By no means have I reached Reputation Level 50 quickly, but with a slow grind I am here. On Aug 29th, 2017 my account was created so it took around 5 1/2 months to reach this level.
Most of this time was just making comments on other people's blogs as I'm not a "blogger", but more then willing to join a conversation. Recently I have started making more of an effort towards blogging and growing my account.
Let's be honest it's work! To create something of value takes effort. Coming up with the idea, taking photos, editing photos, writing text, editing text, picking tags, and so forth.
Luckily I didn't come to steemit with the glossy eyes that you can toss up a post which took 10 minutes and make money. My expectations were it would take work and investment.
Investment? Yes real life cash have gone into my account. At this point I've invested cash to purchase about 200 Steem Power and have earned around 50. Right now I renting delegation to help boost my account and that investment was with profits from blogging and trading Steem. While not cash out of pocket, it's still a financial investment as the money was earned and could of been used for bills.
Going forward my plan is to grow my account. This will take further investment of time and money, but I've decided that I'm having a good time here. That even with some of the nonsense that occurs that Steemit is a platform that can survive long term. Most importantly I believe in the Steem Blockchain.
This post is more about documenting my progress and thoughts then anything. Sometimes it puts things in perspective when you can look back and realize that on X date you were at X point so this is a permanent way to keep track. So here is where I am at and a couple goals for actions to help grow my account.
As of 2/13/18
Current SP: 256.941
Leased Delegation: 572.243
Reputation level: 50
Followers: 165
Posts: 934 (mainly comments)
Est Account Value: $1,244.34
Goals
Post 3 times per week minimum
Comment on 5 posts per day
Find 5 new authors each week to give an upvote to
Reach 500 SP by 05/13/2018
Well this is a starting point and hopefully these goals will be more refined by the time I reach Level 55 and do an update. But for now my main focus will be on networking further and trying to help get some minnows part of the reward pool.
All Photos are taken by thedarkhorse and all rights are reserved. Photos are taken with a Samsung S8+
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