Hello guys! Today, the 12th day of February has started for me with a burning desire to achieve some certain goals for this month which will altogether add up to a ripe and fruitful harvest at the end of the year. Unlike most social media platforms, steemit finds a way to be more colorful each day. It fills my day with hope and makes me want to get out there and just do more!
I know that I'm not the only one that feels this way. However, I have a vision and a target for steemit by the end of the year and they are:

2018 Target

• 5000 followers by December 2018
• Reputation Score of 60
• Over 2000 posts

Right now, I'm currently at 117 followers, with a reputation score of 43 and barely 252 posts. Looking at the statistics... Phew! it's obvious that there's much on my plate for me to do. I will need to get about 4,883 followers and 1748 posts before the end of the year if i hope to achieve this feat!

However, it is very much possible!

• If you are one of those people who have steemit goals as big or even bigger than this, I encourage you to continue reading and if you're not, my advice is still the same, you might just find out that this is easier than you think!

Here is a breakdown of how I hope to make this dream a reality:

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Make daily posts

This is as basic as it gets! As of now, we have about 322 days left in the year. That means that by posting daily, you have a guarantee of +322 posts by december! However, this only makes a dent in the 2000+ posts target.

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Comments

As you're aware, the number of posts consists of both blog posts and comments. Now, if we subtract 322 from 2000, we have 1678 outstanding posts left! That's still a large figure so let's make our daily posts twice in a day.
That will reduce that number to 1356. In order to meet up with that number of posts left, we would need to leave about 4 to 5 comments daily, all you need to do is, go through your feed, see something you like and leave a comment. That doesn't sound so bad does it?

And there, in 322 days we would have over 2000 posts!

How to Increase your Followers

Upvotes and Comments

Apart from increasing your number of posts, comments also help promote the steemit community through interaction. Good comments on an author's post may well earn you either a follow or some SBD or both! Comments create room for interaction, it promotes friendship and makes an author know you appreciate his/her work. Feedback also helps give the author ideas, incentives and perspective.

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Upvotes also tend to give you followers especially from newbies.
As of now, we have thousands of people being registered on steemit on a daily basis. the #introduceyourself tag is the perfect place to start!

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Post Quality Content

This is what I call letting your work speak for you. Doing something ingenious will always bring people to you as they would love to see more of your work. Never ask for a follow. That is generally frowned on here and never plagiarize another's work. Of course, if you do, cheetah is never too far behind. Always remember to source whatever documents you decide to upload if they were not created or developed by you. If you are making reference to someone else's post, remember to site the link to the post as well.

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Here is how to source a file:
Place source in square brackets [] like this [Source] and then next to the closing bracket and without space, create a parenthesis or round bracket () with the link of the document like this (linkofdocument)

Take for example, the link to a recent post that I made; Source
You could decide to use Link instead of Source or anything else.

Participate in contests

Participation in contests is another way to interact with the steemit community and a way to showcase your talents, this could make the author of the contest, curators and participants to notice you and your work and you could generate followers from there.

Organize Contests

Organizing your own contest is also another way to engage and get a ton of followers! A lot of steemians go through the #contest tag looking for contests to partake in and when they do, most of them follow the authors to keep up with that contest and others to follow. So, organize a contest today!

Follow Others

Some users make it a rule to follow anybody that follows them, while some go through their follower list to search for posts that interest them. However, following someone, lets you see their recent posts on your feed and that is always a great opportunity to interact with that person. So, find posts that interest you and follow the author for more of that. It's that simple!

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My February target

• Reach 500 followers
• Make over 400 posts
• Reach a reputation score of 45

So, there's my target for the month, feel free to drop yours and to comment. It might earn you a follow :D

We have 16 days left in the month! that means that I'm on the clock.

Who's ready for a race???

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