Out of all of the bots I think @treeplanter is the only one that has a guaranteed 3x return. It is tough to implement this kind of situation and help as many people as possible at the same time in my opinion. I have found that treeplanter is usually good on this upto about 0.150 and often only doubles. Keep in mind also and no one likes talking about this but I'm honest as you can tell already. 75% of the amount each posts earns goes to the Author. The other 25% goes to the curators...so roughly 7.50 per 10.00. Plus keep in mind that you can either select 100% steem power return or 50/50. For utilizing the upvote bot system you have to go with 50/50 to reinvest into your other posts. You should not publish more than 4 posts per day and use the upvote bot system. You will rarely ever do anything but break even but sometimes about 1 out of 4 if the content is hot enough you can keep a post trending a little longer and benefit from the added eyeballs and that makes it worth while. Plus you often pick up a few more followers etc.
This is going to sounds nut but you can try it with like @steemthat and @drotto because they are affordable to test with. I actually did better by finding other peoples posts early and writing a legit comment about the post and the sending an upvote bot than I did doing my own post upvoting. Crazy right! Sometimes though I didn't pick good posts to do it on I guess and didn't do so well. So how does that work exactly. I should write a few more articles tomorrow or the next day on www.SteemThat.com and explain it in full detail . both systems and how they work and what to do etc.
Thanks for the detailed explanation! Looking forward to learning more about how to maximise ROI on the bots for sure. Thanks for your efforts.
You're welcome :).