The Secret to Building Your Steemit Account

When a newbie joins steemit, He is immediately drawn to the hot/trending pages. He sees posts about diverse topics and sees the potential payouts and thinks to himself

Wow! Are people making these ridiculous amounts just by writing articles?

At that moment; he probably doesn’t know what reputation points, steem power, steem back dollars, steem, curation points and all those numerous common steemit nomenclatures mean. He only says to himself; 

If these people can do it, so can I!

So he goes to the drawing board, he writes a great article to introduce himself; the community loves introduce yourself posts, he feels welcome, he sees his payout rise quite unbelievably fast, he believes that he has arrived, he is sure his plan has worked out. He thinks has figured it all out.

He gains about 30 followers in the first day. He looks to expand his following and he doubles down on his efforts; 

This time I’m going to do a post two times as awesome”

he says, 

I would make triple my initial payout 

He he. Then, He goes ahead and writes up a new and improved article with all the right metaphors in all the right places.

But Alas! He was in over his head the whole time. The system simply doesn’t work that way. He should feel lucky that his post almost made it to 2 dollars, but he is in no way happy, he feels disappointed, he feels the system has let him down. In this moment of doubt, he returns to the trending page and refreshes the greed that motivated him in the first place. So, he rolls up his sleeves and doubles down his efforts, churning out articles repeatedly.

But still there is no growth, his unsatisfied greed quickly turns to despair, 

Steemit is no good

he tells himself,  he soon convinces himself that the system is rigged to favor the whales and the dolphins, he believes no one is looking out for the little guy. 

The lots are cast, he must bring down the tyranny! He must have his revenge! 

So, he writes a stinging article criticizing every aspect of the system, he even makes an expletive-ridden video to boot. He calls out names of people who he perceived wronged him, he takes steemit by the neck but strangles himself very publicly. Sad sad steemicide, Yet another victim of greed.

In many ways, Steemit is just another social network. 

What makes it special is that it rewards you directly for the value you create while using it. 

If you are a newbie who cannot seem to grow his account…. Do not panic, do you remember when you first joined Twitter and had only 15 people (just friend and family) following you? Remember how you worked your ass off with hilarious and/insightful tweets and gained followers? Remember the nights you spent conversing? You picked fights and made strangers laugh? You reacted to every trending topic. And now as a reward for your hard work, each of your tweets is guaranteed 50 retweets?

How much more steemit? It makes your online interactions not be a total & complete waste of everyone’s time. To make it on steemit, take what you did on Twitter and try to interact 10 times more. And don't foget to power up as often as you can. Cheers!