My 10 rules to be successfull on steemit

Recently someone asked me how I became successful at steemit.

I gave her this ten simple rules to follow and also want them to share with you:

There are two ways to be successful at steemit.
The first simple way to be a woman an post bikini selfies, haha :) But I guess that does not apply to most of you.

The second way is a little harder but also smarter.

1. Write quality post not quantity post. A lot of posts that are just copied from newspages are crap. No one wants to read news on steemit. But people keep posting this crap and hope that some bots upvote then. You don't want to attract bots, you want attract people ;)
2. Have a good posting frequency. You don't have to post tons of articles. Just do it regularly. One or two per day, probably every day at the same time. Check in your timezones when americans are online, then you have the highes chance your post will be seen.
3. Use good tags. Don't invent do much own tags, instead focus on the most paying tags in this list: https://steemit.com/tags and always use 5 matching tags, not less.
4. The fastest way to increase reputation is to comment posts from higher reputated users then you. With a little luck they upvote your comment which boosts your own rep. A upvote vom a user with a lower rep then yours is nearly useless.
5. Use multiple channels. There is not only steemit. There is www.bescouted.com (good for photographers) and also https://d.tube (for vlogers). Use as much as you can to get in touch with new users.
6. Focus on one theme. Most user will not subscribe to a person who blogs about food, then about photography and also about technology. Focus on one theme or maybe to.
7. If you comment don't do shit comments like "Wow, such a cool post!" or "Thanks that helped me!". I ignore such posts, its just spam, encourage your followers to start a discussion in your articles.
8. Ask people for their opinion. You want to start a discussion as often as you can. That attracts people and they have something to talk about in your post.
9. Get inspired by whales. Whales know what they are doing, follow them and check out what and how they are doing it.
10. Always reflect. After you made a post and it was not successful ask yourself what did I do wrong? And If it was successful, ask yourself what went right? And what can be even better?

And last bot not least: Keep posting, don't get annoyed if no one upvotes your post. As beginner its hard to get noticed. When you feel like your post is super mega awesome drop me a line and if I think you did good I will give you 100% upvote on it (approx. 5$ atm).