RE: An Example Of How To Succeed On STEEM
It was a little surprise this morning to see that Gina went wild. So thank for that @taskmaster4450.
Lot's of work has been put into the blog. And I did make some hard choices. In the beginning I was only blogging about Steem and Crypto! But as you can see from my nick, one of my passions is sportsbetting. It was hard to bite the bullet to also start posting about that niche. But this decision did increase my passion for blogging a lot. Also I did meet some great people and we even did start the Sports Betting Community! The idea behind this community is that we go out and search for sports bloggers on the steem blockchain and we try to support them with advice and upvotes. This way we are trying to decrease the burn rate in this niche. And that is important because it is a niche what is not seen as adding value to the blockchain and therefor easily overlooked by lots of curation programs. The more of these communities stand up the better this blockchain will become. The more niches are present to more people would feel at home!
The sports betting community did encourage me to set up a big world cup contest, which did have a prize pool of 110 SBD. Most of this money was sponsored. This did making it possible for me to leave my footprint on the steem blockchain!
But the basis of my account was created lots earlier! And for this I mostly have to thank 3 people. All these 3 people helped me in more or like a similar way! These are @taskmaster4450, @preparedwombat and @ abh12345!
Let me explain how these people have helped me:
- you my friend, with your passion and encouraging post about the steem blockchain, but what really opened my eyes was a post you wrote in the beginning of the year. In this post you showed us the way. The way was to write genuine comments and to be engaged. You even showed evidence. After that I did become more active and engaged, resulting in accumulating more SP per week with commenting than with writing own posts! I do remember reading the post and what a feeling it did bring me! Thanks for that!
- @preparedwombat, while not visible he was always there for me! He was the first one who did give me a free delegation to come over the connection problems! He also wrote a lot of posts about engagement and commenting. Later on, he adopted to me to help me lifting my account to 1K own SP. Actions like this does give me a moral and motivational boost!
- @abh12345 I quickly stumbled on the engagement league of Asher. I am sure that he also saved me form the burn rate. It is like gamification of engagement. Also here I was granted some free delegations. In return I do still sponsor his weekly league with an SBI share. Will this doesn't look much, for sure in the beginning I did have to scrape enough steem on a weekly basis to pay for the sponsorship. While it was hard, it is one of the best decision which I did make!
And last but not least, I am grateful for meeting the co-founders of the SBC community! @stimp1024, @costanza, @acelad and @beat-the-bookies. Thanks guys for your ongoing support and the friendly banter! As you can see we are a mix of red fish, minnows and dolphins! All with the same mindset, trying to make this a better place!
To all the ones who are starting. I am not the best writer in the world and look what I did with my account! If I can do this, so can you! Just write about things that does interest you!
Don't chase votes they will come as long as you engage with others and spread your love around. And while everybody is responsible for their own account you can't do it on your own!
Remember that how stronger the account around you become, they stronger they can support you! I am not talking about a friend upvote jerk circle but like taksmaster4450 lots of times wrote, we should support each other.
Find people with shared interests and start commenting, build a relationship and good things will come your way! Don’t doubt about it!
Don’t chase whales or Orcas begging for upvotes, they will notice you if the time is right! They are just human beings like us and most of them like to interact! But don’t interact to score an upvote, interact because you do find the article interesting and do want to add value to the discussion!
Mmh, maybe I should have write this all down in on own post
Cheers,
Peter
Keep it up! )
Thanks @maste-set I will try!
There is a lot of great info in this comment, but seriously this might be the most important:
To many people think that just because they started an account and post their idea of great content that they should be earning on their posts. But they have forgotten a very important part of this whole deal, it's called Social Networking. If you aren't trying to build a social network then you are never going to have long term success.
Oh and just cut/paste this over to a post and polish it up a little. It's gold!
Will think about it!
It is not as much that people do believe that the money flows in, people are always looking up and never down. People do forget where they did came from and envy the ones who do have more. I do see a lot of accounts getting upvotes from the army of @fulltimegeek, While I do want to be on the list, I do find it great for the ones who are getting a visit from the army. So in stead of envy these upvotes, I do appreciate what he is doing and I am sure that the ones who are getting these did deserve them one way or the other.
I do follow some small red fish accounts, who visit my blog frequently and I do support them. Not via giving upvotes on their comments (would be crushing my VP) but to give then frequent upvotes on their postings. If they grow, I will grow. That's my plan of attack. Appreciate the ones above and below you!
Cheers,
Peter
You know I am all about supporting those who have small accounts. My new effort with @minnowbuilder is an attempt to build an army of Minnows and give everyone the opportunity to support curated redfish that we are supporting while at the same time earn a daily upvote in return for their support. It's a win-win for those wanting to support the growth of the little guys.
As we grow more minnows I fully expect that they will then be the supporters of the new redfish we are supporting.
We all should. Like I wrote to you many times before and I cannot do this enough.
It is great what you are doing for the community!
Thanks for that!