Escaping the "red fish" race - Level #1

in #blog5 years ago (edited)

You just joined Steemit, Yay!

What are your expectations? Huge payout? Upvote from Whales? Get noticed by curators?
If you are like me who know nothing about how Steem works when I first joined. Zero knowledge about crypto & blockchain... No idea how to blog... No amazing talent in singing or dancing or even vlogging...
 

source   Then one could simply give-up and forget about this new "decentralized" platform and go back to the old ways of "centralized" platform. Hold on. Before jumping into a conclusion about Steem & or Steemit, why don't you chill down and explore the possibilities of you finding a niche where you will thrive. When Steemit was first introduced to me, I was told that it's just another form of social media and Steem is like a digital currency. These impressions are just a part of a bigger definition of what they really are. I won't give you technical definition for it, it isn't my specialty, let me just define it in such a way that a layman like would understand.  

source   Firstly, Steemit is a website where you can blog stories and write articles about your cryptocurrency, photography, science or any other topics that wish to. In your blog, you may also upload contents like photos, videos, songs...etc much like what you can in other socail media platform like reddit, facebook, instagram, youtube and many more. So what is the difference? The major distinction is that Steemit is a decentralized platform where you own your data, you have freedom of speech, it's censorship free, and the best part is that you can monetize your content & activities in many ways.   Create content A content could be in a form of writing stories, travel experience, food recipe, poem...etc Aside from writing, you can also showcase your photos, artwork, your talent in singing & dancing or just about anything that others would see value in it. If the other users see your your interesting enough or something that provides value to their life then they will be happy to upvote your post. Depending on how much stake or Steem power they own, your block could receive a $0.001 to $10 or even $100! Sounds scammy? or too difficult? Think about it, outside the virtual world, when you write a book and "luckily" you got yourself a publisher and got your books displayed at a book store. Unless your book is so unique and so interesting that people would be happy to buy a copy of it, most of the time the book will hopelessly sit there until it reach a certain period that the store will it dispatched somewhere else.  

source For the book to be successful, it has to undergo to a thorough marketing campaign with the author shamelessly promoting it to hopefully get it sold. Well, in my opinion Steemit is a reflection of the real world. Unless you are a social media influencer or a famous person to begin with, your journey in this platform will always start a "Red Fish" - the starting level of ones's account. An account who have an Steem power lower than 500sp. So how do you get your contents noticed? If you pray long enough then hopefully the curators will find your content hidden beneath the other numerous contents and you get yourself an upvote. If you are lucky enough, 1 out of 5 contents will be curated since curators have an objective goal to distribute the limited rewards. Another way to gain attention for your post is by getting yourself noticed first. Look for a community that share the same passion as you are and engage in a meaningful discussion and be a loyal contributor or a member. By doing this way, you will be open to more opportunities of meeting other people that could be new to Steemit or could be an old timer, both will be a good friend that will also help you in your growth to the platform.  

source   If you want to start your journey out of the "red fish race", below will be my suggested communities that are more than willing to help you through the process. Below are some of the active Discord channels of different communities in the Steem blockchain.
Steempress discord channel: https://discord.gg/MpFNwh5
Steem Basic Income discord channel: https://discord.gg/f7dFqMB
Steem Monsters discord channel: https://discord.gg/FArq7g4
Qurator discord channel: https://discord.gg/GfKmS63
Dlike discord channel: https://discord.gg/
Dclick discord channel: https://discord.gg/58fg5BS
NTopaz discord channel: https://discord.gg/gk349Ac
Utopian discord channel: https://discord.gg/aZv7NmM
 

Posted from my blog with SteemPress : http://funtraveller.repollo.org/2019/03/14/escaping-the-red-fish-race-level-1/

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