Steemit is About Community Over Money: The Real Steemit Success

in #steemit6 years ago (edited)

Steemit is about making this world a better place, serves as another check against corrupt authorities and oppressive governments, and most importantly brings conscious minded people together under one metaphorical roof. The fact that we get rewarded financially for our promotion of liberty, peace, and harmony is a fantastic bonus, that inspires us all to intensify our humanitarian efforts, and maintain that promotion within the Steemit platform.

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When I first started posting on Steemit back in February 2018, I was discouraged at first by how little I was receiving in rewards. I knew it would be liked this starting out, but even after I improved the quality and comprehensiveness of my posts, and morphed my Steemit posts into full on articles, I still did not see much more rewards than before. I did not let this stop me however, and I persistently created what I consider top-notch articles, despite the low rewards I was receiving.

It was not until I started networking, by participating in other Steemian's contests and interactive articles, and meeting new people through Discord, that I not only saw my rewards improve, but also started being noticed by more influential members of the Steemit community, which also ramped up my following quite a bit.

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It was at this point where I started taking my Steemit role very seriously, writing up to three intricate articles per day, and promoting other Steemian's high caliber yet under-recognized articles. Shortly after this is when my biggest Steemit sub-group @tribesteemup started receiving huge sponsorship from a couple whales, at which point my rewards took a huge leap forward, and then I really started turning up the heat.

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As the year has progressed, and my free time has diminished since things are getting busy at the farms I work on, I have now limited myself to one (but no more than two) article per day, so I can focus all of my energy into one topic each day, and still have enough time to tackle all of the tasks in my life this busy time of year.

The rewards I have been receiving through all of this time have been put to extremely good use. In addition to helping fund my debut album release, I have been able to delegate to many other deserving projects like @freedomtribe, @ssg-community or #steemsilvergold, @canna-curate, and the project I recently created to support conscious hip-hop across the Steemit platform @emsteemians. I have also been able to cash out some of my earnings in silver, including some @steemsilverround's!

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I hardly ever cash our my earnings however, as I prefer to save some of my STEEM not used for powering up back into the system, to donate to other Steemians that help me with certain parts of collaborative projects I pursue. Currently I am holding my second logo design contest, where I have met several talented graphic designers that work and compete for STEEM. I have also met multiple web developers, one of which is helping me build a website to help promote my original music. There are artists of all kinds, promoters, producers, musicians, block-chain developers, event organizers, chefs, cypto-experts, silversmiths, revolutionaries, experienced travelers, and all kinds of other sources of information and active functioning utilities from all over the world here on Steemit. This is all accessible to anyone that earns STEEM by participating in this community. This is what I like to call, next level sh-t, but is more accurately referred to as the revolutionary evolution of technology.

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One of @themonkeyzuelan's entries to the #anarchapulco logo contest I am currently holding

All of you wonderful beautiful humans working together to build something better for ourselves, families, and communities is what makes this platfrom great. Steemit gives us a chance to show the rest of the world who we really are, and gives them a glimpse into all of our lives that was previously un-accessible by most. If your paying attention, the right Steemit author can make their readers feel like they are their best friend, and they may even know them as well as one if they read enough of their content.

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The fact is that Steemit.com is making this world a better place by supporting and promoting so many conscious minded humans, that are waking up those that are still asleep. Without all the beauty content creators manifest for this platform, Steemit would still be nothing more than a blank slate. WE MAKE STEEMIT COLORFUL AND VIBRANT, & we have not yet reached the end of our rainbow. This journey has been nothing less than breathtaking, and nothing exemplifies what this platform is about better than this International Steemit Music Video organized by @kennyroy. This actually brought a tear to my eye. Please click the pic below to play:


Kennyroy's Original Post

Before I close out this article, I wanted to leave you with one more Steemit promotional music video created by @youngogmarqs, to serve as some comic relief. When I saw this it gave me a huge laugh, not because I did not like it, but because I did. Well done you awesome goofball, I do not think anyone could have done this better that you, perfecto my friend. This video is also supported by the @emsteemians project. Click pic below to play.

"Steemit How I Vlog it" Music Video


Youngogmarqs' Original Post

For more advise on how to increase the professionalism of your writing, please view my article on The Difference Between A "Post" & A Publication.

Blessings everyone & stay tuned - into the right frequencies

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awesome.....yeahhh it's nice to see good being done and people working together to make some real grassroots differences
thanks for using the #teamgood tag ;)

Grass ... roots.

I see what you did there.

What’s the deets on the #teamgood tag/acct?

I am still figuring this out as well @k0wsk1.

https://steemit.com/teamgood/@teamgood/teamgood-monthly-report-july-2018

Apologies, @elamental, if you would rather we not comment with post URL's in the comments on your thread. I will remove it if you like.

Cheers, just delegated ya’ll 50 SP! Sweet project

find us on discord so we can get you an invite in :) is a private server ;)
what is your discord user name, I'll find you

Right on, it's k0wsk1#9951! Thanks in advance!

It is fine, we were asking for more info and you are giving it to us. That is legit in my book. You guys have my support and will get a delegation ready for you soon. Are you using a tiered delegation system for voting percentage or something different? I am always interested in different takes on delegation rewards for various project initiatives. Blessings my friend.

Right now it's tiered to automatically vote delegators of various amounts, being <100, 101-499, and >500 at 50%, 75%, and 100% respectively. It's worked pretty well so far.

Thank you!

Sweet that sounds like a good system set up, simplicity is usually the best way. I will let you know when I have a delegation ready for you.

A few of us will get notifications. Thanks!

Oh and any projects (at a small group of women's discretion) our delegators represent get 1/2 the vote weight of the delegator representing them.

Right on.

Isn't it though?! Gives us all some optimism for the future of this world and our place in it as a species.

Great post! We just got on Steemit, and are super excited to be developing a STEEM Crypto Bill! Soon you will be able to hodl onto some physical STEEM that looks great to boot :)

Oh we are already a few step ahead on that one. Have you ever seen the community designed pressed Steem Silver Rounds, or the hand poured Steem rounds?

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My full Post about them: https://steemit.com/steemsilverround/@elamental/my-2018-steem-silver-rounds-un-boxing-video-the-day-has-finally-come

& the hand poured ones:

#steemsilvergold / @pit-bullion

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Cannot wait to see your Steem Bill, that might be a first.
WELCOME TO THE STEEMIT COMMUNITY!!
Honored you are here with us!

Wow, those look great! I have seen them now and can't take my eyes off of them 😍

I will have a few of the 2018 community ones up for sale not too long from now, the pre-sale sold out. Contact @pit-bullion if you want any hand pours Steem silver rounds, he has many of those available, & please keep me updated about your Steem Bills!

Thank you so much @elamental for highlighting my vid in your post. I appreciate you so much for this. I’m glad you enjoyed it. Stay blessed.

No problem homie. Another example of why Steemit is awesome right here ladies and gentlemen. Community up!

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Awesome thank you, @freedomtribe has got my full support. Selecting this article should help many more Steemians. I left a comment in your round up article about this also.

Thank you for your continued support of SteemSilverGold

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Wow college femail good photography sir

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Thank you for sharing 😀😀

@elamental
Steemit is awesome

I concur.

Thanks for your support bro, lets take all steemians to the moon!!!

Let's just make them all realize that the Earth is our home, and we need to concentrate on mending her, the moon comes after, we cannot live on the moon yet. But of course I know what you mean and yes to the moooooooon!

This is beautiful...