My 2 week Steemit Experience

So I've been on Steemit now for about 2 weeks, maybe a few days more. This is a wrap up of my experiences, what I've learnt, what I still don't understand as well as my thoughts on how I should be moving forward.

We'll start at the beginning, I was introduced to this platform by @ausbitbank, we were friends in High school so I trusted him not to be sprucing some scam crap.
I was given a couple of links and a 2 second run down and left to run free. Trust me, that s the best way to go for me, I'm not one to be babied in anything.

The thing I've liked straight away, is basically nobody knows me, I can say EVERYTHING I think with no judgement. Compared to Facebook etc where its filled by Leftie twats, my opinions are very moderate compared to other people, and that's awesome.

So at the end of 2 weeks, I'm sitting with the following stats.

Vests: 0.289M
SBD: $29.436
SP: 139.564
Followers: 92
Posts: 118
Total Value: $365.54

I feel, in my opinion this is a reasonable start. I'm getting a reward for my effort, and im not really wasting my time on useless ads and cat videos on Facebook.

So I've barely scratched the surface in this platform. But this is a summary of what I've learnt and what I need to improve.

• You need to invest the time to get decent rewards
• Its incredibly hit and miss. A 2 hours writting piece may only only earn a few dollars, where as a 2minute joke may earn hundreds.
• Its not what you know, its who you know. If it wasn't for my previous relationship with @ausbitbank, I doubt i'd have been able to make the great start that I have so far. Thats not to say its impossible, but it definately makes a difference.
• Even though you have a 7day window of opportunity to earn on a story, generally if you haven't made an impact within the first 2 hours its unlikely to improve.

What I'm still to learn

• Timing matters, both on when to reply, resteem and upvote. I know it matters, I just haven't worked out the best time.
• How to attracts more influential views.
• How to access the value in my account when the time comes to actually use it.

So after a fairly successful 2 weeks, I'm most certainly going to continue on this path. Even though I have no aspirations or expectations of doing this for a living or being a top tier user, I do think this is a great way to earn some good project money and having my opinions heard.

My goals over the next 2 weeks to a month are as follows:

• Have a total value of my account at over $2000
• Have 500 Stories published
• Have a working relationship with at least 2 whales.
• Increase my reputation to over 60

If this is the kind of story that you'd like me continue to track the progress of just a standard user, then drop me a line and be sure to resteem.