This is a re-visit to a lesson. If you are not more than 1 year old on steem. MAKE MONEY EASIER!
This is an important read for anyone who has only joined steem less than a year ago.
The post I wrote then, is just as important today... it's timeless and valuable information.
There is nothing worse than working hard at writing good blog posts.. spending hours and days... only to see that your average payout is only 11 cents or less on each one.
DON'T WORRY
I won't re-explain it here... but it is a message that needs to be brought up again.
I've been there.
I use to make 11 cents a post... and I never gave up. It was hard. But I did it.
Read this older post, and you'll find out why...
Those that have spent the time to read it, get it. :)
Let me know in the comments if you've seen it, or if it's new to you, and if it helps.
Thanks.
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PLEASE NOTE: @intelliguy has a witness project that I'd like you to support. More info here
Haven't seen till now because joined at the end of last year... thanks @intelliguy !
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Slow and steady wins the race.
If you chase money, it runs from you... enjoy your writing as a way of personal therapy and pride and good things will come.
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It's pretty well the same in any field where you are self-employed. You HAVE TO build up a clientèle that trusts you and appreciates your work. It can be quite slow at first. It helps greatly to network and help others as you are helping yourself.
The early days of any endeavor weed out those who lack perseverance. And you have to get up when you fall down :-)
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You are right, on all points. :)
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thanks for the post sir i am a new steem user well few weeks old but still feels like very new and i am dedicated i dedicated myself to post atleast 1 post a day some are long some are short and some are definatly only for fun i am a fun loving guy and when i see something funny i try to share.
but reading this post and the post you recommended remind me these long posts i made and the only way i made money which is beyong 11 cents maybe a $1 or less is because i requested votes from bots and etc.
but i aint giving up this amazing steemit journey i am devoted and will keep posting original work and some fun stuff again thanks for sharing words of wisdom.
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I feel re-energized after going through your previous post, I guess I'll have to make some adjustments and hopefully things will turn out the best in my stay on Steemit.
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It boils down to engagements with people on the block chain. Creating friendships by leaving meaningful comments on posts we find interesting.
I should have read this like 2 months ago when I started, would have helped a lot.
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Great way to get the message across. There are times when you are not getting the payouts you expect but the only way to get through this is to keep on Steemin', keep reaching out to you fellow Steemians, keep postin'. Things will pick up eventually. If I had given up on Steem I would never have become a dolphin (something I never thought possible when I started). But I kept at it even when some of my posts were getting no upvotes at all.
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i haven't read your first post intelliguy...i wasn't aware of your existence by that time...i found you later on...
...but it was a very good post ... in order to built a skyscraper you must start from the foundation and ground floor!!!
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Never give in to despair. You are right! You need to have a lot of patience and move forward. All that You wrote 10 months ago is true now. Only everyday hard work and interaction with other users will allow each of us to achieve success. Thank You!
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Thanks for the encouragement & advice @intelliguy, it's quite disheartening especially now that steem has dropped so badly but I will keep on posting, always a nice surprise to see one of my posts do well and getting great comments, almost like winning the lotto for me as a plankton ;)
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Those who work hard will eventually get there. We should either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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In these days of hardship, we can work on building our follower base. That's ultimately going to pay off when the time comes. Believe in the platform and add value to the platform. Success will follow. Sooner or later.
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Not only that, but we joined a group who asked us join them and as a thanks they would upvote us in a curation trail to help get us seen. Suddenly with no reason they just drop support, however we are still part of the group. So with minimal upvotes and false promises we've learnt the hard way not to rely on anyone but ourselves and to keep going with good quality posts. Well as good as we can do. We now have to find other ways to promote ourselves, like paying for upvotes or bots. I didn't really want to go that path. But without upvotes and support as promised we had to.
Thanks heaps for all the information you share. It's extremely valuable.
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I told myself ill give it a year and im always looking for any and all tips to improve my performance. Ive been on Steemit for 140 days but ive only been using it regularly for the past month and ive seen growth not major but its something
I really hope to keep this momentum up and reach a level where my efforts are rewareded
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I've been here since June 2016. It took me about 8 months of constant writing, commenting, and visiting other peoples blogs before I started to get noticed. Looking back, every moment I spent was well worth it. I met some amazing people and my writing skills improved over time.
...I also made nice rewards after I put the time and effort in, after many months.
140 days sounds like a lot... it's really not. That's why only 10% of the people "who try steem blogging" ever go anywhere significant. 90% give up too easily.
Good luck to you.
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Write and don't expect anything. You'll get better with every good post you write
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Hardwork and dedication is the key I think
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Yes.
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That's 11 cents you won't make if you post it anywhere else. I personally repost here my topics from other platforms and see it only as an extra income. And it's way less than 11 cents per post BTW.
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You worry me when you say that. You should never take "existing content" from other platforms, and recycle it again through steem.
There are bots and projects like steemcleaners and other antispam projects that will end up finding these and putting you on a list for downvotes if you keep doing it.
Some people think they can come to steem Copy/Paste, re-post. Copy/Paste re-post, and do it over and over. All that does is copy the internet and repost it here, making steem worthless if it has duplicate content already found elsewhere on the internet.
You will not go far long term if you use this as a dumping ground for duplicate content.
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It's MY content, originally made years ago, shared with a different audience. I see nothing wrong in not letting my NOT-PAID WORK to get a few cents by not letting it get forgotten on a different platform.
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The question is not "who owns the content" in this particular case.
It's what Google sees. If everyone had the same plan that you did, and just copy/pasted old articles that Google already indexed on a website somewhere and shoved it on steem....
Google would start seeing steem nothing more old recycled content and not send visitors here.
I also think it's a disservice to your audience. It's like "here, eat some of this stale content I wrote years ago. I don't want to spend the time to write new, fresh things."
I think its terrible and some spam bots that look for duplicate content "on other platforms" may eventually find you. You'll be sorry when your reputation starts suffering. It's happened before.
Good luck.
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A wonderful review and every actress showed her talent! Thank you
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The thing that makes this harder with the followe base is that they are not permanent. Once you have some followers, you can't be sure that they won't unfollow you at one moment because you did not had the same opinion as them in some article of yours, or that they will simply quit Steemit because of various reasons, including the low payout on their posts.
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Your concerns are valid, but you have to consider the greater point.
While it is true that may happen to some followers, it is not going to happen to all followers. Even having just 10 devoted followers to your content who upvote your posts makes a big diffference. When they grow in steem power, their votes grow with them and become more powerful for you too.
You have to look at this long term.
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I do try to look at this, even though sometimes it is demotivating. I have invested a half of year posting or commenting every day and build a follower base of over 600 people, but with only about 5 of them pretty active. This gives me 0.2 $ per post so anybody can see that I am not making this for money. I've never powered down anything and also I have sent to bittrex 30 Steem just to see how these things work.
Sometimes I am writing because I feel that I have interesting things to share and other times I do it maybe from loneliness :))
I guess I would be satisfied if I had a lot of followers to read my articles and share their opinions, but at least I have a few that are active and who are really good people. It is better to have fewer followers that really care for you than to have a lot that are not interested :)
How is your witness node going?
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Thanks for asking. Its slowly getting up there. I'm quite happy on where it has gone in ranking over the last 5 days. Still a long road though and a lot of work. Getting votes is not easy.
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I am trying to make at least one quality post every day. NO PLAGIARISM.
No paying for upvote bots. But then I get no up vote and no comments. Its really hard to keep it going without any traction, I love commenting though since it can satisfy my expectations of exchanging knowledge with another human.
I am buying up votes lately to increase my reputation score which I think will catch the attention of more people to read my blog in future.
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The true way to get more followers is to do what you are doing now, by leaving comments on other people's blogs and let them get to know you. This will help you gain traction.
Also why are you powering down? You only have $73 of value in your account. You have to leave some steem power in order to upvote your followers otherwise you won't get people wanting to comment and upvote you back.
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Just wanted to know how powering down works lol! Will be keep commenting and qulaity posting. Thanks for letting me know about power down.
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hey, this is el-cr over here. I started to follow you because I heard / met you in one of the curation lounge shows with @freedomexists.
I did went and read your post, I want to say that even though I already knew this, reading you helped me also to arrange some ideas in my head and most importantly to remind me about the most important thing I can concluded from your post which is: PATIENT!
Of course dedication and appreciation for others are key as well, but without patient the journey could be hard and sometimes frustrating.
Thank you for this valuable advice!
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Its a marathon not a sprint
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motivational and inspiring post ..keep posting like this
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