Every Steemian knows the feeling of putting blood, sweat and tears into a masterful blog post, that nobody reads, upvotes or comments on. End result, a week later, your author rewards are a nickel. Wah wah wah. It sucks and can be very discouraging. All that good work that ended up in the ether, seen by no one.
But wait, after you've proofread, added tags and generally cleaned up, you're not finished. Just by hitting the post the post button doesn't mean you're finished. There are plenty of helpful post-marketing tools and forums that you can use to get your post in front of more eyeballs.
Discord Channels
You will need to register your steemit account with them.
Hive account@minnowsupport runs a discord channel designed to promote, obviously, minnows. It's a great chat room with many different rooms for those with varying interests. One is exclusively for receiving upvotes on your blog posts. This discord channel was created by 
Hive account@aggroed, one of the good guys on the platform. They also go by the name P.A.L.(Peace, Abundance,Liberty). To join their chat, follow this link: https://discord.gg/GUuCXgY
Hive account@whaleshares runs a discord channel similar to Hive account@minnowsupport which has many discussion rooms to use for various topics. They also offer an exclusive room for post-promotion of blog posts. Where they are different is that Hive account@whaleshares has created a token which can be purchased on bitshares or won through contests. You will need to open a bitshares account. Once you have whaleshare tokens you can use them to purchase an upvote from a whale on a specific post of your choosing. A great guide on using this process was written by 
Hive account@jphenderson, linked below. This product is the brainchild of 
Hive account@officialfuzzy and a great way to find a whale vote when you need it! The link to join whaleshares discord channel is linked below as well.
https://steemit.com/whaleshares/@jphenderson/whaleshares-user-guide
https://discord.gg/zpUGXx
https://whaleshares.net
Steemit.chat
Steem.chat or steemit.chat, either one will do, is a great place to direct message someone you'd like to communicate with in private, participate in the general chat room or post-promote your latest blog post. Register at: https://steemit.chat/home Thanks to 
Hive account@riverhead and 
Hive account@cass for their hard work on the site.
Steemitbc.slack.com
Steemitbc.slack.com is the brainchild of 
Hive account@sflaherty. They have a great chat room in their general tab, follower-central and an upvote-central tab for post-promotion of your blog posts. The unique thing that 
Hive account@steemitbc does is they will cross promote your blogs across their twitter and facebook accounts.
Purchasing Post-Promotion
There are a few ways to spend a little SBD to make a little money on your posts. We've already discussed whaleshare tokens, here are a few more:
@Randowhale. The concept here is that randowhale will upvote your post with up to a 5% whale vote. You transfer 
Hive account@randowhale $2 SBD and paste your desired post address in the memo section and hit submit. Within a minute you will see how much of an upvote you received. I've had great success with randowhale, I wouldn't recommend using him until their is some reward built up on your post if you want to get the full effect. Note: You don't always win using randowhale.
Hive account@booster. This is my new favorite. What you do with booster is you bet as much or as little as you like and that will determine your payout. Every 2.4 hours, Hive account@booster pays out a 100% vote to all those who submitted a post in that 2.4 hour window. The amount of your payout will be determined on what percentage of the prize pool you gambled upon submission.
Just like we discussed with randowhale, you would go to your wallet -> sbd -> transfer -> send to Hive account@booster -> choose the amount you'd like to submit -> add the post address in the memo section -> hit submit -> wait. A fun concept created by 
Hive account@fyrstikken and the Hive account@booster team.
Hive account@lovejuice. This is another fun gambling promotion. This the penny slots of steemit! Every 36 minutes, Hive account@lovejuice, gives away .80 cents. The breakdown of who gets the money is based on how many entrants in that period and how much they bet. Once again, you pick a blog post of yours and put it in the memo section of the wallet transfer window and send it off to Hive account@lovejuice. Minimum bet is .01 SBD. If you're the only bet in that window, you'll get the whole 80 cents. Note: I never bet more than .05 sbd. This is another great project brought to you by Hive account@aggroed.
I'm sure there are plenty of other post-promotion apps being formulated right now by all of the talented dev's on this platform, but these are a few that you can try out.
Just remember, after you've hit post on your latest blog, don't just sit there and let it wither on the vine, get out there and use some of these tools to promote your hard work. SteemOn!
For further ideas on how to get your posts noticed, check out this new post from 
Hive account@luzcypher
https://steemit.com/steem-help/@luzcypher/how-to-be-a-steemweaver-tips-for-getting-your-posts-noticed-and-increasing-community-interaction-on-steemit
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