Good content and advice! Thank you for being open and sharing, Stellabelle! I started posting every few days and consecutive days and I got my first post over a hundred! Consistency is key, and helping newbies also helps you (upvoted and following now). Thanks again!
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Exactly. If you see the potential for Steemit as a platform then the long game is just as important as having a trending post (if not more so). If you build up your reputation, post consistently good work and stick with it is sure to benefit you eventually.
If you look at the big Youtube stars as an example they didn't achieve success overnight it took most of them years of striving and persistence. Even then there is no guarantee but if you don't take this step then you can only blame yourself for failure.
The Beatles got turned down by multiple record companies before they hit it big. They didn't give up and kept playing, honing their art and getting better.
Imagine if they had just given up at the first hurdle because they didn't get instant success - we would have lost out on a huge amount of outstanding music and modern culture might be completely different.
True. Persistence is the missing piece that few really put their minds to. It's hard work to look failure in the eye, day after day. But some things are worth fighting for, every day. Thank you for always providing such value in your comments. You made me re-think the way I was commenting actually...
Appreciate your advice Stellabelle! Trying to get this out there ----> @nycactivism . Please look. It's a calendar of NYC activism related events! Hopefully can get it to REsteem! Many thanks again for your advice. Just did my introduceyourself post 3 days ago! Will start posting more photos....
@thecryptofiend, great reminders to not give up even in the face of difficult times. :) I'm encouraged.
There is this really important bit, that they had in that old childrens song here in Russia. It is a song about friends. And it has the line that goes something like "And even if [one] falls down, just gets up and goes again". Amd the context is that is because they are surrounded by friends. So that is a good thing for thread starter (my bad, I actually ment @ratel) to understand. If you treat people around as friends, it is eaiser to get more friends.
And here is the song I was talking about.
Nice, even if you don't understand any word. The pictures speak for theirself. Full of love and friendship. Reminds me of the artstyle of "The Mole" by Zdeněk Miler. My father had this film projector for such film rolls with many episodes of DEFA movies including also The Hare and the Wolf. Fond memories of my childhood. Me and my brother watched the movies with drawn curtains because the low light intensity of the lamp inside not comparable to todays technology. The projector was rattling like a sewing machine and was hot after minutes, smelt of melted plastic and lubricant. Sometimes the film teared apart and my father took a few minutes to bond the film and we were bored from waiting. The mole and his friends had always that positive attitude no matter what happened and there was a lot going on in the woods! ;)
Thank you for sharing, i'll ask who knows that russian movie.
Helping newbies is a huge part of it. As you have noticed, the whales, have indeed, stopped upvoting the Secret Writer posts. Does that mean I discontinue it and cave into frustration? No. It means I continue doing it because I SEE VALUE IN IT. Even if the whales no longer value it in terms of money, I see value in it for others as well as myself. I have perhaps a different value system than even the whales. This is a perfect example of having a bigger stake than just money. Some of the Secret Writer posts in the past were profitable, but that profit has pretty much died off, in money terms. But those posts still get around 200 votes, mostly from minnows. The minnow vote is valuable to me. If there were no minnow votes, now then, that would indicate that perhaps there is no inherent value in the Secret Writer.
Yeah, my latest strategy for improving the community is to scour the new posts for good content and give advice on improving posts. Good ways to get followers worth following and vice versa
I learned from @cryptos that another great way to do this is scouring the 'pending payout' posts. You can give deserving but forgotten posts some love before it's too late.
@tee-em I would love it if you could check out my posts and give me some advice!
New here and I would certainly welcome any constructive criticism you feel inspired to share ;) please & thank-you. I wish you well xox
200$ may not be much compared to the 1-5k posts (which still happen less frequently - but they do happen, and for some countries that kind of money would be 1 year of work), but they are not negligible. Many would kill to even have a 20$ per post consistency, not an avg of something like 500+ per post (if we average good payouts of >1-2k and bad payouts of 100-200$).
Agree!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who is actively trying to improve the content on Steemit. To that effect I created this campaign (please give me feedback, I just want to help):
I will upvote every constructive comment I get on Steemit with 5-10 cents in order to create a WIN-WIN-WIN.
You win by having me upvote and follow you, I win by having great comments and more followers and above all Steemit wins by getting better content.
Read about the rules and conditions here.
Please respond here or on my post with any feedback you have, thanks!