Hitting 20,000 Steem Power and 100,000 Jahm staked | 100% JAHM vote = 10 Steem

The other day I sat down to write my autumn buying plan. I thought it would take about three months to reach. But today, I did a big buy with help from @slobberchops and I reached two of my targets:

No 1 | 20,000 Steem Power - Dolphin II apparently :)

Source Dolphins I and II. Welcome to the family.

When Steem-Engine started, I thought I was going to focus on @steemleo and @creativecoin but life decided otherwise and two other projects came my way. One was @reggaesteem and the other was @spinvest. Both these projects had a lot in common:

Factor	Reggae Steem	SP Investments
Business idea	Bring Jamaican musicians and tourism businesses to Steem by providing them with promotional and other services through bloggers and social media.	Lease Steem Power for 20% interest and use earned income to buy safe off-platform investments eg precious metals, bitcoin.
Benefits	Brings new people to Steem. Steem-backed token accepted by businesses in exchange for goods and services.	Ties up at least 1.0 million Steem.
Resources	Team with coding, marketing, music and tourism experience. Community ambassadors. Legal entity. Developing front-end. Business and social media networks.	Experienced founder with two years reputation in steemsilvergold community. Investment club with formal Partnership Agreement and growing membership. Long term, expansive vision.
Activity	Constant development and improvement of front-end (you can see they're testing). Frequent posts about developments and contacts outside Steem. "How to" videos. Contests.	Daily posts with weekly updates about earnings, holdings, investors and members. Monthly fiat to Steem buying plan, @spinvest-leo account, investment and other votes for members. Timely communication about changes to the plan.
Risks	Early days for a start-up business. Token may struggle against other tokens. Tricky times for Steem and crypto.	Early centralisation to get started. Earnings opportunities may fluctuate. Future of Steem-Engine and S-E tokens.
Progress	Market becoming more competitive, token price has increased dramatically in three weeks.	Approximately 38,500 SPI sold. Weekly earnings now 185 Steem.

No 2 | 100,000 JAHM staked - No 6 in the richlist

This is a comparatively small tribe with 732 staked accounts, but it's growing steadily. I have the honour of being the first investor to reach the magical 100,000 staked JAHM, although @crypticat is coming up fast behind me and someone is buying a lot of JAHM. Three weeks ago, the 90,000 JAHM I needed would have cost in the region of £60; today, it would cost anything up £430.

But also this:

Source - An extra incentive for investors.

I'm interested in @reggaesteem because it has a sound business idea behind it based on bringing new people and their fiat to Steem. It supports Jamaican tourism businesses which are often at a disadvantage from global businesses but which, pound for pound, contribute more to the local economy. Jamaica has a progressive approach to crypto and a high-performing stock exchange.

Reggae, of course, has a global reputation with keen fans everywhere. My vintage is somewhere around 1968 to 1972, and I'm moving more towards jazz these days, where I'm in good company:

Blogging about the music, musicians, clubs and all things reggae offers huge potential for writers on ReggaeSteem, which brings me to voting:

shanibeer's 100% vote = 415 JAHM equiv. 8-12 Steem

From the beginning, I was keen to get a clean feed for @reggaesteem - full of engaging, relevant posts that illustrated what @reggaesteem is all about. This is where I honed my downvotes, before any HF21 turned up with freebies. I was investing and I wanted my investment to have and grow value. Out went @actifit, @sportstalk and @dlike posts with no relevant content.

I growled at generic posts from @steembasicincome, @beerlover and others but let them pass, occasionally they even got a small vote. They're all great initiatives and I would really love to see them produce posts customised to specific tribes. That way everyone would benefit - the initiative and the tribe.

I give small votes to posts which bring something to the @reggaesteem feed. It may only be a link to a song and a few words, but it's early days and these low value posts are contributing to a dynamic feed. That's important, but what I really want to see are posts that I can give a 100% vote. These are well-written with some images or a video or sound recording and about 300 of the author's own words.

I also love posts about the creative process, here's the video from one of my favourites:

It's intriguing watching artistes at work, or listening to people talking about what they're doing or telling stories about their lives. Short videos or recordings work best for me - three to five minutes is ideal - with a little bit of text to set the scene.

No 3 | SP Invest - No 3 in the richlist

I haven't quite finished here - my big buy ran out before I completed my buying target. SP Invest is a different kettle of fish. This is a savings and investment club, SP Invest doesn't vote and my shares in SP Invest don't have any voting value. This is a nest egg. As well as getting rich slowly, it's a lot of fun and I'm learning new stuff everyday.

My buying plan is about getting into position in the #newsteem; I've a little more to go to be where I want to be. I've built my Steem and my stake in these two projects as a foundation for the future. It's been a pretty nice day.

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Posted via ReggaeSteem | Reggae Culture Rewarded