(FIRST THINGS FIRST: let's help out a fellow Steemian who is in immediate need of this community's help: https://steemit.com/eviction/@aggroed/stopping-an-eviction-notice-fund-drive-for-clevercreator - Please help this Steemain out, if you have the means to do so. Thanks!!! )
WOW! I've only been around SteemIt for about 9 weeks and I've already reached over 1,000 followers! I want to say a big, THANK YOU to all of my followers. I feel like this is really an awesome benchmark to reach in such a short period of time.
How did I do this? I'll give you the same advice I've given everyone else: to gain more followers, take these steps:
COMMENT, COMMENT, COMMENT. Read other peoples' posts that you find interesting, and make an intelligent comment. Give them an upvote & a resteem. Let them know that you are doing this, and why you think their post is worth sharing with your own followers.
Take some of your SBD's or STEEM and give it away in a contest. Share the wealth. I started out in May, 2017 with 10 Steem. I think there was some promotional thing going on, and new members were getting 10 Steem for joining - or maybe
Gregory Mannarrino gave it to me? He's the real reason I first joined SteemIt. IDK where it came from. I just know that it felt good to give away 12.5 SBD's to some well-deserving friends of mine, and "pay it forward" once I had achieved a little bit of my own success here. After I gave away 10 SBD's to
for doing this artwork, he gave away half of it in his own contest:
- Post original content. Each Steemian has some area of expertise to draw upon, from your own life, which is unique to you. I told my life story in a series - how I overcame a 60-year sentence to Oregon State Hospital, a major mental illness, and porn addiction. I also shared some pictures of my canoe-building activities and my canoe trips around the local rivers in Eastern Oregon, where I live. It's not very difficult. Just keep at it, do the "daily grind." Some determination and sitcking with it goes a long ways. "The turtle wins the race." Here's my life story - it's wild:
https://steemit.com/introduce/@bi5h0p/3-weeks-300-followers-anyone-can-steemit-part-1
https://steemit.com/introduce/@bi5h0p/3-weeks-300-followers-anyone-can-steemit-part-2
https://steemit.com/introduce/@bi5h0p/500-followers-5-weeks-anyone-can-steemit-part-3
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@bi5h0p/6-weeks-600-followers-anyone-can-steemit-part-4
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@bi5h0p/7-weeks-700-followers-anyone-can-steemit-i-have-a-confession-to-make
- Learn as much as you can about cryptocurrency. Learn to set up your wallets, how to buy BitCoin, Steem, Ethereum, etc. Learn which exchanges to use, how to use them, etc. There are tons and tons of helpful posts out there to help you learn the details and intricacies of how to trade and exchange cryptos. There's a real learning-curve to overcome, for the uninitiated - but the time investment is SOOO WORTH IT !!! By learning how to do these things, right now, you're going to enter yourself into a pretty small club - not everybody out there knows how to do this yet. And, pretty soon, everybody is going to be wanting to move into cryptos - because they are such an awesome tool for all aspects of using money and conducting business. You absolutely must do your homework here. There are no shortcuts - just people on Steem to help you along the way.
(using original pictures in your posts really helps - this is me, in my canoe, whoopee!!!)
Thanks again to everyone here on SteemIt! This place is AWESOME!!! As I've stated before, I've made it my goal here to reach 500 Steem Power, and join the #whalepower curation team, once I have enough SP to do some real good around here. Special thanks are going out to these guys: 
Also, special thanks going out to: 
Also, I can't forget all of the minnows, #minnowsupport, and all of the people associated with that end of helping new Steemians jump out of the water. Thanks for your help - you are awesome!
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