Everything I was told upon starting was basically wrong and I realize that in spite of best laid intentions I remember the saying that, "The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions"...
Here are some inconvenient and unsavory facets to this game I have learned...
(This is an Op/Ed and your results may Vary)
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Post Everyday and your consistency will make you win!
I've done better not posting every day but if I have a day I feel like doing a couple of posts I will. I see some who were posting and trending with "updates" every couple of hours...this isn't Twitter FFSMake sure your posts are very long and perfectly formatted and the more time you spend on them the better!
The attention span of the average person in the Steemian age is a couple minutes if you are lucky. People send me vids and I usually skip around and invest maximum 5-10 minutes on ANY post that I am checking out. Coming back to add that on my own posts they can range from having invested a substantial amount of time on my end to a random thought on a train.Make sure to comment on prominent members posts as you will win!
This method has worked for a few but for most that have been on here long enough, overly sugary and/or begging for follows or to check out your blog backfires. The worst is leaving promo links in a guise of it somehow helping.... unless you have a working and friendly relationship with that person. My advice is: "Just don't do that thing."Attend as many podcasts as you can and work and give away your time for free and be an admin in everything you can!
Sometimes this produces good results depending on the group on Discord. Discord is rather crucial to the networking aspect on here as are other social platforms that interplay with this one if used wisely. Overextending yourself as I have and winding up in unnecessary dramatic bullshit tends to not result in a huge difference to your wallet and leaves you figuring out you are working for way below minimum wage.
I've learned to unlearn what has not yielded any positive results and let go and will be letting go of things I feel are sucking me dry and are not in any way a symbiotic or genuine relationship either business or friendship wise. I will work what works!
catch up on some of my recent posts du jour
https://steemit.com/steemit/@battleaxe/excessive-posting-want-to-lose-followers
https://steemit.com/thealliance/@battleaxe/ode-to-public-transportation-now-with-extra-aggressive-seat-grabbers
https://steemit.com/thealliance/@battleaxe/titans-of-teamgood-battle-royale-edition
https://steemit.com/teamgood/@battleaxe/titans-of-teamgood-extra-ramen-edition
(giphy, @thealliance @steemsugars @ecs @mbc @steemusa @teamgood)
You nailed it .. why am i not surprised
@battleaxe....keepin' the platform classy since Spring 2017
All sad but true...
ain't that the truth O.o
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Let your conscience be your guide.
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Excellent points! I agree with people finding their own niche'!
Sir, next you will ask me for noodz! ;)
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Careful!
One day you might want to unlearn how to unlearn
lol, I doubt it will be on here :P
Yeah, as a long time blogger it does pay to write out long formulated blogs with conventional blogs like WP.
Not so much on Steemit. It's just a different atmosphere and I agree with you to keep it shorter and more to the point.
For instance, I have a HUGE list ( including you) of Steemians that I manually Curate and Comment on.
When it takes 15 minutes to read a post...well my brain shuts off.
So keep it short and sweet
Follow for follow? Up-Vote for Up-Vote? #makesteemgreatagain
lol, Together we will rise above and achieve our dreams!
I think you said it best at the beginning with: "your results may Vary."
The same thing that works for one person will not necessarily work for another. Bravo!
and the mic goes.....drrrrrop :)
Zen principal - empty your cup 😎
preach it, fave saying is if my cup is empty how can I pour into anybody elses
Refreshingly honest! I am going to make some changes that may kill my account, I don't know, but I realized that I am not having fun any more. I quit discord because I am not good at that bullshit butt-sniffing kind of "networking." If we have a common goal, why can't we just both work toward it, why do we have to sit on discord and stroke each other's egos to accomplish it? How does that really even help?
I joined a bunch of groups and their curation trails... I get LOTS more votes now, but no more comments, maybe even less. And the votes are worth 0.001 or less a lot of the time. I am trying to find the truth about that... Maybe you know @battleaxe? Is it true nothing less than 0.003 pays out? Or is that the wrong amount? Anyway, all my networking has not garnered ENGAGED followers, just autovoters. Oh, and look at me, I so resemble that remark myself...
I am going to work it so this is fun again, or I am going to quit doing it...
I'm done with many aspects....and engaged in others
take your hours you put in and calculate what you make an hour
it can be shocking ,I do like chatting with friends which isn't "work" per se but still
wiping hands..... people don't like what I bring to tables I just fucking make my own tables and can stick around for drinks with friends but other than that , I have no time for it
You just axe the world steemit process... Bravo axey
There really isn’t a formula, IMHO. Of course I’m still a fledgling after a year on Steemit, but it seems to me that being authentic, posting great stuff regularly, and making friends and building community here and on Discord are best practices.
So true. I am writing more shorter posts and putting more photos
thanks for the tips. I am unlearning too.
Well I have to say that you earned a new follower, and an upsteem from myself. To kinda echo what others have said, the process/formula is different for everyone. I still haven't reached my plateau and that's ok for me. I didn't join steemit with high expectations because I know the game is rigged. My choice of subject matter to write about is truth and that doesn't resonate with alot of people, as most are comfortable with the status quo. Different individuals will always value different things and that's ok because that's one of the characteristics that define us as individuals.
For myself, it's important to write about the unseen things that affect humanity because knowledge has been weaponized against us. It is a sword that cuts both ways.
Hahaha...Lol
This is my first time replying your post cos this was a really cool...apart from your discord being upgraded version.
But after such great write, you could tell us what works well...i think I've learned to lunlearn most of these though.
Thank you
ahhhh, I remember you, how goes it? :)
yeah, well you joined at an interesting time although most times on here are rather chaotic
gotta say Nitro is worth the money if it's something someone can swing, see now you have interacted since you were new in a normal and nice fashion whenever we bump into each other. Now I will be like this "Let me go see his blog, he doesn't seem like a psycho!" ;)
Hehehe...you seem to put some laughs in every write...Lol
I'm not a psycho and yeah...you are not a real axe too😃😅
oh yeah now I follow you and all that good stuff, keep in touch, please leave comments cause I'll get sucked up into the non productive crap on here and you strike me as productive :)
@battleaxe
Thank you dear. I'd always be around the corner!
@preciousimo
That is right. This may be a good guideline for beginners.
I hope it helps some escape some of the pitfalls and snares I fell into ;)
Yeah right.
may the force be with you
Yeah i am posting everday, its a ball leg and certainly does not get you better results and far from it ! I must say i am pretty disappointed by the attention span of most steemit users ! But then it does correlate to the clear
" dumbness " i see in most peoples eyes now in the street ! The Human race is so burnt out, come on down master and take us ! We are ready as we ever will be !!
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