I don't have a huge amount of my own money to invest right now, and the posts I'm doing don't earn too much
The solution to this problem is engagement. They way you engaged with me and compelled me to check your profile, you can do something similar by commenting on other people's posts. This is social media, in order to grow your following, you need to start following some peeps (from your target audience) you like and try to create a relationship with them. Over time, you will find many of them supporting your content.
Do you think it is better to post on just a couple of communities (including LeoFinance even if most of the posts seem to earn a cent or two at most !) or better to spread the posts across a spectrum of communities ?
When you are interacting with communities via comments then go wide. That's ok! Try different communities if you want. But when you are publishing blogs on your profile then you must focus on 1 or 2 communities at max. The reason is simple: If you are publishing only two or three blogs in a week for community 1 then community 2 will have to wait for a few days to get what they want from you. That's not sustainable even if you create content alternatively for them unless you are posting everyday two times focusing on each one. It's better to focus on only 1. That's why I chose to post on Leo Finance from the day one. I wanted to learn how to make money with crypto and I also wanted to make money while doing that. Leo Finance is just perfect for what I wanted.
Also, don't be afraid to experiment once in a while, you never know what clicks.
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Thank you ! That's really helpful - I can see I should increase the breadth of comments (which is something I always find easier than writing posts anyway), and focus in on actual posts in just a couple of communities. I hadn't thought of it from the timing point of view.
Something else I'm doing is creating a document that can be easily accessed from each of my PC's where I can note down ideas for posts, or even snippets of text. That way, even if I don't have time to post right then (as in... I really ought to be working...), it reduces the number of times when I feel like writing something but stare at a blank screen wondering what to write about.
Also, thank you for the follow !