Hey Again, Steemitizens!
It feels like so long since we have talked!
I've missed our comment exchanges and lots of the hours I normally spend in the PAL/Minnow Support Project discord. I haven't put up a new post in over a week now either! I know, its crazy, right?
It's my fault, not yours. Don't worry, your breath smells okay. It's just that I've just been overcome by events this week. The company I own has had some important deliveries to make and I've been consumed with a lot of outside influences, tasks and responsibilities.
But there is another reason I have been lots less productive on Steemit this week as well.
And that's what prompted this post.
I began to think about my 32 days here, with today marking the first day of my second month since I joined Steemit.
What have I learned in collecting over 670 followers and making over 2500 posts in 31 days?
1. You have to keep posting to keep earning.
2. You have to keep commenting to make new relationships.
3. You have to make new relationships to build a following.
4. You have to have a following to keep posting.
5. Being stuck forever on discord chats will break this cycle.
Check out this article by @tayken featuring a bit of my story from his perspective, covering how He and I and some others, all make the quintessential fast rising, fourth or fifth week-on-steemit mistake, and then fall flat on our faces.
Learn this important tip to avoid making the same mistake!
Read all about that right here:
Productivity Perils of Discord Diving by @tayken
And just like that, this post is over.
Full steem ahead, steemitizens!
Witnesses I support:
@aggroed, @teamsteem, @gtg (@gandalf) , @timcliff, @clayop, @ausbitbank, @dragosroua, @personzzz, @lok1, @netuoso, @someguy123, @thecryptodrive and @followbtcnews (@crimsonclad)
Think you deserve to be on this list too?
Earn my vote. Tell me why!
Be sure to learn what witnesses are and vote here!
All Steemitzens should be choosing their preferred representatives to make reliable, positive, growth oriented steemit.com and steem network decisions for us!
Witnesses that I am investigating on recommendations from friends:
@good-karma, @jesta, @anyx, @pfunk, @riverhead, @lukestokes.mhth, @curie, @theprophet0, @steemed
I voted up and resteem your post.
Check my post.
https://steemit.com/steem/@yehey/blockmedia-com-report-steem-at-low-usd1-21-down-but-i-doubled-my-investment
Thank you,
@Yehey
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I really like the way you put that.
I've seen several posts from new users who seem a bit discouraged that they have not been raking in the steem the way they had hoped.
It can be difficult to get noticed in the sea of posts under the 'new' tab, and they don't gain enough traction to be featured under the other tabs. It is very important to put out good content and use the tags wisely.
Some of these even follow 5555 people in effort to gain a following of their own, while failing to add substantive comments or posts. Others resteem a bunch of, dare I call it spam? Whatever it is, it clutters up the feed of people who were generally interested in their content, prompting unfollowing and a lost chance at a mutually beneficial relationship.
Thank you for this post, I hope to be able to share it and help other people understand a little deeper about the way this platform is designed.
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I have others on the topic in my back catalog, if you run up against a hard case and need more ammunition. :D Thanks for reading! Glad we agree!
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Of course, awesome and resteemed!
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Not my finest work ever, but not my worst realization either! Stay focused my far away friend!
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keep active ;)
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That's a lot really big active you have there!
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You hit that man. The chain/domino-effect thing here is so helpful. Every move you make, results something here. Cool, i'd like to thank you for knowing you. You're an awesome person! :)
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I'm glad I got to meet you too and our friendship grows from here, buddy!
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This post received a 1.6% upvote from @randowhale thanks to @sircork! For more information, click here!
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I don't do well in chat rooms, so I haven't fallen into that trap.
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I bet I could talk to you all night long, even if you didn't say a word! Sigh. :-/ lol
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LOL That does sound like an addiction...I was that way with facebook for several years, up until 3 am scrolling through the content, looking for something to stimulate my brain...
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I've been this way since I was 12 in 1983, when 300 baud modems could first reach fledgling text-only ASCII BBSes! :D
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@sircork got you a $1.04 @minnowbooster upgoat, nice! (Image: pixabay.com)
Want a boost? Click here to read more!
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Upvoted and also resteemed :)
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Thanks!
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keeping active and creating good content is the key in here, that's what I learnt in my two weeks here.
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You got it right! Keep it up!
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Thanks for the useful tips!
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Thanks for using your valuable time to read them! Glad you found them useful!
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just what i need at this moment.
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Always be posting and commenting! Don't let your momentum be overcome by crickets. Keep building, they will come, if you stuff is worth reading, even a little bit. It works if you work it.
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Ugh, but can't I just take a shortcut somehow?
Earning it is so analog.
:D
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Sure. Quit writing heartfelt time consuming posts. Just post boob pics. Insta-win :D
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This post has received a sweet gift of Dank Amps in the flavor of 25.00 % upvote from @lovejuice thanks to: @sircork. Vote for Aggroed!
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I'm going to be posting a lot more regularly soon and as well as getting more engaged overall in the platform with others. Right now I''m really focusing on the big picture structure of my blog, how to best use and benefit from Steemit overall, and ensuring I'm not just posting for the sake of posting and everything I put up always meets a high standard I'd expect from others I follow.
I'm not holding myself to the idea that what I post has to necessarily be long and technical, but at the very least I'll try to generalize what I'm saying into some sort of small takeaway or useful insight from my story.
I've adopted Steve Job's philosophy of simply not selling junk with regards to what stories I publish, comments I make, and upvotes I give out etc.
I have a little bit of catatonic paralysis with posting because I haven't found that balance yet just starting out here recently. I figure that as I just sit down and engage more in ways that I meaningfully can add useful input to a story/discussion that better I'll get at not being overly anxious about it.
It doesn't help that Steemit itself encourages programmatic and sterile activity rather than organic discussion among its users with how curation rewards and points are earned overall..not sure what the answer is to that is at this point but it definitely confused me when I was starting out.
I'm confident that it is worth to put a lot of time into networking through the platform. Learning and engaging in areas of interest with other users/bloggers is quite exciting and i look forward to all the opportunities that open through it.
In any case, I think the focus right now for must is about putting thought to action and making engagement in the platform highly productive, consistent, habit, and efficient.
Also random thought before ending this - do you have any posts on the minnow support project I could read more about....as well as any other communities you would recommend getting into?
All the best ~
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I think you are doing everything right, just need to worry less about paralysis by analysis and start doing more. The internet has a permanent memory but a short attention span. Plenty of time to test, adjust and adapt, with minor mistakes forgotten for the most part, soon enough.
You can learn more about Minnow Support by joining the discord: https://discord.gg/kNxM7T6
Digging around in @minnowsupport, and via other peoples posts with the tags #minnowsupport or #minnowsupportproject
And soon on the two websites we are wrapping up this week, one of which is
http://minnowsupportproject.org
(MSP Web Home)
and the other is
http://mspwaves.com
(home of the MSP Waves Radio Network)
I don't really do any other communities. MSP is the largest steemit discord and probably the largest steemit subcommunity, actually, with over 3000 members. It keeps me plenty busy enough.
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Sounds good, thanks for the feedback and extra detail on it I'll give it a look.
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You won't be sorry. :D
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