0.001. The comment won't get the $0.001 value of your upvote.

The best time to upvote is 5 minutes after the post was written. I go to the created page and upvote the posts that are older than 5 minutes old.

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Another good strategy is to join a community and upvote the posts in the community.

Another good strategy is to go the blogs of the people who upvoted on your posts and upvote any good posts they've written.

Have a fun time on HIVE. It looks like your account is off to an epic start.