I have some things to share with new Steemians. It's been a month now that I've been on Steemit. I have learned a ton since sharing my two week progress a couple of weeks ago.
First to put it all into perspective, I'll provide my stats as of now:
- Reputation: 50.2
- Followers 220
- Followed 150
- Posts 695
- Steem Power 2,142 (Brought a Bitcoin with me)
What I've learned:
- There is no shortcut to success that alleviates you from making quality posts.
- However, quality posts alone are not likely to get you notices in the sheer volume of daily posts.
- You must be active in groups on Discord or Steemit Chat.
- You should enter contests that appeal to you and that you have good content for.
- You need to comment on posts you enjoy. Let the author know you read it with a quality comment. This is how you build relationships and a following.
Issues I've Discovered:
- I just can't use Dtube yet, it makes me crazy to try and post with it.
- Whales don't just follow and give big upvotes to people they haven't gotten to know. (It's rare at least). They tend to just spread it around their other whale friends
- I can't keep spending 8 hours a day on Steemit!
- Posting images can be a painful time consuming affair that doubles the time it takes to write a good post.
Things I'm changing / starting
- I'm going back to Youtube even though I don't like the way they have done the little guys. At least till Dtube is full featured and works 100% of the time.
- I don't look for whales or whale votes, It's not worth the time and effort. If it comes, it comes.
- I'm starting to automate with bots to find good content as well as ensure I don't miss voting for my friends posts.
- I use markup editors now like StackEdit to make my posts since my photos are in Google Photos, this makes it much easier since it connects directly to google photos to pull in my pictures.
- If there is a Steemian who I love to follow, but they are just too successful to notice my posts then I just keep upvoting and commenting them until they can't ignore me anymore :) They will eventually look at my feed and if they do, I think they'll like it.
- I'm trying to separate my Travel and Homesteading posts with labels on the main image. Some travel folks don't care to see all my farm posts and some Homesteaders don't care about my travel posts. This way it will be easy to see the difference.
Details on Automation and time saving:
For me automation will be the key to success here as I can't always spend hours per day here. Especially with spring coming!
Using Autosteem to upvote the people I follow most as well as a Curator or two I like and use allows me to keep giving out votes when I'm away.
Photo contests are not automation, but it they take a lot of the thought out of a post. I don't want to have a feed full of single photo posts so I always keep this to no more than one a day, but usually just a few per week. Also, I love going thru my photos so it's a win win.
When you think of something to post about, write down the idea or immediately start making the post as a draft so you don't lose the train of thought. I love StackEdit for this too as it lets me save drafts of posts.
Next week I'm going to build a FOSSbot to help me find great contect to upvote and follow.
Conclusion:
Your only and primary goal on Steemit shouldn't be making money. If it is, you'll probably be let down.
There are only two ways to make a lot of money on Steemit:
- Be noticed by a whale often.
- Make great content and be active.
Notice anything? Both of these require lots of work and activity on Steemit. So although there is no magic pill for success, there is indeed several shortcuts that will help you grow faster than otherwise. I've mentioned these above but for simplicity they are:
- Automation and other time saving techniques.
- Buy or rent some Vote Power
- Steemit is a COMMUNITY. Be active commenting and contest entering, and on Discord.
Thanks for reading, hope you find something useful here. If so please SMASH the upvote button. -
