I joined about a year ago. When I first joined, I barely got any upvotes on my posts. I spent months posting, barely making more than a few dollars. I had tons of very quality posts that I spent hours on (sometimes even days) go into my 'graveyard' with pretty much no rewards. I kept at it for months, and never lost sight of the fact that the platform gives everyone the potential to earn high rewards. There were lots of times when my friends and family were making fun of me for spending so much time and not making anything. It would have been easy to just say that the site was 'rigged' and give up. I stuck with it though and continued to build a following by producing quality content, and making personal connections with people in the community. Over time after about a year, I finally reached the point that I saw so many people at when I first joined (earning lots of rewards). It certainly wasn't easy, but it was 100% possible.
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I admire your rigor..... and had to hear a comment like yours. upvoted and following you now. I love the fact that you stuck it through like I am now. I am in my third week and growth had been big. Yet I know that I will only deserve the prize if I am persistence and there will be no way to take a magic giant leap. Unless of course I invest. And I that will be my next article. I hope you follow so you can see my article and be there to comment as this has to be my favourite comment so far. Any chance I can get a resteem from you so I can get some insight from a wider audience and hopefully some more dolphins and whales..... Thanks in advance
Regards
Yoda
I have been on Steemit about a year also. You are one of my favorites. Your articles are informative and always very well done. I will use this as a reminder to others to vote for you as witness. Your attention to details is one of the qualities needed as a witness.
Thanks!! :)
I just joined and think this a is a great platform. It is difficulty seeing some who joined around the same time making hundreds. I guess its luck of the drawn. I just hope I can build and appeal to many more with my content. I admire your determination and it's something to aspire too.
It is usually a combination of consistently producing quality content, and networking (making friends). There is also a little bit of luck too as far as getting noticed.
Here is a guide of tips that may help:
https://steemit.com/steem-help/@timcliff/the-ultimate-guide-of-tips-for-new-steem-users
And may I ask, did you every invest any money into buying steempower?
Yes, although not much. When I first started, I bought $250 worth. The rest, I have earned by participating.
Wow... Did a couple of hundred bucks make much of a difference in your experience if at all?
Well to a large extent yes, because I actually started out purely as an investor (albeit a small one). I bought the $250 worth of STEEM because I thought it would go up in value based on what I learned about the platform. I actually ended up signing up for the site because I needed an account to be able to power up. I'm pretty sure I would have signed up anyway, but technically that was the reason I did it.
From a voting perspective, it didn't really do much. Up until recently, even when I had 10,000 SP - I was only adding a few pennies to people's posts when I voted. It wasn't until the 'whale experiment' started (run by abit and smooth) that having a moderate amount of SP actually made a difference in your voting. HF 19 changed it so that it was handled at the blockchain level (via linear rewards). These days, buying a small to moderate amount of SP can actually make some difference.
I think the $250 also helped because I always looked at the site from the perspective of an investor. We all 'own' a stake in the platform, so it is in everybody's best interest to make it succeed. I think the more people who have that perspective the better.
Wow.. so it enhanced your mindset more than anything else. That is awesome.....
I was wondering how much SP it would take before life becomes different.. lol
Hey maybe you can help me out here. I have been looking up what specifically makes a dolphin and a whale. And that information is impossible to find.
Do you know these facts?
They are lose definitions, but I have always gone off of what they have here:
https://steemd.com/distribution
(the site is currently down, but will probably be back by tomorrow.)
Based on that, I put a dolphin at 10 MV (or about 5,000 SP) and a whale at 100 MV (or about 50,000 SP).
what does MV mean?
This ^
Thanks.... that was an awesome comment. Any chance I have earned a resteem from you? And I have a question, did you every buy any steempower? My next major article will be on that. And hop I ger a follow from you so you can be there to offer some insight ;)
Oh crap.. I thought I already did hah.
asking is wise!