STEEMIT TIPS: Highest value activities you can do as your reach different stages on Steemit.
You can author, comment, and curate on Steemit, but when to do what is a question I seem to be answering a lot these days as the Minnow Support Project kicks off (we broke 100 people in the Discord room, and should have plenty tonight in 2hrs, 10pm NYC time). Folks tell me how frustrated they are writing long posts no one reads for low rewards. I was asked why I post so much... and someone asked me why some of the whales never seem to post.
This all has to do with the rewards system on the platform and how each group is maximizing them to their benefit or spinning wheels to their detriment. To be clear you should be doing all of the activities on the platform and some off of it if you're committed to growing here, but here's what you should focus on for these stages of growth.
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Minnows
You have no vote power, you don't have many followers if any, and you're wondering if this platform is worth working on.
First thing is to make an introduceyourself post. You'll get more on that one post than you will for the next 2 months on a post is my guess. It's how you get known, but it's not a great long term sustainable mechanism for growth. What you need is followers, and the challenge of course is how to get them when you have none. You've probably written a post that took over an hour that got 8 views and paid 1 cent. That sucks... so, my advice is don't do that!
So, if you're not authoring and you're not curating (since your votes don't earn you much) what should you be doing? COMMENTING. Find some established authors that you like, and find some minnows who seem cool and hop in the comments section. Why? A whale might toss you a bone for $1 or more just for a good meme or a funny comment. It take 2 seconds to find something funny on giphy.com to get $1 or you can write for an hour to get nothing. So, that's the fastest way to catch an upvote, but you'll get your followers popping along in minnow posts and talking to them. Say "that's a great post, I really like what you did there, I thought that third section was really funny." You have a pretty good shot at catching a follow by doing this, and those follows are how you grow long term wealth on the platform.
If you're looking for more advice on this check out- https://steemit.com/minnowsupportproject/@aggroed/minnow-support-project-minnow-101
Dolphins
Once you start getting followers you are going to keep commenting, but you're going to start transitioning to authoring. You finally have enough juice in your follower tank to earn some cash on here. So, use it. Make some good posts and watch the amount of money in your account go up. Once you start having 300 followers you can start shifting and once you have 600-800 you'll want to spend most of your time on the platform authoring. Why? It's the highest reward thing you can do. You probably know some formatting by now, have some buds that can resteem you. You're breaking in, and it's time to post.
If you're looking for advice on that check out- https://steemit.com/blogging/@aggroed/tips-to-successful-steemit-posting-learning-from-kaylinart
Whales
There are some whales that like to post and get rewarded for it, but a lot of them don't even bother. Why? Because for them money is in curating. When you're a whale you can make $1k/week just curating. Click upvote, watch people follow on, sit back and laugh while you count the money. Curation favors big posts and big bets on them. And they can rake it in.
2 bonus tips
Look, tons of good stuff happens on the platform, but tons of it happens off the platform! Get into steemit chat, and get into discord. Lots of active communities there to pick from, and you'll socialize and really learn how working collectively can grow your following and your account!
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The tip about minnows commenting to get 'cheap' exposure is really good.
Maybe the most powerful advice in this blog!
I agree, some of my comments have more value than my actual post. It's sad my laptop broke, my gif stash was there, easier than finding giphy gifs for comments. Haha
Thanks dude! Yeah, I have a minnow 101 post about a guy that got 200 followers from scratch in 2 weeks doing it. It's the way to go for sure!
The beauty behind commenting is simple for me as a minnow:
Presumably, neurons firing in a brain that works.
I came here via https://steemit.com/tutorials/@deveerei/6qqmdc-tutorial-new-to-steemit-check-this-out because I was blown away by the "trending" section numbers. I thought to myself, "WTF mate, this is actually an enterprise that IS worth looking into."
So, after a few months of just playing around here at Steemit, I've decided to dedicate myself the way I used to back in the day.
You know ... 15 years ago when blah-ging was a thing that created friendships.
Your ending gif is a top-notch. Thanks for the advices. I'm already doing my best on the comments sections. It's really interesting how far can some conversations go. Learned so much this month. @aggroed
I have been following this advice as well. Sticking to only making 1 or 2 posts a day and focusing more on comments. It is very good advice and very true. The same situation can happen like this on twitter.
I'm finding it fascinating that for a content creation and curation platform that most of the incentives are not in great, interesting content until you hit a certain level.
Its almost like trying to gamify blogging... First, you have to grind it out with some 'mini-blogs' (aka comments) and try to find people willing to follow you. Once you've proven yourself entertaining enough with your mini-blogs, you then get to finally create content.
DING DING DING. Winner winner chicken dinner!
Very informative and will pass through acquiantances onboarding steemit.
I learned some of these through experience. I started on steemit with zero contact on the platform. This is ok as I've seen how supportive the community is even for new comers. I feel that I am doing well so far, but looking back I know I could have done things more effectively had I searched for materials such as this to guide me.
What I did was eagerly author. And yes, some hours were used to create the content, which ended up having minimal visiblity.
I had to do something about it, so i followed quite a number of people. From there I did start building relationships through comments, and my followers started growing!
I got stuck at rep 48 for a while, only then did I did some research on how I can improve on managing my account.
Still happy to have catched on this a month after I onboarded. ^_^
Thanks for another great post... everyday here at Steemit feels like the first day at school and having an awesome teacher like you helps to find your way around the always fascinating campus!
See, Judy's catchin' on! WOOT!
That's what happens when you get to learn from the best! :)
Hey, @aggroed
My computer went on vacation last night, so you might be down an auto bot for a while...🤠
May have to buy a new computer,may take a bit...
Going to do the best I can to try and resteemed your posts and try and to keep up using my phone...
Keep up the great job ,and I will be back full time as soon as I can.
Thanking you for all your hard work!
Namaste 🤠
We'll be here. Safe comp travels friend!
Great post! I just made a post about commenting being a way to add a multiplier to rewards, I didn't think about it being a way to get followers! Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Your gifs are incredible, btw lol
Juanmiguelsalas made them. He's quite talented!
Awesome, I'll have to check him out. :)
🍒 You got flagged by BernieSanders? and you made a badge? it made me laugh when I saw it, it's hillarious, great sense of humour dude and I know you're not his only victim unfortunately, the whole Korean community is on the same boat o_o
Yeah. He's not totally beloved, but there is some good to flagging.
Great tips @aggroed, but I only got 3 bucks on my introductory post, haha. I don't know if I have been doing it wrong, but as soon as I registered, I started authoring, commenting and curating altogether. In less than a month, I accumulated 150 followers and made 500 posts (including comments). Quite a lot of my posts were Upvoted by whales, which helped me a great deal. I am happy with what I have achieved in such a short period of time :)
Thanks for writing and sharing these tips!
congratulations! I follow you @irreverent-dan and you have cool content.. this may be the reason of your success?
Thanks @xianda :) I hope so!! Haha
Shit! Now I feel obligated to go check out your page and kiss ass for a follow
lol 😂😂
Thumbs up bro! Thanks for Sharing!!
