Well here it is, my introduction. This has been the hardest to write because it is my first post here, although I have been actively commenting over the past week, I just seemed to have writers block in making my first post here. What should I write?, will people like me?, what if I write the wrong thing? But as I thought about it more I realized we are all equal here, we all started from the first post.
As I approach my half century in life I thought I would share my views on life, self employment, business, motivation, early retirement and health
So, who am I?. Well I am known as Sue, and I live in Lincolnshire. I am self employed, and have been for nearly 6 years full time. I sell online on Ebay and Amazon mainly second hand items, and I absolutely love it. We live in a throw away society, so I like to balance that by finding new homes for items that are unwanted and discarded.
I hope you will find my posts interesting. Thanks for reading!
Welcome to Steemit @lemondropsblue!
I wish you much success and hope you find Steemit to be as rewarding and informative as I have.
Here are some links you might find useful.
Your stats on SteemNow
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Your stats on SteemD
How to use Minnow Booster
How does Steemit actually work?
Let me know if I can help.
Many blessings! @bycoleman
thank-you, I appreciate it!
If you get over your writers block completely, check out our contest.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@bycoleman/usd45-sbd-steemit-writing-contest-writer-s-needed-the-more-writers-the-more-winners
I may give that a go!. To be honest making my first post has got rid of my nerves.
@Mountainwashere's Guide for New Users:
Welcome to Steemit! It's got a steep learning curve, but it's worth it in the long run if you keep putting in the time! Just know that it will take quite a while before you start getting attention and followers. The biggest secret to success? Keep posting high quality content regularly, and make sure to search out other people's posts, read them, and give relevant comments.
Tagging is extremely important. Always make sure to use all five possible tags, and to keep them relevant. You can always just tag something "blog" or "photography" or something else really general (so long as it's still relevant) to fill the quota if you need to- most of your tags should be established ones, though one or two less used ones are fine.
Posting more than four times a day can reduce your potential rewards, as well as turning off potential users. (I aim for one post per day most of the time.) Consistency is important, though, so you should try to post often.
Always make sure to attach a photo to your posts! You should also have a finished profile: Write a description, add a profile picture and a banner- neither needs to be a photo of you, necessarily, but you should have something- and set a website.
There are a lot of really good resources out there for plankton and minnows (new users). You should check out the following groups and services, they offer a lot of valuable resources:
@thesteemengine (Check this one out first- they're an extremely supportive group that can help out in a lot of ways.)
@qurator (These guys offer an excellent liftime upvote to accounts that post consistent quality content.)
@steembasicincome (Another lifetime upvote option.)
@steemstem (The biggest and best STEM curation group in the game. If you're interested in writing or reading about science, check these guys out!)
@geopolis (A fairly new science curation group, this one's dedicated to the study of the Earth.)
@ocd (A curation group that seeks out undervalued new writers.)
And, again, the biggest thing is just patience. Breakout successes are incredibly rare on Steemit- you've got to find your way to success through perseverance and hard work. It takes time, but you'll eventually succeed if you put in the work.
Please feel free to repost this guide on the posts of other plankton & minnows you run into (though I'd appreciate it if you credit me.) If it was useful to you, feel free to check out my posts and give me a follow!
thank-you. I had a bit of difficulty with the photo I was trying to upload, so I am going to find another method of hosting images
Yeah, that can be a bit tricky- I tend to upload mine to twitter and then upload them to here from there.
never thought of using that. I tried with google which was an epic fail. On my next post I will use drop box, should be a lot easier I hope!
Don't you just save pics to your docs and then drag and drop?
I thought you had to have the images hosted on a website and insert the url to the image?. I have been learning markdown since this post so hoping my next post will be a bit better, and that the images appear as they should do. If I can load direct, that will be so much easier
I think that's just for your profile picture, I've never bothered... I just drag and drop from my docs.
Of course I might be doing it all wrong#!
These are all really good suggestions and concisely written. I have read quite a few "help" posts that left me more bewildered then when I started.
Thanks, always happy to help!
Hey. Welcome to Steemit! I have been writing a few articles to help out newbies. Feel free to come and check them out:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@conradt/should-you-be-using-an-upvote-bot-an-introduction-guide-for-minnows
https://steemit.com/steemit/@conradt/the-complete-newbies-guide-to-curation-rewards
https://steemit.com/steemit/@conradt/things-i-wish-i-knew-when-i-joined-steemit
Hey I am Julie Alexander.I am from OZ.
Welcome to steem community
I love cryptos,If you own any cryptos then follow me I will follow you back so we discuss cryptos.
Thank you
I have followed you :)
Welcome @ lemondropsblue and all good luck to you.
I am an Etsy seller and do enjoy that quite a bit. Except for a few years I have been my own boss (for better or worse) for most of my life. And I have a few years on you.
I am a leather artist at the moment. Pop on over to my little corner of the world and say Hi!
I will do and thank-you. Never tried Etsy, though perhaps I should with some of the vintage items I sell
It's great to see your introduction post! Welcome to Steemit! I couldn't be more appreciative of your support and comments on my content, I'll be keeping up with yours for sure.
Don't worry about impressing everyone, post things that mean something to you and there will always be an audience here to see it. Most of all, have fun with it! I wish you the best of luck here Sue!
oh thank-you for taking the time to read it. You are right i should write about what interests me, and yes having fun is so important; I am really enjoying it so far
Hello let's follow each other.. I'm a newbie here! Xoxo!
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