Newcomers to Steemit and people I onboard in the Israeli community often ask me how they can be successful and see positive ROI on their time investment in the platform. I've also gotten the same questions from numerous minnows who've been trying to get their payouts to rise above $0.10 for months without much success.
My answer is always the same, and in English it's even easier to remember:
Use the C.U.R.E.
Create
Create good content, prioritizing quality over quantity. If you don't have anything insightful to post, just don't post. It might sound obvious, but newcomers who are not familiar with Steemit often litter their account with testing shitposts and treat the platform the way they treat their Facebook feed.
Producing good content entails typing a lot into a single post. Or clicking the camera a bunch, or talking to it. Copy-pasting, typing up 3 sentences and adding a meme is not very likely to bring followers or significant upvotes.
If you're looking for tips on writing readable Steemit posts and creating better content, I got you covered.
Upvote
Looking at your $0.01 upvote contribution does not encourage curation. Your miniscule curation rewards depend highly on your vote timing and even then - are they really worth the work? The answer is yes.
Curation isn't only about getting those SP fractions from the payout on a post. It's about attracting author attention and showing appreciation. In addition, upvotes must accompany those very important insightful replies you write.
Reply
Unlike traditional social media platforms, Steemit.com is not really designed for personal interaction between users. So as it is today, your primary communication tool on the blockchain is the little "Reply" link on the bottom.
I recommend leaving at least 20 insightful comments for every post published. And I am not talking about your generic "nice post" spam comments. Leave meaningful replies that create discussion on trending posts in tag where you have something to contribute.
Remember - replies and upvotes are rewarded similarly to posts, so investing in a GOOD comment on a post by someone with 3,000 followers will get more eyes on your profile than a post you publish to your little following.
Yes, comment first, put out fire later.
Engage
What some people seem to miss about earning money on the Steem blockchain is that it's not the blockchain that pays you. It's other users just like you voting on the distribution of the daily reward pool. So it's the people who "pay" you, and you need to engage them. It's not about pasting links to your posts wherever you can without being banned. It's about joining communities, chatting on steemit.chat and Discord and also bringing your friends to the platform as mutual support goes far beyond the value of upvotes.
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At our own incubation pool called @steemitfamilyph whenever new folks ask me how to get many upvotes I tell them what you summarized here.
Create good Content, Upvote on others good content, Reply and comment with insights that further the discussion and Engage your followers and don't leave them hanging.
Unfortunately a lot of new people are churning our 3-5 different color challenges, selfie challenges, memes and 2-3 liner posts and complain when they don't get upvoted. We are trying to teach them to focus on quality and not quantity.
I have dialed down from 2-3 posts a day to one, to my standards, good quality post and it is rather disheartening if it does not do well but hey its a hit or miss with me at times haha.
One thing I never do without is dropping by other people's post and making a good comment. The aim is not to just seek for upvotes but to make a lasting impression to make curious enough to look at what I write.
I'm not the most talented person out there, I don't write well enough nor can draw to save my life but what I do well is engage. According to Steem.supply I do an average of 11 unique comments outside of the replies in my post. I make 11 impressions out there to make people be curious and in fact 40% of my earnings comes from upvotes on my comment.
So when I tell new folks we are mentoring that my secret sauce is creating good content and engaging people I often hear that it is hard. Everything that matters is hard and takes either working hard or working smart. I try to work hard and smart and give authentic human connections.
Great thoughts this will be shared with my team.
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According to steem.supply I've dropped to 10 comments a day. Need to practice what I preach and up my game.
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Role reversal!
*takes your whip and slaps you with it
Go and make more comments haha!
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LOL
Yes sir!
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wow! Between you 2 this is the most valuable information I have seen about steemit ever! I have started to follow you as well, @maverickinvictus. Thanks for introducing steem.supply as well.
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If you found steem.supply useful wait till you use Steem SQL to be able to filter whatever data you want haha
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The few friends I brought in left quickly, and now talk smack about the place on other social media. My connections are mostly content creators and the high price of entry (to get sp) and difficulty in finding an audience here are daunting.
I still mostly enter challenges for this reason. I slip my message in where I can, but few authors are willing to do this type of work. They only want to talk about their message. Weight loss coaching is one of my niches and I have only found a handful I think could do this work and they are not interested.
I find a better result by working with people that are already here and trying. If I can help them when they are tiny, I think that is the best place for my attention. We have such a high minnow death rate - I don't think I need to be recruiting if I can save someone who is here now.
I have not gone in chats. I upvote good comments I get on my posts and seems to be doing pretty well with engagement out here. I don't have anymore time to chat than that.
I 100% agree with making comments on other people's posts. I try to make 30+ a day but rarely do. When I make a lot of comments it really helps my rewards and that's also how I meet people here.
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I totally agree with everything you've said here. I would love to engage with more people like you, unfortunately, I don't really want to be a part of diet culture so it might just be a content clash sometimes too.
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get your bike over to Asia :-)
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To be honest that is my dream!
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I agree with you on the chats. I just don't see how I could fit them in! I can't keep up with all the stuff that I genuinely want to read on the regular feed.
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Well said @fitinfun , hope Thailand is still treating you well !! I Won't be back till mid Feb :-(
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Good advice but also I think we don't live in a perfect world, so all good content and meaningful comments might still not get me to where I make more than a few bucks per post whereas when my whale friends vote on my posts despite its quality I can cash in a few hundreds per day. That's just the way it is. In this game the people who came in early have a major advantage. So I personally are on here for fun because I don't make money but I have met some amazing people and communities here.
The question of content or comment first? I personally don't just follow someone who has made a nice comment. I look what kind of stuff he posts because I hate when my feed is full of stuff that is totally boring or irrelevant to me. And also not posting your best work in the beginning? That sounds as if everyone has an archive of prewritten posts sitting there?
I blog whatever happens to come up in my life so I can't decide if there will be better things coming up to blog about or not. Who knows?
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Ah. We have the reverse "problem", you and I. Instead of having to create content good enough to attract attention, we invest in making good posts to justify our whale's support and still be able to look at ourselves in the mirror. I totally get it.
I accidentally ran a little experiment. SteemVoter was down, and so was steempty's trail on me. I ran a failed livestream of a Hearthstone game and it was so bad (by my standards) that I didn't even self upvote it. It payed out a couple of days ago.
My results: $60 in payout. $27 out of that was a whale who sometimes upvotes my things manually and I honestly wish it was someone I knew and could speak to, maybe teach him how to set up a trail so he can "use" my curation abilities like steempty does, to earn curation rewards by trailing me.
Second biggest vote is the interesting one. - + dlive 3% ≈ 23.82$. That's not a whale friend, and an upvote ANYONE running a dlive can get. So without my friend whales and with one random whale, I got $60 on a post that I wish I declined rewards on.
Conclusions: if you're after the money, services like dtube, dlive and utopian have their own chubby accounts that will pay you regardless of size or whale friends as long as your content is what they're looking for.
If you're after the engagement - engage. And never stop experimenting. I also had an unreasonable payout on a meme I made on dmania a while back. Most of it was from the dmania account, and I felt ashamed for the shitposting and tempted to create a stealth user for dmania alone so my account doesn't end up a dumpster.
Sure, I can post 10 times a day and be a little heijin all by myself. But what would that give me? What would that contribute to the community? Exactly nothing. I am not greedy. As long as I am making enough to live comfortably, the blockchain will remain my primary source of income. I am not here to rape the reward pool, just create and contribute while still paying the bills.
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Uh, oh, the part with the whale friends was more a theoretical statement, sadly no whale ever upvoted me and I don't pay any bills with Steemit. 😊
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luv u already lol hehe
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You're much more experienced than I am, but for the complete newbies, I would put the priority of commenting on others' posts even above creating own posts.
P.S. I love the "Yes, comment first, put out fire later" GIF. :D
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I somewhat disagree. Having some quality posts for your new followers to discover up on your profile page is important. So I stick by my 20:1 suggested ratio. It includes comments like this one, by the way - replying to a reply on my post.
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Yeah this is a tough one right? Should I hold my content that I think is pretty good, for when I have more followers in the future and concentrate on other engagement right now? Perhaps yes if it has legs, but obviously anything that is timely or news based I will want to put up now. I have experience in online journalism so I would have thought that might help, on the other hand before you have much of a following you don't want to do too much in depth pieces here, certainly not at the expense of something you could pitch elsewhere. The balance is hard but interesting so far.
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I absolutely agree. I always say that I am still experimenting with steemit. Every week I do at least one new thing to see what happens. :)
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I think we should read a lot of other people's posts,
See and understand how things should look.
Gather enough followers before you start posting.
I personally, respond to many posts almost every day
and writes a post (good) once in a week.
You have a lot of followers - You'll have more money
That's the only method I see working
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Strangely, or not. The majority of people who wholeheartedly agree with your post are members with huge reputations and plankton out fishing.
I am an admirer of your work and this article is, as all your work is, a fabulous piece of well constructed writing and whilst great information, I think there are one or two points I'd like to raise.
Content first ? I'd absolutely disagree. A new member who comes here full of enthusiasm who immediately publishes an amazing, signature article is immediately going to be cut down by the fact that simply put, barely anyone will read it. All the big hitters here appear to be too busy creating their own excellent works to bother offering much encouragement to new members who post quality articles by upvoting or commenting on their posts. As a quick proof of this, check out any new members first post. If they get any comments or upvotes at all, check out those people and see their reps. When I look, I find theyre all also new members with low reps. There are a small number of whales who do engage and encourage, but its a very small proportion.
The whales must take the time to be supportive and to just simply read, comment and encourage a few posts a day. Engagement needs to work both ways and it's not always about the rewards, an encouraging, helpful comment and a little upvote is all it takes to give a newbie a genuine boost and keep them working hard to improve.
I'd suggest anyone joining should first read and learn, and work out their own niche topic before they post. Find similar niches and join in with discussions whilst slowly posting an occasional piece of content.
Also, not everyone who comes here is a great writer, or even wants to write. Some come to learn, be educated read and join debate. Steem is sold as:-
' Steemit is a blogging and social networking website on top of the Steem blockchain database. '
There is a perception upon joining thats it's going to be a 'paid facebook' which thankfully it isn't, but people dont find that out until they arrive. There needs to be more facility for social interaction though as this will encourage more people to join in the debate and prosper, not just the high quality content providers, it seems there is a certain snobbery here about content 'quality', just because people are not always able to put there thoughts into words so well does not make their opinion any less important.
Steem is also a wonderful experiment in empowerment, the rewards can help drag people out of poverty, look at the amazing Philippines community here, an amazing example of teamwork and interdependency.
There can be as many helpful and wonderful guides as you like, but without a fundemental shift in attitude by many of the older members to new members, Steem will not flourish. Self perpetuating reward generation amongst whales is finite.
So whales, read, encourage and mentor please (REM!), its your responsibility.
PS Sorry I couldnt find a wonderful acronym. Niche, Learn, Engage, Comment and Create.....NLECC doesnt exactly trip off the tounge !
PPS Looking forward to Saturday :-)
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There has always been an ongoing debate on whether you want to start dishing out your best works when you first join steemit because of your low influence and visibility so your Pulitzer Prize piece might go unnoticed.
Then there are others that say after your introduceyourself post, which hopefully generated some interest for you, you should follow up with another great piece to keep people's attention. If you start doing one the many challenges out there and it is not exceptional. Chances are you would loose people's interest and you'll just be a number in their list of people they follow but not really engage.
I love this concept and a lot of the whales are delegating their SP to Minnows and Dolphins because there is just too many content out there and they do need to sleep haha.
There has been a shift in the balance and power, not that big but as the platform continues to grow we will see a significant rise in the number of dolphins that engage the community.
So keep Steeming and creating content because you never really know who is out there and may chance upon your good content post and boom you are being curated and get a lot of attention, get followers and hopefully engagers and just keep building relationships and good content.
@steemitfamilyph we believe in educating new minnows who just joined with the essentials like how to write good content posts, markdown guidelines, engagement and a sense of community not just dropping their post promotion and leave.
We found that those who are engaged are the ones that eventually become successful in Steemit. Educate, Create, Upvote, Reply, Engage and Community - ECUREC is not as catchy as she did haha.
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So much great advice!
I haven't been here long, but I've seen decent success following a lot of the same rules. Originally, I was only posting twice a week because that was as often as I thought I could create quality posts. However, after a few weeks, I started building a back catalog of posts ideas and decided to bump it up to 4x per week to start test different posting times and get more exposure.
I'd say my weakest point at the moment is engagement. I do what I can to compose and post at least a handful of replies per day. That's about it though. I really need to make more time to get involved with the community in chat and Discord (I'm just so shyyyyyy... And kind of weird).
Anyway, great posts with a lot of good tips. Thanks for helping us minnows figure out how to better navigate in the Steemit ecosystem!
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Weird is good, it keeps all the 'normal' people on their toes....and as you mentioned 'weird', Im now off to check your blog :-)
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Ha, well thank you! Maybe weird is an overstatement, though my partner would probably argue that fact (because he sees the weirdest of it behind closed doors :P). I am definitely awkward, but I’ve learned to own it :)
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Thanks for sharing your insights. It's so tempting to just post for the sake of posting and then sitting back and screaming ' Please LOVE Me!!'.
If all else fails take leaf from the IT Guys: try turning it off and on again. Take a break, walk away, keep walking till you see something cool, come back. Write about it.
Cheers
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Or try doing some challenge from the contests tag. Always fun stuff there to inspire.
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For sure! Almost need to set up a posting diary to make sure you don't miss one of the contests.
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Thanks Techslut for your post, I agree with you as a minnow, I am investing actively in my sp and so far I am happy, though I don´t want to rely on bots to be successful, I truly get happier with a ,001 from someone who really liked my post.
I am following you since I saw one of your comments on fitinfun, I think we need more bloggers like you in the community, at the end it will not be all about profits but rather for professional and amateur writers to be themselves. If people wants cheap content and fake Instragramers they know where to find them :D
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Nice Post!
But seriously, nice post. I found this to be an interesting read, and it really made me thing a bit about what I do right, and of course wrong. It also made me realise that a lot of the problems I have in my life, I end up with here. The essence of that being, I am (and will probably always be) an introvert.
Don't get me wrong, I do like people, and even some engagement, but in general I love observing people and other conversations, I form my opinions and views, but I forget to engage. The part I really found valuable is the "20 comments" a day section. It made me realise that I think the comments, but I don't always put it down in a reply. I look at a piece of art (my hangout area of choice), and I think "Amazing contrast that this piece.... etc etc" created, but I rarely write it.
The other thing your post made me realise, is that unfortunately, creating nice content, and enjoying creating nice content is not enough. That my stuff will probably get lost in the Steemit Void, never to be seen again. Thus creating nice content, goes hand-in-hand with finding other nice content, and also engaging with other content.
So thank you very much for the post, it was really insightful, I am going to try (against my nature), to be a bit more engaging! Don't know if I will reach the 20 comments a day, but I will give it a try.
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You'll get there. And you'll get addicted to commenting. And then you'll get double-digit payouts on your comments. You'll see. :)
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We will have to see, now I just need more good people to follow so I have great things to comment on. ;P
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"investing in a GOOD comment on a post by someone with 3,000 followers will get more eyes on your profile than a post you publish to your little following."
Best advice I've came across on Steemit so far. Thanks.
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I was just thinking to myself it must be time for part two of https://steemit.com/writing/@techslut/mistress-of-magic-morgan-s-first-apprentice-chapter-2-reunion-in-the-palace of your wonderful story - I truly enjoyed part 1 so much (if you missed it https://steemit.com/writing/@techslut/mistress-of-magic-morgan-s-first-apprentice-chapter-1-the-unexpected-visit ) I was excited to read the next instalment. But running through your always satisfying blog I find yet again you are doing the finest job on Steemit to give the minnows a little
And it's all the more impressive because you don't just give them tips - the whole post is just a wonderful example of all the things to do for better rewards. In fact I have to be honest - I borrowed your gif embedding idea for my latest weekly vlog post - please don't judge me
I am forever humbled by your superior work on Steemit.
#thealliance
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YES! This is very good advice! It is crazy bust to advance. There is no short cuts I dont think. If you dont feel like this guy, you are not trying hard enough lol.
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AWESOME, now it has a NAME!
C.U.R.E.
May I use that? :D I actually did not do it in that order, it was more like UREC or a EUREKA! Moment, lol
I got another one for you...
F.U.R.R. Followed, up-voted, replied (obviously) and re-steemed :D
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FURR!!!
I am actually in favor of dropping the last R. Resteeming is a tool one must use with care. Resteeming more than 2-3 posts a day will get you unfollowed.
Edit: and of course you can use it! It's for everyone! :)
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Thank You!
Yes, I mostly just FUR now or UR because too many resteems is a cluttered blog, and too many follows makes for a Cluttered Feed! Quality over Quantity. In Everything :D (almost!)
In reality, I instinctively knew most of CURE as I arrived, I was on a large gun forum and I was like #6 in likes received. But 4 years before, when I arrived, I almost left because it was like a harder version of Steemit in getting noticed. I mean a LOT Harder! But I did get noticed, by doing a lot of the things that work here. Up-Votes (no monetary value tho) thoughtful Comments, and good Content. I was by far the #1 Up-Voter, doling out over 60,000 and every one higher on the list in likes received than I was had a large portion of their votes from Me... Analytics is a beautiful thing, if you know how to interpret the figures. I figured out that my talents were being wasted there LOL!!! But I still go back on occasion. My biggest conundrum here is VP, I spend it so quickly! I was doing OK until I delegated out 2/3 of my SP, now I am fighting the gauge trying to keep it up is hard work, Restraint is Tough! :D OK, thanks for the follow and I think you will be a good 'big sister' at that lofty 65 lvl Rep ;)
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Guns. It had to be guns. I do not like guns for very good reasons.
I am a bit of a social media persona here in Israel. I have 3K friends and another 2K followers.
As for VP - oh I feel you. I am sitting on a nice fat delegation of 42K, and so 3000 of my 4000 "natural" SP is delegated out to minnows in my community. Restraint? I don't have that with curation. :)
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Well, the Good News is that I have a new eye on my personal gun ownership. Steemit has given me new hope for the future of Humanity, I am hoping it is possible now, MAYBE Even "probable", maybe, to get through the coming Paradigm Change without total societal chaos. I respect your views, but I would also be ready to defend the innocent. Hopefully that is sufficient deterrent to head off most of it. It is people like you with an educated, dedicated non-violence position to keep the peace? I mean we all have a Role in this. It is a last resort for me, but I am willing to defend. Never Provoke. I admire the responsibility to your friends and followers! It's a very brave position to take in the M.E. which is a very complex... well, Mess, for lack of a better term (on my part). I did have an eye-opening when I saw, of all things, an "Investment Newsletter" in 2014, which described _in great detail- how the CIA has a regime change hit list in your region. This is all made possible by chaos and unrest. There were originally 7 countries slated for this "regime change" and all but Syria and Iran have come about. Seemingly ALL were for the worse, even Iraq went from bad to worse, at least for their people and once Obama took office, Iraq deteriorated further, and ISIS sprang forth. More CIA BS... smh
Love to hear your take on this, I'm sure an "on the ground" viewpoint would enlighten me even more.
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Yes.
Love this.
C.U.R.E
I'll be sending this to many a minnow
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Woohoo! Happy to be of help, as always! <3
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Found it because of @ashleykaila's re-steem.
Thank you for the tip.... I noticed very recently I have been kind of littering my account with testing shitposts (a little, not too much). That wil stop from now on!
Following you for more tips. Thanks for sharing!
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For someone like me, about to post my debut entry this is very encouraging. I commend you for taking the time to clarify this aspect of Steem for me. Thanks a bunch!
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Are you talking about the "littering of a page"?
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Oops forgot to actually hit the follow button....done now!
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Cool analysis. This is useful for exactly what this post is about – upvotes. Although upvotes are cool and make your account look important, engaging in trending/hot posts and providing good content with commenting is the way to gain respect between fellow Steemians that will eventually lead to more followers. Just posting popular images and memes won’t add any value to the community, nor allow your message to be heard by the right audience.
I am gonna follow your 20:1 rule from now on! Again thanks for the amazing post!
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I really like what you said here @techslut:
I've been experimenting with approaching comments as though they are my own, legitimate posts. By this I mean: adding as much value as possible and really diving into what the author is presenting.
This not only adds a ton of value to the initial post, but as you said, it exposes you to the entire thread that is also commenting. Those people who are leaving comments are likely Steemians who comment and engage with posts regularly - thus you'll be attracting the type of individuals you want on your own channel.
I wrote about this exact thing in my post yesterday (see my fifth point if you're interested in checking it out). I'm pretty new here but I've already thrown down 1,500 posts and from that, have a good idea of what's working thus far.
And I believe you're very much on point here @techslut. Thank you for sharing and inspiring as usual!
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Oh my, your quote made me notice how badly edited my text was. Oy vei.
Just checked and following you already. Good.
I always say that I value comments more than upvotes. Sure, I get nice rewards, but there's nothing more rewarding than a good comment. It's why many of us have blogged before we got paid for it. :)
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Exactly!
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Couldn't agree more with C.U.R.E
If you don't have anything to post about, Just go to Steemit Hot/Trending page and start commenting on other posts, but comments with value, not just 3 words.
Oh and btw, I have gotten 0.096 SP curation reward a few minutes ago, what's going on!?
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Is it possible your SP jumped a bit roughly 7 days ago? :)
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It might be the reason ;)
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I'm loving this platform! The more I use it, the more positive and motivated I feel. I truly think facebook has changed the way content creators create. After having battled algorithms for so long, putting effort into writing content started to feel like wasted time, more people saw posts with 2-3 words and a link than a well written post with 2-3 paragraphs... I started to realize once I found Steemit just how much I had been censoring myself in order to try to reach people. I wasn't being genuine anymore, I wasn't excited to create content. It started to feel like a job, not a passion. By taking the time to read other people's posts and interact with them in a meaningful way, I've started to find that passion again. By paying attention to other people's content, I feel I'm starting to get back to creating better content myself. I;ve seen my posts go from earning a few pennies to often a few dollars, and in 13 days I went from 508 followers to 784 followers. I feel I'm starting to find"my tribe" again, and it's awesome! :)
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This is an excellent post. I particularly appreciate the advice about commenting. I felt like I was commenting quite a bit - which @geekorner corrected me on - but I certainly wasn't commenting at the 20-1 ratio.
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I think 20 is a bit of an overstatement, but it also depends on where you're at.
The smaller you are, the more you'll gain from leaving comments over adding new posts, though you should make sure you still have a page full of content for the people who then check your own blog.
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Which is why I don't fully agree with others who commented here saying that the replies should be first in the order of CURE. No, you need to post. Curation and commenting without contributing content will not get you very far.
20 is not an overstatement if you take into account replies TO replies. Like this one.
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Right. I don't count those. Because replying to comments people give you is worth thinking of on its own terms, as it's rewarding engagement, even beyond engaging with people. And you need to do that if you want people to keep engaging with you.
I'm behind on replying to comments on my own blog, but this is because this week has been crazy. Happens, just can't let it become a habit.
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20 to 1 ratio is a bit intimidating for newbees... but I could see it happen quickly on the posts or comments that have a lot of engagement. Time is a bit of anproblem sometimes no?
As is maybe why you're behind on replting to your own posts' comments?
I try to make that a habbit everyday by the end of the day at least
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I might have 2-3 days when I post nothing, but not a single day without commenting.
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Ok. I can do that for sure! Thanks again
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Thanks Ilana!
People - I can vouch that replying to posts can be a pretty good tool to get nice upvotes, if it's a thoughtful comment and a writer that likes to interact with the readers, and it can help you get the attention of the strong big dolphins/whales you comment to - they might just follow you and their attention is a huge boost for your posts. a vote from them is not only having a value, it also makes people notice you - who is it? why does this whale upvoting him?
good luck!
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This is good advice and judging by your payouts it is clearly working for you. However, I have to wonder if it is really that simple. Looking around Steem I see a lot of really good content hardly pay out at all and at the same time I see rubbish articles earn in the hundreds of Steem dollars. So I think that yes, you can make some money by creating and commenting, but the biggest pay offs are given by people with lots of Steem power to people they like. I am not entirely sure that the effort I put into Steem pays off as much as, say, the effort I put into my blog outside of Steem. Based on the inconsistency of the posts that get rewarded a lot of Steem (I am NOT talking about your posts, which I think are always great and to the point) I feel like Steem is more a popularity contest than a place that curates good content.
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I think it's a bit of both. Having a personal brand and engaging with other people on the platform is what helps individual bloggers shine. So yeah, you want to have friends with lots of SP. But how do you make such friends if not by making connections in the community?
As for an external blog: since most of my career I've written for others, I did not invest enough in my personal brand and blog on techslut.com . So if I want to make more money there than I do here, I have to invest a lot more in marketing. Both time and budget wise. On steemit it's pretty easy - make comments, buy upvotes if you want extra post visibility, and roam the Discord and steemit.chat making new friends. Some of those friends will turn out to be Dolphins, Orcas and sometimes even Whales.
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thank you for sharing! CURE is def an anagram that i will make part of my steem experience. i've always wanted to get paid for creating content so this is my chance to put my crypto where my mouth is 🤑
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One could also lease large amounts of STEEM 💰 to get there quicker?
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Probably, but that doesn't attract followers and upvotes. That helps with curation only.
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Nice. At least I learned something. lol. I'm new to steemit and I am really finding ways to attract readers in my posts. Thanks for this advice anyways :)
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lol! The gif at the end has me cracking up. :) Humour aside, this is an excellent post, and if everyone followed this formula Steemit as a whole would benefit.
This community has so much potential, and since joining (was it only 11 days ago?) I've been meeting AMAZING people! The generosity I've found in individuals and groups such as #teamgirlpowa and #thealliance has not just made my experience on Steemit better, but made me feel like I'm making real friends. It's EXCITING to be here, but like anything, each person gets what they give.
By seeking tribe, putting my best posts forward, and commenting my bright little heart out, I've been hugely inspired. Thank you for being part of that inspiration!
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I like the "focus on quality content" message. As a marketing exec in Israel, focus on quality content - this is how you respect your audience. Then, a few years into the game, I spend a bit on a quick SEO job - as an afterthought.
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Another marketing exec in Israel! High five! Well, I am not an exec cause I work from home and freelance. I specialize in content marketing so I refuse to produce shit content.
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Nice. I do the content and campaigns. So many content opportunities in Israel these days!
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I am new here on steemit and as far as I am concerned your post is beautiful!! thank you so much for sharing @techslut and yes my $0.01 curation reward does seem minuscule compared to others. But I shall not be discouraged!! Thanks again @techslut.
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Wow C.U.R.E for curation rewards
Really good suggestion for quality
comnenting first.
Thanx great insight for new steemians
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@shoukath hi, got a deal for you. If you write a totally original 500 word article with 3 pictures you took yourself abouth anything you're passionate about, Ill resteem it, give you a 100% upvote courtesy of @reggaemuffin and throw in 0.5sbd of my own ? Fancy the challenge mate ??
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Sure, I'll play too. Full upvote and another 0.5sbd.
Why don't I get challenges like that? :P
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For your cheek ive given you 50%, I hope the people at minnowboosters don't fire me for abuse of their 500SP delegation for helping beggars change their ways and newbies or you'll have to live with the guilt forever lol ;-)
Now haven't you got a chapter to finish before the weekend ? :-)
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Hi,
I am expecting you will do keep your promises.
Have a Great Day.
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Sir,
Here is the link:
https://steemit.com/help/@shoukath/how-is-low-self-confidence-manifested
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I accepted with thanks.
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This definitely is the whole truth of the matter, because i for one know how much of time i devote in making a single post but it still doesn't gets the required views and attention. Commenting on posts in addition to my daily post looks like the game changer
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C.U.R.E is insightful. Already using the formula
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thanks @techslut , this settles what most have been experiencing on steemit. its also amazing how you came up with the C.U.R.E thing, its just so perfect. we need more of this and i hope newbies get in here and learn fast.
The World is Yours
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good post friends, I like my friends post, visit is my friend.
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Thanks for this post ! You got me learning and laughing at the same time :)
I especially appreciate the meaningful comments tips. I did't realize I was spamming people with "nice post"
cheers techslut! !
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Good... I like this post here :)
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good friend. this article concludes a very good conclusion
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Good post for minnows to help them grow their accounts. I agree that it's important to be a valuable contributor to the community. Adding value is probably one of the most ways to create a better account :) Your posts are fascinating and they help :)
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thank you very cool post @techslut. i use steepshot if only want to post a photo. that's what it's for.
i would even add to your points, that's it's also useful to post stuff you are really interested in. this way you can bring more value bc you have more insight and you have an incentive to do it long-term because you like it anyways. i think this might even be the best part of a platform like this.
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פוסטים נהדרים את כותבת. תודה! ריסטמתי כדי שאחזור על זה שוב
האפווט שלי לא שווה הרבה אבל עדין את זכאית לו לגמרי באהבה
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Thank you for the tips. I'm happy to say that I was following a lot of them organically without really thinking about it, but it's nice to read them ready-made like that. I'll try to follow what I've learned here. :)
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I wish I would have read this long ago. Thank you for this post!
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Thank you @techslut for the insightful take on upvote shortages. Honestly, I've learned alot since I started and that replying and commenting on posts is worth more than just upvoting a post. Yes you may have alot of influence upvoting someone's post but they tend to pay attention to the people who take the time to write something about your post. I appreciate all the comments I get and I try my best to reply when I see it firsthand. This is a great post!
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So many good posts about why post on steemit,
I love that this place exists it's something so different. I've brought a few friends over and I'm getting into the habit of engaging with posts that interest me, I honestly don't worry about the money right now . . . I'm enjoying a platform that's giving me a space that just encourages and values my creativity, my voice and what I have to offer ! This is pushing me to jump out of my comfort zone and into the future . I'll be here upvoting and leaving comments and all the wile making my contributions better and better till I'm expressing the beauty that life is, like a flower blossoming or a sunset or birds flocking. Words melting like butter, but not needing any creature to suffer . Life online in real time #fullsteemahead
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Also take part in contest and challenges i am sure all of you gonna find the ones that most suit you!
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Thank you for taking the time to educate people like me. I am old for this platform but doing my best to learn how to Steemit!
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No such thing. I've come across users in their 80s.
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Wow great information about, how to earn and learn in this community. Very true even we can earn and learn more by commenting and appreciating people besides posting our own post. Yes friend networking is the key to success in this world. Thanks for sharing such a valuable lesson for us, it's like a precious treasure for me. Thanks.
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"newcomers who are not familiar with Steemit often litter their account with testing shitposts and treat the platform the way they treat their Facebook feed. "
Have to admit, I was guilty of this. Lol Good thing I met you.
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I assure you, you're not the only one with a shitposty past. We all learn and we all accept that our failed attempts are still up there on the blockchain. And I am happy we met because I get to help out a fellow steemian make more money and contribute to the community. Everyone wins.
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Those tips are great but the gifs make the post so funny! 🤣🤣
I am applying those tips and is always good to remember the importance of commenting on other people’s posts plus engaging in the chats!
Cheers!
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Great post. I used to have lots of issues getting upvotes on my posts. I found once I started to focus more on the quality and started to be more actively engaged with other users I did start getting better payouts. It's all a give and take with this. You have to give your time even if your not posting, just engaging with other people will benefit you in the long term. Thats how you develop a fan base and discover other posters who may have content that you really enjoy. I have found great people to follow on here.
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all your posts are very talented. and I really like to read your post. there is sek sek and political and life I really like your post this time.
Upvote and resteem
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Wow i love this,thanks for the information
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Thank you for these instructions
As a member of Steemit I try to learn from the people who own
I made an effort to apply their guidance in my publication
Next, God willing, it will be better
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Oddly, I seem to have gotten the most interaction on my very first post and a lot less further on 🤔 but definitely trying to interact more. This is an interesting place to be and there's lots to talk about. I actually really like that it's not people you know in person because you're able to communicate in a way that addresses the content more thoroughly. Thanks for a great post! Enforces what I was thinking :)
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Very informative to a newbie like me! Thank you for sharing @techslut. From now on I will use C.U.R.E to every post I make.
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"typing up 3 sentences and adding a meme"- That's me. ahmm
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I love it when people recognize themselves in my writing. Means I nailed it.
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Great post tnx for sharing I just upvote check out my post steemit all the way
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its an usefelly info for me thats i upvoted. If you re-upvote of my posting, its more better to me
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My Upvote does not give 0.01$, it gives 0.00$ ;)
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THIS WILL HELP MEE THANK YOU FOR THIS POST
IF YOU AGREE WITH ME VOTEUP THIS COMMEND THANK YOU
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I liked the acronym !! Great article, you summed it up very well !
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With us being new to steemit it is good to know that we can get to know others without it being weird and at the same time it helps our blogs to grow. This is one of the best thing here on Steemit, that we help each other out.
Being patient is the key to everything in life. :)
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well said. I also think when we come to Steemit to enjoy the community first and to really enjoy what we have to say or do (for me I just really love sharing my art and silly things about my chickens and quail). This just helps to make you a better presence, then hopefully other like minded people will find you and follow you. I always try to go and reply and follow back but each day I feel sometimes like I am missing some people. I do wish there was a better way to be interconnected.
Really good advice. And do contests and challegnes! I have found some other wonderful artists because of these and I found wonderful @techslut because of a contest she was hosting. So, get involved.
Good words all round. :)
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What is a minnow?
Let me, as Newby also add that one probably first needs to read a lot of these kind of posts to understand how things work. So you need to invest some time. Best way to do so is because you really like to learn how steemit and/or crypto world works. Cause when you're having fun, time flies!
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Planktop is below 500 Steem Power. Minnow is below 5,000 Steem Power. "Minnow" is the general catch-all term for people without much impact, or who don't get many upvotes worth much on their content.
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Thanks!
Although this raises new questions for me 😀
I think I now have 15 steem power, 0,5 and (14,5). The (14,5) will be delagated in the coming 13 weeks and the 0,5 can I power down right now. So minnows did not earn any steem in the last 13 weeks and powered down everything to earn like $3?
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They did not power down.
They just didn't earn any noticeable amount.
The 14.5 is going to disappear soon. Steem gives all new accounts a bit of free Steem Power so they could act in the system.
I also didn't say 0. Minnows is 500-5000 SP. It takes a while to even get to 500.
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Thanks for your advises.
Telling the truth 6 month ago when I discovered steem I say to myself why not lets try but after 3 month I understand that for someone that is not so excellent in writing the only way to make some money on steem is just to create a big group and upvote each other. As long as your vote has a value, it is so difficult to engage with others here if you didn't know them .
Maybe I'm wrong but even you make good replay again .............................. So to make some money here just create a big group or.......pay the bots!
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Hey @techslut i really needed this, im working on it. Shout out to all my Israeli folks across the ponds! much love and i resteemed for all my friends and followers... the link with tips on writing posts helped alot also. Peace.
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hello, you would recommend some chat now I do not have many added
hola, recomendarías un poco de chat
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Let’s try this strategy.
For really Investors, I believe it will be really pay off !
Thank you.
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very interesting post, and very good, I really like posting @techslut.
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Thank you so much for this post. I will definitely take your CURE method to heart. I feel that everyone has their own voice on their profile. I enjoy reading other people's post and commenting. I just didn't realize how big of a difference it really makes. I really appreciate this post and feel it gives me motivation to better myself as well. Thank you @techslut
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The opposite C.O.D.I. only works for whales:
Copy
Oust
Downvote
Ignore
I didn't even follow your order!
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Amazing post! The C.U.R.E abbreviation makes it easy to remember. I'll be sure to check out some of your other posts.
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Finding good content on here is like digging through a haystack for a needle.
Obviously if you are low man on the totem pole nobody gives a rip about reading anything you post regardless if it's good content or not.
Who really is the judge of good content? One mans junk is another mans treasure.
It's totally disheartening to watch people use outrageous antics to con other people out of money, they make thousands doing it and it's obvious they are doing it. Why isn't anybody stepping up to the plate on that kind of abuse.
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Some are stepping up. The rest of us can't. I do my best finding those needles in the haystack and giving them my love. Why? To encourage them and make curation rewards for me.
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I like to blog, sort of addicted to it, if I didn't make a dime doing it it wouldn't matter to me I'd still do it. As long as it never ends up costing me anything out of pocket I too will continue to look for the needles in the haystack, they are what make blogging worth it, even a learning experience way beyond what I ever thought I was capable of. People don't have to be a genius to critique my interest, variety is the spice of life and I guess that's why blogging works for me. In the worse case scenarios though I can still step up verbally because it really does matter.
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So true that steemit is not facebook. The right and fair approach in earning indeed comes down to interacting with one another. When I find rewarding is that I get to learn and get paid when on steemit but above all have the opportunity to build relationship with people all over the globe.
All your tips I have started to applied through my experiences on steemit. Something to add is that earning rewards on steemit does not happen in a day. Life does not pass by in a day. So do not expect results over night. Be patient and consistently on steemit and chat rooms is vital to being successful on steemit. Thanks.
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I have learnt a great deal of new insightful things from your post and the comments it generated. Thank you for your tips! Since I joined the platform I had posted once a day and make at least 4-5 comments. I will try to comment more.
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Thank your or the tips! I'm still new and figuring it all out but this is a great place to start.
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Yeah.. Your C.U.R.E is a great formula... I am already doing this but I will definitely engage with other posts more now... Thanks for sharing such a useful information... And I will share this post with other minnows and my group friends surely...
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