Hey Steemians..
Preface
Christmas is almost upon us and so is holiday season. I am not sure if anyone has noticed yet, but I have felt that steemit active population has decreased. I don't have any statistical proof of this, this is just an observation. I have been seeing people on different discord channels announcing their absence for holidays. This is quite normal as most people tend to leave their normal routine and travel many a miles to reach to their families to commemorate Christmas and New Year holidays.
What to do on Steemit during Holidays?
With many people unavailable this holiday season, the rest of us (who do not get holidays on Christmas) may get less visibility on our articles. That means a lot of good content may either go unnoticed or it may get lesser views. So posting a lot of content during this time is not advisable.
I am here with few tips for you that my fellow steemians can follow to improve their experience on steemit during holidays:-
Steemit profile speaks a thousand words about you and hence must be given utmost importance. Most of us set up our profiles when we sign up for steemit and then we forget about it amidst all the excitement of posting and curating content and we seldom look back on our profile interfaces. This might be the best time to review your profiles and change your profile and cover pictures. May be you can find a new slogan (in About Me section) that represent you in a better way.
Like our profile interfaces, we rarely go back to review the people we are following. Some of them might have left steemit and you may have been following few dead profiles. Its time to remove those from your following. Your "following" plays a big role in your steemit journey since the "feed" shows their content that you often end up reading and curating. Good following opens door to amazing content. So reviewing your following might be one of the best things that you can do in holidays
Just like your following, your followers play an important role in your steemit journey for they are the ones who follow your posts and curate them. We often neglect the quality of our followers since most of us only care about the number of followers who are following us. However, amongst your followers, there might be few hidden gems. You can find those gems and you can start following them as well. So go and pay them a visit.
Like I said before, the holiday season will yield low traffic on your blog and a lot of good content will remain unseen. I am not recommending that you should stop posting altogether but you can diversify your actions here on steemit to slow down the momentum of pushing out content.
One such portal is @Utopian-io. Its a platform that rewards open source contributions. and by reward, I mean a healthy fat upvote. Utopian upvote worth vary with respect to the level of contribution, but still, it can prove to be a massive boost for you (specially for minnows). So its time to bring on all the ideas that you have been storing in your brain and make some contributions on utopian and get rewarded for it. Please visit www.utopian.io to read their rules and regulations and start contributing.
"I have made enough connections and enough friends", said no one ever. So use these holidays to make new friends on Steemit. Try to visit the profiles of good content writers and build new connections. By the time everyone is back on steemit after holidays, you would have already made some more friends to help you in your steemit journey :)
Are you a good content writer but don't know how to format it? Do you posses incredible formatting skills but your article writing skills need improvement? Do you have less visibility on steemit because your articles are not attractive and lack visual aids? if the answer is yes, then you can use this time to study and polish your blogging skills. I do not have any suggestions in this regard but the internet is an amazing place and a simple "How to create great blog posts" google search can open the world for you.
Conclusion
I believe I have said it all and this post does not need any short conclusive one liner statement. But there is one thing I would like to say to those who will not be available on steemit during holidays:-
Happy Holidays to all my fellow Steemians. Use this time to meet with your families and friends, for we are nothing without them. Spread love and joy. Remember and help those who are less fortunate.
Best Regards
JBN
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