Welcome, Jeremy. Did it take a long time for your profile to be approved? Mine took almost 2 weeks, but it was worth the wait.
I wanted to be one of the first to give you an up-vote too.
Please follow me if you like and we can share posts and up-votes and help build our profiles. Below is an example of a recent one. Please up-vote if you appreciate or find it interesting.
https://steemit.com/life/@shauntaemonte/daily-steemit-purpose-finding-actual-animal-house
I don't recall it taking more than a few days to be approved, but I originally signed up back in December, and obviously since I've not posted until now, I was not chomping at the bit eager to post at the time. Thanks for the up-vote. I read your post, found it interesting, up-voted it too. :)
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To grow on Steemit it takes a real focus on networking, creating content and providing good comments to others. I've been making an effort and have been growing the number of people following me and my reputation score. I've been lucky enough to grow my reputation 3 points yesterday. But if you asked me how that happened or what posts will resonate with people, thats sill a mystery. Good luck figuring it out.
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