Blog, Vote and Get No Pay is a fate shared by a larger group of authors on Steemit. The question is, do you accept your fate, give up and leave or are you open to learn and grow?
What I appreciate so much about Steemit is the richness of data. It is the first time where you have access to a large number of data sets about the inner workings of a digital content economy. You can use this data to create insights and based on your insights you can build your own digital content strategy.
There are many reports and tools on Steemit. 
I have used these resources to learn from the top 25 successful authors of
In this analysis I will answer the questions:
• 📌 Why are they successful
• 📌 How successful was their start on Steemit
• 📌 What experience did they bring to Steemit
• 📌 Who is supporting them
• 📌 How do they interact with the Steemit community
• 📌 Do they use the new promote feature
Let’s talk money first
What is the top and bottom earning limit?
The top author 
How often Do They Post?
25 Authors published in total 1002 posts or in average 25 each. 
How Well Did Their Posts Perform?
Let’s talk network and interaction:
The profile of each author reveals further insights.
What about their reputation score?
None of these top 25 authors has a reputation score below 62. 
Short explanation on reputation for Beginners: The Upvoting and downvoting of your posts and comments by other users will impact your reputation score: Further details are here: 
How Many Followers?
How active are these authors?
Steemit counts all your post which includes your comments as well. Here again 
How Many Do They Follow?
In average they follow 39 other steemians. 
Which categories do they cover?
Only a few focus on a particular topic. Most of the successful authors will post across several topics. These topics are somehow loosely related. 5 of the top authors now have established themselves as publishers. They feature other authors work in their posts.
This is all the information I retrieved from their profile alone. With steemd I can now dig deeper.
Let’s talk length of experience
For the Newcomers to Steemit.
Go to steemd.com and type the name of the author.
On the left side on the page in steemd.com a whole table with data will be displayed.
For example, you can see when they have first joined Steemit.
When did the authors join Steemit?
It comes with no surprise that 
I guess by now you have an assumption what decides over success vs blog, upvote and get no pay?
Before I answer the question let’s look at some other factors first.
How successful was their start on Steemit?
If you have a bad on steemit have a look how the second most successful author started out on Steemit.
And he is in good company as they are 9 more authors with a similar start.
7 Authors had a successful start with their first post. They made between 2 961 to 15 961 Steem Dollars. The next 6 authors received 140 to 489 SD. And 7 made no money with their first post at all. In total 11 Authors had a start similar to most of us. Looking at the statistics I can say that I did pretty well with my first post earning 0.02 SD.
Quality of Work
What is their Steem IQ?
With [SteemIQ !] (http://steemiq.me/) created by 
If I compare
Before we finally conclude let’s confirm by taking a look at the “CVs” of these authors.
Some of the introduceyourself posts made it into the of 
I have compiled a list with links to their introduceyourself posts here:
The Top 25 Steemit Authors and How they Introduced Themselves on Steemit!
Below is a very breif summary of their experiences.
Short Summary of their experiences
An existing audience outside of Steemit does help. A number of these authors have years of experience in the area they write about. The ones that started out on Steemit added value to the community by either developing helpful tools, finding the right topics, or had already a network and experience in crypto currencies. Experience is important as well as hard work to make it to the top spots.
You can work day and night, but the key thing is:
Audience
Audience
Audience
First listen to the community, understand what they need and be there when they are most active.
This also answers why 
Audience of the Authors
Who is upvoting these authors?##
With the [Steemvp!] (http://steemvp.com/) you can see all their supporters.
I have compiled a list below with their two to three main supporters.
And the final question is are they using the new promote feature on Steemit?
What about promotion?##
Yes. Some have tried it and even used the promote feature twice and some have promoted other author’s post. Information from steemstats.com/@null
Last but not least when is the best day on Steemit for authors in general.
Best Day to Post on Steemit in General
Earnings percentage wise the most money is made on Sunday and least on Friday based on the daily payout reports (first 4 weeks in August) by
Hope my analysis was helpful.
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Personally I do have a mission on Steemit.
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