Recently I wrote a post about powering up in which I mentioned that turning SBD into STEEM POWER turns you from a blogger, to a crypto investor.
Today, I am going over ways you can invest your SBD which will most likely help you multiply your SBD. I say most likely, because all of these methods are gambles.
One of these services is free and other services start at as little as $0.05 SBD.
Vote Buying Clubs
In vote buying clubs, you send a fixed amount of SBD or STEEM to a service, and they in turn, upvote every single one of your posts forever and ever until their system stops being a system.
Both give me about a penny per share on each of my posts.
Your investment here is minimal, 1 SBD or 1 STEEM depending on the system.
This is how you would sign up for a membership to
The picture below is of a steem wallet. Click on the steem dollars, and click on transfer.
Fill out the transfer to account form
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Click on the next button, enter your password, and buy yourself a membership.
Dust Cleaning Services
This service is brand new and I absolutely love it, they have already upvoted me twice.
This service takes all of your dust votes (explained here), and gives them an upvote so that they reach the payout threshold. With this service, you get a payout EVERY time you receive an upvote.
This is a pay-per-use service, and I got started by sending them 1 SBD.
Free Upvoting Services
I only know of one of these services and you can find them 
I have received upvotes of $0.07-$0.19 from them. They vary.
Manual or Micro Up-Voting Services
You transfer SBD to a service through your wallet and they respond sometime before post payout with an UpVote. These services are great, but I haven't found so many of them, and the amount of SBD they accept is small.
My favorite is 
and . These are manual curation services, they actually visit your account and make sure that its not spam.
You must be patient when using these services because they sometimes take a while to upvote you.
Up-Voting Services
Don't mistake upvoting services for re-steeming services, they are different. Re-steeming services are like advertising. Up-Voting services are designed to leave you a profit.
Two services I like to use are 
They each have a website, and you go to their site, you see how many votes are available, and then you send them SBD. They in turn upvote your post. Sometimes they don't have enough upvotes available and they give you a refund.
This is what the minnow booster chart looks like. You can see the current one at here. This one is pretty straight forward. You see how many SBD you can send, and how many upvotes are available at that amount. There are other people using the system at the same time, and I don't know how often the chart is updated. I do know that if they don't give you an upvote, they give you a refund.
You have to do some math when using these services.
The Basic Equation: (SBD Invested < SBD and SP received at payout).
The factors include, price of SBD when you buy the service vs price of SBD when payout occurs, how many people are using the system, how much the service is paying to obtain their STEEM, and other market factors.
Bid-Bot Services
When you hear Steemians complaining about vote-buying, this is the monster that they are referring to. Most other services, pay enough attention to your posts to make sure that they are "quality," which I have noticed basically means, its not plagiarized and contains more than one picture and a sentence.
With these services, you basically bid for upvotes. Sometimes you receive a large percentage vote for a small amount of SBD and make a profit. Sometimes, you bid for upvotes at the same time as too many people and you lost some of your profit. There is no limit to how many different services you can use to upvote your posts.
If you have enough SBD you can keep your posts in the trending pages this way.
I have never used these services, because I don't understand how this practice is profitable to the bidder. It seems like too much of a gambit to me.
Conclusion
Figuring out how to make these services profitable is part of the puzzle to figure out, and not many people will blog about it and tell you their secrets.
I lost about $15 SBD learning to use these systems. I lost the money by not knowing what I was doing, sending SBD to the wrong wallets, and watching profits disappear when the price of steem went down.
I have also made enough SBD to keep buying upvotes, and my Steem Power has increased significantly faster.
These services are just a little boost and are not strong enough to help you grow if you don't have readers who are also supporting your work. Steemit is a social media place, and the only way for you to guarantee growth is to build a community and grow together.
Are there any other services available that I didn't go over? Please share them in the comment.
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