Wow getting this out right on time, write it on the day!? Yes its been a while since I have managed this there must be something wrong with me? Actually yes, I got a bad flu atm so I have been taking it very easy these past few days, mostly sleeping alot which actually makes me unhappy as I feel I could be doing something better with my time lol.

Anyway I will mention again for my lack of posts that my time in general is going towards other things and before you think I have given-up on Steemit or got bored that's actually very far from the truth.
I'am actually spending alot more time instead doing community stuff on the Blockchain which infact still rewards me for my efforts so don't worry about this ship and "our growth" it still very much continues.
Actually my hope is that this is a better way for me at the moment to continue growth especially with these low Steem prices but of course still with the continued further goal of giving back more in future.

This month I still feel we have done well considering the low prices, infact that in-itself can help by giving different opportunities in many ways I even wouldn't be too surprised if we beat last month's total, if not we should be darn close........I hope.
There is also the holidays to consider they were busy times but I think surprisingly I always made it on to Steemit so I dont think those particular days will affect us.

But anyway so here we are month 28 and oh my gosh before I forget this obviously marks the beginning of a new year!
So I hope you have atleast some sort of Steem related goal even if it's something small u'd like the achieve on the blockchain.

If you didn't know yet my big steemit goal for this year is reaching Dolphin.
Previously my goal was to reach around 4.900 SP by the end of December it seemed realistic at the time but the price going so low of course stopped that from happening.

But now 2019 I will try and make dolphin finally happen for us all.
The course as been set! Now let's GO!
Gods-speed.

Images By: Hive account@simonjay

So this now marks over 2 years on Steemit.com the price as been low for months now but I of course have no plans on quitting any time soon.

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Wow so much as happened since I first joined Steemit.com I remember in November 2017 "and will never forget" the amazing experience that was Steemfest 2 ( thanks to Hive account@roelandp for putting this together)
In December I went to a Steemit supper club hosted by Hive account@allasyummyfood unfortunately I couldn't attend the other supper club's but in February I got invited to attend a Steemit meeting in London hosted by Hive account@redrica, Hive account@ultravioletmag and Hive account@teodora it was definitely one of the best meetings so far, the music was loud at times but that didn't stop us getting to know each other (but many of us did lose our voice's the following day lol)
In April I was at the London Cryptocurrency show which had around 50 Steemians attending, and there was also some great speakers representing Steem in the UK.

Unfortunately I didn't get the chance to go to Cyprus, Vegas, Indonesian, Korea nor many the other Steem events as this was down to not being able to get either the time off work but mostly because of the required funds for such things.

Also in 2018 from day one Steem and SBD's were erupting and going record breaking crazy, this was a huge shock to many experts and newbies alike it was one amazing start to the year, the price then settled abit but still in-between its "settled high's" we saw Steem at around the $3 mark.
While Steem as been much lower now due to Bitcoin falling it's lead us down a path of survival for Steemit.com due to Steem INC losing %70 of its staff and the site itself being in danger of closure.

The recent price drops have indeed shocked many who were not expecting to see Steem nor Bitcoin go this low ever again but on the other hand its giving those interested a great opportunity to buy into what the whales were previously holding and so I say its the time for opportunity not gloom.

Moving Forward With New Hope And Opportunity!

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At The London Cryptocurrency Show

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Its now 2019 and I still had so much to write about the things that took place back at the Steemfest events I thought I was one of the only people that felt that way but I have heard from other Steemians they also felt the same.
I dont think that content now will ever see the light of day from me or any other Steemian.
For me I didn't get the time needed as I also got a back-log of content I wanted to write about so I can clear out my email notes.
But I still made the decision that it would be sad to not release any of the remaining "not seen yet" pictures from especially Steemfest2.
So I have recently been working and finished gathering all these photos and getting them ready for sharing them with you guys this year along with the price updates, and this is actually the 2nd biggest reason why you have not seen much content from me lately, of course the first reason being "work".

Anyway doing these monthly reports help's me stay in check, plus I have heard from you guys that the data can be useful to newbies on getting a better idea for what to expect with the Steemit.com platform.

But before going into month 28 and its results "This" especially for the newbies can be helpful, let me show you a very quick recap of my 2 Steemit.com years.

Month 1 📅

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Month 11-12 📅

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And there you have it 12 months of Steeming earned me....

2.784 Power

727 Followers

And a reputation of 64.1

Year 2 📅

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Yes I realise these aren't the most amazing results that you were probably expecting but for someone who didn't bring in a previous fan base or aided by any of the whale's or part of any inner circle I guess these aren't bad results.
They definitely aren't the best results, but they also aren't anywhere near the worst on here.

Ok so now you have seen the results of 2 full years on Steemit.com and what you can realistically expect from someone in my situation, we now move on and focus in this month's results.

📅 Month 28 - 13/1/2019 the results are..

Ok so last month I got abit ahead of myself.......or did I.....?
Because I thought we had done better the previous month and well.. we did! We had gained 146 SP which was 13 SP more then the month before but I guess I expected a little more.
And now this month I expected to have done around the same or just abit better and I must say I am very happy this month we managed 162 SP!
Which is already another 16 extra SP from the previous month, so yes very happy.

Anyway it was 4 months ago I gained 9 followers then 3 months ago I spent 3 days on gaining new followers and I also attended Steemfest3 both resulting in 40 extra new followers, now this month I have done nothing and only gained 9 new followers. I might consider taking one day during this month to work on followers but since it's not a focus of mine right now I still might not.

Reputation, its great to be at 66-rep yay! And now I'am on 66.3 so another notch up as expected and on the road to having a rep of 67.

Other STATS 📊

Apparently there are around 1,197,340 Steemit.com users and so out of all those users the last time I checked my own ranking as a "Steem Stake Power Holder", I am around #2761 which for me I am very happy with, its not the highest I have managed, my best result was #2225 I hope to one day take that spot again, but I have gone up this month which surprised me with so many buying into Steem I have gained about 27 places, hopefully we can continue to recover more.

Highest Steemit Earnings Score? 👊

I had a post that made me just over $50 the first month I signed on, and that's when I saw it! The Steemit.com potential!
But would you believe I never beat that reward record for a whole year! Yes that's right meaning it was only on month 13 that I finally beat my score from all the way back in month 1, how insane is that!?
While it sounds insane you must remember that the price of Steem during month 1 for me was over $4.00 !! Which was only surpassed in January 2018 at over $7.00! Anyway my new high score to beat is $94.00 which was from month 13.

Steem Power 👊

My most successful Steem Power post was actually back in month 7 when I had one post make me 271 power!

My highest post so far on votes? 👨

The most amount of votes I managed on a single post so far was 213, but that post only made me $8.60

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Followers 👪👪👪👪

So followers.. sorry but the "Dead Followers" type tool I used does not work, I'am not sure why having such a thing seems so difficult I have used about 4 different tools which all have had their own problems and eventually stopped working so if anybody knows of one that works please let me know in the comments below.

If you are still here and active don't forget to give me a upvote and let me know you are still alive in the comments section as you might be missing out on upvotes from myself as I might check out your blog and upvote you back.

Speaking of followers we gained the "2500 followers badge" which required me to gain 500 new followers, it was the hardest followers challenge so far but now the target is set to having 3750! Wowsers! And that means I need to gain another 1250 extra followers!

I HAVE NEVER POWERED DOWN 🚀

To my active but also supportive followers I want to thank you all for your support so far, as of course remember that the more power and weight you offer me with your upvotes the more I can give back to the community when I upvote you back, check out the wizard's badge for my curation level below, also your upvoted Steem power gets locked when you vote for me as I "NEVER" yet powered down once since I started over 2 years ago!

MORE THAN 50,000 UPVOTES 👫

Looked Steem of course helps the price of Steem rise up also to give you an idea on how much I have voted I have done over 50,000 upvotes!

So what are you waiting for? Vote now and lock-up some SP for a better Steem future.

I also want to thank you guys for helping me get to SteemFest2 last year and those who supported me for Steemfest3, I still owe abit of money back for the trips but I will get there hopefully.

Some Closing Last Notes

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Please dont think your votes aren't worth anything or don't count because they really really do.

Another thing I will add is please vote more on those who are actually active on Steemit.com, to often I see auto-votes on people who are rarely active and what I mean is they never vote on anybody's posts.

Basically the more people who we can get over 5000 power and are actively voting the higher the probability of you earning a good vote in the future will be.
I believe we need a strong number of dolphins as there are too many in power who just vote for their rich inner circles or who are not even active voting, but yet I see many supporting them.

The downfall is the powerful circle jerking when it comes to votes, not enough whales are voting on the minnows or dolphins, creating a predictable rewards distribution.
This could be fixed probably with oracles but it could also make earning more competitive and difficult for those who do not have a huge active following to bring onto Steemit, this could indeed be worrying meaning you will probably earn less then you do now but its something we will have to wait and see with SMT's.

Also realise that we no longer have many active whales voting, this is because they are using less time consuming ways of using their SP, making Steemit.com a more developers support type of a website.
This could change with SMT's but honestly I still hope people will create content on Steemit.com in the future and get paid for it, hopefully earning something more then a few cents for their efforts.
Btw I am also not having a dig at the whales I am saying we need more people who are actually active and curating and who have some decent power behind them, so vote now and help me make this happen.

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