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[sanmi]

Thank you @jasonbu for the guidance. I am not sure, how to interact with people and let them know about my new initiatives. I never mean to spam anyone's post.

I personally do not like begging for vote , I tried in promotion channels in chat, and there is begging every now and then there. So I thought, I would upvote people's post ( I even borrowed some SP so that my upvote contributes to their post), and let them know about my contest. But this also does not look like a great idea as you guys say.

So what other way is there, to engage with people ?

Comments

[jasonbu]

Hey @sanmi, I took a look through your posts and have a few suggestions. I think that you are starting to get some traction. Contests are a hard go and you need to stick with it. Off the bat:

• a) I would make resteeming your contest one of the requirements to participate. If they dont resteem it you get no network effect.
• b) In your Summaries, link back to the original contest.
• c) Take a look at your tags. It's insanely hard to break out your own tag. Try using "contest" "challenge" and as you build you might be able to start breaking out into a new tag, like "caption", or make it an entry requirement to repost the image with their "Caption" using the tag #caption then post a link to the entry in the comments.
• d) Another idea would be to branch out and ask an artist to use their art in the challenge (cross promotion) - Then the "art" tag would be good to use and a good engagement point with another Steemians and their followers.
• e) Once you have more followers ask for a submission to use in the next contest.

The other thing you should do is to take a look and analyse some of the successful art challenges/memes. Have a look at @fibra59, very successful meme challenge.

Also, if you are not on PALnet #Minnowsupportproject be sure to join. Check out the posts @minnowsupport.

Hope that helps. Best of luck.

[sanmi]

Thank you a lot for taking time and providing your valuable feedback. Will work on this.