Direct methods of building your steem dollar and steem power are blogging and curation. But for the newbies(Minnows), unfortunately, with low vote value and low following at the beginning it is hard. Here is an alternate way to build up your steem dollar without investing any of your own capital using some free sources.
This is how I do it. I found some reliable bitcoin and altcoin faucets. I spend my free time online a lot,so I use these faucets a lot. Every 15 minutes to half an hour I collect these bitcoin and altcoin bits in my wallet and buy Steem Dollars.
A word of caution about faucets. A lot of them are scams and they don't pay as promised. I have found some faucets that pay me regularly as promised. Some faucets set the minimum cash out limit too high so it takes too long to cash out. My faucets' cash out limits are low so I can cash out in less than a week and buy steem dollars. There is even a little trick to to cash out without reaching their cash out limit with these faucets.
If you want to use my faucets, just send me your email in a private message and I will email you the links. Since giving out referral links is spam in steemit, I can't post them here. Or can join our discord channel and pm me for the links:
Minnows(Steemit Newbies) Helping Minnows. Success For All Minnows Support Project.
One of the big problems with the steemit newbies(Minnows) they get started with a lot of enthusiasm after looking at the payout amounts in the posts in trending and hot posts, hoping that they can get at least a fraction of it. But, when they post their posts at the beginning as newbies, lacking the support and following of big account holders, all they get is a few pennies and a few upvotes, if they are lucky. Discouraged and heartbroken they leave the steemit never to come back. Some of them stay a little longer hoping for whales and other big fish to help them. That rarely happens.
What we, minnows, have to do is to take pro-active action, help each other and grow fast. How can we help each other? There are many ways to do it such as upvoting, buying and selling votes from minnows. Sharing ideas and strategies to grow our accounts fast. But in order to do it we have to form small communities and grow together.
"Success For All Minnows Support Project" is such an initiative. You can find out what we are trying to do here:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@successforall/steemit-newbies-minnows-support-success-for-all-project