MILESTONE One Year on Steemit – My Best Moves
My last post in my Milestone Series about One Year on Steemit was about my failures here. Now for a little positivity! These are the things I have done that have worked for me and that I recommend to you when you are a new minnow:
Leasing Delegated SP from @minnowbooster
I started leasing delegated sp when I had about 60 sp of my own. Nothing worked for me at the level. Over time I built this up to where my total sp was over 500 and then 1000. This has made a big difference in being able to work here.
I see so many little minnows buying bidbot votes and using the rest of their SBD/STEEM to directly purchase sp. I am not against either of those things, but I recommend you lease sp first. Once you get over 500 sp and have a slider, then you can do those other things.
Joining the Curation League of @ahb12345
Asher runs this league and I learned so much about how steemit rewards work by paying attention and working hard over there for 2 months in the Fall of 2017. I really did not understand what curation was until I got there.
Joining Kryptonia
Kryptonia has been one of the brightest spots for me at steemit for me since I joined in February 2018. I earn SUP coin for doing the tasks of other people – not just steemers. I use those coins to enter my own tasks which have all been steemit posts.
I get great interaction and upvotes from other Kryptonians and now get an upvote from @kryptonia’s new bot as I wrote about in a recent post.
I found @kryptonia through @sydesjokes - another blog I highly recommend to you.
Joining @qurator
@qurator is a place you can join as soon as you are posting good posts regularly and have 4 STEEM for the registration fee. Once accepted, you get one good upvote each day for life. There are ways to increase that good vote by various means and I have been doing that to great effect. I wish I would have joined @qurator sooner than I did, but I did not think my posts were good enough. I need my self-esteem to grow!
Using @steemdunk for Autovoting
When I put the people I vote for regularly on @steemdunk, I had wonderful results. I save time, I’m more consistent, and I even get some people adding me back on their steemdunk. This has been a win for me in every way.
I remember the early days of my time here when I used to hunt and search for my friends posts and others I needed to upvote for any reason. This tooks hours and was not an efficient use of time. Now I just go to my steemdunk and I can see who is active today and visit them from there with one click.
Upvoting good comments I get on my posts
I feel like this is one of my better moves and people come back and read my posts to this reason.
Posting to Challenges and Contests
Posting to tags that are active with other steemers makes a big difference to me. I started using challenges and contests early in my time here and since then I almost always post to a tag where people have something organized. This is a great help for my visibility and engagement.
Keeping my voting Power above 90%
I blew out my power on Day One on steemit. I like everything, so I was upvoting like crazy. Having low power is a big mistake here in so many ways and is very easy to fix. I keep my power above 90% at all times and still am able to vote effectively.
Using bidbots to boost rewards
Bidbots are controversial on steemit, but I get good results. I my aim is always a 70% ROI and I usually get above 50% at least. People will tell you this cannot be done, but I do it. I don’t use bidbots until after the 2nd day on my posts and I do not bid on the big bots.
The main reasons I use bidbots is to:
- increase my rewards
- get my posts above a $10 payout so they will rank in search engines
- increase the curation rewards to my real voters
- grow my sp
Some of that works, and some of it is not going so well in these days of low prices. But I spend only about 30-45 minutes each day and can double there rewards on most of my posts. It is not easy, and most people will not get this return.
Buying and Seeking @steembasicincome shares.
SBI is steemit’s version of Universal Basic Income and I am so glad to be a part of it. I get an upvote from them on every post and will get that for life. This is very encouraging. Many contests and giveaways will get you sbi shares and you can find a post about ongoing ways to get sbi shares on their feed. Highly recommended!
My Milestone Post Series
You just read one of a series of posts I’m writing to remember this year and how things have gone for me at steemit. Here is what I have posted so far in this series:
MILESTONE One year on steemit – My Biggest Mistake Part One - Poor Networking
MILESTONE Post: One Year on Steemit – 4800 Followers!
MILESTONE One Hundred Thousand Views at fitinfun You Tube
5 Minute Freewrite Challenge One Year on Steemit
My Books on Amazon and Selz
I came here to post my content in the natural weight loss niche. I have been posting this information online since I lost “half my size” in 2011. I thought steemit would be a good place to post and in many ways it has been.
I want to make these posts positive, but I’m having trouble doing that and they are hard to write. I’m thankful to all who help me here and hope I will be able to carry on.
Help Me Stay on Steemit
If you want to help my son @bxlphabet and I stay on steemit, but your upvote is just not enough, here are my wallet addresses where I will be so grateful for any help.
BitcoinCash - BCH
1Bmcyk8Fk9micU3RWjWu3H1P2fvHyj71d6
Bitcoin - BTC
362ncqbi6qJn1daB8mrRrjYYWJ2HwpvcPZ
Dash - DAS
Xs7xdJHeRHRqdwF8RQuo6tPHUdXPm7viZp
Litecoin - LTC
Lhuh274DFkS6CNq4SJjhNem242QYwcTu59
Read a bit of my weight loss story and be inspired to change. Anyone can get healthy if I did.
You got a 43.48% upvote from @bid4joy courtesy of @fitinfun!
Woow thanks for your post. I actually like the way how you write and such. And was surprised it only has 1.32 in payments atm. You deserve more like so I resteemed and upvote your post! Have a great day :)
Thank you, but I have 4900 followers myself. Your 270 followers are likely to be the same as mine. I do not see an up vote from you of over 1 cent, but I do see you self-voting your comment. I don't know if you realize how rude and discouraging this is to me today. If you actually read my posts, you might be able to find out why.
See....maybe they are trying to get where you are lol. Some steemers reccommend self voting if they are below 50 rep.
Joy
Idk now :(
@sweetjoy You are right, indeed I am trying to get where fitinfun is right now. For now I am yet below a minnow; a plankton. In the future I am trying to get audience in my surroundings and planning to make contests and such. I want to give people more than I `` earn " and I don't have plans to powerdown to sell my steem and take profit.
For as I experience, its very hard to earn steem and the easiest way is simply by upvoting my own comments to powerup my vision in which is supporting this chain and people.
This is not my journey to get rich in wealth but reinvent the actual human society by giving my influence to grow people bigger than me. More creativity, joy and memories makes me much more happy than just a piece of paper which I can use to make my self `` happy ".
At this moment, a limited amount of people share the same thoughts and are willing to give. That's also the reason why I gave you a upvote, because I liked what you brought as a share of your thoughts and experience, and also liked my own comment to hope I will have a such contribution on the steem blockchain.
I hope you have more understandings of the reason why my voting usage is marked down.
Have a great day@fitinfun and @sweetjoy
Thank you. I have been here one year and just noticed a lot of minnows self-voting their comments in the last month or two. I get it about the rewards, but you are alienating bigger fish who might upvote your good comments. There are many big-fish posts showing very low regard for this practice.
In my case, my vote is not big, but I do upvote good comments I get. I do not upvote people's comments if they have already upvoted their own. I know I am not alone.
If you upvote other people's comments instead of you own, you will probably have better results in the long term.
Or post more frequently and self-upvote there. Post self-voting by minnows in not an issue here.
You might consider yourself to be plankton, but 7 cents is a large vote here, sadly.
Thank you because I heard that too. Perhaps joining more groups can take away the hopelessness of self voting. It is demoralizing when you are really thoughtful and waiting on a whale to notice. ;(
Joy
I went the direction of not worrying about the whales and I do not even know who most of them are after 1 year here. The people I try to connect with are active steemers, bigger than me, but not whale status.
I do not know who those people are, but they are in the minority. Self voting your posts when you are small is fine. Self voting your comments makes many people angry here and some will even down-vote you.
When you are a minnow...why is the a difference btwn upvoting your own comments? I used to count my comment votes...i would upvote every tenth comment when 30 in a row got nothing. Oh well.
Joy
That was an exaggeration. Not 30.
Self upvoting comments is a way to get rewards without engagement. Steemit needs the engagement. I really have not made a study of the subject of self-voting comments since I never do it. I think you could find posts about it since it seems to be an issue these days.
Great articel with valuable information. I´m new here and will try some of this. Keep your work going. Resteemed.
Thank you! I hope I will be able to continue, and I'm glad you like the tips :)
Thank you. I´m sorry that I replied a few times. I did this yesterday from my mobile and it looked like I couldn´t send the message.
It's ok! Steemit is quirky :)
Upvoted and Resteemed
Thank you so much, my friend. I really appreciate this !
Thank you for mentioned the Leagues as one of your best moves in the first year!
Lets see what the 2nd year brings :)
You're very welcome. I learned so much there and think everyone should do the same. I hope I will get that second year. I am doing everything I can :)
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Thanks for the great tips!! How many people can you list on steemdunk? Congrats on your milestones. You are doing great!
Joy
Thank you very much. Steemdunk allows 20 people on your list. This is enough for me if I do not want to blow out my power. If you look at me steemdunk post linked, you will see that quite a few of my votes are for places I "need" to vote for in order to get their votes back. The rest are content creators I support for one reason or another. with all of that, I still have a number of 15-30 percent votes I can use as I like throughout the day.
I have only two listed. Thank you so much. Resteemed. Love this post.
It said only top level posts can be reblogged? Idk what thats about...error msg twice. :(
Joy
I am not sure - I have never seen that error.
Great article with very good information. I will try some of your ideas. Keep on going your great work. Resteemed
Great article with very good information. I'm new here and will try some of your ideas. Keep on going your great work. Resteemed
Great article with very good information. I'm new here and will try some of your ideas. Keep on going your great work. Resteemed