This is the first in what I plan to make a series of spotlight posts for those who either are taking part in or are supporting the #payitforward curation contest. No idea of how often these will come out, but know if I'm featuring someone it's because they are worth not only visiting, but following and supporting. These will be people who going above and beyond to help either the platform, newbies, or the contest grow.
A Little Background
I've been following for months now and honestly can't even remember how I ended up finding him. One thing I've enjoyed are his random photos of Korea and it's something I would look for during the week as I enjoy seeing the real views of different parts of the world. Don't want to see travel brochure style photos...keep it real and tell the rest of the world what it's really like.
From there we have chatted via comments for months and then on discord. Lately stepped up and has been supporting the Pay It Forward Curation Contest which is great! His upvote to each of the Judges Choice winners has made becoming a Judges Choice worth a nice immediate payout.
He is just an all around good guy and I think his tagline (or wahtever it's called) shows why we probably get along.
Steemulating visual blog and moreヾ(⌐■_■)ノ Pay it forward In the name of Freedom and STEEM!
Would rather you check out his blog and see all the things he posts about over blabbering here, but to say the least he covers a range of topics. Instead of going into detail about the different topics he talks about I'd rather spotlight a couple projects he is working on.
's Projects
Going to share 2 projects including one that really was just relaunched this weekend. These are both worth taking a look at and hopefully one or both will help you grow your account.
Steem Flea Market
posted Steem Flea Market - A Circular Market Initiative on the Steem Blockchain which is his idea that we need a place to be able to facilitate transactions between steemians for things they wanted to sell. This idea is AMAZING!
| Think of it this way. You want to increase your SP but don't want to put your hard earned cash into the system because you either can't afford to or just aren't 100% sure what you think of this place yet. On the other hand there are plenty of steemians that have earned SBD that would like to be able to use it to purchase stuff, but hate the process of converting to bitcoin, then converting to fiat, to then be able to buy the stuff. |
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So you look around the house and find say $100 worth of stuff that you post and sell. That really isn't a crazy number and most people can do this pretty easily. Now you can use that SBD to purchase SP and power up your account. How long do you think it would take you to earn $100 worth for SP? Today that would be about 40 +/- SP that could be added to your account. Even at my size that is more then I add in a month without putting cash into the system. For a new steemian 40sp is a huge boost to their accounts and imagine being able to constantly be able to get some clutter out of your home and turn it into SP powering up your account.
@STEEMFLEAMARKET is the original, free-to-use circular market hub focusing on trading, buying/selling and giving away the stuff you no longer need to those that do!
Take a look here to look for or sell items: Offer items for sale
Paid Manual Curation, 
Ok I know that many people take serious issue with bid bots and how they effect the overall pool. The original thought behind them (supposedly) was to help people gain exposure and it wasn't about profiting from the votes. But they are abused and partly because it's all automated upvotes purely based on the size of your bid.
is different in that all content is manually reviewed by
so a payment doesn't guarantee a vote. Submit plagiarized crap and you aren't getting a vote. Submit amazing content and you may well find yourself a new follower, be resteemed, and gain extra voted on other posts if he really likes your content.
Here is most recent post reminding people to check the status before sending SBD.
That's a wrap
To say that I am a little excited about the idea of is an understatement as this is how I make a living. All my businesses revolve around buying and selling of goods. If I can skip all the headaches of selling something, transferring money to coinbase, buying BTC, transfering to bittrex, selling BTC, Buying Steem, transfering steem to steemit, and then powering up I am all for saving all that time and fees!
Now go take a look at 's account and see if he is someone you should be following.
Small gift of appreciation
Each person I feature is getting 1 #steembasicincome share as a small token of my appreciation for their efforts.
Steem-Bounty
To help manage my VP so I have more for the Pay It Forward Contest I'm putting a 2 SBD #steem-bounty on this post. It will allow me to give smaller votes while still rewarding you with higher amounts. program has been great to help with engagement and rewarding people on the curation contest, but realized today that it might also help me manage my VP on other posts to allow me to give larger upvotes to the featured bloggers in the curation contest. Lets see how this work out!
Same rules as always, if you are trying to take the bounty by posting a crap comment and self voting I'll flag you.