Many steemians focus on writing posts. As a new steemian, you will not make much writing a post because you don't have good number of followers. The first thing you need to do if to build a good number of followers. Comment on people's post and follow them. They will follow you too and as your followers grows, your income or in another way, your upvotes will increase. You can watch the video to get more:
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