Ive been desperatley trying to do the same thing i never use others photos or titles and i always post original thoughts and ideas but yet even with 140 followers i cant get more then 1 cent on a post and nothing on comments am i doing something wrong here? I engage and respond to every reply and still im not getting any engagement at all on here its almost got me ready to give up on this site. Ive been on for about a week ive done 40 plus posts all original and i think only 4 out of my 140 followers ever checks them out or upvotes them. Its kind of sad and discouraging. And then to see some dumb advertisement about some island no one can afford getting hundreds of dollars in pay outs
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Go visit Steemit chat, join a curating guild, make thoughtful comments on other people's work. You need to build a network and become established in your community of subjects you write about. This process takes time.
That's the way to go.
I recommend making sure your posts include pictures - no pic = no thumbnail - bugger all views!
And if you want to get into doing ads for island resorts some bikini pics might help -but seriously in that case six months of mind blowlingly high quality presentation posts would lay the groundwork for having big payouts
It took me weeks to get any traction really. And it took about 4 months to get 100 followers. For me though, some of my content attracted more active and higher rep followers.
As an example of content volume, I have a couple of posts on my word count. Over two weeks I posted around 43000 words in about 75 posts of original content across several fields of interest. That is a masters thesis in length. Most didn't get more than a couple dollars.
I have been working very hard at this since arrival and I feel like it is only now I am starting to get the hang of it and still I get posts with very low returns often.
There is more value here for me in what I write than what I get paid for it. There is also the value of interaction with some great people. It is easy to count success on reward but it is not a good indicator of value at all.
Your doing pretty well man, I believe you would just need to keep up the pace your at. 140 followers is pretty impressive, I only have 85 but I've been on here since November.
I convinced some of my followers on facebook to join steemit and thats where most of my followers come from. The big break comes from appealing to just one whale. I currently have a whale who upvotes my posts for whatever reason and it makes all the difference.
I bet if you keep up your posts you will get some followers who really appreciate your work.
Hey thanks man thats really encouraging to hear i try to keep my content sincere and simple i have a complex mind that works in short simple bursts of information i have alot of opinion but i love to get feed back and this site totally incites conversation and i dig it but your right i gotta find like minded whales