Top 10 Steemit Author!
Thank you very much for making me the #9 ranked author on Steemit within the last 30 days! How may I help you the most for the next 30 days? Would you share topics you would like me to write about in the comments because that is the best way for me to know what to create for you?
The number one change I am making going forward is prioritizing responding to comments because as a reader following others I see that interacting with the author is the key to building an amazing relationship with them over time. If I keep commenting and the author never responds, I often will stop reading within a month or so which already seems to have happened a lot with me in the last two months as I repeatedly missed responding to 95% of comments! There are no authors I am following and upvoting consistently that have not responding to my comments and I expect to be no exception going forward.
See the list of authors yourself at https://steemwhales.com/trending/?d=30.
Keys to building a following online. While I am the newest Steemit author in the top 25 with the lowest reputation, I have been blogging online for six years creating over 500 blog posts, about 100 online courses, 1,500+ videos on YouTube, hundreds of live videos on Facebook, and answered 10,000 to 20,000 comments and questions. At least half of those following me on Steemit came from YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, The University of Jerry Banfield, or my existing blog on my website which I no longer post to because of Steemit.
Do a great job for your followers and they will give back a lot! Thank you for giving me back so much that I have been struggling to adapt! At first I was upvoting or responding to every single comment on Steemit. With an average of 100 comments per post now, I need at least 30 minutes if not an hour or two every day to just read each comment plus then 1 to 5 minutes per response to reply back.
Would you help me with the comments by reading and replying to as many as you can because it is much faster for me to upvote your great response than it is for me to write it myself? If you want to earn more Steem Power and SBD the easiest way to do it is to get me to upvote your comments when you help others. Meanwhile, I am now prioritizing comment responses based on the most thoughtful and helpful comments combined with replying first to the comments upvoted the highest and posted by those with the highest reputation. If I have time, I will continue to go deeper with responses while trying to read the most I can and upvote those I think others will enjoy reading.
Steemit is the best blogging platform and social media website I have seen and I am honored you have chosen me as a top author. I have no doubt that you have chosen me because of what I contribute and I hope to continue increasing the effectiveness of my contributions!
Would you upvote this post because if you are like me, it feels great to give an upvote?
Love,
Jerry Banfield
You're doing a pretty good job so far @jerrybanfield but I'd hate to break it to you, you're not helping your followers back. I have heard from many people and It's also my personal opinion that You are so busy in making posts steemit, that you don't even read your comments and never try to upvote your followers on a regular basis. If I talk about me, I am following you since I have made my account on steemit and I regularly read yours posts and get benefited by it, for that a very thanks to you, but not even once I got my comment upvoted or even a reply.
You're doing a great job out there for your followers by making them aware about the crypto's and steemit but you what you have to first, is to help your followers growing. Now you have become a witness for steemit, tell me how does it benefit us? I guess for a minnow and more others who have voted for you, we got nothing from.
I just want to say to you that I highly respect you and your work but let's say if you don't post for a day on steemit and instead you post replies to your followers, upvote their comments, visit their profile and follow them back, would it be a loss for you? You have made enough money, I highly appreciate it, please try to give now. Because you'll recieve only when you;ll give.
You know what the irony is, I believe you have never read even one post from a minnow like me. Steemit is here for sharing, I respect it that's why I am here and you should too.
It's just a suggestion my friend and I big thumbs up for your work and I am very thankful for the knowledge you have shared with us .
@cryptonet I have over 2700 SP and I upvoted you with 100% of my slider voting power. The reason I did this is because I am a HUGE fan of constructive comments and I upvote ALL constructive comments from my followers. You can find out about how much I upvote all the comments from my readers here.
Steem on @cryptonet!
PS. @jerrybanfield I didn't even bother commenting on your posts up until now because I was aware you were not responding to/reading them most of the time. That's why I'm thrilled to hear you want to give more back to the community which helped you grow, looking forward to commenting on your articles more often now, including answering questions from people with less experience than me. Great initiative Jerry!
Hi
slider voting power. what is that
You're right I have not upvoted any of the blog posts you have made! If you add all the comments I have voted up that you have made, I would be one of your top 30 or so upvoters this month in terms of payout. The problem is voting up a comment is hard to see on Steemit unless you check every individual reward which I certainly do not do. Here are the comments I read of yours and voted up in the last three weeks.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@jerrybanfield/i-need-help-1500257345-464134#@cryptonet/re-jerrybanfield-i-need-help-1500257345-464134-20170717t164119168z
https://steemit.com/travel/@jerrybanfield/treasure-island-beach-trip#@cryptonet/re-jerrybanfield-treasure-island-beach-trip-20170714t190038683z
https://steemit.com/witness-category/@jerrybanfield/steem-witness-14-542-reporting-for-duty#@cryptonet/re-jerrybanfield-steem-witness-14-542-reporting-for-duty-20170711t153845304z
https://steemit.com/esteem/@jerrybanfield/esteem-ios-app-first-impressions-201777t131752942z#@cryptonet/re-cybercodetwins-re-cryptonet-re-jerrybanfield-esteem-ios-app-first-impressions-201777t131752942z-20170707t174434647z
First of all, A big thanks for commenting on my reply. It's like a dream come true . :)
I love your work sir and I get highly motivated from what you do here. I learned a lot from you and your videos on youtube. Actually I didn't know you before you came to steemit. It's only after your arrival on steemit, I get to know you and I watched most of your videos ever since. I love your work, your ideas, your way of interaction and your love for crypto's and steemit.
What I really write is what you asked from your followers in one of your previous posts.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@jerrybanfield/i-need-help-1500257345-464134
You needed your help ofr making your steemit experiences better and you wanted our opinions. So, here it was my opinion. It was not meant to hurt anyone. I love you brother and I don't do criticism. I just expressed my personal opinion and Yeah I know you're too busy and that should be really good.
What I am saying is just to make good relationship with your followers. That's it. And that could be done by replying to your posts, answering their queries and upvoting their comments or read their posts on their profile. If you're super busy then I get it. But what I just said is to post only once a day and intracts yor followers on the day when you're super busy. You can post as many time as you want if you're not busy plus you can interacts with your followers as well.
Although it is just my opinion. If you get hurt in any sense then I am so sorry brother.
You asked for our opinion and so I gave you.
And thanks a lot for those replies. I am highly grateful for those.
@cryptonet, I think @jerrybanfield has made it clear that he aims to change his ways now and I'm sure he will because people can always call him out on it if he doesn't thanks to blockchain technology and the way Steemit works! :)
I love and am so sure of Steemit that I powered up over 3000 USD worth of Steem and this is my goal for the next 36 days (hint: it involves giving back most of the money I earn through authoring posts back to my readers).
I am not blaming him for anything my friend @blockchainttmft. He just asked for an opinion and I just gave it to him. I know most of the people doesn't say this because they would fear what people would think of them. But I had the courage to say this to him. And he accpeted that. there's no big deal in this. I love his work and I respect him a lot. Suggestion are given for improvement not for criticism.
Anyways I'd love to know about your blog . you seems like a good man .
@cryptonet Sure feel free to read my blog then. I'm arguably most proud of this recent campaign I started because I have been getting 20 new followers a day since it started while simultaneously getting many more constructive and engaging comments.
Would you help me to be the first official "follower stealer" on the Steem block-chain? Could you follow me instead of @jerrybanfield?
I reply to ALL comments on my posts and I even upvote them all! Sometimes I'll even throw in a surprise 100% upvote!
Could you help me to be better than @jerrybanfield? Would you help me at this attempt to steal a follower?
Sincerely,
James Brown
;)
James! This feels like a weird comment dude!
I guess you are joking here or something!
And let me just say that right now you only have 600 follower so yes you probably can and will respond to people's comments.. But what if everyone takes you up on this and you end up with 5000 followers and 5000 comments? Are you then still going to hold up your promise? Are you even going to be able to upvote everything without running out of power after the first 20?
Ok im going to follow you now and see ;-) I wont stop following Jerry though because i have two eyes!
Om
Of course it was a joke... I mean...coo-mun....coo-muin man!
As to the rest of your scribbles. No one has ever got anywhere near 1000 comments, let alone 5000. If I were making $500 to $1000 per post, I might not consider it such a downer to respond to 200 or so comments, and the upvoting part is easily handled by the voting slider.
I can give out 100 votes at 1% to equal just one 100% vote, ya see? Easy peasy, easy to please ye.
That way, you make 10 plus cents for minimal effort, more than you're going to get from any minnow upvote, and I get to save my voting power. Win, win! Where's the chicken din?
you are a funny dude, dude..
im following you.. Very curious where you will take us ;-!
;-)
to the edge of nowhere ;)
That's really a great reply. That's exactly what I was trying to say. And everyone is calling me a weird guy. I mean come on, just giving an 'asked' opinion got considered a weird thing.
Use common sense Steemians.
@jamesbrown @eco-alex
The reason @jerrybanfield can't reply to all comments is because he is not full time on Steemit, he has several other ventures and ways of making money including YouTube and his FB group (and probably some others too).
I am full time on Steemit and just like @jamesbrown I too am upvoting all contructive comments on my blogs. It's the very least a dolphin can do and I reckon the average wale should also spend less time posting content and more time upvoting and responding to comments.
Steemit is a community where you connect with people, not just a news website where you can make money.
Yes, I'm aware that he's a busy man, and I'm not going to pretend to know how much "free time" he has to offer this type of engagement.
What I do know is that I, personally, plan out everything in my life so that I can fulfill my core values, second to second, day to day. I'd never allow myself to get to a point that I don't have enough time to hit on everything that's valuable to me.
Does this mean that it'll never get to a point that I won't respond to each and every (non-obvious-spam) comment within my posts AND that I'll never NOT upvote every (non-obvious-spam) comment? Sure, for me it does, because I learned early on in my ventures with trying to build rep, both within Steemit and in the "outside world", that the process sucks hard and that it only hurts your chances of keeping with the battle when your efforts go unnoticed.
For someone else, who doesn't have a similar perspective to myself or hold the same values dear to his/ her self, it may not be such a big deal to shift all or most of their focus away from the personable aspect(s) to the business, and I'm fine with that.
I'd say that no damage is done, but that isn't really true. As I alluded earlier, no engagement leads to a slow and steady death (of interest and, if a community wide issue, likely, eventually, death to the platform).
Great comment, upvoted with 100% voting power.
I fully agree and hold the same principles as you when it comes to my Steemit followers. Let us both thrive on together @jamesbrown!
Yes, let's grow a community of active people, focused on providing real value!
Thanks for the compliment and gesture, btw.
Well, first of all nice to meet you sir @jamesbrown . I am here on steemit to gain some knowledge and real world skils. If I get those from you, then I'd love to follow you.
I love your approach by the way.
By the way for the record, @jerrybanfield does a really good job here. I repsect him for his work. I just expressed my little opinion which I guess he welcomed with open hearts.
Nice to meet you too sir @jamesbrown
You're doing it the right way, bro.
I agree. Jerry is a very passionate, hard working man with something valuable to offer this platform. I think that's pretty obvious by looking at his post reward history.
Likewise :)
You are welcome to join James for a high quality following experience!
I'm already in, bro.
And I am pleased to the high seas!
I can be your follower, even though Im just a minnow. Do you still want me to follow you?
Everyone is welcome to follow. What kind of question is that?
Read my stuff if you like it. Don't read it if you don't. Pretty simple, is it not?
Yes, pretty simple.
I can follow both. I have time for reading and commenting both.
So followed :)
Schweet!
Cryptonet, i understand what you are saying in theory, but also i think that this comment is a bit unfair. To say Jerry is not helping his followers back enough I think ignores nearly all the posts that he has made, and indeed many comments too. Let's be honest, there is NO way that one man can read or respond to even 10% of what comes his way. I think it's great that he as opened up and given more people the chance to be noticed and appreciated.
People who are so keen to try to succeed can easily fall into the trap of being critical . If i learned one thing its that people do love to complain and find issues with others because we feel unheard or just trapped in a situation and our only hope seems to be pinned on one person or one idea. I think we have to accept that some of us will be noticed more than others, and if we also want to succeed then we have to do the ground work. It may take a lot if time, a lot of effort, and even seem totally futile, but it is our own responsibility to succeed and not others to take us there. What comes by grace is a great gift, but we should not expect it.
I am not sayin that he's not helping his followers. My first line was that- he was doing an excellent job for his followers. But apart from posting, you have to be quite interactive with your followers. Like I do have 414 followers now and I do interact them on my every single post. That's how Steemit work and that should Everyone follows it. Yeah I agree with your fact that some of us get more noticed than others but those people should really keep interacting with all thier people or followers.
Let's just say You are extemely busy and you're very famous youtuber, If you come on steemit and this community would welcome with open heart and so do I, but now you have give time here as well. You have to interact your followers here also because may be some of them won't know you at all and they have to understand you and your personality.
If you're extremely busy, instead to two posts per day just write one post and reply to your followers comment with full enthusiasm. This looks like a better choice.
I am not dissrespecting anyone here. I am a huge fan of @jerrybanfield and I love him for his work. He always asked for his followers opinions in his posts, so I gave mine.
I am so sorry if anyone gets hurt, Forgive me If I did anything wrong.
But to be clear, I love @jerrybanfield work and I am his top follower :)
Sorry to you too @eco-alex if it hurts you . But please try to understand it, it was just an advice.
thanks for a nice response.. i do understand what you say..
i guess as a wise man once said:
"we can please some of the people some of the time,
but we cant please all the people all of the time"
its good you give your opinion.. That is after all what is being asked.
thanks!
You're welcome. I just cleared my intention otherwise people are like taking me as a weird guy. Lol . Thanks for understanding :)
@eco-alex If Steemit was @jerrybanfield 's only way of making money, he would have time and be incentivized to read substantially more comments than he is reading now. Jerry is a busy guy :)
jerry u are doing a great job.. I would love to hear more about how you will be helping out as a witness and what expertise you bring to the table. Thanks for really working hard on this platform and keeping the faith.
Thank you danlupi! I will make a new witness post as soon as I can to explain more!
Content creators, especially quality content creators, are diamonds for our Internet society.
Yes!
@jerrybanfield - Well a massive congratulations to you! That is a huge achievement in ranking and no easy feat as I am discovering. Getting to where you are now has clearly taken bucket loads of hard work and even more buckets of dedication. I think many people are of the perspective that when you join steemit, everything is simply going to fall into your lap... which is absolutely not the case.
I have been here for just over a month and have already dedicated a huge amount of energy into what I post as well as in the engagement with the people who have in fact shown an interest in what I write. Yes, I do have some posts whoch are just for fun, but for the most part, all of them have had hours dedicated to their compilation in the hopes that it will resonate with the people who have chosen to follow me on my Steemit journey.
I agree with you wholeheartedly about the engagement aspect. I think if you want to build a genuine following and have relationships on this platform that are actually sustainable then you absolutely must dedicate a good portion of your time to showing those REAL people, the appreciation they deserve for what they have put forward.
I really do enjoy this platform and I am, without question, in it for the long haul.
I have followed you since the get go as well as some of the other big guns but there are a few names on that list that I had not heard of until now... including the number 1 on that list @papa-pepper ... so definitely going to check that out now too 👊
I really enjoy your posts.... I always walk away having learnt something new. So thanks for that 😁👍
Jaynie you're welcome and thank you for sharing your experience building up your own account on Steemit because many other readers would like to learn more about how to do it!
Congrats on entering the top 10! You deserve it, you really do!
I like the approach you forward here. It's not feasible to respond to all. You should sacrifice a little time for it though, and not just rely on secondhand curation. You know we readers appreciate it ;)
You're right and I feel better about the time I take to do it also!
I think your account has also been one of the fastest to grow to the top
I think you are right it has been a disaster managing it!
Put your seatbelt on kids its just the beginning :)
@jerrybanfield I have a gift card account on steemit and if you can think of any business ideas that would be able to make enough on post to cover the cost of the gift cards that would be sweet!
I am just trying to find a way that I can better connect with helping the pain points of Steemit.
Best,
Isaac
I am thinking there might be a better way?
I really want to find ways to add value so those that have steem can turn it into income directly from the platform.
SO diplomatic!
Watching how far you have come on steemit in such little, and early stages is second to none. Dont let the haters hate! Keep doing what ya doing. JerryBOMBfeild Lol!
I love your post jerry and I followed you an youtube and steemit and i just started today can i get a shout out and guys follow me on steemit on tomohawk429
Thank you for your words of encouragement because it is so easy for me to get lost in what I could do better!
No problem jerry. :)
Way to knock it out of the park @jerrybanfield. Fantastic results, a proper reward for all of your efforts. I'm sorry I don't comment often enough. Like you, I am setting a goal to be more diligent in commenting and better responding to my followers.
STEEM ON!!
We know you've been busy @gringalicious 😋💛... you are one of my FAV STEEMIANS! Mad Respect!
@gringalicious honored you took the time to comment here and share that you have the same struggle! I just followed you!
This means a lot to us little guys, gringalicious and jerry. I am struck by how few people are followed by the big guys and how little interaction commenting on their posts generates. The best I can usually hope for is a reply from another commenter as opposed to getting one from the author of the post.
I am a minnow sucked in by the giant reach of jerry and I am very happy to be here [except for the nagging unfinished udemy course I was working on]. Any help you big guys offer is much appreciated by those of us who are new and confused.
Personally, I find better results by posting comments on the steemers who are below 65. I'm making 1 or 2 posts a day and spending the rest of my time on comments and replies with uneven results. But I am still swimming and intend to continue no matter what.
Jerry got me to steemit and the alexa ranking and interaction keep me :)
The main thing I can tell you @fitinfun is to continue 'swimming', be persistent and consistent and it will come around. @jerrybanfield is not your average newcomer, not to diminish his hard work by any means, but his results are helped greatly by years of previous work on other platforms. I encourage you to back and look through my blog and you'll see a struggle for many months. Don't give up.
STEEM ON!!
Thank you! I will look for sure. I'm always up for a struggle :)
You are correct that jerry is one in a million and I follow him to many places. I like his optimism and constant effort. Very inspiring and I have no intention of giving up. My first month on steemit equals three months of my book sales at Amazon, so I'm hooked!
Yes, @jerrybanfield, it does indeed feel great to give an upvote! I think it's my favorite part about Steemit. I can feel like a boss, like tossing money in the air for others to catch (even if it's only pennies, it's still exciting!) I like your concept of having others help you with responding to posts. Increases the unity and "wiki" feeling of the community, as well as helping you and others out. Very wise! Well done!
Thank you Denise!
Congratulations Jerry and much deserved. You've brought tremendous value to the platform. One thing I always know when I'm reading one of your posts or watching one of your videos is it will be well thought out and it will be geared towards being the solution to a problem. I feel I will walk away with some new knowledge that has value, and if I'm going to invest my time in something, I need to gain something in return. You provide that. Cheers!
Thank you for helping me see the value you get out of posts because it is easy for me to take everything I do for granted and obsess over what I can improve!