Attention Newbies! Make Big Money FAST on Steemit!

Want to make $100 a day here? $200? It is EASY, let me show you how. A simple way to get lots of followers! Anyone can do it! Nothing could be simpler.

Hey, wait a minute. Did you really think it was that easy? That picture of Benjamins and a couple of cheap promises was all it took to get you here? Hold the phone. Let's erase all that clickbait and start from scratch.

Yeah, I lied.

Sorry to break it to you, but Steemit is not a get rich quick scheme. I know, I know, you saw a story somewhere about how you could make money by posting here. And, yes, that's true, you can make money here. But nobody (at least nobody who was being honest) said anything about easy.

But if you got here by clicking that shameless clickbait, odds are you've been trying to make some easy money here. I'm hardly an old timer here, but I have learned a few things along the way. Since you're already here, it can't hurt to read a few of them.

• Stop begging for upvotes. It does not work. And it's beneath you.
• Stop asking people to follow you. Again with the it doesn't work and it's beneath you. Even more to the point, someone who follows you for the sake of following you, or who wants you to follow them might get you a follower, which is worth a big fat nothing. You hear me right, a follower is worth nothing. There is a HUGE difference between a follower and an engaged follower/reader. I have over 600 followers. A newbie might be impressed by that, perhaps even jealous. But it's an entirely meaningless number. Out of that 600+, I have maybe a few dozen engaged readers, ones who actually read my posts on a semi-regular basis, upvote or flag me (hey, at least they read my post), make cogent comments, and so on.
• Did you ever watch Field of Dreams? All you need to be successful on Steemit was right there in front of you. Build it and they will come.
• Don't start your post with "Hello dear Steemians!" Whatever possessed you to think that might be a good idea?
• Even worse, don't start off with "As you know, I've been..." No, we don't know. You're one of dozens of posts on the New page that are whipping by. Why would you assume that anyone who sees a post there has any idea what you've done in the past?

One more thing. For the love of all that is holy, carefully proofread your post before uploading it. If you can't be bothered to write something that's at least passably literate, why should anyone waste their time reading it, let alone upvoting it? I will cut lots of slack to non-native speakers of English who are posting in the best English that they know. If your mother tongue is Korean or Bahasa Indonesian, my hat's off to you. Your English is clearly way better than my Arabic, Russian, Turkish, or any of a dozen other languages I've seen here. But if you grew up in Iowa or the Cotswolds and post in a way that makes it clear that you think there, their and they're can be used interchangeably, I have absolutely no patience for your drivel.

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