So officially, I quit my tutoring job and feel very liberated more than ever. It's not that I don't like teaching but it consumes my time and divert my focus from finishing my own upcoming book and my study. As of now, I have a lot of time to spare for things I truly love which is Writing.

This time, I am going to share some of steemit essentials for all new users that could enhance your experience using this platform. There are obviously numerous tools but this list below are simple things which you could grasp before moving into slight complicated tools.

I hope Information given below would be useful for all new steemit users.

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• Know Your Own Stats With Steemd.com

All you have to do is simply put this on your URL bar "https://steemd.com/@yourusername" and you'll get information about your voting weight, your voting power, bandwidth, reputation, and how long you've been on steemit. This will also inform you about people who Up vote your content. This would be easy for you to keep track of your voting weight and manage to always keep it around 50-60 %.

You could also check your friends information or whoever you wished for by simply inserting their username. I'd suggest to always keep the tab open when you're on steemit.

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• Get Notification Through Busy.org

I really salute the work of busy.org team who provided useful application which could help me receive notifications for every new comment on my blog posts also there's bookmark options to keep me track of things I wanted to read later on.

They also have options to loan or donate your SP which was truly simple and easy. But not yet, I'll tell you next time how to do this and be wise on Loaning or donating your SP.

So, all you have to do is to login through https://busy.org/

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• Learn Simple Trade Through Currency Market

Instead of converting your SBD manually through the Convert Steem options which will take 3,5 days to convert into steem. I'd really suggest to go through Currency market which will convert your SBD into Steem instantly. In the most simple way, all you have to do is inserting the amount of SBD you have and click on Buy Steem. However, You could always change the nominal and wait a little while for your SBD to be converted into Steem.

There are times when Steem price is high and low. What I can truly suggest is collect your SBD and buy steem when it's low and power up your Steem Power.

Steem Power will decide your voting worth and is good for a long term if you want to be a dolphin or whale.

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• Enhance Your Content Through Free Licensed Images

Never ever get caught by Hive account@cheetah especially if you're new. Plagiarism is something that's frowned upon the community. I also highly value intellectual property and using anything without referring to its link, is equal to stealing. There are already several cases regarding Stolen Images which was exposed by Hive account@sherlockholmes. You can check the case through this link Case 8: Stumbling over a few fake talents again

Therefore, Here are list of websites where you can get Free licensed Images without afraid of being a plagiarizer.

1. Pexel ( There are tons of amazing images which you can use for Free
2. Pixabay ( I never use this but I've seen several people using this site to get images)
3. Canva ( With Canva, you can customize your own images with lots of free images, illustrations and various layouts. However there are some paid images which started from 1$ )
4. Meme Generator ( Create your own Customized Meme)

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• Know Your Biggest Up Voter Through SteemReports.com

I applaud the work of Hive account@steemreports for bringing such useful tools to help me keeping track of people who upvote and knowing the right time to post a content.Not only you will get information about your most Up voter, but you'll also get information about your most read articles,current information about biggest vote/ flag, voting time which will show you which time of the day people most likely to vote and so on.

All you have to do is simply visit http://steemreports.com/

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• If You Love Using Mobile More Than PC, eSteem Is Worth Trying

You can simply download eSteem application through Play Store which is developed by Hive account@good-karma and would definitely useful to be able steemin' everywhere you go.

The interface is simply like Wordress application and I tried it once. However, I prefer to use desktop therefore now I don't use it anymore.

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• Easiest Way to Convert Your Steem Into Other Cryptocurrencies Through Blocktrades

Not all of us coming from crypto background and therefore still wondering all about this new world. I forgot where I found blocktrades but it was really easy for me to convert my steem or SBD into either BTC or Litecoin. I am not sure about the fees and I didn't really pay much attention,but it was really simple for new user like myself.

There's poloniex or bittrex for sure but if you're new and have zero background about cypto, blocktrades is a great option.

All you have to do was to visit this link https://blocktrades.us/ then filled out all the information needed and go back to your wallet to click transfer to Hive account@blocktrades and then insert the memo. Never ever forget to insert the memo. That is really crucial.

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Final note

Always keep your Password key Safe. Never ever give it to others or third party that isn't trusted.

So, That's all the essentials I could share today. I wish you all have a great time on steemit 😊 and if you have any suggestions,questions or anything. Feel free to ask, I'd try to help if possible.