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Hello and thanks for getting back to me. The main idea is to grow the middle class, which is Minnows. Minnow is someone who holds 500 SP or more.
As I can see you currently have 463 SP, 68 Steem and 238 DBD, but your Voting Power (VP) is calculated based only on your 463 SP. If you would power up the liquid Steem and SBD, you would have around 1007 SP already, which would double your voting power. You could earn much more on curation, not to mention you'd secure your funds because now if you're account get hacked, the hacker would take your liquid Steem and SBD and you're never going to take that back.
The more your voting power, the more you can earn.

How do I go about powering up my steem & SBD? I think I did it once but I wasn't too clear on how to do it.

You can power up your Steem by clicking the little arrow next to your Steem amount in your wallet, you choose the "Power Up" option from the dropdown menu. You have to exchange your SBD to Steem on the market https://steemit.com/market.

So would you recommending we first sell our SBD on the market first and then power up all our Steem? Or vice versa?

I'd power up the steem for sure. The SBD is another matter because the price is fluctuating all the time. That's up to you. If you're thinking long term and you're here to stay, it's better to power up your SBD as well.

So you'd recommend we do all of it or just a part. When I did it before I did only a portion.

Unfortunately I can't decide for you, but I'd say you power up your steem and you're already a minnow. You'll see the difference in your voting power. Then you decide about the rest :)

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