Last week I wrote about my Hive birthday dedicating a celebration post to it.
And I also expressed my desire to introspect and figure out what I need to change in my Hive approach to progress at a faster pace at this platform.
If you are new, or even if old but haven't been able to carve out a place for yourself, something is definitely off. If we introspect with a clear mind, there is always something that can be changed to improve ourselves in anything.
And this post is all about those some-things.
So let's dive into what I found in my observation and introspection and what I am planning to change about my Hive journey, and you can too.
First thing first...
Hive is not at all like a conventional content sharing platform. Where you can just simply write your heart out, or may be something informational or may be the best article of your life and expect to get dropped 100's of HIVE as post rewards.
If you are thriving here with a mindset to hack your way up the ladder or to only take and take and take and do nothing towards giving the platform, you are gonna be disappointed sooner or later. Because that's not how it's gonna work here, tried and tested.
Here are the things you can do to make your Hive journey continuously progressive right from this moment -
STOP BEING A PARASITE
Instead of solely focusing on how to make most money with your posts. Also start doing something that adds actual value to the platform. It can be in the form of starting a new community, new business, web platform, sharing posts over your conventional social handles and communicating and interacting with official handles of Hive and others Hivers at various Web 2 platforms.
In short anything that can help provide exposure to the Hive and make it reach more people is an excellent way to give and make it evident that you care for the platform. And not just yourself. You are not a parasite.
ENGAGEMENT IS THE MAGIC
I can tell you this from my experience. The times I have spent engaging here has always proved fruitful for me. But I am speaking of genuine engagement, and not just filler comments like "Great post". They will not take you anywhere except burning some resource credits.
Some of my comments, in fact, have fetched me more rewards than a lot of my posts. And have often got me followers that are actually interested in what I write. I can't emphasize it more, engagement is must to give your own self some exposure. Engage with at least 3-4 articles for every article you write. And watch your numbers steadily grow over time.
FIND YOUR THINGS
This is no brainer. Finding a niche to write about is stressed upon in most posts about writing and blogging you'll come across in life. But being dedicated to a single niche is not the prime importance here at Hive.
What's important is to experiment and find the communities your content most align towards. It need not to be necessarily about a single niche. You can be a part of as many communities as you like. But more important is to stick and nurture some particular communities with most of your content.
When you dedicatedly post in some particular communities, you content come across a set of people again and again. And not to mention that you automatically grow your prominence in the eyes of curators for continuously enriching your favourite community with worthy content.
Well, it doesn't mean you can never deviate, you can also post in other communities relating to the same niche. But you gotta choose your favourites and never stop posting in them. If you ever want to get recognized and live with it.
MISCELLANEOUS POINTERS
- Re-blog the posts that capture your interest and of projects/communities you believe in
- Take part in initiatives and contests that inspire you
- Follow more people, dilute your ego, it is always give and take
- Onboard your friends and family at Hive
- Appreciate what you find worth appreciating
- Trying to please everyone is a recipe of ending up with pleasing no one
- Don’t write just for the sake of writing, write to provide at least some value and make it worth the reader’s time
- Quality over quantity
- Perfectionism is the killer of productivity
- Be generous, kind and humble and always behave in a civilized way
- Learn to agree to disagree
I am following some these and I am going to work on implementing the rest. And that's what my introspection has taught me. And I am sure if you'll implement even half of what I have described here, you will find it easy to progress here instead of finding yourself stuck.
