My Short Steemit Journey -- An Invitation to Join the Steemit Community
This is a story of my two month journey on Steeemit.com, the block chain, bitcoin social media platform. Prior to last August, I had no clue about block chain technology or the bitcoins as a monetary source.
After a rather detailed conversation, as well as some excellent help and guidance from Richard Wolfe, a brilliant, young Canadian Economist, I signed up for Steemit.com. Richard who is very knowledgeable of the bitcoin community clued me in on the Steemit concept, the bitcoin concept, and culture. Since then, I have never looked back. I started posting content to Steemit about August 15th, two months ago.
Write, Write, Write
Initially I developed a strategy of not only following the senior members of the community, but following everyone they followed, including who followed them. This allowed me to begin building a list of my own followers. It also became obvious that I should follow everyone who voted for my posts.
Some details, I had to discover on my own, such as how to paste text into the “submit a story” box. In addition I began to follow helpful suggestions from the community about how to make my posts my appealing to readers – include images, do basic formatting. Later I learned where to find free images, the best image posting apps and how to upvote the articles I liked. There were also a number of articles on Steemit about how to write more appealing articles. I found some great Steemit video tutorials on YouTube.
Where am I today? I would have to say that I am well on my way with this marvelous writer’s platform. I have 112 followers, some of them quite influential. I have posted 87 articles, including the serialization my first book, “Rich White Folks.” I am following 315 people and have received two awards – a spot on the top 15 writer’s list and selected as one of the week’s four of the five best psychology articles. Best of all, I have earned $250. My goal is to produce high quality content that consistently pays my rent of $1500 monthly, allowing me to live happily here in Coronado Beach, Panama.
Money to Be Made
What does all of this mean to you? A great deal hopefully, I hope you will check out Steemit.com and take the following steps immediately.
- Join the Steemit Community at Steemit.com
- Start developing a large following ( you need them to vote for your stuff)
- Begin posting and increasing your writing skills for better and better material
- Reap the rewards for your writing skills.
Bon Chance, and Voyage !!