Tips & Tricks For Beginners: How To Write An Article On Steemit 📷 [tutorial video inside]

in howto •  7 years ago  (edited)

Lately I've received a lot of messages from steemit users that are asking for feedback and suggestions regarding their articles.

First of all: thanks for that! 

Since a lot of people seem to have the same questions, and a lot of times I'm answering in the same manner, today I'd like to share the given information with a wider audience.

There are basically three things that make a difference!

How To Write An Article On Steemit 

In my today's tutorial video I'm not going to talk about content.

I rather presume that you already have a brilliant idea, an experience, a piece of knowledge or whatever story holding in your hands. It surely is something nobody else is able to provide, and now it's the time to publish it.

Good. 

Once you've created the idea, there are some basic rules regarding how to structure an article. 

They may also apply for your steemit #introduceyourself post where you present yourself in a personal way. It's actually applicable for whatever blog post you're going to publish. 

The sooner you start to follow a general writing strategy, the merrier.

Screenshot | Editing Today's Tutorial Video with GoPro Studio 

Before talking about text, these are the 3 points that I believe are able to make a huge difference:

  1. The title 
  2. The main image 
  3. The very first sentence 

Watch my video, and you'll know why :-)

Furthermore, it's important to bring the most relevant information to the front and leave details in the back. That can be done by using headlines and different font styles (sizes). 

Last but not least (thank you for this outstanding advice, @anomadsoul): try to write MUSIC. Yes, music!

Again thank you very much for sharing such a great advice, Eric. If you still don't follow him, then you should do now :-) --> @anomadsoul

So try to use different numbers of words in your sentences. Like that, reading is more entertaining and less monotonous. 

Video "Tips & Tricks For Bloggers" (5 min)

Again thanks for all the users that have sent me messages, questions and links during the past weeks and for inspiring me to publish this video and article.

I hope you consider the provided information useful. 

Please feel free to leave more questions about blogging in the comments section, I'd be happy to share all my knowledge with you.

Best,
Marly - 


Today's album is called "talking with my hands" :-) 📷

Pensative

Talking with / to my fingers

No words needed :-D

Preacher

Calling somebody... (watch the video until the end and you'll know who I was shouting at :-))


Original content: pictures and video taken by myself.

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Excellent post Marly! You've got the points bang-on!

Thank you so much!! :) Hearing if from you means a lot!
Have an excellent Friday!!

Thanks Marly! Have a great weekend yourself!

@surfermarly ! 😀😀😀
I remember back in February feeling bad (for a second) when I brought your followers to 421 from '420' 😜
Thank YOU for following ME!
I hope I've brought a smile to your already beautiful face 🙂
Please help me if you can:
I've got an incredible iPhone video clip from New York at The Consensus conference, NO idea how to post a clip from my iPhone on to Steemit :(
Checked the web, no help there...
Any ideas?
Perhaps just a yes to my query and then a new post from you on how to do this would help you, me, everyone!
Cheers on your success, no doubt your dad's proud as can be 🙂
Thanks Marly 👍🤜🤛

First of all thank you very much for your kind words. I think dad is proud yeah😉

I remember you and your message!!! It was hilarious: you apologized for passing my followers count from (the beautiful) 420 to 421 😀😀😀 Wow... life is running fast. Now there are almost 1,000. Not sure where they came from and if they found what they were looking for. Hopefully they did 😉

Getting back to your question: you can't upload images and videos to steemit, so there is no hosting service. What you always need is another place where to publish it to then use the address (link) in order to include the video/image on steemit. I use YouTube for my videos. If you wanted to do the same, you'd need a YT account. Then upload the video from your smartphone or disk or wherever you've stored it. And then you can include / embed your video here in an article. Does that sound helpful to you?

Ok, awesome, thank you.
Now I know, thanks to you! 🤗
Cheers Marly,
Have a great weekend ✌️

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Ohhhhh what wonderful person (& post of course)..... hope it helps me in future finding friends (haha)- was already thinking I must live in future from 0,05$ a day - lol ;)

Oooooooh 😍😍😍 That was cute!! Thank you!!!
The idea of steemit is that nobody has to live from $0,05 in the future... 🙂
Friends are hard to find and I don't have tips for that one. Well maybe one: be yourself.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

oh no problem.... I will simple marry some cute famous pretty rich Steemian with a surf board - haha

Haha! I bet the wedding video will be trending 😅

With such actors.... must be the best what the world has ever seen :D

LOL - that really sounds like a bet! :)

I even mentioned you today again.... to hope to earn more (just a joke) - lol.

https://steemit.com/steem/@hastla/milestone-200-followers-holy-malony-woooohooooo

200?! I wärd narrisch!!! :D

That's a nice tutorual:) I love how you look on the pics, awesome facial expressions, ha-ha:)

Haha! I had no idea how expressive I was until editing the footage 😆
Maybe that comes from the time I was living in Italy where people use their hands a LOT...
Thanks for your nice feedback!

Que buen post! Muy interesante lo de "escribir música". Te comento en español por que justo acabo de ver tu entrada "Hoy surfeamos en español" y me sorprendió, hablas muuuy bien ambos idiomas.

Por cierto, gracias por resteemiar mi post! así de una vez conocí tu blog que esta genial :D

No hay de qué! Ha sido un placer. Ya veo que el artículo ha conseguio más de $100, más que merecido! Muy bien. Escríbeme en español cuando quieras, es mi idioma preferido 😉

Heyy awesome and informative post! I was off Steemit for like 4 months, and I just got back yesterday. Wrote an article on how to get back to writing on Steemit! Do check it out :) Following you!

Thanks for your kind feedback. I've just checked out your article, it's really good! I didn't know there are "thinking caps" - I'll need one of these :D
Followed back & have a great weekend!

You are so genuine, it's wonderful! =) What a useful and informative post and video!

Thank you so much my friend!!! 😉 Hearing it from you means a lot.
Hope you are fully enjoying your weekend

Yes, the first sentence must rock. Here is advice from my favorite author Kurt Vonnegut, "Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

Yeah, you sent me a link to his article once, and I didn't forget about it :-)
That's a really important message! Thanks for adding it.

Great piece Surfer girl and it made me smile. :-) I didn't even know you could add videos to one's posts until I'd seen this. Thanks and followed.

You are very welcome and thanks for your nice comment! When including videos you have to follow some rules. I'll write an article about it the next days so stay tuned 😉

You're a superstar, thank you so much and I'm really looking forward to that article/tutorial. :-D

Haha naaaa I'm not. But I'm happy to share all my knowledge with all of you here 😉

nice video thanks for sharing a few tips I have learn something new thanks to you. buean dia!

Igualmente y gracias!! 😉

Oh, thanks for a useful heads-up! Btw, you look amusing. Good vibes! :)

Hehe, thanks!! If life had a major sense it would probably be a sense of humor...🙂
Btw cool nickname and very nice blog of yours! You've got a new follower now and I've resteemed your article "Pebble Beach" which is outstanding: https://steemit.com/travel/@herjournyx/pebble-beach-in-the-philippines
I love that picture!!! 😍

haha.. u made me laugh with ur sense of humor! Anyway, thanks for your compliment. I just followed u as well. btw, i took that pix while back riding a motorcycle. Got lucky for this shot! :)

Oh cooool, that makes the photo even more special 😉
Happy that I've made you laugh. Enjoy your weekend!!!

Awesome post! Learned a lot, thank you!

Hahaha, that animation is... 😆
I'm happy you find it helpful!!! Thank you!

So fun,kind @surfermarly :D

Hehe, thank you 😍

Haha! Well I was listening even if the Go-Pro wasn't! Many new bloggers, including myself, need to brush up on their presentation for sure!

It was so funny!!! There was no chance to stop it 😆
The good thing about being a beginner is that you have a lot of potential and room for improvements.
Thanks for stopping by!

Thank you as old people stopped writing for a while so we really appreciate the help

You are more than welcome Ursula. Thank YOU for taking the time to stop by.
I've just visited your blog, you've written some really cool and inspiring articles. Following you now! 😉

I am going to go try to write music now! Thanks! Great video that adds value!

Hehe, cool! Me, too 😉
Thanks for your kind feedback!! I'm really impressed by the wave of comments received.
Steem on!

brilliant advise as usual

Danke mein liebster Uwe!!! Wie läufts am Vatertag???

Nicht so - waren im Kino und muss jetzt wieder offline, komme später noch mal

This is awesome, thank you!!! Love it.

Thank youuuuu! :)) I'm happy that you've enjoyed it!!

Loved the Video @surfermarly! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

You are more than welcome! Thanks for your kind feedback 😉

I needed this. Although I couldn't help but wonder , why on earth are you sitting on a skateboard in daisy dukes shouting. thanks for the info and post.
-Nick

Why not? 😉😉😉
Marly -

Great advice! You get a follow!

Thankzzz :-)) I'm happy that you considered it helpful.

Very helpful for newbies,5 Minutes video should watch to those users who have not getting success on Steemit.

You are more than welcome, I'm glad you considered it helpful :) 5 minutes are indeed not too much. I actually wanted to make it even shorter, but there was so much to say.

Thank you for sharing your experience with us. Great tips ! have a very nice day !

It's been my pleasure! Glad that you found them inspiring.
Have a great day, too 🙂

well explained...now key is to implement it properly! Thanks.

Yeah, it's always like that. Theory is easy...
Thanks for stopping by!

Great tips, thanks for sharing! :)

You are more than welcome!! :) I'm happy that you liked them.

Thank you Marly!


Hope you enjoy the rest of your day!
I will do most of the things you said in the video


Adding my own twist though

Of course you'll add your own twist / style etc. That's actually the most important thing of all :)
You are more than welcome! I'm happy you found the information helpful.
Steem on!

Resteemed. Great article. Thanks! 😊

Thank you for your great support!!! I'm happy you found it inspiring 😉
I've spent the whole day working on it, so now I'm really glad that it seemed to be worth it...

PS: You've got a new follower now.

Aww thank you. I really appreciate that. I enjoy your work so much. 😊 I find myself looking for your page quite often. So much to learn. Thanks for being you.

Oh you are too kind! Thank you, that really means a lot to me 😊

Thanks! Super helpful.
Your my new Heroine @surfmarly
Have a great day!

Haha, that was cute :) Thank you!
Have a great day, too!!

Thank you for this post!

You are very welcome. Thank YOU for stopping by and commenting 😉

I always will ;)

nice tutorial for beginer

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it!

Hey Thanks for Doing this one! I'm just starting out :D

Singer, Kiter from Detroit

Cool! I'm happy you considered it somehow helpful 😉
Surf on!

In my opinion, for the first we have to find new idea, a good idea to share, then setting the layout

Absolutely correct, that's whay I mentioned that on the beginning of my article ;)

Hi there just so enjoyed your information thanks and enjoy the surfing.

Thank you! I will :)

Thanks for the help

It's been my pleasure!

I'm a newbie, and thanks for the help.

You are very welcome, it's been a lot of fun for mee, too :)

Thank you for the tips, very useful information.
I have already noticed the importance of the choice of the first image, because it becomes a preview for a post. Agree that Correctly matched the picture and the title sometimes decide the fate of your message.
But the rhythm and length of sentences... you Know, I never counted the number of words in my sentences. But it may be worth it? ;-)

great post thank you for sharing :D
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Thank YOU for stopping by, it's been my pleasure!

Hi

Follow @secter and upvote

Hello @secter, nice to meet you, too! Seems that you've missed the part in my video where I recommend to be catchy but not too promotional, more sophisticated 🤔😉 But hey... I'll have a look at your blog anyways!

Thanks.. Let me know what u think..

Sure!

I've left some feedback in your last article. Amazing pictures, but you may improve your text a little bit :)

I'm always afraid that my English writing style sounds horrorful to the majority of the readers.

Very useful for a beginner like myself! Lots of important points!

great tips, specially for me that I am beginner on steem community. upvoted and followed. feel free to check out my posts and follow me back please. thank you very much

I'm already following you since our last conversation 😀
Thanks for your positive feedback!

Amazing, thank you! I wish I would have seen this article before posting.

thank you!

Effective and Fruitful post ! thank you for your effort .

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Love this @surfermarly! I completely agree. :)

I didn't know that some people vote on just the title alone and the first sentence. You just gave me some valuable information. Thank you.

You are welcome :-)

good video

Upvoted! A new helpful tool: https://steemfollower.com/?r=1531

Thanks for the quick lesson. As a newbie your "how to" is a big help!