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 
From there we have chatted via comments for months and then on discord. Lately
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
| 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.
Here is 
That's a wrap
To say that I am a little excited about the idea of 
Now go take a look at
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. 
Same rules as always, if you are trying to take the bounty by posting a crap comment and self voting I'll flag you.