The days where you could just buy votes or use bidbots and put in 10 SBD and then the next week get 10 SBD back plus some SP out are gone.
The bots are no longer cash cows.
They are becoming more of visibility engines that will give your post the visibility you need to get more comments and then also hopefully some more votes as well.
But this does not mean that you should not use them.
What do you do now with the SBD part of your earnings?
- sell it outside of the steem ecosystem?
- buy SP on the internal market?
- keep it and hope it spikes in value?
- use smartmarket?
I would personally recommend option 3 or 4 but not 2.
The first option is your choice and if you need or want the money and do not care about getting some long term potential then this is the way to go.
Option number 3 is a very crypto thing to do HODL
but nr 4 is the best here. Just sell your votes and then use that and the post revenue to upvote your own posts.
The difference is illustrated below on the two pictures:
if you take 35 SBD and just straight up convert them you will get 28.173 to Steem
If you do the same on Smartmarket then you get a slightly different outcome that I like better
28.9 in steem and SP PLUS 7.5 SBD.
So the steem/sp revenue is the same BUT there is that addtion of 7.5 SBD and that is nice