Like many of you last night, I kept a close eye on the price of Steem. It was fun to watch the price finally cross back into the $4 price range.
When I started blogging on Steemit, the price of Steem was hovering around .50 cents. I kept hearing how fast it had risen to $4 and I was excited to write on a monetized blog platform.
Now, one year later, and this dolphin on Steemit is seeing some nice returns. I became curious what the average blog earns, and I went digging on google.
What I found, is that a Steemit dolphin is in the top 5% of blog earners in the world. The average blog earns $3.50 a day and the top 5% are between $1,000-$10,000 USD a month
That knowledge blew me away, and made me all the more thankful for what we have in Steemit. Not only do we not have to deal with Google AdWords or advertisers, but we are earning a currency that is increasing in value.
The opportunities are continuing to increase as well. Steemit is becoming a personal bank as we are able to lend our Steem Power, and earn interest from Banking our SBD with reputable whales.
I don’t know about you, but 2017 has been a good year, and I am looking forward to 2018 all the more. Let that 3 figure Steem price come swiftly.
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Another powerful, inspiring post from one of the REALLY good guys on Steemit, who encourages many newcomers (including me, nearly one year ago!)
Great stuff Lydon!
Keep carrying on, making the world a better place brother 😊
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Thank you for the encouragement my man! It is always fun interacting with you and coming away with a smile on my face. :)
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I'm a real success story on Twitter, but for all that I wasn't able to monetize that experience - Come to think of it, they haven't been able to either. I'm only on Twitter occasionally now to touch base with old friends and a few colleagues. Yeah, I've interacted with some celebs but generally, it didn't do a thing for me...now, steemit, this is creme de la creme - great community made up of caring people like you, lydon :)
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At least you have a big audience on Twitter to tell about steemit! :)
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I do but so far they're not receptive - fear of crypto or disinclined to leave something familiar - but I tweet all the stories I post on here to bring them to the site. Amazing how some people like Jerry Banfield import their Youtube following
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I touched base with your Twitter account and saw your success. 50,000 plus followers is impressive. It is sad that much attention has not been monetized well. As you say, the creme de la creme are making out well on Steemit. :)
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tnx for resteem
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I've been blogging my message since 2010. I came here for the alexa ranking and to get my message out. My sources of income are books sales, affiliate sales, and coaching. And now steemit has blown all of that out of the water.
I do a little better than your stats, but it is hard fought.
The other critical difference here compared to other work I get paid for is the timing of the payouts. I get most of my money after 60 days, but some is set to 90 days. So most of what I earn today on other platforms comes to me in three months.
The 7 day payout from steemit is unheard of. The only other place I get paid in real time is for coaching, but that work is sporadic.
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A very merry Christmas to you and your family @lydon-sipe and I couldn't agree more with this post. The community is excellent and super helpful and the cherry on the top?
"Not only do we not have to deal with Google AdWords or advertisers, but we are earning a currency that is increasing in value"
Those two point alone make me a very happy chappy indeed.
2018 is going to be amazing if 2017 is anything to go by.
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And oh how we love seeing that @molometer smile. A very Merry Christmas to you my friend. Come on 2018!
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This is just crazy how steemit can change lifes you are here from so long you have seen the changes over the year wow :)
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It is a crazy wonderful journey. :)
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I have dealt with Google and monetization for many years through YouTube. I cannot remember all the people that had there monetization taken away with no appeal and no recourse...Literally years worth of wort, just poof coz someone was angry at the person and click on a bunch of their ads. Thanks God for Steemit.
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It is just sad and wrong what is happening through YouTube. You’re right, thank you God for Steemit.
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Wow those statistics are crazy! I had no idea how well this community was doing relative to the more traditional methods!
And I can't believe you were one of the first people on the site! I would cry from happiness if steem hit .50 again so I could buy my way to dolphin status ahah
Definitely a selfish wish, but I know if I keep working hard I'll hit dolphin status one day!
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That is what I thought! Amazed how quickly this site is able to provide those kind of numbers for people.
You are a hard worker, you’ll get there.
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Ayeee thanks Lydon!!!!!
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Even two digit Steem price would be significant. My account has practically tripled in the past week or so.
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Yes, it would. It’s been fun to watch the account values go up.
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2018 will be a very interesting year for both steemit and the cryptoworld and how can't it be, literally every day something new comes out on steemit and we are wow imagine in a whole year :P
i still remember the time where steem was at 0.07$ :P
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You’re right, it seems like everyday something new is coming out.
I’m with you, that was a hard time to keep going.
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It's all the opportunities around the being paid for blogging that excites me about STEEM. Like you said, it's almost a one stop, personal banking solution.
So happy to be a part of this financial revolution from the ground floor!
Have a great day :)
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The ground floor it is. We have just begun.
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STEEMIT has an additional benefit for bloggers. With traditional blogging one way to generate exposure and traffic is through commenting on other blogs. This generates very limited returns compared to the effort required. On STEEMIT your commenting can earn you as much as your blogging efforts, and even more. I can't begin to tell you how excited I am for 2018!
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That is true. Your excitement is shining through.
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The content is directly proportional to the gains in my opinion 😄 Very nice post mate!!
Cheers
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Great point! We earn from the seeds we plant. Thank you!
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Exactly and social networking-wise is the same thing!! You are absolutely welcome mate! Actually just made my first few posts and as a noobie (1 week old) would really appreciate some advice!!
Cheers 😄
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Are you on Steemit chat or Discord yet?
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No I havent come around to trying it!! Do you reccomend it?
Cheers 😄
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Just thinking we could talk through that medium and help your blog grow.
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Oh yes! I'm pretty new on Steemit, expected to have to work a bit to make anything reasonable... only to have the values of Steem and SBD go up, just after I had been upvoted by a reputatable whale! An awesome end to the year!
Steemit is just wonderful :D
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That is a good coincidence!
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it is a very good news for all the steemit followers
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Wow, great news for us newbies seeking to. Hold onto the opportunity to improve our writting through steemit. Thanks for the info.
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Yes it is. A great opportunity is still here for everyone.
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yes how great we are
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new here, looking forward to more rise
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wow steemit is really amazing one of the best things in the world
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i guess everyone should read this fine post so cool for everyone !!!
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Wow, great news for us newbies seeking to. Hold onto the opportunity to improve our writting through steemit. Thanks for the info.
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Good news to persevere.
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Yes, indeed.
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