Three months on Steemit this is how I feel about it.
It all started a few months ago when my friends and
told me about the platform, they are both you tubers and live as digital nomads, I myself travelled for four years and was always telling them I would love to travel more. They told me Steemit was a great platform for sharing my stories and maybe make some money doing so. Today I reached my 1000th post, time for a small recap.
Here is my list about what I like and dislike on the platform
Work and Steemit no match
I love finding new travel minded people on Steemit and try to read as much as I can in order to get inspired. Especially all the people that travel give me energy to work hard so I can get on the road again myself.
I even wrote a blog about my favorite travelers on the platform, and still finding more great blogs every day.
https://steemit.com/travel/@heyitshaas/my-travel-dream-team-introduction
the main reason it’s hard for me to stay active and post relevant content is that I work long days and therefore can’t put in the work I would like to. So if you expect your account to do great make sure you have the time, even though I still believe that my account can generate some small money to use for a nice trip to blog about.
Not handy enough
Soon I will look into making my blog more attractive for my followers. I am very impressed by some of the people I follow, they always make their posts super nice and therefore great to read.
So I do apologize for the lack of creative moving images but believe that my posts are still worth the time because of the topics
Just look at how nice the posts off are.
https://steemit.com/kr/@joythewanderer/folklorissimo-2017-ft-korean-giant-bibimbap-and-cultural-events-2017
Don’t follow for follow
Biggest dislike on Steemit is people that follow for follow, how can you follow several thousands of accounts, are you sure you like them all? I really don’t know what people brings to the platform.
What I like best is that there are many people that make this platform great they really add something.
So please don’t ask to be followed make your content the reason people would like to follow you.
People don’t upvote
Myself I follow 39 people, so everytime I open my account and look at my feed I see content by like mined people. Hopefully as mentioned one day I can earn just a bit of money on steemit but for now all I do is create and upvote. All the people I follow get upvotes when I like there post. There are even people I upvote everytime because I love the work the put in.
I notice that a lot of people only try to make money and hardly ever upvote. Isn’t the purpose of Steemit to reward nice content? So make sure to upvote and help people to build their accounts.
People quit fast
A other problem on the platform is that people think they can make easy money and if they don’t they quit very fast.
Maybe because people dont upvote that fast or just because they are disappointed with the reward they get on the work they put in.
I am here to stay and strongly believe that if you are genuine on this platform you will do fine.
Even I follow some people with great stories that just seems like they quit.
you have great stories to tell don’t give up!
Genuine interest
Steemit has so many great people blogging, people with genuine interest in helping people and sharing great stories.
So even though my first three months here are bumpy I won’t give up and look forward to the growth of the platform and the people I can and will still meet here.
Conclusion
put in time
don’t expect miracles to happen overnight
follow the people you want to follow
upvote content you like
stick to your own unique content
Happy blogging everybody! And thanks to the people that I met so far and on your great stories.
And to the new Steemers hope you find this post helpful on finding your way here.
And thanks again that upvoted for Sint Maarten, donated yesterday!
https://steemit.com/travel/@heyitshaas/eur-100-donation-for-sint-maarten-thanks-to-your-support