Hey Veronika!
First of all, congratulations on your achievements! I'm doing a lot of sports on my own and appreciate the spirit :-)
Now I have a little advice for your regarding your booster strategy. Are you aware of the fact that SBD is traded at a price of $2.40USD currently? I'm telling you that since I saw that you bought a considerable amount of upvotes for this article spending ~47 SBD which means: $112 USD!
Your article is at less than $95 right now (from which only 75% are going to be yours), so you're going to lose money.
If I were you, I'd skip the services and start making money here :-) Your content is definitely worth it. This is just a little advice from someone who cares about this place and the community...
Steem on!
Marly -
Thanks for the advice! We are really just trying different things to see what works best to add some value to our posts. What do you mean exactly when you say You'd skip the services and start making money here?
You're welcome! :-)
Well right now the added value is attention, since your blog posts are more visible in a trending position. Yet, you're paying a tremendously high price for that attention which is actually a straw fire. Once you stop promoting the posts, the visibility will get down to zero.
According to the maths, currently you're losing money. Actually the Steem blockchain is designed to give value back to content creators and reward both creation (authors) and attention (curators). Vote trading services are trying to exploit the system, take that value away from creators and drain the reward pool in order to fill their own pockets. You just stepped into the trap :-)
From my own experience (1.5 years on Steemit) I recommend new users to focus on a healthy growth of their blogs: find your niche, interact with like-minded people of the community, produce outstanding content that responds to their demand, earn money.
Best of luck :-)