@kennyskitchen and @adamkokesh shared their Steemit Formulas last week. I recently connected with both of these wonderful humans through @tribesteemup and the work they are doing to share abundance is really changing lives, including my own!!!
I was really inspired by their #mysteemitformulas and wanted to reflect on my own direction on Steemit and how I want to approach the platform, sharing and curating.
As @kennyskitchen said in his post:
He [Adam] laid out his production plan, how many posts of what kind will be coming out, as well as his curation plan, how his STEEMpower (and SP delegation thanks to @jamesc) will be distributed through the community.
I really like the idea, and one of my favorite things about Steemit is supporting the community, and practicing the many new paradigm social & economic models built into this platform. So, I'm also doing my "Steemit Formula" here, and hope you will as well!
Here is Adam's which I recommend gaining inspiration from as well.
If there is one thing that I heard early on on Steemit and really tried to stick to it's CONSISTENCY. Being consistent allows your followers to know what to look forward to. Whether you commit to posting once a day (as we do) or multiple times a week or even once a week or less, it's helpful to say so. For us @mountainjewel, here is our:
#MySteemitFormula
Post Daily
Each day we will share at least one post, whether the written word with high quality photographs, a vlog, or a combination post.
Because there are two of us behind the account @mountainjewel, this flows pretty steadily for us. On the days one of us doesn't want to write, the other one has inspiration and visa versa. We've also found it helpful to write multiple posts when we're feeling inspired and to post them later in order to keep up our 1 post/day goal.
We've found that by posting once a day, we have a steady stream of new followers and new people to engage with.
Only High Quality Posts
This is something that's really important to us. Our standards are really high and we want to be known for that. We commit to not shitposting to just get something out there. We are on Steemit to #educate, #inspire, #learn, #grow and spread the good news of earth connected conscious living. I really don't feel right about making posts of lesser quality just to post.
Many things have influenced this formula guideline. Taking part in the @sndbox Summer Camp quests and realizing that to be a member of @sndbox, there are no guaranteed upvotes from the community, but your posts are always upvoted (or not) based on their quality. @osm0sis is a good example of that. Each of her posts is high quality. We know when we come to her blog that that's what we'll find. Check out her post from today to see what I mean.
Success on Steemit is as much about the communities you're a part of as it is about the quality of your posts. Let's make this blockchain beautiful and full of content we're proud of.
2nd Vlog Post in a Day
This is something we're experimenting with. We admire creators like @freedompoint who can #dtubedaily it and create a Vlog each day, but this honestly is a bit much for us! We do, however, commit to making Vlogs. It helps us reach a wider audience and sometimes it's easier to make a vlog while we're working or on an adventure than carry my "nice" camera around and take photos. Not everything in life can be planned beforehand and that's where Vlogs come in handy.
Last summer a friend of ours whom we love dearly had just created a YouTube channel. She encouraged us to "just Vlog our daily experience" and told us people would be interested in our lives. We hadn't done much before she said this inspiring invitation, but we kept it in mind. Now with @DTube in connection with the Steem Blockchain, we're able to be well received by all of the wonderful connections we've formed here. Our intention is to create to inspire and share from our hearts.
Power Up!
The longer we're on this platform, the more we grow to appreciate and believe in the future of the Steem Blockchain. There are many reasons for this, but we see a bright future here. We will take out some earnings to support our homestead (we are even toying with building a straw bale bathhouse! and we'd love to fund it with our Steem earnings!), but the majority of our earnings will go to Power Up our account.
Curation
- A large part of @mountainjewel is about giving back. Unto that effect, curation, contests, ways to boost other community members are really important to us and we commit to doing them regularly.
We've created @the-hearth for this reason and resteem posts focused on inspiring creativity and earth-centered living and have written a weekly curation digest. This has taken a bit of a back seat of late due to our focus in other areas and the increasing busyness of spring, but @the-hearth will function as a way to Boost Others and spread high quality educational posts on the blockchain.
Another aspect of curation is following the @tribesteemup and the @helpie voting trails, as well as not self-voting to have more Voting Power to upvote others.
Also, we commit some of our daily time on Steemit to looking at our Feed and manually upvoting and commenting on people's posts. We also search out our Discord channels and connect there. We also commit to supporting our #ecoTrain community and taking part in questions of the week.
Conclusion
I invite you to make your own #mysteemitformula post. It's a great way to clarify where you're headed on the platform and to give your community an understanding of where you're at.
- I've also been sharing about Steemit and the Steem Blockchain on my instagram to spread the word. I also tell friends and family about it and try to get people to sign up to start earning!
Feeling incredibly thankful for Steemit lately. With the advent of summer, it feels like a lot is picking up in general!
Also, if you're setting intentions or dreaming for this Taurus New Moon, take a look at my Share Your Dreams Contest where you can win a delegation from making a high quality post about your 5 year goals in life.
