For a very long time, I have thought hard on how to give back to the Steemit community. After heavy thinking and research, I finally found an avenue to make my stay in this community a fulfilling one.
Just as the nice Steemit slogan says
I joined Steemit for the reward; but now, I am in love with the community. So in love with the community that after praying when I wake up in the morning, the next thing I do is to check steemit.
I believe it now when @gbenga said Steemit is a virus, not a deadly one, but a positive-thinking one, a life changing virus.
I am so much enjoying this virus and the reward it brings that I have vowed to make it great.
I hope most newbies can learn something from my Steemit story. It is not one sweet story like that of @papa-pepper nor @stellabelle.
In August 2016, I got to know about Steemit through a thread at the Warrior Forum (an online forum for Internet Marketers and Internet Business owners); I immediately signed up for an account to start my Steemit journey.
After days of lurking around the website, I took the courage to write my #introduceyourself post.
Just as many newbies joined Steemit with high hopes and expectations; I also expected my first post to earn me a good reward that will motivate me to do more.
Boy, I was dead wrong; that post made a just $0.02. You can check for yourself here https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@lucashunter/meet-the-african-sales-pro-am-happy-to-be-on-steemit
Image source: flickr.com
I count the present newbies to be lucky because they can use @booster, @minnowbooster, @minnowsupport and other upvote bots to upvote their post and get a good reward.
I was depressed, I wanted the reward so badly, but I couldn't get it. I called it a QUIT
Nine months after (sometimes around May 2017), through what I called good luck, I stumbled upon Steemit again but this time I was more determined to make it work.
My determination and lots of Steemit research for what work paid off big time for me.
For the past four months, I have dedicated some time to learning how Steemit works like:
And some more tricks that will ease newbie's journey on Steemit. I don't want them to leave just as I did over a year ago.
I want more newbies to really see the true value of Steemit.
Recently, I stumbled upon the wonderful Minnow community on Discord app called @unmentionable.
After some days in the channel, I decided to use that little team of Steemians as a way to give back to the Steemit community.
Since there is a position for mentors available, I am applying for the position of a mentor to help the newbies that are members of the Unmentionable team.
You can learn more about the Unmentionable here https://steemit.com/steemit/@unmentionable/so-many-laughed-when-we-said-that-we-would-teach-and-make-social-media-professionals-on-steemit-until-now-theunmentionables
Let me know what you feel about the me being a mentor in the comment below.
