My number one goal is to have 10,000 followers by February 1st, 2018
Below are my goals, targets, and milestones which I have for the six month period starting from August 1st, 2017 until February 1,st 2018. I estimate I will need to spend about 8 hours a day on the Steemit platform every single day in order to achieve these goals and I have been spending more than that much time over the past week so it should be realistic.
Primary Goal
Garner Steemit followers
Targets
Get 600 total within 1 month /average 600 a month/20 a day
Get 3000 total within 3 months / average 1000 a month/ 33 a day
Get 10,000 total within 6 months /average 1,666 a month/ 56 a day
Milestones
500/1000/3000/5000/7,500/10,000
These goals are very ambitious, especially getting 10,000 followers within 6 months. However, it is common for people to underestimate how much they can do in the long term and overestimate how much they can do in the short term.
I came up with the 10,000 number by looking at some of the most popular authors right now on Steemit, most of whom have around 5,000-8,000 followers. I’m making the assumption here that:
A) Their growth rate in terms of new followers per day has increased a lot over the past few months, hence they will likely have many more followers than they do now within 6 months.
B) Steemit will continue to attract new users and authors, thus increasing the number of people on the platform who would gain from following me.
C) My community style blog will be superior to current best practices on Steemit in terms of attracting new followers. I will reward comments on my blog in a structured way, incentivizing everyone remotely interested in crypto to follow me and leave a constructive comment response to my articles, regardless of their level of understanding of crypto. Ultimately my blog will be a community where we are all monetarily and emotionally incentivized to ask constructive questions and help each other as opposed to a blog where I am the dictator. This will be the backbone of my Steemit strategy. Naturally, I will kick start this by upvoting and tipping authors for great comments. More to come on this later.
D) I can continue getting at least 20 new followers a day during the next month as I have been for the past 4 days.
Secondary Goals
Earn STEEM/SP/SBD
Targets
Make 200 total Steem within 1 month /average 200 a month
Make 1.2k total Steem within 3 months / average 400 Steem a month
Make 12k total Steem within 6 months /average 2k Steem a month
Milestones
Earn 500/1k/3k/5k/10k/20k Steem within a calendar month
I have not thought extensively about how much and where I will get most of my Steem earnings from but I predict that with my strategy for getting new followers, the above goals are conservative.
Create connections - Build up a network
Connect with crypto experts/crypto personalities/respected community members/crypto project team members/ people in game for 5+ hears/Steemit top authors, witnesses, whales
By this I mean that I aim to make valuable connections with people who have more experience and knowledge than I do in the crypto space. I will loosely decide whether or not a connection is made based on how many times they have responded to me. Basically I will determine that a connection is made if I think it likely that this person will remember me the next time I write to them.
Targets
3 new connections within 1 month
15 new connections within 3 months
50 new connections within 6 months
Network connections are probably among the most undervalued goals I have. Someone famous said that your net worth is not the sum of your assets but rather the size and quality of your network.
Garner Twitter followers
Get 20 total within 1 month /average 20 a month
Get 120 total within 3 months / average 40 a month
Get 600 total within 6 months /average 100 a month
Twitter is one of the if not the biggest social media platform when it comes to crypto enthusiasts so although I don’t use it much, I expect that through the few interactions I make there on a daily basis, I will slowly but surely build up a following.
I spent 6 hours yesterday coming up with ideas about which types of articles/series I will post, what the structure of the reward system will look like for the commenters in my blog as well as a list of to-dos. I have ideas for about 30 blog posts so far, now it's just a matter of writing them. I may share those in another post if anyone shows interest.
Until then, time for me to Steem my life up!
See you at the top,
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