For the frustrated steemian newbies

Are you a frustrated steemian?

Did you come here seeing the huge amounts of money some steemians are making and thought "oh I want some of that" and then got let down by your posts hardly breaking the 10 cent barrier?

Well your not alone we all did. You'll soon come to learn Steemit doesn't work like that.
Steemit isn't a get rich quick scheme.
Stop your day dreaming and take in a few points from what i'm about to tell you. It will help open your mind to how steemit works and maybe help you out with that frustration.

*** The Snowball Effect
First of all steemit is like a snowball, you start small and you write, curate, follow, get followed and you grow, bit by bit, with each post, follower, reward you grow.
The more you grow the more rewards you recieve, the more steem power you have, the more steem power you have the faster you grow.

You following me? You can't jump in and gain massive rewards, you have to work for it.

The more work you put in the faster you'll grow.

Think of it like a snowball rolling down a hill gathering momentum and mass.
We all start off as a track cart but eventually with effort and hard work you'll turn into a mighty steem train, just like this one.

Now to turn in to a big mighty steem train there's some do's and dont's.

Dont's

Don't mass follow people just to get them to follow you back - this works with fellow newbies but not the followers you want, the steemians with a lot of steem power that can boost rewards. They know exactly what your doing and will ignore you.

Don't write a comment and ask the person to follow you - there's nothing worse then seeing a comment with no genuine input and then being asked to follow that person. Again doesn't work.

Don't write as many posts as possible to get attention, you'll be seen as just spaming the feed and you'll be muted

Don't put out constant copy and paste posts, there is nothing worse!

Don't put up posts asking why your not getting upvotes or followers, you won't get sympathy upvotes.

Don't keep looking at how much steem you have, don't worry it will grow.

Don't use Steemit if you only care about the rewards. It will show in your work.

Do's

Do write quality original content

Do write a comment if you genuinely liked the persons article or have valid interesting input.

Do follow a person only if you like their material

And DO ENJOY STEEMIT FOR THE INTERESTING AND INTELLIGENT ARTICLES AND THE JOY OF POSTING GREAT CONTENT.

Now I hope you take a few pointers from this and it helps you get over that first few months of frustration we all encounter.
Have fun and enjoy Steemit.