RE: My Recent #maysketchaday Sketches
No worries, I'm glad if I can answer a few questions. Writing meaningful comments is a very good way to earn some rewards and more importantly to get noticed by some influental people.
Steemit is definitely not a get-rich-quick scheme, it needs some efforts and endurance to finally earn some decent rewards. But if you constantly contibute to the community, you will definitely earn some rewards. As it's the essence of every social network, acting nicely and communicating with people will bring you some upvotes and (more importantly) will start growing your network.
For some people it's a factor to see, that you're not instantly cashing out all your earnings and rather invest them in Steempower, while the amount of Steempower at first gives you more voting-weight to vote for others. I regularly use a tool called Steemworld, where you're able (besides a lot of more interesting things) to simulate the worth of your vote (Simulate SP).
Or you could lend some Steempower and try out how it feels to have some. For example you can lend about 150 SP for 1 Steem/week at Minnowbooster.
Another thing is, that I'm totally bullish about cryptos in general and certainly the value of Steem will rise, when the value of Bitcoin rises. There are quite a few people seeing the future Steemprice between $10-20 and we already saw $8 in January (but this is not an investment advise).
Regarding voting bots, there is a good website called Steem Bot Tracker, where you can see the ROI and other useful infos. It's true, that quite a few peope are strictly against the use of votebots and personally I only use them, when I really want to push the visibilty of a post (like the Damo Suzuki post) or if I want to give a friend of mine an extra vote, when I see, that his post does not get the rewards, I think, it should get.
On the other hand, voting bots are an appropiate way to kickstart your Steemit-career, when you're a new user. So, I'm not strictly against them, only against the excessive use (when people already have earned a lot).
So, just a few words about the content, you're going to post. In my observation, posts that have a personal touch are definitely working a lot better, than just "wiki-style" articles with a few links. (Although Steemit posts automatically have a great google ranking and really can help improving the SEO-score of a linked website). When you start, you should tell a bit about yourself and your projects, why you're here, what you're going to write about and so on.
You should definitley care about using the right tags like #introduceyourself for the first post and generally tags, that are seen by a lot of people. The Steemit homepage usually shows you the most used tags on the left site. And let me know, when you're up to posting. I can definitely help you getting some more visibilty by resteeming and telling a few people about you.
Nuff said for now. Good luck and good night!
Thanks for responding in such detail – this is as helpful as I could have wished. You confirm a lot of the conclusions I have been reach independently: that visibility and its rewards won’t come quickly but only with persistence; that engaging (organically) with others will help the process – Steemians cannot live by posts alone as I think the Bible says; that tagging is worth paying attention to; and that bots are not necessarily bad if used for benign purposes like getting visibility for yourself or others.
I’ve come across Minnowbooster but don’t really know what it entails, while Steemworld and Steem Bot Tracker are new to me and will also have to be checked. Thanks for these leads. What you say about keeping it personal is interesting. In a way it goes against my instincts and the objectivity of a lot of the factual writers I admire, but I’ll try to find a way, being me without making it about me. I suppose one concern I have is the demand for what I do. If most of my posts are about classical music, how many are going to read them?
I’ll be doing my #introduceyourself soon, though I won’t post it until I’ve built up a little stockpile which I’ll release maybe one a day while writing others. I’ll certainly be letting you know when I go live and appreciate your fantastic offer of spreading the word on my behalf.
So what’s your guess about this darned crypto market? Every time it looks as though a real run is possible we get slapped down. Are we correcting now and will soon be making a higher high, or are we destined to go back to $6K. Who the hell knows? What I do know is I could do with a run, and one or two or my moonshots to go crazy – that would give me some breathing space.
Have a great night - what's left of it. I think you're living in Bonn (Beethoven Town as think of it), yes?
Hello again!
Glad, it is :-)
Just ask yourself, if you would have engaged with me in that way, if I wouldn't have told you (in my Damo post), that I have a personal interest in supporting the film-project. On the other hand, I just want you to follow your instincts, so maybe just keep it in the back of your mind.
There is an audience for every topic. What sense would it make, when you would post about stuff, that you think your readers like to read, but you feel no passion for? This is the most important thing, I've learned here. Do what you love and then the rewards will follow automatically. (Isn't that also from the Bible?)
I'm looking forward to reading it. When I started here, I often tried to make some things too perfect and then my expectations were often not satisfied. That's why I started a little series called the #morgenseiten, where people should write posts without thinking too much. But "every reveler is different", like we say here in the Rhine area.
I don't know, but I can remember how it took a few years until Bitcoin was worth $800 (that was the time, when I bought my first) and from there kept falling and falling down to $200 (I certainly wished, I would have bought a lot more at that price). The rest is history and history is repeating. So, I can totally understand, that a new height would give you "some breathing space" (me too). But when I've learned anything during that time, it is: "Keep hodling!" - The new heights will come, that's for sure!
Have a great night, too! You're right, I'm living in Beethoven's birth town (and it's a great place to be ;-)
Hi again
All gratefully received and taken on board. Be myself and let the chips fall where they may, that’s the lesson I take from it. “Jede Jeck ist anders” – hadn’t heard that one before, but of course it’s true (“different strokes for different folks” the Americans say). “Do what you love and then the rewards will follow automatically” – that’s from the Apocrypha (Apokryphen), I believe. :o) My memory of Bonn, where I would sometimes take the Strassenbahn on my day off from the hotel I was working in, was that it was a quieter city than I’d expected This was 35 years ago though, unbelievable as it seems to me.
I had a look at #morgenseiten and found @roused’s post about Elvis (and Bowie, and the Beatles) in Germany, then another about Johnny Otis – so this was something else I have to thank you for. You’d already mentioned him, which I realised only after reading these posts.
I hadn’t even heard of Bitcoin last August. This is what living in a bubble of research and writing will do for you. I’m one of the naivlings who got in at the top, which is why I’m struggling now. Not only that but I bought the dip that turned out not to be the dip, believing those who said BTC would never be as low as $12 again.
On the subject of the book, if you have any interest in seeing a draft shoot me an address and I’ll email. Purely for the interest of seeing what it is, I mean, not for reading, let alone providing feedback. Just to open the door, glimpse at the madness within, slam it shut again and run away.
Fin
Sorry for the delay. I'm quite busy these days, cause there is a new "General Data Protection Regulation" in the EU coming up and I have to update the privacy policies of several websites, before I go to a city trip next week.
Bonn is still relatively quiet, but I'm totally in love with the city. Maybe, if I were younger, I'd prefer to live in Cologne for the parties and concerts, but being almost 50 years old has made me a lot more settled. I really enjoy the nature around the Rhine and the Siebengebirge and if I need some action, I can still be in Cologne in half an hour.
I'm glad you checked out the #morgenseiten and found @roused - he's a really amazing guy. He had some similar thoughts about posting his interviews at Steemit, because the audience for Jazz music at Steemit seems to be a bit too small, maybe he can tell you a bit about his experiences.
Buying at the top can really be frustrating, but not as frustrating as selling at the bottom. I made this mistake several times and wished I could go back in time and change it. But if I wouldn't have made those mistakes, I wouldn't have stumpled upon Steemit, which is something I was always searching for. So maybe that's what another Cologne saying is about: "Et kütt wie et kütt." (It comes as it comes.)
I'd really like to open Pandora's box and have a "glimpse of the madness within" your book ;-) My email is the same as my username here @gmail.com
Until then: Have a great evening!
I hadn’t heard about this GDPR until I ran into an old work colleague yesterday – now I keep seeing it.
I have fond memories of my time in Königswinter and though I was being exploited there I was very grateful for the job and pretty much became part of the family of the hotel where I slaved in the kitchen for 12 hours a day, six days a week.
I intend to have a music conversation with @roused at some point (I did have an exchange today but it was about a photography post). Strangely enough I connected with a couple of people from his magazine on LinkedIn yesterday (I’m building up to 500+, just because it helps with visibility on there): another case of when something is drawn to your attention you start noticing it. Maybe there’s a (partly age-determined?) bias among Steemians towards pop and stuff like gaming, at the expense of (say) history and classical music / jazz. That’s just wild speculation on my part, though.
I guess you sold on the way down to $200? As I say, I’m pretty new, but I think I’ve learned something about how the market moves. At the moment I’m trying to position myself to get some alts that should bring good returns if we do get a run at some point, intending to get partly out while have the correction so as to be able to re-enter lower down. Few things are certain, but one is that there are no straight lines in direction the price will take. Of course there’s risk in trying to time the reversals, but you don’t have to do it precisely and can afford to wait until trends have been well and truly confirmed. So much manipulation though.
If I could just get myself into a better position I would then do the sensible thing and get into the really solid coins that are likely to do well over the long term and hodl, while doing a little trading with my profits. The danger to my strategy for getting to that point is the possibility we will go back to below $4K and recover only very slowly, as people like Tyler Jenks and Financial Freedom (@nasirjones007) say we will. Why do the only ones who sound sure about what’s going to happen say we’re going very low at some point? That’s why you can’t go wrong with hodling I guess, because then you can safely say "et kütt wie et kütt.”
I’ll email that book stuff in the morning: you’ll find it in Pandora’s inbox :o)