Hey guys!! I'm back again with another steemit tutorial!!
If you haven't already, make sure to read the previous "Made ridiculously simple for beginners and newbies" posts at @simplifylife
If you have read the previous posts, you might have realized by now that to have your posts earn some money, you need to have some money to begin with. For a lot of beginners it's not possible to invest or put some money into steemit for various reasons. whatever your reasons are, you still need to have a few SBD in your wallet to get started. But as a beginner, any posts you make hardly makes a few cents.
So how do we get that initial kick?
COMMENTING.
Guys, Guys Guys Guys!! I can't emphasize this enough!! When you start out on steemit, you must start commenting on other people's posts.
I have heard a lot of people say when you start out, forget making your own posts. Just comment. I don't necessarily agree with this. Commenting is most important, but making a few of your own posts every week is also equally important (i'll tell why in a bit) even if you are making ZERO of your posts.
So, why should you be commenting?
Not just to start making money (i'll get to that in a bit), but to start building a connection with people who are on steemit. Yes, an upvote is a great way to show appreciation and I'm grateful to all those who have been upvoting my posts. But unless you make a comment and open the doors for a small conversation, our relation stay just at me being grateful for your upvote!! This relation and interaction no matter if it makes you some money or not, is essential. Because when you are regularly interacting with an author, the author will eventually be interested to check out you profile and read you posts (this is why i said making a few of your own posts every week is also very important besides commenting). Maybe they'll give you an upvote, maybe they'll start commenting on you posts and all of a sudden you start getting genuine interactions on your posts (and if you have read my previous posts, you already know why getting quick interactions on your posts is absolutely essential for us beginners).
Commenting is the only way to build a long term relation with your followers and people you follow. As I have said in one of my previous posts, when you start out on steemit, don't take this as an earning platform. Instead, look at this as a way of connecting with people and a way for self development. Earnings will start coming when they need to. Don't fuss too much over it.
Now, the second part is, how to start earning by commenting?
For this what you need to do is, you have find some of the big, nice guys on steemit. By big guys I mean people with a lot of whalepower, whose upvotes are worth good money. By nice guys i mean people who are willing to help other people out and give nice upvotes on the comments on their posts.
There are many big guys out here, but not everyone is a nice guy. Not mentioning any names, but I have interacted with someone, who gave me an upvote on my comment of worth $0.05 (my comment was a well thought out, nicely written one) and then he replied to comment with a thanks and gave himself an upvote worth $1.3!! Now i'm not saying what he did is illegal. he absolutely has all the right to do what he did. All i'm saying it wasn't very nice.
But there are a lot of people out there who will give you nice upvotes worth starting from $0.5 to even upto a couple of bucks!! And if you are really luck maybe about $6-7. You just have to spend some time and find these people. When you find someone with over 10000 Sp or so, go to their posts and run through a few comments and see if they giving nice upvotes to people who appreciate their posts. Steemit is a great community and there are much more nice people than the not nice ones!! So keep looking!!
I think if you start commenting on a few people's post and start getting good upvotes, within a couple of weeks you'll have about $2-3 in your account and that will be enough to start investing in your own posts and your posts will now start generating more money for you to invest further.
If you are starting to lose hope, just remember guys, I started out with zero SBD in my wallet just like you guys, and 3 weeks later my account is worth ~$40 after just about 3 weeks!! So don't lose hope!! For some people it will take longer, for some lesser. It doesn't matter!!
I'll just say a few more words about making your own posts before wrapping up this post!!
When you are making your first few posts, don't expect to start making money. Rather focus on finding your own style of making posts (that is, if you're not a blogger already). Everyone has different ways of writing. Experiment with your posts a bit to find out how you feel comfortable writing.
Next, make sure you get used to the Markdown Styling Guide. It makes editing and styling your posts so much more efficient if you already know which symbols to use to make your words italic or bold.
If you're a complete beginner to blogging like me to, then at first you'll find it very difficult to write or even figure what to write about. It's okay.
Your first few posts might not really be some high quality posts. But if you're practicing making posts regularly and trying to improve your writing with every post, then i'm sure by the time you've earned enough from commenting to start investing on your own posts, you'll be writing quality posts very easily!! So Keep calm and Keep Steeming!!
P.S. 1 : As my attempt to help out beginners, I will be giving away free SBD 1.5 each to two random users who either upvotes or comments on this post, for every $10 this post makes!! (I can't give away more because I need to at least make up for the amount i'll be investing on this post. Sorry about that). So if this post makes $20, i'll be giving SBD 1.5 each to 4 people!! Make sure you do your best to increase this post's earnings haha!!
P.S. 2 : I am currently experimenting with a few more techniques to increase earning from our posts. Will share with you guys soon if I think they're worth it!! But I still don't have too much money to experiment with so I need to be cautious as well not to lose all I have in my wallet!! So the more i'll make the more i'll be able to teach you guys!!
Alright guys!! That's all for now!! You know what to do!!
Start Upvoting to increase your Curation Rewards. Resteem this post and maybe more people out there might find this useful.
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