With some exceptions, many people are hardly making it on steemit and online because they are not playing it smart. Moreover, most people come here on steemit after being told by friends or family members that they will make hundreds of SBD daily and or after seeing huge financial success on trending and hot pages. The reality, however, is that life is not all that rosy rather to succeed, one has to work or blog smart , invest time, remove greed, invest money in steem power and be patience.
I hereby present you with some hidden rules to making it on steemit-which are basic steps after which you should tailor your posts to your own brand:
Steem Power: Steem power is the crème de la crème of succeeding on steemit (see my older posts for detailed reasons) because the more steem power you have, the more you earn in author rewards (your posts) curation rewards (voting on other people posts) interest payments and delegation of steem power (earn daily steem or steem dollars). Moreover, as steem is currently undervalued (note that SMT and Hardfork 20 are coming –see my older posts for details) steem power will guarantee you a good return on investment in the future –so buy steem and power up (you can always power some down when you need money).
Expectation: I came for the money and stayed for the community, great innovative people and educational/learning experience this great platform provides. So remove financial gain in your mind, stop focusing on trending and hot page , blog and make friends -and money will come.
Quality Posts ,be respectful and Engagement: Do you know of the 3C´s? : Content, Curation and Comments. These are 3 top ingredient’s to succeeding on steemit . Therefore new people should 1st comment on top posts for some time in order to gain followers and get noticed by older members. Be respectful on your comments because older members know when someone comment just to get upvotes (copy and paste comments, follow for follow, upvote for upvote, good post spams etc) which in return lead to flagging. Therefore grow your followers through smart commenting (some new people make more money commenting than posting ie the 1st few weeks) , upvote the post to join in curation reward and after a while you start posting your own posts- especially after learning from established writers.
Furthermore, engagement is key to success here: do not post too many daily posts in order to have time to engage with your followers through replying to their comments and up voting great comments (and sometimes visit their posts and upvote good contents too) in order to motivate your followers to continue engaging in your posts-thus building a good relationship. This is a win win all.
Patience: Patience is a good one because no one can make it the 1st or 2nd month on steemint unless you are already a celebrity on Youtube, or any other social media with millions of dedicated followers -including having a huge amount of steem power. Most members that want it very fast get disappointed in few weeks and leave the platform while others that have patience will start by building relationships and thus start seeing success after some few months of learining the way things are done here.
I wish you all success and a blessed weekend. Upvote and Resteem if you agree. Do not forget to send in your suggestions and or comments
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