First Month On Steemit - The 5 Most Important Things That I Learned

I have been active on Steemit for a month now, and as we know the begging is always the most important in everything. It make it or break it. So how was my experience, what I have learned?

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At first, here are my stats for the first month:

• 11 posts published, including this one,
• 2 posts in Steepshot – images,
• 108 comments,
• 212 followers (a lot of them bots),
• 50 following,
• 317 upvotes from me,
• 177 upvotes received.

I must say I like the idea of Steemit very much, you do what you want and get paid for this. Meet people from all around the world, supporting each other. It empowers individual in a great way. I have been drawn to write again and again, eating up my time.

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How Much Did I Earned?

Well I still don’t know the right way to follow exactly my earnings, but it is not much at all. It’s somewhere between 3 to 5 $. Does it worth the effort for 5$? Sure not! Will I keep doing it? For now yes, I will. Like I said I like the idea, it gives you freedom like nothing else, and since I’m not doing it only for the money. But it is not ideal. Like many things in the beginning it needs to be polished and recycled until some nice level is achieved.

It Is Hard

You here all this stories about people who made it on Steemit and are making hundreds of dollars per post. But for newbie this is a faraway dream. The intorduceyourself post usually is earning something, because of people welcoming you and trying to put you in their tribe, and of course the welcoming bots. After this the next posts of mine were close to zero.

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1. Commenting on other people posts

For a newbie this is crucial. You can’t expect that you just appear, and people find out of you and give you upvotes. You need to engage, and this is through commenting. Find something that are of your interest and start engaging. On Steemit there is something for everybody. Topics of all kind. Just find your thing and start engaging, and things will grow from there naturally.

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2. Comments that you receive on your posts

If someone comment on your post you should engage with them. And at least if you don’t have enough vote power to award them, like usually newbies do, you should return on the comment, give back information if they ask, and say thank you. This people put time and effort in your content. Appreciate it.

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3. Upvotes

In my first month I have earned more from commenting than from posting. And I think this is natural. If you are new you will be going to other people posts, do some comments and expect feedback. But do it for things that you are interested, and you like. This is then all natural and upvotes are just complementary.
For your upvotes you can chose to chase rewards from curation, but in my opinion for a newbie this is wrong. Give your upvotes to something and someone that you like. In the beginning your upvotes don’t worth much, but it is a matter of attention. In the long run it is far more important to make a good community of yours, and the feedback will be much greater. In this way you grow your community, and everybody with in, and as the community grows bigger things will only get better... so in the future it is many times multiplying.

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4. Wallet

This is important. Somewhere on the same scale as commenting and engaging and finding people alike. Because everybody wants some earnings. And if you have enough vote power to reward the people commenting on you, this is great push up. If not, it is not the end of the day. You will need to put more effort and time and give real value, so people will respect you for that. To have at least 0,01$ voting power you will need to have around 100$ put in your wallet.

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5. Bots

I haven’t enough time and interest to explore the bots yet, but till now as I see it, they are highly important on Steemit. Simply the rules of the game are set in this way, so the bots emerge. From that little what I have seen, all the heavy posts are mostly from bots.
The basics are you send some money to a bot, and then the bot votes your post and you get high amount on earrings on your post, so it becomes visible, and maybe even appears in the trending feed. Your earnings form the bot are small, the benefit is in visibility of the post and on posts with high earnings people will follow and vote in order to receive curation reward. It is a bit like marketing 😊. The earnings that appears on the high value post are not that big, the big part of it is from bots, and are money invested in the post for marketing.

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Thanks for reading
All the best
@dalz

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Some of my posts
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SteemAuto, A Way To Grow For Newbies?
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely