My name is Nnochiri Chimaobi Victor, 400L student of political science and public administration, University of Uyo. From ABIA state in Nigeria and I joined steemit December 21St.
As a newbie, I'm going to put up five(5) challenges I'm currently facing as a newbie.
I'd like to appreciate @Gidionline @egetex and @magdnrobinson for this opportunity via the Mitup10 platform.
The five challenges face by newbies
Inability to get your post to a wider audience:
(As a newbie I'd be using myself as a case study) . Whenever I take my time to study and spend hours putting together a sumptuous write up which should actually educate and get me some earnings. I always face the issue of getting a wider audience view my post(especially whales abroad).The difficulty of getting upvotes
Every newbie on steemit on joining was oriented to the fact that "any post pays you good money", so with such orientation, every newbie post's to earn. Therefore when posts doesn't get you desired upvote or earning, that could be a big challenge.Getting in touch with the whales
This is actually a major problem, as newbies who don't know their way around and actually want upvote producing big steemit dollar would not when to follow up a whale or what to do to become a whale. This could really be challenging. Most time even after following the whales up, they don't seem to have interest in you or what you have to offer.The complex nature of steemit and the newbie without a guide
This one is hilarious. I remember my ordeal the first time I resteemed my own post in the bid the get more upvote. Some newbies don't know their way around the steemit platform and at such they make many mistakes and at times even copy post they like instead of resteeming and at such @cheetah would snitch them.writing a very good introductory post
As easy as writing an introductory post is many newbie find it quite challenging to put up a sensible introductory post. Often they use the wrong tags.
These challenges are numerous, but these are the obvious challenges newbies face on steemit.
Welcome to the comunity!
@pharez, I don't think that this post is a must-read for newbies. It is a must-read for the people who have been around for awhile, and have the ability to do something about it.
Certain people could change the information that is being put out there about Steemit in the marketing.
Certain people could change the FAQ in Steemit to give better user details for newbies.
I agree with the points in your article, but you probably should not have made the first tag "introduceyourself" because it is not a first time introduction post for you. You can't edit the first tag, so there's nothing you can do about that, but it is something to avoid in the future.
What is missing from the majority of the information out there is that Steemit results are heavily influenced by having a good relationship with people, and that takes time and effort. Engaging with people in the comments of their articles, and building a reputation as a person who reads what an author writes, and makes valuable comments is a big part of gaining upvotes that count.
Think of it this way: if a customer buys a small item from a manufacturer, and is dissatisfied with the item, he cannot contact the President of the company to make a complaint. No matter how he tries, he will never gain a hearing from the President. However, he can politely engage with the lowest customer service representative, and politely work his way up the chain of supervisors until he gets satisfaction. The President will still never give him a hearing because he is too small, and far removed from where the President sits and rules, but he will be able to gain the friendship, cooperation and support of any number of company employees if he is polite, and cooperative. In this way he is able to gain favors from the ones who have a degree of power to influence his outcome, whether it is a refund of his purchase price or a new and better replacement item.
Steemit is not exactly like that, but the hierarchy of voting power works in similar ways. Get a Whale to read, comment or upvote your article? Forget about it! Build a network of friends who are willing to help each other grow by commenting, upvoting and resteeming each other's worthy articles? Now you are talking! It's a long, slow road to success for almost everyone who starts out in Steemit (and isn't bringing a huge following from other platforms with them like @jerrybanfield - who, by the way, has worked hard for years to gain the following he has).
Cheers!
Really well said.
Steemit is building up relationship, and that takes time and patience.
Thank you very much @mitneb
I really appreciate this
hola! I like your post! Thanks for it! I went to jail because of cryptos... lets make steemit together to a better place with our content! I would like to read a bit more about you and maybe do you have some more pictures? I also just wrote a introduce yourself. Maybe you upvote me and follow me swell as I do? https://busy.org/introduceyourself/@mykarma/1-jail-review-bitcoins-3-years-ago
Thanks a great deal @mykarma
I do have some more pictures