Update On Steem Coachings: Made 22 Newbies Happy Last Week! 🤸🤸🤸 Who's Next?
Whoever is happy will make others happy. - Anne Frank
These are wise words from such a strong and inspiring woman.
I think the smartest way of making other people happy is simply asking how one may help them.
We can send flowers and greeting cards, but is there anything more valuable than a:
How are you? What can I do for you?
Here's proving it!
Recap: How it feels to make others happy
When I launched @steemaniacs two weeks ago my primary motivation was TO GIVE SOMETHING BACK.
To those who haven't read the introduction post: @steemanicas has been launched to provide new users on the platform with coachings. The only thing you need to do is drop a link of an article you want me - @surfermarly - to look at, and then I give you some hints on how to improve your doings here.
But now, what happens actually is that instead of simply giving my knowledge away, I GET SO MUCH IN RETURN.
Making somebody happy and then seeing how grateful they are is just priceless.
I wasn't sure if people would even listen to me. What I least wanted was making them feel like students, me being the teacher.
The only thing I wanted was to provide them with a helping hand.
Here are some of the happy voices:
WOW, I didn't expect this!
I would love to thank you again, that you are taking your time for me and all the other steemians asking for your advice! That is really amazing!
Thank you SOOOOOOOooo much for you (long and detailed) reply! (...) You gave me a lot of great advices, and thank you for your support. I now upload my youtube video as you recommend it ! Thank you very much for the tip.
wow! thank you so much for taking the time to review my profile and blogs. i really appreciate it so much. i will definitely follow your advice!
Thanks I do appreciate the feedback I had a quick read and it all makes absolute sense
Well I must thank YOU for all the love!
These steemians were given some tips and tricks on how to improve their doings on steemit - who's next?
@bigpanda, @captain-cabinet, @cikxaijen, @cryptonet, @illuminatus, @jasonsnow, @joearnold, @malik.roxane, @michaellandau, @moonprincess, @nelinoeva, @pusteblume, @references, @rvanstel, @sanees, @sanjay91422, @steemitri, @stonerhousewife, @tattoodjay, @ted7, @thedevilape, @timspeer.
@nelinoeva (she's a stargazer and makes real photography from the moon!) and @stonerhousewife (a powerful music-lover from LA) even redid their introduction posts according to @surfermarly's advices, and they performed much better than their first ones. Yeah!!
During the coaching with @rvanstel I found out that he designs banners which can be used as signatures in steemit blogs. So we agreed on a price and he did one for @surfermarly's account (you may have seen it already in my last blog posts):
This is so much fun! I only wish the day had 48 hours, haha!
Running two accounts on steemit has converted me into a full-time blogger.
But I can't imagine anything better to spend my time with actually. Yeah well.... steemit and surfing, ha!
So if you want me to have a look at your blog or a specific article you've published in the past, then simply drop me a message down here in the comment section.
Please consider that I might not reply instantly. Every coaching needs their while since I really want to provide you with some solid recommendations.
Have a great Monday everybody!
@surfermarly for @steemaniacs - steemit's first coaching project
PS: In my next vlog I will talk about "How to build a followership on steeemit". So stay tuned 😉
Original content. Quotes found on successstory.com and livequotes.online.
I think it's marvelous that you have undertaken this initiative-- what a beautiful thing to do, and what a great way to help build the community.
And the extra benefit of course is that now that we have more of an issue with spam and new users trying shortcuts... you are teaching a whole "generation" of minnows to "rise above" the garbage, and simply by the way they approach Steemit now, are better community members... it's your own very productive and positive way to be part of the "war on spam."
Thank you so much for your encouragement, @denmarkguy!!!
I really appreciate your kindness :-)
That's exactly what I believed: I may help both the newbies (to grow) and the network (to improve the quality of content). Let's see if I can bee a little contributor :-)
You are doing great job and I have no words to thank you, so I give you the moon. :-)
Aaaaw, that was cute! Thank you so much!!! It's been my pleasure.
And please excuse the delay in answering - I've got too many things running at the same time :-))
Oh, I don't expect fast replies. 😀
You need to invest in a waterproof laptop with a satellite uplink that you can attach to your surfboard.
That way, while you are waiting for your next wave, you can get a quick post in.
Hahaha, that's an amazing idea!!! AWESOME drawing, love it :-))
Maybe I seriously need that in the future.
I just added a quick picture so you can imagine it better. :-)
I LOVE IT!!! Will definitely mention it/you in one of my next posts :-)
You are so right. You can always do something nice for someone but making a personal connection is better IMO. Enjoyed.
I'm trying my very best to do so :-)
Thanks for your kindness and support!!!
@surfermarly. Your posts make me happy! Thank you.
Your comments make me happy as well, hehe :-)
Awesome post! I upvoted and resteemed, I hope you can return the favour :)
Can I post a link here? Or where?
Sure! Go ahead :)
Ok so this post is going ok but I would appreciate some input from you, please. https://steemit.com/travel/@john-gpr/earthquake-italia
Here we go: https://steemit.com/travel/@john-gpr/earthquake-italia#@steemaniacs/re-john-gpr-earthquake-italia-20170816t192052269z
Hope you enjoy it :-)
Thank You Marly for your time and your words. I sort of figured it out but it was reassuring to hear it from you as well. I will concentrate on a couple of posts a week with content I feel fits the bill from now on and see how it goes 😃.
Best of luck!!! I will have a look at your blog from time to time :-)
It will be my pleasure. I will put it on the list for tomorrow :-)
hey @surfermarly I hope to be in ! I have invited you to my embarrassing challenge 5 days ago but you didn't see my comment also i tagged you in a post and you didn't see it , I hope to see my blog and give me recommendations and tips. I just made a post 30 minutes ago and wish you could take a look
Hey @mostafa1! Sorry. There are so many comments right now, sometimes I miss one.
Please apologize. Tomorrow is bank holiday and I will have plenty of time to study blogs and articles. I will put yours on the list :-)
it's okay @surfermarly ,I do appreciate your time. have a great holiday
Nice idea to share the "most embarrassing stories" - however I'm not sure if I wanna share mine on the blockchain, haha :-)) Keep on doing nice stuff.
The way you're willing to help others is truly amazing!
I would love if you could take a look at my profile and tell me what you think! :D
Thank you :-)
It'll be my pleasure to have a look at it.
Tomorrow is bank holiday on my island, so I will have plenty of time to study your blog.
I'm so happy to hear that! :)
Dear @nikolina!
As promised I had a look at your blog during yesterday's bank holiday.
The first thing that I thought was: "Why doesn't she receive any whale votes even though her content is really nice?"
Your reputation is at 60 which is pretty well after 6 months on steemit. However, I believe that you should earn more money for your valuable content :-)
Possible reasons:
You are trying to compete with the best: I see a lot of traveling and also photography, which are both highly competitive fields - meaning that (if you have an average payout of let's say $1.00 you won't ever be "visible" on the related trending pages. Choosing tags like blog, life or steemit doesn't help here much either (same story: they are highly competitive and the best bloggers there are top earners). So I think it's a visibility issue. Don't get me wrong, your travel content is AWESOME, it just seems that the powerful accounts still haven't discovered your blog :-) What are you doing to make yourself more visible? Are you commenting on other people's posts in the same category? Are you chatting with people? I will definitely put you on @surfermarly's "auto-vote" list and provide you with an upvote on every article you submit starting from today - this might give you at least a little boost :-)
Profile description: You might provide people with some information about what your are mainly doing. Imagine that your blog was a magazine - what would you write on the cover? People love to know what they get :-)
Writing style: Remember that the attention span of social media users is very low. Considering this article for instance https://steemit.com/travel/@nikolina/parasailing-in-makarska you could have used some cross headings and also shorten your paragraphs a bit in order to improve the legibility of the whole article. The shorter, the merrier. What I do in my articles is using different font sizes in order to put the more important Information to the front and leave the details in the back. Some people just don't have the time to read the whole story but like that they can get an idea of it anyways - just flying over the cross headings.
Again, your content is really good, and I especially enjoyed your travel stories. So I think you're doing a great job here! I will put you on my auto-vote list and resteem some of your articles in the future, then you might get some more attention (and money) :-))
I hope you enjoyed this little coaching!
See you around and have a good day,
Marly -
Thank you so much!
I really appreciate you taking time to check out my profile.
Everything you said makes sense now! taking notes
And also a massive thank you for putting me on your upvoting list, for your advice and help, it's very much appreciated!
Have a lovely day! :)
This is a really nice attitude. To help others is the best way and motivation you can have. Empowering others to reach their goals, I like it. Keep on going.
Thank you! I appreciate that you appreciate it :)