📈My journey from 25 to 60 with 1000 followers in 7 months on Steemit!

At the time of joining Steemit, I was even not aware what Steemit is and how it works. When I was busy on YouTube, creating recipe videos my friend Hive account@xyzashu introduced me to Steemit as he was also new on this platform but he explained me about Steemit and after returning home I signed up. But until that time I was not knowing how and what to do on Steemit.

After joining I didn't do anything other than upvoting and comment on the posts of Hive account@xyzashu and I was surprised that my followers were increasing. After few days of joining, I claimed my 1st reward of 0.001$ but I had no clue from where I got this then asked my friend and he explained that.
Meanwhile, I was suggested to take part in give away contest and as I started to become active here and my reputation score was also started to increase, I was really excited to see increasing reputation and getting some rewards.
As I was creating YouTube recipe videos so my friend suggested me to create posts of that recipes and I did the same but my first six posts went with 0.000$ payout and it was looking very difficult to get upvote here. Then I published some more post related to recipes and photographs.
On my 7th post, I used randowhale bot by some amount I won in a joke contest. After publishing few more post one day I got a surprised upvote of Hive account@s4s and, It was like an oxygen supply for me as after so many posts my posts were unable to fetch any payout.
Hive account@s4s upvote was a turning point in my steemit journey. With Hive account@s4s I also got good support of Hive account@firepower, later I came to know who is firepower, but without their initial boost It was not easy for me to reach here.
Once my post started to get some upvotes I joined Steemit chat and discord. I learned a lot in discord from so many friends I got there. I learned how to get a Hive account@minnowsupport upvote.
On these chatting platform, I got unconditional support from some awesome friends like Hive account@nainaztengra.
When I learned how to get upvote from bots my SP increased very fast as steem was less than 2 and when steeem price touched 6$ my account value also touched that level which I never imagined. This gave me more boost and I started to spend more time to write good contents.
As my journey continued I got some more steemit friends like Hive account@geetharao who always appreciate my good post by her upvote. I also get unconditional support from more friends like Hive account@arunava, Hive account@amitsharma Hive account@coolguy123, Hive account@mehta, Hive account@monika-homa, Hive account@amy-goodrich, Hive account@thekitchenfairy, Hive account@deliciousplants.
I would also like to thanks fellow steemians Hive account@blocktrades, Hive account@yoo1900, Hive account@papa-pepper, Hive account@alexis555, Hive account@redes, Hive account@teamsteem, Hive account@robertgenito, Hive account@newhope, Hive account@ripperone, Hive account@heart-to-heart, Hive account@krazykrista and many more whose name I couldn't mention here, who curated my posts time to time.
Steemit is a such an amazing platform where everybody grows with appreciating each other.