From Zero To Hero - How To Build Up Your Account From The Ground - Part 1

First of all, don't take the first part of the title very seriously, that is just a saying, I don't want to be a hero, nor want fame for myself.

I'd like to share a few thoughts about building up your account from zero, for those who are at the beginning and maybe need some guidance regarding how to grow their account, how to fill your wallet with this so desired cryptocurrency called Steem and how to avoid common mistakes.

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Some of you may know, I have a second account that I created about two weeks ago to separate my actifit activity from my main account. You can read my post about it here My New Alt-Account For Actifit And How To Transfer Your Delegation To Your Alt-Account

Newly registered users are given a 15 Steem credit, which is gradually withdrawn as they start to earn.

Because this was my second account, I had to pay 3 Steem to create it or the second option would have been paying for it with Resource Credit (RC). I chose to pay 3 Steem because I can't afford to lose RC now which is very important for curation.

So after claiming my second account my wallet was totally empty, which means I couldn't do anything. I chose to transfer 3 Steem from my main account to my second account so I can start my activity. Why not more? I'm holding 2800 Steem right now so I could have delegated or just transferred any amount of Steem but i didn't want to transfer more than 3 Steem. Why? You're going to find out in the next part of my post. I had a very good reason, believe me.

I've been here for roughly 13 months now and still remember how the beginning was for me on Steemit. With that 15 Steem credit from Steemit I was happy for about a week or so, after that bandwidth problems started to appear. For those of you who are new, before Hardfork20 was implemented, there was bandwidth instead of resource credit.

So after Steemit took back the 15 Steem credit (the honeymoon was over), I was on my own, had to balance my bandwidth carefully, which meant I could not post when I wanted to, had to wait till there was enough bandwidth to do it. This restriction has thought me to plan ahead and be prepared when the time comes. Thank God Busy.org had a draft feature, which came very handy at that time. I had drafts ready a day before so I can post them when bandwidth allowed it.

The difference between me and a newly registered user now is that I have the 13 months experience which allows me to choose the best solution possible and act wisely based on my previous experience, which new users don't have.

Now things has changed, bandwidth has been replaced by RC and mana. My initially invested 3 Steem was enough for about 25% resource credit (I hope I'm not mistaken), which meant 1 post and after posting my first post my RC went back to nearly zero. Now you need to know that comments are equal with posts and take as much RC as a post.

I had some business to finish with the actifit team, they had to transfer my delegation to the second account that took a day or two, which allowed my recourse credit to recharge. Recharging is not happening very fast when your SP is very low, after two days my RC still wasn't fully recharged.

I finally made my first post, which knocked my RC down to almost zero. Not exactly the ideal situation as I knew I have to let it rebuild before I can post again and as you know, actifit posts have to be made before midnight, otherwise you lose your chance to log your training and lose the afit tokens you could earn. With no RC I wasn't able to comment or vote on any other account or reply which was a bit frustrating. I'm used to comment on many post without having to worry about my RC.

New users often confuse things or just don't know that upvoting a post on Steem blockchain is not the same as giving a like on other social media platforms. As much as we want to upvote other users post, upvotes have to be made carefully at the beginning, till you can afford to upvote every post and comment you like.

I've already written a novel, so the first part ends here. In the next part I'm going to write about my strategy, how I'm planning to grow my account and I'm also going to share a few tips about how to grow your account when you're at the beginning.