Ahh I remember it like it was yesterday!

I was searching around the net at December 2016 for ways to make money online and literally i have seen everything. Affiliate Marketing, Selling on Ebay, Amazon, Etsy, take part in surveys,blogging,freelancing, even writing speeches for politicians and stuff. With further research i understood that it will be extremely hard to reach a decent level, a decent level that still i couldn't live by my own but just have some extra $. 

Some of those ways for extra money seemed to me as pretty boring and that the earnings would be close to nothing for the work and effort you put so i kept searching and searching. I came across some articles about bitcoin and i remembered than i have seen it back when the price was 10-15$ and i was really hesitated to make a move back then, so i decided to give it a go and start finding cryptos that are promising and i could spend only a few bucks on them.

Steemit soon stood out from the other cryptos and as i was reading and reading what is it about i couldn't believe that you just login and to be more exact, you just get paid to login and you can write about everything without spending a single $ out of your pocket. Believe it or not it took me 2 months to finally decide to join in. After successfully joining in another problem hit my door.

What Should i write about?

I really had no idea as i am not good at drawing, or had some specialty in stock markets, crypto markets, photography,design,coding and i am not the type of person who just go out take a couple of pictures of himself and his glamorous life in hotels and restaurants either. So literally i had no idea where to start (Note that no @Dtube @Steepshot etc etc were available that time). Meanwhile, i said to myself  ''let's go over the trending page and see what others can do''  and the top post i saw was from Hive account@sweetsssj  with a very well made travelling post that obviously i couldn't do or even something near that level so i was back to zero step :P and thought it over again.

Ok let's start with the intro post!

What could be a better way from that? People will get to know me and i will get some followers....................but i didn't want them to see my face or know my real name :P ( something most of you already know that is considered a bad tactic) and just make a simple post without giving them a hint of who i am and check how that went in terms of $$ :P

Then i decided to write about things i really like with the mindset that writing about those things will be fun and not tiring so for the next 4-5 months 90% of my posts were about Series Reviews and Anime Reviews. Some were going pretty well, others don't, a bunch of them were highlighted in Hive account@curie but i kept going on, cause i knew that at least i earned something from this instead of wasting my time in Facebook!

I made some posts about my country as well and there i met Hive account@liondani a Greek Witness, (i really had no idea there was a Greek community till 1-2 months ago :P). When i wrote posts about Greece i just put the Greece tag and that was it. The sad part was that because i had to do my internship and i was lucky enough to do it in a big corporation and in the position i wanted, i dedicated all of my time for that so for 4-5 months i was completely out of steemit. 

When i came back i researched a bit more and found out that everything went better for steemit and the community as well. From 0,07$ and 40.000 accounts we now had 1-4$ (steem's price) and 500.000 accounts so i was pretty happy about it and motivated to write more and more. I came across the Greek community which i found out later that it had members older than me in steemit years and took part in some Meetups. I met new people and expanded a little bit the variety of my posts too.

Some Quick Tips

In case you are bored to read all of the above some quick tips for success are:

1. Write about stuff you like
2. Try to make your posts quality ones and don't copy/paste or steal images
3. Don't worry about your payouts, it's still something, just think of the idea to spend the same amount of time on Facebook and Instagram with total payouts of 0$$
4. Ask For Advice: If you don't know something just ask, everybody will help you out
5. Interact with others: Talk and Talk with others in here, write them a meaningful comment and don't just beg for upvotes and followers. (This one i think helped me the most in steemit). Check in the screenshot below how many posts i open per day to read and comment

and that's only for the morning :P

Conclusion

After a year or to be precise 5 months i have 1000 followers, close to 63 Reputation and i really don't care about the $$ that much. I am really intrigued by the growth of steemit and just wanna be part of this. I have met people throughout the world, i am trying to help newcomers by giving them some help and tips and ofc welcoming them and i don't know why or how but all of this made me more active as a person too.

I literally knew none and nothing about steemit when i first joined. I worked hard and dedicated quite some time to write my posts and interact with others and i suggest to newcomers to do the same. As i told you these last 2 months i was very active with mostly everyday posts, attending to meet ups, interacting with more and more people so i just wanna say my thanks to some people that helped me and inspired me along the way so sit tight and check below!

Hive account@skapaneas: Literally whatever i asked him about cryptos and steemit he was there for me!

Hive account@rouketas: Same as Hive account@skapaneas he is always willing to answer every question i have and also helped me out with my first sbd to bitcoin transaction without asking anything for return

Hive account@trumpman Hive account@ruth-girl: what can i say about these guys, they really enlightened me and it's because of them i started having a variety in my posts! They are way too cool, just click on their names, check their posts and if you so do check Hive account@trumpman replies to the upvote beggars :P

Hive account@liondani: He was one of the first people that commented on my posts and in general i wanna thank him for what he is doing as a witness and for how much he loves his country and it's people!

Hive account@makishart: Another amazing person that was with me since the beginning, supporting me and commenting my posts!

Hive account@uwelang: He was one of the first persons that greeted me in my intro post and for quite some time he was supporting my posts and made some really good comments. It's thank to him i think, that i started interacting with others more and more so once again thanks a lot!

Hive account@onceuponatime: That person is more Greek than we are. He really inspires me as he is the true meaning of generosity and kindness!

Hive account@jedau: I really don't remember how i found him :P but except the fact that his posts are amazing we share the same beliefs and we both tend to write long long posts and comments :P He is really amazing and every time i see i have a comment from him there is this smile all over my face :P

Hive account@janicehung: Last but not least Janice is truly a genuine and unique person. i don't want to say much about her, you can just click the name and see by yourself what i am talking about, what i want to say is that she is so damn clever and funny :P as well as an inspiration for many people myself included!

That was a very very long post but i can't help it, i had and have so much memories and things i wanted to share! If any newcomer read this and want some help and guidance just let me know! 

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