Hello everyone,

in this post, we're revealing an exiting new update at Smartsteem.com.

But before we get into the update - let us first give you a small summary/introduction about our two promotion services.

Smartsteem.com - Advertisement & Promotion on Steem

We are currently offering two ways for users to promote their posts:

1.) Through our advertisement-market (@smartmarket), where over 5500 Steemians are offering their Steempower for promotion purposes in form of votes. These votes can be bought either directly via a transfer to @smartmarket or through our website: Smartsteem.com/buy

2.) With our own account, @smartsteem, that votes every 2.4 hours on posts. For this, we are using the bid-vote model, where users are bidding for a share of a full 100% vote. Bids can be made either directly via a transfer to @smartsteem or through our website: Smartsteem.com/bid

Now, we recently improved the look and feel of promotion via @smartmarket at Smartsteem.com in addition with an update to our ROI-calculation to make sure, that our customers are always getting what they're paying for!

While this update was very well received, we knew that bid-voting via @smartsteem needed some love and improvements as well. Until now, it was only possible to check and monitor the bid-rounds with steembottracker.com.

We believe that Smartsteem.com shouldn't have to utilize other websites, so that's why we've implemented this update on our website:

Bidding on Smartsteem.com

You're now able to bid directly through Smartsteem.com for a share of @smartsteem's vote.

When you go to Smartsteem.com/bid you're greeted with an interface similar to the image above.

Within this interface, you're able to see all the most important info about bidding with @smartsteem, which are also automatically updated every ~15 seconds.

Our current dynamic stats: Max ROI, Min ROI, Voting on post when post-age >= 30 minutes
How much SBD & STEEM has already been used for bidding in this round - converted to USD. Example: 209.78 USD
How much @smartsteem's vote is worth in USD, including the 25% subtraction of curation. Example: 230.71 USD
The ROI for the current bid-round. Example: 9.98% ROI
The current and previous bids.
Status about the previous bids. Check-mark for successful votes and a question-mark for a bid, which post hasn't reached 30 minutes post-age yet.
Bids that have been added to the next round, which would have broken the ROI Limit. Example: Next Round ...