I have been wanting to post 10 times in a 24 hour period for awhile now as an experiment.  Some people would say it is overboard but here is what I learned.  For starters I have been on the platform for 10 months and have done my time in the trenches here.  Liked or disliked people kind of know who I am even if they are like, "It's that guy that video blogs from his pool."  

I have nearly 800 followers at this point which is way more than I had last fall but I actually don't get as many automatic bot votes as I used to.  This is in some ways disappointing considering that in some ways I banked on creating relationships early and figured that as we all become more powerful we will all have each others back.  I have noticed that a lot of people who acquired a lot of power and were able to stick to their STEEM investment are suddenly a lot more selective with their votes now that it counts for more.   I think part of this has happened because the Steem Voter rules changed to where you don't get as many votes unless you pay and most people don't have enough power to get the monthly fee back in curation rewards if they were to buy it.  So that is my guess as to why a lot of those auto votes dropped off.  There are still some people looking out for me which is good though.  

Here Were The results!  

My first post was my biggest payout and was a Black and White photo challenge.  I knew to get 10 done I would have to do several posts as challenges.  I then paid @randowhale to upvote all my posts and he was at around 33% power when I was utilizing him.  I essentially spent $27 and ended up with a new positive increase of $15 if all pricing would stay the same when I would receive my payouts.  

After all that I generated $160 in a day.   

Should You Try It?

It really depends on what your strategy is and how long you have been on the platform and how much Steem Power you have.  If I had over 100,000 Steem Power this strategy would actually make a lot more sense because I could make it to where I knew I was already going to make $15 / post.  Right now I sort of know I'm going to automatically make at around $5 based on the autovotes.  

One thing I will say is that unless your post already is worth $10 or more it probably doesn't make sense to use @randowhale  I don't believe it votes over 50% votes and too many people know about it so the remaining voting power keeps going lower and lower.  

Conclusion

What I did wasn't sustainable.  It is easy to spend a lot of times on Steemit trying to do a couple posts.  Let alone 10 original posts 3 of which were Pool Meetings which required taking video, rending and uploading to YouTube.  

There is going to be no easy route to a lot of Steem Power or a large following.  Determine your strategy and if you have to adjust it if the payouts get lower than act accordingly.  There are probably 80 ways to make money on Steemit!  It isn't just posting! For me if I could make $200 / day posting 4 times / day I would feel that is pretty solid and could primarily focus on it. With my expenses I can only go in short spurts and still focus on other income streams. 

Anyone want to take on the Challenge?   #TenPostChallenge

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