Success isn't always about greatness. It's all about being very consistent on your goals and if you work hard enough, greatness will come ~ Charles Fuchs.
What up STACKERS!
So what the hell is a "Dolphin" on Steemit and how do you become one? It's very simple to answer, a person who has over 5000+ Steem Power (Minimum). 💁🏼♂️
There are many reasons why becoming a Dolphin 🐬 from a Minnow 🐟 🐠 is very important on Steemit. You will gain a type of "Status" and "Influence". 🤩
I knew instantly when I first started, becoming a dolphin was one of my main goals to accomplish on here... I knew if I hit this "Status" it will attract more people and other "Dolphins" to my profile.
Why is that Important? ... because they have the more Steem Power than 95% people on here and one upvote from them can make your day! 📈
There are many ways to become a "Dolphin", you either earn it or you just "Power Up" by investing in Steem .... all you need it 5000+ Steem Power.
Once you hit this status, you will see a signifiant increase in your followers and especially in your upvotes. Why does this happen? Well to be blunt; people will like your "upvoting power" 🤣 ...
... "But Charles, 5000+ Steem is currently around $15,000+ and I don't have that kind of money to invest and if I try to earn by posting, it might take me a year to earn that!"
Well, I never said it was going to be easy to become a "Dolphin" but it's quit simple. Invest in to Steem power and earn your way up.
The simple strategy I used was talked about me a few months ago and that method was dollar "Dollar Cost Averaging"... If you dug up my old posts, I was buying Steem Weekly. 📆
I was just simply buying "Steem Power"... $100 worth, then $300, then $50, then $200 per week.... it did't matter the cost of Steem, I was accumulating my positions while earning extra Steem by posting content and curating.
After a few months, I became a "Dolphin" fast, I didn't even realize it because I was busy posting tons of content and just kept "STACKIN" Steem! 💰
You guys have a huge opportunity right now with SBD price being so high, your posts can generate so much money... you can easily power up faster than ever before! ... did you know it was 10X harder to accumulate Steem in the past, now it's easier than ever!
Hope this helps all the new people to set a small goal and make becoming a "Dolphin" in 2018 by using my strategies.
It's kinda cool to be in the top 5% of Steemit and I'm looking forward to seeing all of you in the "Dolphin 🐬 Club" one day.
Keep STACKIN That STEEM! 💞
P.S. For those who are interested in following my "Daily Activities" that I do in very "short form". Follow me here: @charles-fuchs.
I wanted to say this, maybe I'll write an article... I get these minnow guys unfollowing me out of the blue (I don't even know they were following me in the first place, because they made zero effort to introduce themselves).
Dolphins are too busy upping their game to do follow 4 follow or vote 4 vote, and the way to get on their radar is usually to visit their posts and say something useful and thoughtful.
Minnows unfollowing me? Fine, but please don't hold a grudge against me because I didn't notice you were there. Speak up! I'm constantly on my grind, whether it's steemit or my business or life in general, I'm not trying to be unkind, but I don't typically have time to zero in on this or that minnow in particular.
It is what it is. I still like upvoting comments and supporting minnows, just please make the effort to be more visible.
Allright! Thank you for your clear words! I think I‘m starting to react like you although I am a new one and only on level 45 now. It‘s good to get helpful information as this one. I‘ll keep on going. Greetings from Austria!
And muting you! You forgot to mention xD crazy people everywhere xD
They get so emotional instead of becoming more rational, they are their own worst enemy EVAR!
I know where you are coming from... we are so busy putting up content and upvoting so many people that we may miss lots of stuff. They get mad very easy lol. No worries, they will come back and keep doing your thang @overkillcoin! :)
that great enjoy for you.
I follow you... you follow me?
I have this same thing. Like... I didn't even post today, why you unfollow me? Some of these people who have been on Steem for 100 days and have 53 SP.... I dunno. Sometimes I wish Gina could pole these people to find out what exactly it is they think they were going to get from me that they didn't so decided to unfollow. With 20k delegated SP (for a couple more days anyway) if they engaged with me and did something worthy of a vote, I probably woulda voted for them.
Oh well.... those of us who want to grow will do so, the rest can fall away to the side of the road.
It just takes time to grow. You just have to be active. A lot of people dot understand that. And I’m starting to figure it out. But what irritates me with the few followers i do have, they aren’t active and dont comment or anything. This platform is about community and being active. Why create an account if you dont do anything? But ill just keep chugging along
No worries, Hardfork 20 is coming and communities are getting built. People will come and go, but that leaves more of us :)
Yup. This platform is growing slowly but surely
Yeps... So just as a test, I did upvote one of these unfollowers and they followed me back... Do they think it's my responsibility to keep track of someone who never comments on my posts? I guess so haha...
And how about that Gina-bot - thanks for letting me know about it!
yeah I dunno. Maybe they followed me cause I found them randomly and upvoted something they said, but then I failed to continue upvoting them on a regular basis or something. It's all good. If they were inactive, I don't miss them. Followers is just a number.
Yeah Gina is pretty legit. hahaha. Glad you got set up and enjoy her services!
I stacked with you man, $50 / $100, I think the most was $200 one time.
Just felt like the right thing to do, now we Dolphin!
I didn't even realize you were a dolphin man! I haven't been paying you proper homage.
haha :D
yeah I don't like to gloat. F**K YEAH I'M A DOLPHIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You the man! I even bought steem at $2.00+ and it dropped to .90 for a month... I was in STACKIN mode and didn’t care and look at us now! 2018 will be the year Bossman! 😎
$3 will look good next year for sure! Respect for Stackin in 2017!
thanks for resteem and one time lol.
The high SBD prices helps a lot indeed. What I find helpfull aswel, keep setting little sidegoals like +100SP in a month, or lets say: want to have X number of SP at a given time period!
Great work... I'm powering up with every bit of Steem or SBD I receive!
It’s so easier to become a Dolphin right now with the SBD prices so high... people need to powerup and look at us a long term deal 😀
The way you write is pretty similar to Gary Vaynerchuk where you know you gotta put in the work, you gotta hustle and network, get followers and keep churning out content.
Steem Power and that number right next to your name dictates if people will follow you, connect and upvote your post. The lower it is, the less the chance you have of winning that person over.
Sure content is king but reputation is the kingmaker. The earlier people realize that and work towards raising that number beside their name the better they are in playing the game.
Sure we have some altruistic whales and dolphins out there that want to see great content for Steemit and they invest in grooming minnows but there are more that want to see their power grow, their earnings grow so that they can power up more or cash out more. Power is addicting and earning for content and your reputation feels good.
It is refreshing how you say it as it is.
I, myself, have been guilty of being naive a month after joining Steemit. I thought that if I write my heart out that people will read it and be moved and upvote. That if I find my niche and people that have the same interests as I have that we will help each other and grow from a plankton to a minnow. Boy was I in for a rude awakening lol.
People still operate like in the real world, What's in it for me? What benefit will I have to do this? If you come off like a pauper and begging for scraps you will be ignored but come off as someone with potential and eventually someone respected then there is a chance that you'll get the buy in. Pretty cynical but it is what it is.
This month I know that content is still important, relationships forged and cultivated are good but the number still rules the pecking order. So my 2018 Vision board has me set my eyes on the prize of reaching a 60 reputation. I wanted to get to 58 this end of the year but well I started slow because of naivety .
2018 will be my year where I use all the tips and techniques I have learned during the probation stage. 2018 will be the real deal as I cut down on gaming time, immerse myself into reaching that goal of reputation, enter as many contests as I can, cultivate my own set of followers those that I got hooked to Steemit, snatching them away from Facebook, hustle, create, earn, power up, invest, power up, rinse and repeat till I get to 60.
Simple yeah, hard hell yeah but if I quit now and say the system is unfair then I am just a loser who couldn't hack it. Switch it up and have laser like focus on the goal of 60.
Gary Vaynerchuk is a beast, been following him for like 8 years, crazy how he blew up on Social media in the last 3 years. It was amazing to see!
You hit the nail on the head, one of the best comments of the day.!
@maverickinvictus This comment is really another post. It is like page 2 to @stackin posting. Reputation should climb rather fast when you have major upvote power, I would think?
This is a very helpful lecture for me as a beginner and I think you might write about your experience in an article similar to this your comment... Happy and successful New Year!
Great post! Looking forward on becoming a dolphin. Only 4000ish steem power left :)
I remember discussing this with you months back, saying my target was to get above 10k and then go from there...
Glad that's done - I am fortunate that I was able to power up as I would never get there from posting alone!!
Got to respect people trying to make their way up from a standing start with no investment. I hope they don't run out of time, but I fear many people will look back and wish they had invested more in 2017 - actually, we probably all will...
Cheers
Congrats MAN! You are one of the Steemians out there paving the way for new people. Lots who gave up the last several months are coming back and saying to themselves "Why did I leave, I could of been a boss" LOL.
2018 will be a huge year for cryptos and especially for Steem itself :)
I‘m a believer, too, and it should be a year of creativity, communication and cooperation, most of all!
Thanks for sharing your experience and congrats.
I have the exact same target for my account in the next couple of months. :)
That what I like to hear man! Let’s 10x that and get it in a month 😂
Thanks for this advice @stackin. I just started buying STEEM from friends and bittrex. Hope it is not too late. Because just posting original content and getting big rewards looks nearly impossible, you have to be lucky to get attention from the whales.
Just trying to help the community :) .... it's never to late, you are on your way. You can do it, you will become a dolphin in 2018!
Thanks for the good words. I've just lost my endurance and mood for blogging, your words make me feel a bit better, I know persistence is the key but it is hard to keep on when life around you is uncertain.
You were the one who told me about Steem, Keep on Steemin!
You know it :)
I did some Steem buying at the beginning, but recently I have been using SBD to diversify. It may be the wrong choice with my account at only 2k Steem Power before accounting for the Delegations I have received, but for me, I see a lot of good projects I want to invest in, and SBD is my investment money free and clear.
I may end up selling some stacks for Steem, or I must just happily keep accumulating sacks to fill with different coin. We'll see.
Would love to be a dolphin of my own accord, but I see myself getting there eventually. Slower than I might have, but also protected if Steem suddenly nose dives. We'll see how it all shakes out!
Always fun to follow you Charles! Happy New Year!!
That makes sense, I did the same too with a few of my SBD earnings. I bought tons of Steem, EOS and Salt. The only reason I did that was because my goal was 10,000 Steem in 2017 and that was accomplished. But in 2018, my goal is to have at least 25,000 Steem so I better start stackin early lol
Well if Steem takes us to the promised land, even my 2k stack will get me out of debt, hahaha.
I'm in on EOS as well, though I haven't looked at SALT, will have to take a look at that one.
Will be interested to see how early in 2018 you hit that 25k bag. I think you might surprise yourself with how quickly it goes!
Power up, but save some for when the price of Steem drops again. I remember when it was .016 sbd per steem. Beautiful day to power up!
Those were the hard days lol ... Be sure to save up at least 1 SBD for my drink one of these days lol
That's my goal in 2018 to become a dolphin. Someday, I'm one of you guys.
I'll be a dolphin by the end of 2018!
Let’s do it, I’m going to motivate hundreds of minnows 😎😀
I found my guru! 😆😀💐
Good luck, fellow-minnow! ;)
Thanks for sharing your advice! with determination and goodwill, we can become everything we want! cheers @stackin!
No problem, just bustin out some knowledge to my fellow STEEMIANS 🤣😋
I love your content and blog man. Keep up the work you’ll be a giant whale soon and we’ll all be your little trail of dolphins lol :)
Thanks @stackin for helping me quantify my goal to become a dolphin. $15,000 is steep so I've been slowly DCA'ing into Steem. But I've made enough trading cryptourrencies that I think I'm ready to up my weekly investments.
Well, it does take a particular mind set of patience and endurance. I do have the money but I earned it. Earned is the word. I will earn some here SLOWLY. But when I get there, I will know that I earned it. It will make me better.
hehehe I do hope to hit Dolphin 🐬 Club status some day! :) thanks for sharing how you did it!
You will get there, just keep on STACKIN those lovely steem 😬
will do @stackin!! :D
Buy buy buy buy.
And then buy some more.
At the same time,
Comment. Comment. Comment.
And then comment some more.
And repeat.
You forgot to say Stack Stack Stack 😂🤑😎
Lol. Stack stack stack, of course. Very important. Hahaha
I'm just about to hit my 5K SP Dolphin status. Less than 100 SP left to go which I will be buying in the morning.
I started in mid June and have set myself 3 initial targets :
I am tantalisingly close to achieving all three by my target date of 1 January.
5K SP will be reached, and probably the 1K followers - the 60 Rep is more tricky. Just need a couple of friendly high reppers to drop by for that...
Then it will be on to setting the 2018 targets - 25K SP maybe??
Congrats!! Great goals!! I’m with you right there, let’s set targets to 25k in 2018!
Thank you and happy new year.
I made it - I hit all three targets with seconds to spare. I got my last vote to take me to reputation 60 at one minute to minute !!
hi @pennsif - can you tell me, where it is possible to check the reputation level like yours with 3 numbers behind the point? This would be very friendly. Thx a lot an btw happy new year for you all guys!
Cheers from Paraguay
Hi @peppermint24 I use steemnow for watching the reputation score (as well as incoming vote etc). A very useful tool :
Thx so much for dropping the link, @pennsif
very helpful with alot of stats, but i feel a little bit "nooby" :D
I didn`t find the stats of my reputationsscore, like yours.
Or is it possible the mobile app is different to the dektop version?
I use the desktop/notebook version, btw.
i have just 14.501 steem power for me its not possible
I had 0 Steem power 3 months ago, now it's almost 1k without doing any investment. I am not that "nothing is impossible" guy - but 5k SP is certainly possible.
That’s the attitude I respect! 🙌🏼
hey can you tell me how you did it or what are your advices please
Read the article above @mohannad
You have to change your mindset 🤔
Learn some new from your post. Love to read it.
💪🏼🙌🏼💯
good post buddy! as always have clear mind, focus on your goals and most importantly keep on stakin :)
I’m a Goal Digger 😂😂😂
lol ... you made my day - goal digger ... .loving that
One of my goals is to become a dolphin in 2018!!!
With proper discipline I can do it!
You can do it! 2018 Goals 😀
I think I will always be the "shark" in the community :D ehehhe
I rather be an ORCA Instead hahaha
I was thjnking about that. But then i thought it was actually a thing in here already lol You know I have a weird funny bone! Lol
Your the man Fuchs... still till this day learning about Steemit from you lol. Ill get there one day!
-Best,
K Dubb
People laughed at me on Facebook 7 months ago LOL ... now there fb is still worth $0 and my steemit acocunt is worth tens of thousands of dollars haha... I see you bustin out that youtube crypto content, keep it up man :)
I remember that! I had no doubt you'd kill it on here.
This market will reward those taking action 💪
And you deserve it bro!
And thanks man!
Just 10X'in one day at a time 😎
Nice inspiring article about how to become a dolphin in Steemit. This is also my ultimate goal as well~
Sir can i resteem your post?
thankyou Dolphin..i have 1000 Sp ..who i'm?
Very interesting information! Thank you!
Thank you for your encouragement, I want to become a dolphin one day ;)
Totally not worthy!!
I WILL be a dolphin like you one day. I see you've only been here about six months. How is that possible to be where you are?
What do you recommend I do to get there within six months?
Do I just re-invest all of my SBDs into the steem power?
Just keep posting, just keep posting, just keep posting (in Dory's voice from Nemo).
Tx for the optomistic post! I followed and resteemed this.
Very nice post sir. i too would love to be a dolphin so i can help smaller fishes swim.
can one become a dolphin on delegated steem power ?
Hey, I'm trying to make it happen but first I need to move out so, I'm saving money for that and then I'm powering uuuup up up, hope to see you on the top soon :D
NICE!!! So I HAVE been doing it RIGHT, All Along!
I was STACKIN' and RACKIN' all the way up, now I will be a Dolphin in a matter of DAYS. Big Fat Minnow atm, getting ready to shed my skin and be a Dolphin any day! Sitting at 4956.5xx SP as of this writing, I'm so close I CAN TASTE IT!!! wow, should be some time in the first week of the year!
Inspirational, @Charles! I will be following CLOSER, and stacking Harder! I did one huge purchase, I took my BTC profits (I did use DCA over at coinbase!) and rolled it into STEEM, almost $1700 at once. Then STEEM Tripled, I am so glad I caught that wave! :D
I'd heard of Dolphins before, but hadn't really investigated what it took to become one. Thanks so much for the info - hubby & I have talked about investing little bits of cash on a regular basis, and now I really want to do it!
Happy Steeming!
ya, its true advice and initiated will be helpful to become a dolphin in 2018, because time is running as well as steem.
love your posts alot..there is always something to learn in them and they are very motivational..thanks for sharing and motivating us sir :)
Nice approach just keep stacking steem along the way : )
@stackin Oh yeah sometimes, I remember that I live in a world that really doesn't provide surplus for investing or saving. Where it takes every little bit of life's earnings in order to live. Specially if you want to live "legally" Car registrations/insurances, taxes income/property, medical, utilities electricity/internet cable, phone, food (without preservatives) work commute /transport, fuel, bridge tolls/parking. ETC.....
That's pretty cool to know thanks for the tips by the way, have a nice..
i know the target lets hit that target : )
your approach was great you just didn't think about that time and now its paying you off wow :)
Ayeee this post just got me pumped! I managed to invest my SBD in a few coins that recently mooned! I’m plannig on using the profits to buy SP once the Steem price takes a larger dip!
I really appreciate the dolphin advice here. I have invested in two accounts, my wife's account, @addiemae and mine. My wife does not do much posting and that is okay but I wish she would become more involved. Myself I try to post often as I get time to but for some reason my content just does not get the hair up on the back of peoples neck enough to come read my post.
Ill keep at it though and likely start pumping more STEEM into the system as my crypto portfolio grows.
again.
Thanks for the advice
What can I say every body have the same dream right . Trying to be part of the American dream .
I'm a tiny, tiny minnow currently, but I have hopes to swim with dolphins!
JGV
your upvote will make my day