A lot of people complain about earning pennies for their "high-quality" posts.
First you have to understand that something you call high quality can be trash for another experienced user, whales for example.
I will mention a couple facts for your better understanding of how you can improve your earnings.
Steemit rewards you for the work you put into your content.
The more original content you post the more experience you get as a writer, like everything else.
Its like riding the bicycle for the first time, you cant be ghost rider from the start.
A big part of steemit users who started posting in 2016 earn decent money posting trash articles, thats because they already have experience here and know what works and what not.
Yesterday I saw 
Now, of course he worked for it, Im not hating on him, and I dont doubt that he got knowledge, he got it from learning and improving, he started like everyone else.
The main trick here is to keep working, yes working hard because im not talking about just posting and being a member of steemit.
Im talking about spending all your time here, when you start you always have things to work on.
If your intentions to achieve success on steemit are serious then you have to take it seriously, everyone can earn decent money on steemit, there is money to be made.
Another day I saw 
Just show your life and express your thoughts through media platforms. Do that for a year and a half and money will chase you.
And what you think? Its truth! There is no need for him to lie about it.
This guy is one of those who I talked about previously, who started in 2016 and worked to start the snowball effect, you dont even have to work hard anymore when you get to this stage!
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Thanks for reading.