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Fraid Not! This 5 Step Guide will help you

After posting the 'Simplest Guide To Sell SBD for STEEM', many have asked me to do more tutorials on Steemit. A lot of my tutorials will be from my experiences and also the things I've learned the 'hard-way' on Steemit. Nonetheless, I'm happy to share them with you all and hopefully, you will take back something useful from this post and turn into a beautiful butterfly.

Smart people learn from their own mistakes, Smarter people learn from other's mistakes and not do it

1. Understanding Steemit The Best You Can

Everytime someone new comes to me asking for guidance and help, the first thing I would ask them is, 'Have you read the FAQs'? When I first got into Steemit, I had no one to guide me and no community was known to me yet. I believe some of you reading this are in the same shoes.

OMG! He understands me!

Yes I really do, because what I did next is what you are going to do. Placed in the top right hand corner, there is a drop-down menu. Click that drop-down menu and you are greeted with a navigation tab. Proceed to click 'FAQ' but because I love you all so much, you can just click this.

FAQ HERE!!!

Read through the FAQ and try your very best to understand the basic terms and lingos used in Steemit. If you have further questions, my following steps will guide you on how u can cry for help

2. Be Part of a Community

Steemit is a people-centric platform, same like any other social media platform. You need to engage with people, create friendships and even start something of your own. But you can't do all this, without a community behind you. You may think that you just come on to Steemit to blog and earn some side income, you don't want to socialize. Yes u can do that, but I'm talking to those who want to take Steemit to the next level. Cause truth be told, no one will see your posts where as in a community, there will be members supporting you and giving you advices and tips on how to do better.

You can start with one community first, where you actually engage the members inside and build networks. Here are some of the communities I am in.

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Team Malaysia

A Malaysian community of Steemians.

Only for Steemians who lives in Malaysia. #teammalaysia

Discord Link : https://discordapp.com/invite/9duHqQG

Steemit Bloggers

Do you consider yourself a 'QUALITY STEEMIT BLOGGER'. If you do, this is the community that will help you learn & grow. With support from all members, you can take your blogging to the next level.

Discord Link : https://discord.gg/gRypnga

These are just a few communities that I joined. IF you have a country's community like #teammalaysia. I strongly advise you to join it. What better support than your homeland buddies.

3. Drafting a Post/Find your Niche

Many times, a lot of new Steemians come into Steemit with the wish of just posting whatever and whenever they like. Without proper focus, goal or strategy. Mostly by the lines of 'I will post things about life or things that just come to me'. You can definitely do that because there are no rules about what you should or should not post. My advise here is this, if you want to go somewhere on Steemit, you

Need to find a Niche

Work on your Strengths and not on what you're bad(weaknesses) at and 'want to improve'. You can work on your weaknesses when you're further down the road. Right now, it's all about building a strong foundational presence.

There are still a lot of niches to be covered on Steemit, now that's your homework to find out. For a headstart, we need more dancing videos. You get the drift.

When I first started Steemit, I thought that I could do photography and animation. After looking at the niche market of photography, there is no way I'm going to be the one that's prominent in this field. Hence I switched to animation which was what I'm good at. The downside about animation niche is that it takes a lot of time to create an animation, could take days to weeks to months. It is not so efficient on Steemit having only 1 payout per month. After a few trial and errors, I found out that the people of Steemit needed someone who was able to design good banners, GIFs and videos for them. And Thus, I found my niche.

Some of the profile banners I've designed for amazing Steemians

No. 4 Dos and Donts

Do to be awesome

Reply comments on your post ASAP.
Engage with other authors in their articles
Give quality comments
Upvote Steemians who comment on your post. Your VP is not that important now because your Steem Power is low. So be very generous.
Give more than you take in support.
For your post to be of quality, make sure they have no less than 3 photos & 700 words.

Don't be less awesome

Hold your upvotes thinking they're worth a thousand USD. Be generous
Beg other people to upvote/follow/resteem your posts.
Bad & short commenting.
Ask people to look at your post.
No single image posting without any words.

No. 5 Basic layout and title

Keep your post consistent in its layout and title. For example, if you are doing a post on cooking. You may use titles like Food for thought, Kitchen-works, Foodie etc. This would allow your readers to quickly identify the post's niche.

Also, if you're planning to do a series of a certain topic, you may use title like this.

#01 Photography
#02 Photography
#03 Photography

Having a footer is great too, it doesn't have to end with an image footer. But I would recommend your footer to have images/banners so it looks good.

Things you can include in your post footer

Links to your previous posts.
Your vision/purpose/how/why you join Steemit.
A shoutout to another Steemian.
A community logo/banner that you're involved in.

Note that the footer must be consistent in every post you write

The 5 Important Post Tags

When you've finished your post, you may be clueless on what tags to use. Well, fear no more! Your first tag is the main category tag and it cannot be edited once you've submitted your post. The other 4 tags eventhough they can be edited, it is still important that you use the right ones.

Use trending tags

How do I know if it's a trending tag? Simple, go to the 'trending' tab at the top left-hand corner of Steemit site and you can see all the popular tags on the left bar. Do not use tags that you create yourself, cause no one would look at it.

Note that there are some specific tags like #teammalaysia that is ONLY available for members of #teammalaysia. Upon abusing the tag, #teammalaysia will flag/downvote you.

I hope that you've found something useful here that might help you in your Steemit Journey. There are plenty of other guides out there and there are many more things that I can explain to you but here are the few basics you should grasp.

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