I wrote this earlier:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@hodlorbust/buying-votes-infinite-profit
Then spent a few STEEM and SBD to upvote the post using paid votes. Some votes netted me ~36% ROI or as much as ~47% ROI.
Here's my overall plan:
- Put a % of my regular earnings into buying upvotes for SteemIt posts,
- Get 110-115% of my payment in author rewards,
- Spend the SBD and STEEM rewards on buying more upvotes. This will achieve a growth on the STEEM Power amounts leftover.
- Use the STEEM Power to delegate to a bot (or bots) that pays % revenues back to delegators: http://isteemd.com/
- Use the income that comes in from delegating STEEM power to fund additional bought votes.
- Rinse, wash, repeat.
It's tough to tell what the rate of return will be for this strategy without having a more accurate breakdown of how author rewards work, which seems to be variable instead of 1/2 STEEM and STEEM Power each.