The Ultra Beginner's Guide to Steemit- What to do 1st

Welcome to Steemit!

The very first minute I signed up for Steemit, I met so many awesome people who helped me enjoy my time on here. The Steemit community is very warm and welcoming and I'm glad to be one of the first to be welcoming you if you're reading this.

Where to begin on Steemit?

Steemians (that's us) get rewarded and compensated for creating and curating content on the Steemit social media platform. The payout is our own cryptocurrency called Steem which can be traded, saved or upgrading your Steem Power (Steem status). Before you get to all that though, let's prepare your introductory post.

Introduce Yourself

For your introduction post, write something like 2 paragraphs and tell us all who you are, where you come from, your hobbies, what your strengths are and what you'll probably be posting about. That should do it if you can think of anything else, put it in there. Make a great title about yourself, add a few pictures and tag it with these 5 tags:

1. introduceyourself
2. introducemyself
3. life
4. steemit
5. introduce

Remember, Steemit is written in markdown so I generally use www.stackedit.io first for my rough draft and when I'm finished, just copy and paste it over on to Steemit. A great tip on subject matter is blog and write articles about the things you are a master at, subjects you have great knowledge in and things you have very high interest in. Whatever happens, at least you will enjoy your time writing and using Steemit.

You can upload photos in your posts and I would suggest 1 photo per 2 paragraphs and usually good posts are from 300-500 words. There are always variations so play & experiment with it. Steemit is like poetry, there's no one real way but a set of guidelines exists to help you get along with the Steemit community. Things like no plagerism etc.

In the beginning, you gain a good understanding by following people, upvoting posts you truly like and leaving comments or interacting with other comments etc. Your influence goes a long way so follow people who you think are great and interesting, upvote the posts you really enjoyed reading and commenting with respect and your greatest opinions.

Let's look at Steem.

Steem is our digital currency that fuels Steemit and can be earned or bought on exchanges like Bittrex.com. When you have enough Steem, upgrade your Steem power. In the theory of converting your Steem Power for the long run is as follows. Would you rather have 90% of $1000 or would you rather have 10% of $100k? That's what powering up your Steem Power provides you. The ability to keep creating & curating content at a high level with a bigger voice and audience. The goal on Steemit is to invest in the long term where you can make a living by blogging alone. This is one of the reasons it was created. For our happiness and ability to be stress-free from from an office. Steem Power gives you more influence over everything you do from merely upvoting, creating and curating.

Steem Dollars was created to be a stable currency for those looking for more stability in line with fiat money. It is aimed to be valued at the USD. In short, Steem is aimed at converting into the USD and also used to upgrade your Steem Power so you make more Steem in everything you do inside the Steemit platform.

The best thing to do is remember the plan and that plan is to keep posting but first just dive in. Be like Usher and just "Dive." You only get better after each post so think of your first 20 posts as your Steemit training camp. The community is so welcoming that you'll never have a problem with anything as long as you ask for help & read up on past Steemit tutorial posts by other writers. Remember, to succeed on Steemit, you have to follow the pack. Don't leave the pack because our goal is to all win, together.

Welcome to Steemit!!!