My first experience using the MinnowBooster bot was a complete success!
The MinnowBooster bot 
From my recent experience working with it today I can confirm that it works exactly as advertised in regard to it's ability to upvote your posts and it actually gives you a higher return than the amount spent.
How does MinnowBooster work for Upvotes?
According to documentation found in an article released by
"To request upvotes from the
Please check the bot's voting power at https://steemd.com/@minnowbooster because the bot's AI autoregulates its Voting Power to ensure the bot does not get drained.
At 100% voting power the bot will give your nominated URL an upvote worth 5 times what you paid in, with the received vote value decreasing proportionately as VP decreases, ie 80% VP yields 4 times and 60% VP 3 times, right down to breakeven at 20% VP and a loss if you pay in when the bot has less than 20% VP. (These are gross percentage values, please take into account that on Steem 25% of the post value goes to the curators, in which case the NETT breakeven is actually at 26.67% VP)"
Does it actually work?
Yes it does and I'm completely confident in recommending it as I've just tested the process today and can confirm it performs wonderfully and exactly as advertised. Let me walk you through my experience.
The MinnowBooster Upvote Process
Step One
The first thing I did was go to my blog page and find an article that I would like to have upvoted by MinnowBooster. I picked a recent article I had written about travel in Thailand.
As you can see this is an article that currently had an upvote value of $0.43 based on the votes it had already received.
I clicked on this article and copied the link url for the post to be pasted in the memo section when I was ready to make my payment of SBD to MinnowBooster.
Step Two
Next, I went to my wallet and found my SBD balance. I clicked on the arrow and selected the transfer option. I was presented with this screen:
I didn't have much to send at the time because normally I like to use most of my SBD for powering up. I was able to send a small payment to MinnowBooster in the amount of 1.072 SBD.
The Final Step
The last part was the hardest.... I had to wait to receive my upvote. Amazingly by the time I had refreshed my screen, I had been upvoted by MinnowBooster!
Remember the original balance of upvotes was $0.43 and now I had a new balance of $2.01. This was almost 50% more than I had sent the MinnowBooster bot! Now just imagine if I had send it $10 worth of SBD. That would be worth your time wouldn't it? What about $100 of SBD?
Guess what, that's not all... After receiving the vote payment I received a bonus prize as well. Get this, each upvote comes with an amazing upgoat!
Who doesn't love an upgoat right??
Final Thoughts
Based on the outcome I have received, I will definitely be using MinnowBooster again. In addition there are several other useful things MinnowBooster can do which I will discuss in future articles.
Keep in mind that for you to receive the maximum value from this service you will want to select posts that are close to the 7 day expiration date but before the 12 hour cutoff to reduce the possibility of vote deflation. If you decide to use MinnowBooster on an article on the 6th day after the 12 hour cutoff your SBD will be lost forever so be careful!
The MinnowBooster works!
If you have any comments or questions about this process, feel free to contact me and leave feedback below!
For more information about the capabilities of MinnowBooster, please consider reading this article:
https://steemit.com/minnowbooster/@minnowbooster/introducing-minnowbooster-beta
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