Hello Steemit Friends,
Yes it has already been a month for me here in steemit, so just thought of introducing myself.
My name is Swaraj Patra, 24 years old. I am from India and I live in city Bhubaneswar which is otherwise known as “city of temples”. I am a software engineer by profession and currently I am working with Infosys Limited which is one among the top MNC in India. I am an extrovert and sociable person. I love interacting with people and I get along easily. And yes I love partying.
Hobbies:-
• Playing basketball, cricket and table tennis
• Watching movies
• Listening to Bollywood music
(This is a 4 year old picture when we won inter college basketball championship )
My Journey in steemit:-
I came to know about steemit while watching some of the videos from @jerrybanfield regarding cryptocurrency as I just started trading. And I really want to thank @jerrybanfield for this. And I just love watching YouTube videos from @jerrybanfield. There is so much to learn from him.
After I signed up steemit and saw some of the blogs with $1000 + mark, the only thing that came to my mind is “WOW!! Seriously?”. Yes I was stunned how people were getting paid for their blogs. So you know what come next, haha “Let’s make a blog and see where it goes!!”. Professionally I am not a blogger. The only thing I did earlier was writing some article for school and college magazine. So what I did was “Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V”, you got that? Haha. And then comes “cheetah” and he is the only individual who upvoted that article..LOL. Yes I was depressed and almost gave up.
Then after 3 or 4 days I again logged in to Steemit and started going through some blogs. While surfing I came across one blog from @onceuponatime and I just put a comment over there. And you know what he upvoted the comment with some $9. And I couldn’t believe that, I was over the moon. And there came the motivation. There came the belief “I can do it” .What I can say is @onceuponatime is the most generous human I have seen here in Steemit. So @onceuponatime sir I have no words to thank you.
Then I started writing blogs, reading other blogs, upvoting and commenting if I find it interesting. But still it didn’t work out. My blogs didn’t get noticed. Yes I was depressed again. If you are in steemit than it ‘s obvious you might be knowing @sweetsssj, even if you don’t know please go and check out her blog. To say I am a fan of her blogs. The way she presents her blog is worth applauding. It may be photos, writing style etc simply awesome. If you want to learn blogging then spend some time reading her blogs. So I just thought of texting her in steemit chat and yes she replied. She really helped me out and motivated me. She even told me about “PATIENCE”, how important it is to become a successful blogger in Steemit. What I say about her is she is really motivating, helpful and yes she is cute . So @sweetsssj Thank You for that.
And yes it really feels good when you find someone from your same community, isn’t it? I was introduced to steem chat by @firepower who is one among the best blogger from India in Steemit and admin of Indian group in Steem Chat. So thank you @firepower for this.
With time I made many friends, had good conversation with many people from different countries out here. And to say I loved every second I logged in to steemit.
Why am I loving steemit:-
• No useless tagging option like Facebook. I have no idea why people tag when that person is nowhere related to the posts.
• Getting to know people across the world.
• Who doesn’t love to earn some bucks, nothing much to elaborate on this, haha.
• Everyday I get to learn something new.
• As I just started trading cryptocurreny so this platform is providing a great help to learn more about altcoins.
• Getting to know various places across the world, it really feels as if I am travelling when someone describes some beautiful place.
What can you expect from me here in steemit:-
• I will write anything under the sun if find interesting, it may be about science, history, life hacks, cryptocurrency, my visits to different places etc.
• I will not BORE you. I will always try to involve your opinion in my posts.
• If you put a comment in my post, I will upvote it even it’s a matter of $0.01. I might me poor with STEEM Power but have a bigger heart.
• I would love to interact with you all in Steem Chat.
And Yayyyy 190 followers:-
I am yet to complete a month here and I already have 190 followers. It really feels good. So thank you everyone out here that are following me. You all are really awesome. Love you all.
So Thank You everyone reading out this post.I am sure we will have a amazing journey together. So CHEERS.
Welcome to family :) Follow me back and I will surprise you on August 1 ;)
Thanks @predictor2100. Following you now
Nice to meet you dear friend @swaraj , welcome to steemit, hope you are comfortable here, here is a new home for lovers of bloggers and the best platform today, very good intro, I like that, do not forget to visit my profile for info tips and tricks about steemit @wahyusaputra
Thanks @wahyusaputra. I will visit your profile for sure
Welcome to Steem @swaraj I have upvoted and sent you a tip
Thanks a lot @bottymcbotface
Hii @swaraj today its my first day on steemit & also new at blogging too, i wrote my first blog today & reading this whole one month journey of yours inspired a lot for my further journey on steemit!!
Followed you....
Thank you @saurabhdarpelli7 .Welcome to steemit and all the best for your journey. I have upped your first blog:-)
Thank you!
You're welcome as I am @swaraj and you just won my upvote.
Thanks @yemikareem
Welcome to steemit, happy to have you here
Thanks @alienposts
Welcome to steemit community.
Welcome aboard dude! It's great to see your post! Keep blogging and sharing around here. Btw, I'm the admin for the chat platform, not just the India channel. ;)
Ohh Is it? I was unaware of it. It really feels great to know that.My bad in that case. Once again @firepower (Meghan bhai)thank you for everything :-)
Welcome! Followed. Follow me back 😘
Thanks @kassie-vegas ,following you now !!!
Come on in and start making some $$$ that is, if you like blogging and embracing the challenge of getting people interested in your most important issues. So best of good luck. I place here the link to one of my posts .. hope you can address it and leave some comments.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@indepthstory/i-was-almost-convinced-but-what-happened-what-on-earth-is-going-on
Make a FOLLOW and let’s keep the dialog going on. If you find it of value and interesting UPVOTE and let’s exchange comments in the future.
Good luck.
@indepthstory
Sure @indepthstory . Following you now. And yes we will be have a great interaction in the future.
Welcome @swaraj to Steemit. Looking forward to more posts from you. Check out my blog and follow if you're interested. Please follow me @hanggiang
welcome to steemit. love your into. hope to see more of your posts. following you now. enjoy and feel free to express yourself in this platform . :) you can check out my page as well. :)
Thanks a lot @robiney . I will check out our page for sure :-)
Hey Swaraj! Welcome to our community
Thanks a lot @larksongbird
Enjoy a follow! Looking forward to seeing more content from you.
Thanks a lot @pwnedu
hello @swaraj
you are very much welcome to steemit,a one of its kind in the history of social networks. i will like to share with you some lessons i learnt the hard way.
First,write on your area of strength, don't strugle more to get topics to write on, but when you write based on what you know/do well at, that becomes your brand and fellow steemians will know what to expect from you on every post.
don't beg for followers.
When people follow you on a quip pro quo basis, that's the foundation of not getting upvotes and comments because many of your followers didn't do so because they wanted what you have to offer but rather they are just there as numbers. #don't go for numbers, but value.
When i joined, after my intro post. i went low kay and started engaging with people on their posts and comments and like that,i was getting people that truly liked me for me. i must note that at some post as a newbie, i outrightly asked people to follow me but that was before i learned that it was one of the unwritten rule of steemit;don't beg for followers.
Again,paticipate in contests, it will conect you to people and probably, earn you some steem/steem dollar. and always try to leave a good comment on people's posts. this dose wonders. check out this contest[clickhere]https://steemit.com/fiftywords/@literature-trail/50-word-story-contest-week-19-join-for-a-chance-to-win-1000-trail-and-40-sbd
Finally, learn to engage. Get the esteem app on your phone so that after writing and posting with your pc,you can now use your phone and respond to replys on the go. This will help you build your followers.>/h4>
I hope that this piece will be of grate help to you as it has been for me[though i learnt the hard way]. Follow them and thank me later. : )
once more, you are welcome.
@arizonawise.
Thanks @arizonawise, it was a warm welcome :-)
You are welcome
Welcome @swaraj, welcome to the best platform, I look forward to your best post. I am sure you are a creative person who has a myriad of ideas on your head. We look forward to it. Hopefully we can be friends starting today and so on. see you later. Follow me @rizalspil, do not forget vote, comment and resteemed my post.
Thanks @rizalsipil ..followed :-)
Welcome to Steemit @Swaraj! Glad to see more people like you - here joining Steemit! Nice post, i will follow your account, please follow me .
Thanks @khunfarang. Following you now :-)
Welcome to steemit dear friend @swaraj, I've met with good friends by searching 'introduceyourself' tag, i love newbies and delight in giving them a hand of friendship. Love from @maxdevalue, am sending some steem to your wallet right away, welcome on-board! Your contribution is needed here in steemit.
I wish you well, take time and lookout for people of like-mind, make new friends especially minnows and newbies of same interest, grow together and support each other, that's the secret here, don't be carried away by those that has made it with huge followers and big up votes, Rome was not built in a day, one step at a time, never follow people because they are popular rather follow people of like passion because they're likely the people that'll value your posts and up vote them, take time and construct good comment on any post that you like and value, don't be fast to post too many posts in a day, 2 to 4 is okay for the day but make sure they're nice and educative and you ready to reply all comment no matter how insignificant it might be, there are more to learn as time goes on. I care for you.
Wow..best welcome message till now. Thanks a lot @maxdevalue. Following you now.
That's the way, thank you
Welcome to Steemit friend! :D Hope you're enjoying the community! Followed!
Thanks @thomasmmaker. Following you now
Hey Swaraj, I'm Harrison from New Jersey. I gave you a follow and an upvote, cheers!
@harryhoudinei 'I Like Being Followed'
Thanks @harryhoudinei ...followed
Welcome to Steemit Swaraj !
Thanks a lot @kenan1989
Welcome to steemit bro☺and enjoy.i follow u
Thanks @nagraj123
welcome to steemit! lovely post!
Thanks @karinamii
Welcome and Thank You for being with us!! Following your Blog now
thanks a lot @digitalplayer
Welcome friends follow me and I will follow back!
thanks @fitrafarizil. followed
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Welcome to steemit! followed and upvoted !!
thanks @prashanthak. Following you too :-)
@swaraj Nice post. I am also new on Steemit. Thank you for such a motivating and honest post. I will keep the advice to be patient and continue creating and enjoying new content.
Followed you. Looking forward to some more interesting posts.
Thanks @officialreporter . Wish you all the best for your journey in Steemit. Steemon
Welcome to Steemit community. Serve from your heart so that when you eventually see less Steem, you are not "down." Let the Steem be the bonus and your service the main thing.
Thanks @gokike ,really motivating words. Wish you all the best in your steemit journey. Cheers
I was also introduced to steemit by @jerrybanfield. I also follow @sweetsssj and @onceuponatime. Infact what u say about @onceuponatime is true. Last week he send me some free bitshares just for commenting on his post, I think around $20. Thank you for re-introducing yourself and sharing more pics. I wish u all the best...keep steeming :)
haha so we have something in common. Wish you all success here in Steemit
@firepower is rocketing once again! Welcome to Steemit @swaraj!
Haha..Yes @firepower is rocketing. Thanks a lot @sjennon
As a week old Steemit user, I find this post quite interesting. Hope to see more from you.
Thanks @kngako i am glad that you found this post interesting
Welcome to Steemit, hope you like it like I do, vote & follow from me,
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Thanks @dibaco, following you now
You're welcome,
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