An excellent article that is both encouraging and informative for newbies like myself. However, I have read a lot of posts that are generously made by others to help out new starts and their opinions can vary enormously; even contradict at times. For example, many have said that bots and upvoting yourself is almost like cheating. All, however, agree that perseverance is key. I cannot afford to buy steem and have no one to help me out with that either so I am plodding along the best I can. Another problem is that there are a lot of us who are not as computer literate as the rest and our major gaps in techno knowledge holds us back. I have just over 3 SBD and I have know idea how to convert this into steem or invest in coins. Nor do I know how to do the links to sources, other articles or anything regarding the "blue writing" as I call it. It can be very difficult for people like us. Thank you for your insight....I shall resteem.
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Thanks for the resteem. In your situation, I honestly think the most important things for you is to enter contests (where you can earn coins or resteems), comment a lot so that people see your quality writing and decide to follow you (as I just did), and go ahead and use that 3 SBD for bots!
Yes, some people have issues with bots. But you know, some people on Facebook have an issue with boosting posts too. There will always be purists who think that anything you do to pay to play is somehow a diminishment. I find that those people are either really early adopters who have first mover's advantage, so don't need the help of advertising, or they're people who aren't doing as well as they could but are happy with that just on principle.
I personally have no problem with the idea that I have to invest in something I care about if I expect to succeed. I see nothing unethical about advertising at all. Put just 1 SBD into every other post of yours for the next week (assuming you write one post per day), so that by the end of the week your payout reimburses you, and all you'll have done is increase the number of people seeing your posts. You'll have to use the bots wisely to even break even on SBD from the bot's upvote, so it's not like paying $1 to make $2 immediately.
(btw, you seriously need to put up a profile pic and preferably also an "about" sentence if you want more people to follow you.)