Some Powerful Tips For Minnows On Growing Your Steemit Community That Often Get Overlooked.

What's up Steemit commUNITY?
Here's intending that everyone is good and keeping it positive. 🙏

I am watching our new community friends come in and begin to navigate through the Steemit waters here and there can never be too much support as this platform is constantly evolving.

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Earlier this week, I had put together a pretty extensive post on tools & tips to help the newer members of our mastermind community and anyone else out there that is looking for better ways to maximize their time here. And we all seem to have different and diverse ideas as to what that looks like. Unfortunately, a glitch in the matrix swallowed up all of my info and it disappeared into a black hole, or maybe it was a wormhole. It was some kind of hole, that's for sure. 😕

For some of us on here, it's about making money while learning about cryptocurrency. For others it's about developing their writing skills and sharing their gifts and passions with the world on a larger scale. And it's also about creating communities of like minded people to greater enhance the "whole" and create a better world by utilizing this fairly new blockchain technology.

I find that most have positive reasons for being here. You will however come across stories of unethical people abusing the platform for their own selfish reasons. The good news is as I have seen it is that the Steemit community has a very low tolerance for negativity and abuse, and they are willing to protect this unique platform to keep it positive and balanced as much as possible moving forward.

One thing has become clear to me and that is what this post is mainly about. Creating a community of like minded followers and supporters to regularly interact with and co-support to achieve success at the above mentioned reasons for being on this platform. Unless you're independently wealthy or just playing around to see what Steemit is all about, you would have a hard time being a "lone wolf" here.

So here are some of the best "newbie" tips that I have come across in my 3 months on this platform. You may shake your head and say that's just common sense, however I'm posting this for a reason because if you "get this" in the beginning, your journey will be much more rewarding in ALL ways, and it will save you a LOT of time figuring out what works and what doesn't.

The first thing is: QUALITY content is key. Sure, there are some people here with a LOT of followers that are able to post a meme or a picture of their cat and make $85.00 in a day. That's because they have developed a lot of followers over time. And that will happen to you too if you follow some rules and put some real passion into your posts. I may love the content that I read, but I'll remember the persons "energy" that put it together and that will make me want to support them moving forward.

Again, QUALITY content over quantity will be one of your greatest assets.
Quantity is of no value if it has no quality.

Great posts that add value to the community are rewarded more. Even if you do not receive enough upvotes due to being new or not having a large following, you will see a massive increase in engagement on your posts with time by posting quality content which adds value to other people, you will do yourself a favor because people will start following you and look forward to your posts. Engagement is the greatest indicator of quality.

Next, your post must also be well-written. It’s not enough to have perfect grammar and spelling. It needs to be personal, interesting, and interactive. In other words, something that will ideally "engage' your viewers and encourage them to want to leave an upvote and a comment. If you are able to leave a lasting impression, it will go a long way to gaining a following of loyal supporters. So, passion for a topic shows in your writing. Its a natural progression from enjoying the subject to writing about it.

A clear title letting the reader know what the post is about and what it may provide to them if they chose to spend their precious time reading it. Again, do your best to make it interesting and engaging.

Next up is TAGS. (No, not the crispy chips pictured below.) If you want votes, rewards, and exposure, tags are your friend. Having your post listed in multiple categories increases your exposure to people looking for materials on the tagged subjects, which will increase your earning potential.

To find a list of tags and the amount of posts currently under those categories, go into your profile page and click on the 3 horizontal lines to the right of your profile pic or logo. This will provide a drop down menu. Under "explore" you will see a list of tags with the current "stats" next to them. You'll then see numbers of posts and to the right of that the number of comments in that particular category. Some categories have thousands of posts which may mean more competition to be seen. I find that in the beginning I just choose relevant categories and experiment. This isn't an exact science, however you will begin to notice which categories your posts do better in. Again, the key here is to use tags that you believe are RELEVANT to your posting content.

Lastly, a HUGE "connection" builder for you is going to be leaving QUALITY comments on peoples posts that you appreciate. THIS cannot be overemphasized and will do more to build followers than possibly anything else I have found. Combine this with YOU posting QUALITY posts when the people you gave a lot of love to come to check your posts out, and you've got a powerful combination.

Consistently following these "common sense" guidelines will assist you moving forward and being successful on here as opposed to just winging it and seeing what sticks.

I'd love to hear your comments and feedback, as well as any helpful experiences or anything you'd like to see covered to assist you on your journey moving forward. The more positive experiences we share, the more we learn and grow as a community.

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upvotes, and contributions to positive content: @kenistyles, @artemislives, @lewisfjclarke, @heartjourney, @iamjamie, @iliasdiamantis, @eftnow, @kalemandra, @linksmolecules, @hungryhustle.

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