help a steemain. where to start when your new. my personal experience

where to start on steemit when you have no clue what to do.

I have had some comments from new steemians that I would like to address to all as i think it would be beneficial to post about it.
It has probably been covered 100's of times in other peoples blogs but I would also like to help so this is my take on where to start on steemit when you first join.

So steemit gives you a start by starting everyone on a reputation score of 25, the better the reputation score I believe the more views and upvotes you get for your post.
The problem some face is they start at reputation 25 and this is a disadvantage because posts get over looked.

When I first joined steemit I had questions, where do I start, well now after been on this platform for 10 months I have got a little clue what to do, and if I knew this when I first started I would have probably done better at the beginning of my journey.

Introduce yourself
I made $5.00 on my first post which was in #introduceyourself, I was happy that it made some money to be honest, my written english isn't brilliant even though I am an english person.
I write this over a day and put a little thought into what i wanted to say.
I also added a picture of myself so the steemit world would know who i was and who was writing the post.

mistake I made
I then started just writing crap, it was in the start, I started blogging about vaping and other things I don't think that anybody wanted to read about.

what I did next
I looked through steemit and decided to have a plan, how to get someone to see my posts.
I thought long and hard, we had a page view counter back then so we knew how many people were looking at our pages.
I then new things had to change, I made the call that I needed to get some views on my post and started entering into contests that I knew that i was good at.
My drawing posts got me a $60 dollar upvote and this was when my reputation score went up, I knew that people would follow the contest if they entered it themselves. this then gave me confidence that there was people out there that like my art work.
Followers slowly crept up, my reputation score went up too.

what else had an impact on my journey?

I also followed the great @starkerz, he at the time was doing a steemit tour around the UK universities and was coming to one near me.
I had to meet some one else from steemit as I knew nobody, would this help my blog? would this help me?
well yes it did, at the time when I joined up with @starkerz I met another guy, my Chinese friend @tumutanzi. both of them talked to me about the blockchain, they talked to me about improving my blog. and one thing @tumutanzi said to me was that he liked my posts about myself. he said he liked to read about my life and what I got upto.
@starkerz also told me the importance of keeping my steem power in my account, he also told me to power up as much as possible as it will be worth more in the future.

With meeting these two great people, I came away from the promo we were doing, with a different outlook on steemit, there is real people behind these blogs, people who want to know me, people who like my art work, there is also people who come to steemit with no interest of art and that is something that I have to accept.

You too can introduce new people to steemit, all you have to do is tell someone new about it and blog about it, add a picture of who you have brought to the platform and add the #promo-steem tag and you have already done your bit, there is a massive amount of people doing this everyday and blogging about it. and they are making alot of up-votes by doing so.
This is one guy this year I introduced to steemit

I am now on a journey, My journey really has only just begun. I have now set up contests to help the smaller steemains than myself in the hope that more people will come to the blockchain, more people will invest and more people will stay here with us.

You have to remember one thing while here on steemit, you have to work hard to make upvotes. it is all about quality not quantity.

i hope this helps you guys who have asked.

I am @artonmysleeve and this is my help a steemian blog.

I have a contest that you can join if you like here
https://steemit.com/contest/@artonmysleeve/artclub-contest-enter-for-the-chance-for-4-sbd-theme-happiness

There is 4sbd up for grabs

@deemarshall has contests going everyday. todays contest is here

https://steemit.com/artstorm/@deemarshall/artstorm-contest-27-day-3-theme-today-my-country-s-national-flowers

Please follow and upvote to carry on seeing my posts.

I hope this helped some of you.

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