Why Some people are Successful & others are not in Steemit

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Steemit is a social media platform where people from all walks of life come to blog and have fun. However, many ( this blogger inclusive) joined steemit to earn a living and have a better source of income as such, they come with high hopes from what they heard and with great expectations. But once they join steemit, first week, second week, third week, reality sets in and they find out the hard way that being successful in steemit does not come easy and steemit is not a get rich quick outfit where you register, post any garbage and see money doubling by the hour. When such reality sets in, many folks start talking rubbish against steemit and blaming top steemians who have worked their way to the top, saying steemit is fraud or favors only those at the top, more like "the more you look the less you see". Those folks keep wining because they could not reap where they have not sown.


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However, some steemians keep making it to trending as their post is always attracting many comments, upvotes and followers thereby raking in majority of the reward pool. You could cal them the successful 1% out of thousands of bloggers whose posts never get noticed or make it in hot & trending. One may wonder why such and if its true that steemit is for the few. The answer is no and below are the reasons why some steemias are more successful than others.


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  • Free mindset- Successful steemians join with free mindset to have fun and create good contents as such, they did not put money first. They kept working hard daily, making friends and later success started following them

  • Consistency- No short cut to success. To understand the secret of a successful steemian, go to their blog, follow them and always read their post plus drop reasonable comments. Usually most successful bloggers in steemit post on daily basis if not multiple times a day as such, their blog get to many folks who fall in love with their contents, there by following and upvoting them. By being consistent, you get noticed and make many friends along the way who will usually repay the gesture by visiting your blog posts.

  • Quality content- Successful steemians do garnish the steemit ecosystem with great quality content. You can confirm this by checking out those who are always trending and read the kind of consistent quality content they share and compare with yours. It is not by quantity or volume of the post but by quality of its contents. Ensure you write short and interesting contents by going straight to the point so readers do not get bored along the way.

  • Relevant tags- To succeed in steemit, you cannot compete with extablished steemians in very popular tags. Find a less busy tag and share your posts there where it can be seing in hot and trending. Going to popular tags like steemit, busy, steem, cryptocurrency, life etc will make your post dissapear as they come. More so, use related tags which gets attention of the audience you targeting. Do not post on food and tag bitcoin , or health and tag politics. Ensure your posts are directed to the right tags.

Using Bots- If you are a minnow and you are sure of creating good contents that gets loss in the pool as you post it, many top steemians has found a way to help ensure your post competes with posts from top steemans in hot and trending sections. Study and find a bot that best suites your budget that can quickly upvote your post taking it to hot from where many readers will find it. Check out Steem Bot Tracker for guide

Join Competitions- In steemit, there are many minnow support projects and programs aimed to help minnows grow. More so its where minnows come and join heads together to find ways to help one another. Many new steemians do engage in so many competitions for minnows and with their innovative spirit win valuable SBD's. This usually helps them gain popularity quick and boost their morale.

Keep to the rules- Most successful steemians started by following the rules and ensure they do not plagiarize or copy and paste other peoples work. More so, they ensure they avoid folks who request others to follow 4 follow, resteem 4 resteem and spamming peoples comment section with irrelevant post links or begging for upvotes. This acts usually annoys people who hitherto might wanna come upvote a post. Such folks never grow in steemit.

Invest in steem- Those who succeed here are in the habit of investing in steem by powering up and not power down unnecessarily. Most folks even bring in external funds, buy up steem when its cheaper, power up and engage in some beneficial ventures like delegating/leasing their steem for interests thereby benefiting from other streams of income here even if they are not skilled bloggers.

So, from the above we now know that although steemit is a place for everyone, not everyone has a tendency to succeed here rather those who are ready to work themselves up with good contents and consistency. So if you want to succeed here, stop wining and start working.

Wishing us love and success here in steemit.

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I wish I had had your advice about not using the bigger/popular tags last night. I’ve been sadly wondering why a post that I thought would be well received, has barely been even looked at, and now I know! Thank you for writing this guide!

I also wrote a post on why I think that using lesser used tags is better than using the big ones.

What you can do is simply type any tag at the end of: https://steemit.com/created/put_tag_here

And you can see how many posts are shown. If there is a good number but not too high, I'd say use it.

Still I think that adding 1 or 2 main tags might help you get some big reach and if you're lucky you might get trending in these and it will surely pay out.

just went to your blog, you post multiple times a day, which would not get any traction since yu are yet to have enough followers. first build your followers by engaging more and commenting intelligently, then post 3 times weekly and increase as you grow, use bot to get your posts noticed and relevant tags.

Wow, thank you so much for checking out my blog and for that feedback! I’ll take it to heart. I really appreciate it.

welcome dear. do ensure you follow me for more interactions through comments. am sure you make it here you have great contents just learn and perfect timing and how to use wisely.

Followed! and thank you for the encouragement :)

Welcome and keep steeming hot

But once they join steemit, first week, second week, third week, reality sets in and they find out the hard way that being successful in steemit does not come easy and steemit is not a get rich quick outfit where you register, post any garbage and see money doubling by the hour

This is the way of weeding out the non-serious ones.

I like to think I, and you, are in the 1% you mentioned. Success is what you make of it and as the saying goes, you get out what you put in

nice one @goldendawne and yes, I couldn't agree with you more. Even though we are still far away from the 1%, we surely are heading in that direction this year! lets keep steeming hot and thanks for the comment and support.

Absolutely! Like you, who is using steemit as an income-based lifestyle, I too am here for more than just post, comment and leave.

Long term? Oh yes... this is my career now and hopefully in about five years the additional amount and monetary resources we'll need here to retire for good.

sure and love the spirit. 5yrs you say! well, we will be swimming with the whales and feeding the dolphins in 5yrs time ;)

Agree: helpful information bro

Sure. Let's steem on

Yh lets

Good post. I am new in steemit .your post have good contents that will help steemians to have success in the steemit community. Thanks for posting.

welcome to steemit and yes, consistency, originality and good content is the key to success. see you on top!

Thanks a lot

It is very helpful for me because I'm new here and after read your post I get much things that I never now before so kindly keep posting such an informative content I really enjoying from your post .thank very much .and keep it up.

welcome and keep working hard so we meet at the top.

Great informative post! Ya know, I always thought it was better to post in the larger tags because more people would be there...but now I understand a little more, thanks! And I agree that you get out of it what you put in!

sure and keep steeming hot

Thanks for this post. Gives me some fresh ideas and motivation to keep at it :)

welcome and keep steeming hot so you build up your reputation and we meet at the top.

80% original content 20% hardwork

agree with you. keep steeming hot

Perseverance and SteemIt Interaction is the key. The more you engage, the more you get your content to more people.

sure and i couldn't agree with you more on this one. thanks for the comment

Very good post. I think the following post will add a good flavor to your post. Its very similar to your post.
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@blog-beginner/helping-new-joiners-become-successful-at-steemit-part-1

read my post carefully and you find that sharing links in others comment sectionor blog is against the steemit rules which leads to lack of growth. so change your style.

Hey sorry, thought the blog was relevant. Literally had no intentions of promoting my blog. Trust me.
Anyways will keep that in mind.

sure and lets keep steeming hot

I just put out content that interests me and that I hope may interest others. For a short time I was seeing only posts with a meme picture and no content....but now I am finding others that want to share what they know.

It's an interesting platform, and I have only been on Steemit for about 6 months now. I enjoy the opportunity to learn from others worldwide while honing my writing skills. Win/win!

Have a great day @kenhudoy!

sure and i couldn't agree with you more on this. thanks for the comment @yoginiofoz

You are very welcome @kenhudoy! :-)

Thanks...this is really useful....keep on steeming bro.....Proudly Nigerian

i feel you Kuboskeey
keep steeming hot!

You only get out of Steemit the amount of effort you put in. It is the same as in life. There is no free ride. If you come to this platform with the idea that you will make megabucks in the first month, then you need to re-evaluate your motivations.

couldnt agree with you more and this is the mindset of many folks especially from 3rd world countries who come into steemit as a means of get rich quick with no efforts. thanks for the comment.

Interesting post. I learned some new stuff I haven't heard before. I agree that this place isn't get-rich-quick scheme which makes me happy for a simple reason. Get-rich-quick has usually no future and it is only a trick. The place where you actually need to work hard is the place which usually pays the most in a long run. You mentioned competitions for minnow. Do you know how can I find them? I would like to participate but I have no idea where to go or what to do. Any answer will be very appreciated. Thank you

sure. go to minnowssupport tag
minnowsunite
keep reading posts there and find posts advertising some sort of competition
more so, you can go t steemit.chat and at general section ask about links to discord channels or competitions
i have some good friends who also organize compatitons
check out for food
@progressivechef
for positive vibes
@karenmckersie

there are many others...meme challenge , photo or color challenge etc just engage more, chat with folks and get all the neccessary infos
feel free always to come back for guide. and do follow for more interesting posts

Excellent points made here!
Thanks!

Welcome as always

Your always on point @kenhudoy, becoming successful in steemit requires hard work and consistency. one have to think about the long time not the short time since steemit is not get rich quick platform. upvoted

thanks and lets keep looking at long term and not short term.
steem on hyseee

Consistency is key - agree 100% #bpositive

sure and working hard on daily basis. keep steeming hot

100%

👌😎

Sure 💪

How will I get payment from here?

How do you mean get payment from here.?

Invest in steem- Those who succeed here are in the habit of investing in steem by powering up and not power down unnecessarily. Most folks even bring in external funds, buy up steem when its cheaper, power up and engage in some beneficial ventures like delegating/leasing their steem for interests thereby benefiting from other streams of income here even if they are not skilled bloggers.

If someone is to buy huge Steem and power up, is there any guarantees people will gain more, if you are not too popular among steemians.?

sure. if you have huge steem power, your upvotes value becomes high and you earn more through curation, some upvote themselves too and earn, you check out bots that lease and pay for your steem power like minnowbooster, booster, upme etc. More so, most of us believe after the next hard fork and SMT's launch, steem that is still undervalued will rise in value even more than 50 to 100$ by then those with high steem power will be very rich.

Excellent and interesting post. Thanks for sharing

Thanks for the comment

As a new member to the steemit community, I have to say that I am grateful for this post. l literally took notes from your post. Thanks

Good one and welcome to steemit

Thank you.

Welcome dear.