I have been on Steemit for 30 days. I've tried to visit, contribute, comment and upvote each and every day (not always successfully) but most of those 30 days I've been here. Most of my time is on reading about STEEMIT and how it works and how I can fit into the community.
This is what I learned:
First goal is to learn the system as much as possible. But just reading about the community is confusing at best. You get lost easily if you don't PARTICIPATE. So while you are learning, participate as much as possible. (I will tell you below the best way to participate).
Use tools like Steemd.com, which gives you STATS about your account. The most important STATS your Voting Weight, your Voting Power and your BANDWIDTH. If you have no BANDWIDTH or Voting Power, you can do very little on Steemit. But I did learn that if you have no BANDWIDTH (at one point I was at negative bandwidth) or no Voting Power, you can still READ posts and Follow people.
Follow people and some of them will follow you back! If you do nothing else, get a following. One way to do that is to follow people and they may decide to follow you back. Or put up good content/posts and people may follow you. You can also gain followers by joining groups or bringing people over form your other social media platforms.
If you wait a couple of days and do no upvoting or content creation . . . you can get up to 100% Voting Power back. This makes your upvotes stronger and gives more STEEM to each upvote you give out.
Commenting gets your STEEM payout as well as posting. I would recommend doing at least one post every other day and comment, comment, comment.
People like videos. But people like travel posts (with pictures) too.
Try to answer all comments on your blog or upvote all comments (this is hard to do when you are a minnow so don't beat yourself up about it. You only have so much power and then it's all gone so at first, you may have to be stingy with the upvotes).
My steemit account is only worth $14.00 after 30 days of work. But it's fun going to other people's wallets and seeing how much their accounts are worth after 6, 9, 12 months of constant attention. It gives one hope.
There it is folks. Some of the things I have learned about Steemit after 30 days. If you have any recommendations or tips for me for the next 30 days, I and minnows like me would be very appreciative for the advice.
