You learn from your own mistakes.
You put your time and energy in creating that perfect post and you decide you want some boost.
And there are number of bots that do just that. But does it really pay of?
Recently MinnowBoster has decided to raise the limits of minimum payment to 5 SBD on weekly limits of 35 SBD.
They have a lot of income because people where thinking this will payoff and very soon the MinnowBooster voting power diminished because of number of votes.
So they return to minimum payment of 1SBD but voting power was below 50% and that surely doesn't pay of.
So recently when their voting power goes up they rise again for minimum payment for 5 SBD and weekly limit is only 15 SBD.
And they didn't even put the notice about the changes.
So let's do a little math.
If you pay booster 5 SBD for a post and their voting power is around 60% wich is good, you will get in return about 8, 9 - 9 SBD.
And on the post it says you have around 9SBD. And you think that's great I'm good for 4SBD.
But in reality it is different. You will actually lose money. Because you don't count their curation rewards when they give you an upvote. So the Author's reward is about 75%. And what's left from that the half of that which is 50% goes to your Steem Power or SP.
So you pay 5SBD, get around 9SBD, 25% goes to them and you left with 6,75SBD, and 50% from that is 3,375SBD.
So you basicaly lose around 2SBD.
And their excuse for that is well, you will get on the hot page and people will upvote you and you will gain followers etc.
That maybe true, that way if someone upvotes you, you will gain profit.
But now today, there is so much people on the platform, your post won't be seen in the categories where whales rule.
So if you are a whale, 5SBD won't matter so much, already have a bunch of followers, it will boost you even more and you are good.
But often times I see whales shitposts that are so lame they have hundreds of dollars from that.
Jerry Banfield who is well known here, took a picture in his underwear and get 500 dollars from that.
So the MinnowBooster really isn't for minnows anymore and at least they need to change their name for that.
You will gain more profit if you have good strategy of writing good articles, posted in the categories where they are not overwhelmed with people, and certainly you will get recognized over time.
good luck :)