I'm rapidly gaining followers and my posts are on trending lists.
I was forced to stop reading the moment you said those words, like that.
The thing is, you're purchasing a false sense of success when you use bots. The rewards beside your posts are indicting how much you've paid to post here, not how much you've earned. It's kind of like renting a lambo for the weekend and telling people you own it.
True success cannot be bought. You're talking about followers. You're also purchasing a following. When it comes to friends, who do you trust more? The one who you said, "Hi there, will you be my friend for $10," to or the friend who approached you and asked if you'd like to hang out some day? Look around. Your friends here are offering up some rather hollow and almost shallow feedback. If you're the creative type, like me, these types of empty comments are the exact opposite of something I'd want to hear.
You talk about your reputation score. That was also bought, whereas mine was earned. So you basically went out and purchased a bowling trophy that says, "Worlds Greatest Bowler," and now you're telling people you're the world's greatest bowler, even though you weren't awarded the trophy after bowling. Buying a trophy doesn't mean you've won a trophy, so it can't be considered an achievement. Acting like it's an achievement is much like living a lie.
To each their own. If you prefer this approach, that's fine, but I have trouble agreeing with this approach when it's being presented as 'success'.
Sure, maybe your house here is in the nice neighborhood, but some of us can see the debt you put yourself in to get here. It is unfortunate to the true success stories here that they are no longer allowed to move into this neighborhood but I guess that's fine because this neighborhood is only a movie set and those aren't mansions, they are simply walls made out of cheap lumber and painted to look like a nice house from the front only.
I can show you hundreds of accounts that offer a true representation of success, including my own. Everything in our wallets was earned here, no debt. I could explain how to achieve it, but unfortunately, I don't think people want to hear what I'd consider to be the truth.
Anyway, good luck. Have a nice day.
Great comment @nonameslefttouse!
There's no such thing than earned reputation.
But some people seem to enjoy burning money no matter what...:-)
Success story of 2018: I spent 45 minutes worth of idling fuel waiting in line within my running vehicle at the fast food drive-thru to buy a cheeseburger because I had a coupon for a free drink. Everyone applauded.
Hahaha, that's a great one! I bet I have done something similar in my life at least once...:-)
Vouchers are extremely good marketing tools!
good example to others like me
If that free drink was a bottle of good vintage wine, then I say that's a good deal.
I'd go to a cheeseburger and wine drivethru any day.
You just made my day :)
I'd like to hear what you have to say m8!
Follow my blog then. Read some of my work. I don't have time to write another article here.
I will share something humorous with you though. There's a thing called 'delegating' here where people delegate their Steem Power to other accounts. Then there are bidbots. People spend their money and purchase the rewards seen next to their post. This post above is a prime example of someone who paid for rewards that aren't truly worth anything.
So anyway, there's another member here on the trending page who delegated away his SP to a bidbot, then purchased a vote from said bidbot, and he's writing financial type advice. Imagine that. That's like buying a bag of apples, then choosing to pay a random stranger each time you'd like to eat one of the apples you already own; and he's sitting around telling people what to do with their money.
The comedy writes itself.
Isnt that what most of the companies do for marketing anyway ? hah.
I've followed you m8 my first. Hope you can return the favor. I'm quite new here still would see which space I'd fit in. Yeah I read up on people sharing their SP and delegating good to know it doesn't work.
Well said. I'm new here, so I'm still understanding this complex environment, but I've read about those bots and stuff like that, that make you generate money easily, but that seems like cheating to me.
Sure, you can give someone else money so money shows up beside your work, but that's not profit. You can put a Bugatti logo on a Chevy if you wanted, but that won't make the Chevy a Bugatti. It's not cheating, it's just ridiculous.
If people want to go into debt just to be able to instantly achieve what many of us have been able to achieve for working hard over the span of years, so be it, they can go right ahead and have everything we have except for the money we made. There are many ways to approach this game. If spending money instead of making money is your game plan, then do it.
If you want to make money, take the youtube style approach. It'll be slow at first, frustrating, it'll give you a headache, but eventually, you'll get somewhere; provided you don't give up. Also, if you share a photo and get paid 10 cents, that's more than Facebook ever paid you. Take it or leave it.
Try to build up a valuable following. These folks on the trending page pay to be seen but if you select 10 of their followers at random, you'll see low value accounts like yours right now because you just started. You want high value accounts to follow you if you plan on earning because the more Steem Power someone has in their account, the more they can give you if and when they vote for your work. Keep in mind, not all of your followers will vote for your work, so the more value your following has, the better your chances of earning something when they actually do vote.
I'm following you now. You're a digital artist, me too. Study my approach. Add some personality to each post. If you were a blogger who talks about trees, unfortunately, nobody wants to follow a tree, but the minute you add your personality to said tree blog, that makes it about you and the tree, and people tend to gravitate towards other people. For instance, I enjoy motovlogs on Youtube, but I don't subscribe to EVERY motovlogger because, straight up, many of them are far too boring. Get it? Got it? Good!
Thanks man, I appreciate the insight. I didn't know that about the trending, that's a great tip! Which one would you recommend to check? The New or hot, or promoted instead?
Will give it a shot to add my own personality to my entries.
Appreciated!
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I am new here, not only here, i do not think so i will make money here, but i think i would meet some good real peoples, i read this first post today, and also your comment, that's nice. i want, you write an article to explain how you achieve it (reputation).
I don't want to write a post about that. I think it's been done 10000 times already much like the "How to be successful on Steemit" post has been done about 10000 times(probably more).
Every incoming upvote you get raises your reputation. If you do something stupid and get a downvote, that lowers your reputation. A low value account vote won't raise your reputation as much with one vote as a higher value account.
Reputation is just a number though and it doesn't really mean much now since people can just buy high value votes to raise the number.
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I love this comment, and it touches on something that has fascinated me since I found Steem. Do you value artistic integrity or do you value the payouts? Can it be both? To what degree? Where do you draw the line? I like to do photography and other art. I'm also interested in bleeding-edge technology that disrupts fundamental ways that humans relate to each other. So when I signed up for Steem it was partly as an experiment, to see what happens when the profit motive and artistic integrity combine in a transparent way. What wins out? I saw one guy getting hundreds of dollars worth of crypto every time he posted a shitty photograph, and the comments section below his posts were filled with people kissing OP's ass telling him what an artistic genius he was. It drove me nuts that people would go out of their way to kiss his ass in the hopes that he would throw them some crumbs from his fat crypto wallet.
That said, is that not how the real world works? If you dine in a pricey restaurant and are rude to the waiter, chances are the waiter will still be nice to you instead of telling you to fuck off because he wants your tip money. In one situation, your behavior could get you an ass kicking. In the restaurant, you get an ass-kissing because there is $50 worth of tip money on the line.
Anyways, I got on Steem, and a $20 post payout means nothing to me. So I figured I could shake things up. I could interrupt the parade of fake niceties, because my integrity was worth more than any post payout I could hope to get.
But I soon found that I was paying a lot of attention to how big of a wallet that my post commenters were sitting on. Even though the post payouts were whatever, I wanted more. Just because why??? Maybe it's a competitive instinct. I don't know.
I will say that from your post, you're well aware of the games being played on this platform, and you've decided you're going to play them by your own rules. I respect that and appreciate your post for addressing something that's been on my mind. I am not on Steem platform a ton...just started using it again after many months off, but your comment is the most real shit that I've seen on here.
I'll follow you and upvote your good stuff, FWIW. You're setting a good example that not many on this platform are following (yet).
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