Don't stop when you are tired. STOP when you are DONE!

Hello Steemit.

So I learned and enlightened from the post of @ybanezkim26 about Snowball Effect: Minnows Like Me Should Continue With Steemit and I was encouraged to write an addition/response blog from his post.

It is really true that we have a lot of members here (a lot!) are leaving the platform because of the points discussed by @ybanezkim26 on his blog, and those were also the reasons I saw why they left the platform. From my Steemit orientations where I lured a lot of new Steemians from the platform, its a bit sad seeing them inactive. They were rarely recognized by the community, "they are struggling to get the attention and exposure they thought they deserve", as mentioned by kim.

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My experience was the same. I joined the platform this June 2017 and I felt the same way. If you guys just knew the way I earned than the way you are earning now, you will really say you are thankful. I've got a lot of zeroes, two to ten cents posts, less than a dollar posts, or shall we say less than 5 dollars. Yes, even though it was HF18 back then were votes were not limited to 10 full upvotes per day.

I even posted a tutorial of how to cook a corned beef (the only thing I knew to cook aside from scrambled eggs and noodles), our garden plants photography, and my creepy wacky face just to get the attention of the people and persuay them to throw some upvotes on my posts.

Yes, I experienced those kind of misfortunes in the Steemit platform.

I'll mention three important things that we need to work on in this platform.

Yes, three big words only with each playing a vital role to your success in the platform. To mention, I have a big feeling in my inner mind that the first word is the only thing minnows (including me), and new users are only focused in this platform and the reason why they fail their expectations.

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• Quality

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The most noticeable technique to gain recognition in a blogging platform. In fact, "content" is the heart of Steemit. It is the raw material of this platform. Though quality is subjective, it is the first thing users from this platform are looking. The way you present your thoughts in a delicate manner or how you convey your message that the readers could easily understand is one of the important factor in content quality.

The second maybe pictures that you are using that supports your blog and the Markdown Techniques you are using to make your blog pleasing to the eyes of the readers.

The third maybe how engaging your blog is. The big factors I think that makes your blog engaging are your blogs importance, entertainment level, creativity, and community-driven blogs (blogs that do humanitarian effort or community events).

I have to say this, I am sure of myself I am not achieving those points mentioned above but please allow me to share it for the benefit of all.

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• Stake

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Stake is an important factor in Steemit. Your investments - which is Steem Power. The Steem Power that you have is an influence to the platform, it somehow defines how valuable you are to the platform. Your upvote value is determined by the amount of Steem Power that you have (delegated or undelegated). Perhaps you can see most of the blogs from the trending page are coming from the users who have a very high Steem Power (I must say, "some").

Steemit is not just about incentivized social media blogging platform, Steemit is also a business. Think of how much dollars (thousands or millions) that those whales invested in the platform and think how they can maximize their investment. Steemit allows investors to get daily returns from their investments by the power of their votes. Either author or curation rewards based system. In fact, bid bots are rampant in Steemit (and are mostly powered by Whales) now just to maximize their profits.

This is also what I am working now. I almost have 3,000 hard-earned Steem Power and I am proud that I got it. To be honest, I can build a nice decent house for my family if I just power down and spent it but I refused. This is an investment of me for a greater Steemit. I have a big feeling and prediction, as a 5th year Electronics Engineering student, that Steemit will fly to the moon in a couple of months. As much as possible, I want to be one of the influential people in this platform when that time comes and that's the reason why I am keeping my Steem Power.

So for you to get recognized and get some attention, focus also on this aspect. The greater upvote value that you have, the more people recognized you. Things like you appear as one of the top value curators on their blogs, then they started following you, engage on your posts to get some of your attention and it is not ball-sucking. That will lead us to the third important word that you need to look on...

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Network

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This is I believe this is the most important thing that minnows fail to get. This is a social-media blogging platform and you can see that on your profile that you have followers and following - network!

This is also what I felt I did great. I am thankful that I gained a lot of friends and expanded my network. Not much but enough to get recognized. The way you perform and the way you are working on your followers is a big thing in expanding your network.

Community engagements too like commenting on users posts is a very big thing in creating your network. Share your thoughts on what about his blog. Make efforts in reading users blogs and comment your opinion and understanding. In return, those users feel valued in their posts and in return, they'll start connecting with you. Plus, they can also upvote your comments!

I found a friend of mine, @czechglobalhosts where in his early stages in Steemit he engaged in a lot of authors posts. He comments his thoughts and understanding of the blog. He comments appreciation on posts from users and he did that in a number of days. Look at him, 2,520 followers with him following only 65 and I'm glad I am part of it :). Whats amazing is he has 69 reputation and he started the same as mine, June 2017! Still it cannot be denied that my friend deserved those achievements. He has the three words I presented - Quality, Stake, and Network. Take note, he worked on that in a big span of time.

Those were the things.

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Those were the things I'd like to mention to the minnows and to our new users here. That's the reason why I am always saying it to them - don't dwell and focus on your earnings first. Understand how the platform works and those three are I think the best words that defined the platform.

I am extremely happy of what I am achieving right now and fully contented of what I received in this platform. I have a big story to tell to everyone how Steemit changed my life and I am dedicated to share this amazing platform to new users in our community. The students are my target because I believe they deserved to be here. They're ideas should be rewarded and not just be posted in Facebook for nothing!

That directs me to a Goal

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To make it happen, I need to be a whale. I don't know how to do it because I don't have those big damn dollars in my pocket and I purely rely my daily needs on my earnings in this platform. I only think one way to make it happen - delegation. An influential person delegating me his stake to use it to fulfill my biggest goal in Steemit.

To be a Curator on Student's Posts

There are a lot of whales out there who are focused on curating quality contents but mine is directly focused on rewarding to students. Who knows? The future is uncertain and with my purest intentions to do so, I believe it will happen soon.

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Thank you for reading up to this last post (if you do). I appreciate it, and I hope @ybanezkim26 and the minnows out there can read this blog of mine. To be honest, I put a lot of effort to put up this blog as writing is not my forte. :)

Sincerely,