Do NOT Power Up Your STEEM to SP!!! Minnow Tip for the STEEM Blockchain

in #busy5 years ago (edited)

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As a tiny fish, new to the STEEM Blockchain, you need your STEEM for other things right now. Do not power it up!

Instead, here are my top tips of steps you can take to grow your blog and SP:

NOTE ONE: Everything I am advising in this post is with the assumption you are posting at least one post on the STEEM Blockchain per day. If you are not doing that, try:

  • Freewriting with @mariannewest – a daily 5 minute writing prompt
  • 30 day black and white challenge.
  • @actifit
  • contest and challenge posts

If you are small and cannot post daily, your chance of success here is very small. Your goal should be 2-3 posts. No less than one and no more than four.

Additionally, do not go for the 100% power up. You need this STEEM money available now to succeed.

NOTE TWO: There are people here who will help you in the beginning by delegating SP to you for free. Start by visiting @thedarkhorse and present your case to him.

So with the assumptions:

  • you are posting good content daily
  • you are taking rewards at 50/50

Here is what to do with your STEEM. These tips are in the order you should take these actions.

Send STEEM to @scrooger and @oleg326756 each week

Both of them will give you votes. Do this each Monday when their weekly posts come out.

Read their rules and do as they say and the votes will come in.

Bonus on @scrooger

Find the funniest gif each week on the theme of the week and you will get 100% upvotes for the next week.

Tip for voting

Put both of these nice guys on your @steemdunk free autovoter for 100% at 12-14 minutes. Why?

  • You need to vote their posts anyway.
  • Neither posts much otherwise, so you will not drain your power.
  • You will start getting curation rewards soon as your SP grows.
  • If you vote later with your tiny SP – you will never get curation rewards.

NOTE: Also add @steemdunk itself to your @steemdunk autovoter and they will vote for you every so often.

Lease delegated SP

Why should you lease delegated SP instead of powering up directly?

  • If you power up tiny SP on a tiny account, you will see almost no benefit.
  • If you take that same STEEM and lease delegated SP with it, you get a much bigger bang for your STEEM buck.
  • Once you have a larger SP with delegation You actual SP will grow exponentially faster than without it.

The only one who will delegate to you when you are new is @blocktrades. All delegations are for 90 days. Currently this is the rate:

  • 2 STEEM gives you 14.143 SP (minimum lease amount)
  • 3 STEEM gives you 28.286 SP
  • 4 STEEM gives you 56.576 SP
  • 5 STEEM gives you 70.719 SP
  • 6 STEEM gives you 84.866 SP
  • 7 STEEM gives you 99.009 SP

As soon as you get 2 SP, go to
https://blocktrades.us/
and set up a lease with it.
and again,
and again.

I recommend setting up an account with them so that you can see and track what you have done with them.

Once you have 100 total sp, you can hold off and lease 100 at a time instead.

Once you have a few weeks of good consistent posting going on, you can try using @minnowbooster to lease delegated sp instead of @blocktrades.

It is cheaper but actual people have to make the decision to lease to you. This is a crapshoot, but you might get lucky. I will not cover the details of using @minnowbooster in this post.

Join Qurator for 4 STEEM

As soon as you have a few weeks of good posts and 4 STEEM – join @qurator and take advantage of everything they have going on. You will get a good daily vote and a lot of other good benefits. I have already posted about @qurator details here:

Qurator Tips and Tricks

Make it a goal to get in there. Once you do get in - add them to your steemdunk autovoter for bigger votes.

Buy SBI shares

@steembasicincome is a program on STEEM that gives you an upvote for life on every post you make. If you only have one share, it is a small upvote and does not come on each post, but as you accumulate more shares, the upvote will grow. Check out the @steembasicincome account for more information.

You can also win shares in the the MANY contests giving them out. I am always on the hunt for more SBI and you should be too.

Add @steembasicincome to your autovoter as well for bigger votes.

Buy @minnowbooster shares

@minnowbooster is a program that gives good upvotes to your posts similar to SBI. Go over to the blog and see if they are selling shares and get in if you can.

This is another place with lifetime upvotes that start small and grow as you get more shares. They very actively support new accounts, so try to get there asap.

There are other things you can do with your STEEM, but these are the first few to get you started.

I have no STEEM!

When you are new, getting good votes on your posts is not easy. But there are many streategies for new accounts to succeed here. I have many of these in this post:

Minnow tips to help you grow

After you read the post, be sure to look at the additional links in the comments below. These tips will all help you do better and gain STEEM to be able to afford the opportunities here.

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Many great tips in here. I should also point at that both @qurator and @steembasicincome offer multiplier bonuses when you upvote their content. As soon as you are enrolled in each program, you should also put them in your auto-voters at 2x per day. @qurator often posts twice in a day and offers regular contests.

@steembasicincome typically posts once per day, but the timing sometimes results in 2x one UTC day and 0 the next, so you want to keep your auto-voter at 2x. It also posts regular lists of member-hosted contests (as you mentioned). Many are targeted to young accounts and do not require resteem/upvote/follow, which is great for small accounts struggling with RC.

Oh dang! I forgot about that and will alter the post. Thank you so much for chiming in to help. Also if they use @steemdunk, they give a vote too if they vote and it's only a few votes a month.

The @qurator post Ilinked has all that info and way more. I love that program and I am so glad I joined.

I just started a new blog @fitinfunfood and delegated 100 sp to it. It is 10 days old now and the rc hovers at 20-30%! I cannot imagine how hard it is with only 50 sp or less.

Sometimes you can can get upvotes from busy and esteemapp too. Busy's upvote is based on the mvests of your followers (weird formula) so it doesn't add up to much for most newcomers. I never could figure out how esteem app picked what to vote, and I eventually switched to @partiko because everything loads so much more quickly. I don't post through it, though- just comments. Truth be told, I don't post much at all on my personal profile, which is why my SBI votes come in on my comments instead.

Glad to hear that we were able to deliver a fast experience for you!

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That's a fast response! AI in action, or just somebody with not enough work to do?

Lol somebody is always on the phone!

That I can definitely relate to!

#sbi-skip

ooo! #sbi-skip... does that work on top level posts, too?
Also, you maybe have accumulated a large number of @partiko points by now. I think you can only redeem those on a top level post using the app.

Yes, busy is strange. This is why I am always trawling for followers now. I would use @partiko for sure, but I do not use a phone. I am waiting for the laptop version with baited breath.

I don't trawl for follower, they just show up inexplicably... and then disappear again when I don't follow them back!

I had to turn off follower notifications from @ginabot, or else every time I do something... ping ping ping! and then when I don't follow them back... fifteen minutes later ping ping ping again.

Oh really - I did not know that happened here. I follow everyone. And I never figured out how to get gina. I am 100% after followers because everyone is fat or loves someone who is. One day I will succeed in my weight loss coaching (maybe).

Do you use discord? Gina is great if you're using discord anyway (or almost gina is enough reason to use discord!)

If you Discord, come into SBI server sometime and I can help you with gina registration. Actually I think I've seen you in there, haven't I?

Yes, I am there. I need to see the contests and I post my own. I do 2-4 a month :)

Thank you, I will get to discord soon and find you. Much appreciated!

There will be a simple web version coming out soon!

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I want it! I will be your biggest fan. Thank you :)

Thank you, @josephsavage for the explanations! I really appreciate it!

You're welcome, glad I could help.

I just sponsored you and @fitinfun both for SBI.

That is very kind of you @josephsavage. I am following in return!

You rock @josephsavage. Thank you so much! I love this program and push it where I can. I am just about to close a comment contest on another post and the rewards are sbi :)

I knew I am just a dummy in steemit platform. This is what I did so far - converting STEEM into SP and I am still in the middle of nothing lol
Good advice, I will give it a try! Thank you @fitinfun!

Aw!

I am just a dummy in steemit platform

We all are! This place is complicated! Now you know, and you will definitely see the difference.

There's nothing wrong with powering up, in fact the more SP you have the better.

It works like compound interest, increasing the value of your vote, etc.

But, for now, these tips will help you grow. There are also a myriad of tools that can show you your progress on the platform but that's for another time.

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Please write that post and let me know when you do. I am not too statistically minded here.

Steemworld.org/@fitinfun should show you a whole heap of stats, and even has a countdown to some of your payouts.

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OK - I will look. Thank you so much for the tip @shaidon.

OK, this is what I use to see Steem's history:
https://www.topcoinrating.com/profile/STEEM

I use this to see my wallet as it has 6 decimal places, so it's always updating.
https://steembottracker.com/steemdash/?account=shaidon

(Just change "shaidon" to whatever account you want to see).

I use this to show me when my rewards are due, check delegations and so forth:
https://steemworld.org/@shaidon

Thank you so much, @shaidon. this is so helpful!

No worries. There are more tools but I forget them right now.

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Hello @fitinfun! I can not agree with everything you said. What does the delegation need for new accounts? There are no returns from the delegation. If it is different, I will listen. It is not true that a small voice does not mean anything in curating. Voice 0.001-0.003 matters. The content and message are the most important. Bosters, minowbosters and other bots earn only on such beginner people.

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Delegation actually costs you steem so unless you need extra sp to comment you will lose money by doing it. Its a quick way to lose steem.

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I agree. There is also the other side. We do not always look for money, but statistically 90% of steemit wants money😉

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I do not feel like that is the right answer. My native sp grows exponentially faster with delegated sp than without it.

This post is targeted at those who need the sp to survive at all - not on the people at the point of thinking about profits.

My "normal" advice to "normal" steemers is to get delegations until at least their own sp is at 500 - In most cases I would say to continue until you are at 1000. Then you can be on your own, will know what you are doing, and do not need the help.

Little people have:

  • trouble working with low sp
  • a vote that does not matter here to anyone
  • extremely slow growth

By getting more sp, everything changes for the better and they can actually function here.

If you power up 2 STEEM you get basically nothing. If you lease delegated sp with 2 STEEM you get more power. It is leverage.

Do you think that if you have a big SP, people appreciate you and give you voices that will bring a return from the delegation?

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Yeah, that's pretty much exactly how it works.

Look at the 0.01 I just voted you with. Now imagine your excitement if it was 0.05. You pay more attention to my response, you engage in more dialogue with me, maybe you even upvote in response.

I used to always upvote at 0.02 so that it was never dusted, and it works out pretty well. Now I need to lease more delegation to get back up there because STEEM price decline makes my upvotes less valuable.

My friend rented 40k SP. He voted for the big fish. Dlegate finished. Big fish forgot about a small fish. The delegation did not return to him

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I think it generally works better when the little fish look out for each other instead of hunting Moby Dick.

The hunt is gone. I tried😀 1/10 😉

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You are so right about this. I have a friend here who was getting a few whale/orca votes for at least the last year. He was sailing on those with amazing payout. I just looked last week and the whale votes are gone for a few months. Now his posts are getting very low rewards and he just still posts and posts and does not interact. No skills were learned in the good times.

I want to hunt whales but I can't bring myself to do it - so minnow tips it is :)

If you vote for someone for 0.01 you have more appreciation than if you vote for them for 0.00 - yes.

The "return" for leasing delegated sp is in the growth of your natural sp being faster than if you do not.

If I see a good comment, I'm not interested in how many people have SP. If I see the person's involvement, I also appreciate it.

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If they cannot grow big enough to survive here, you will never get that comment. The baby fish are dying in droves right now, and few are getting in the door per @penguinpablo's daily report. If I can save any of them - I will.

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I will do those in another post for sure. Thank you for reminding me :)

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Excellent tips and few things I hadn't considered doing. Later, things like Smartsteem and a few others offer investment options which provide either upvotes or just regular returns.

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wow @fitinfun it looks like I have been doing everything wrong, whenever I have steem, I power up and have my rewards at 100% also I never enter contest. You talk about a lot of things here and it is hard to wrap my head around most of them, I want to thank you for all this advice. I hope I can remember all you have said to do.

Don't panic!!! You are doing so well here.

  1. change your rewards to 50/50
  2. bookmark or save my post and read it a few times
  3. ask me questions anytime

Get to the rest as you can, keep posting your awesome content, and you do not have to do anything else until you have 2+ steem :)

Thank you @fitinfun I was wishing I could save this post, it did not occur to me to bookmark it, duh.

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