Hey guys! Thanks for checking in with me again 💖
The quest for SteemFest trip funds continues!! ✨
Analysis of Recent Rewards
| Upvotes | Steem Dollars | Steem | Article Title |
| 41 | 0.007$Ð | 0.010ȿ | This Is Penapple. |
| 120 | 11.158$Ð | 14.444ȿ | How to Wordwrap Your Images Like a Boss |
| 8 | 0.009$Ð | 0.016ȿ | Testing Videogame Streaming |
| 94 | 13.862$Ð | 24.711ȿ | Steemfest: Hopes, Dreams, & Realities |
| 132 | 11.041$Ð | 19.467ȿ | Streeming: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: First Assault ONLINE |
| 23 | 0.493$Ð | 1.074ȿ | Streeming: Started as Presidential Debates, Turned Into a Deeply Philosophical Conversation |
| 94 | 10.802$Ð | 24.390ȿ | Inspiration from My Favourite Neighbour, Mr. Rogers - # project-positivity Challenge 2 |
| 54 | 0.105$Ð | 0.258ȿ | If Only I Looked This Cute When Eating with My Hands! 😆 |
The article I wrote asking for ideas on how to fund my SteemFest trip made the most $Ð, but this isn't the type of article that one would typically write, so we can discount it.
Clearly my most valuable article was the # free-templates post. Not simply the top earner, but the one that gave the most value to the most people. This makes sense, everyone wants the site to look nicer and free is appealing. I'll do my best to provide the community with more of this kind of material.
The inspiration of Mr. Rogers did well, too. He has touched many lives, so this makes sense too. I have been inspired by many things in my life, so these kinds of articles should be fairly easy. However, I purposefully made that article image heavy. It was fairly time-consuming, but my assumption that "visual posts do better" seems to hold true so far. That's something to keep in mind for any future posts I make.
To my great surprise my video game streem did very well. I'm not sure if it's because of how soon after I posted it after my SteemFest post, if it's because people liked the particular games I played, if it's because the idea of # streeming is so new here, or something else. Ironically this post also got flagged with no comment as to how it could have been made better. Hopefully my next streem won't get flagged for the same reason or the person will at least tell me why.
The other thing I noted is that my commentaries on the two YouTube videos did not do well at all. Is this because I didn't add value? Is it because these videos were already too well known? Do they not topically appeal to steemians? I'm not sure why there were so few votes on these. I'll do a few more of those kinds of posts to see if the trend continues.
Total Holdings
| Steem Power | Steem Dollars | Steem Available | Steem on Market |
| 302.546 | 93.433$Ð | 0.410ȿ | 84.361ȿ |
The Issues with Funding via Upvotes
I wish I could select Receive 100% of Payout in SP. 😔 After this trip, that is my intention. 😄 Until then, I'll just have to keep making content you guys like and hope that steem starts increasing in value. I'm going to start trawling /r/beermoney, too. But, I'm guessing most of those opportunities won't pay out in time. Aside from that, what other short-term money-making opportunities would you guys mind sharing?
Restating the Opportunity
For those of you who missed my first postSteemprentice, SteemIt.City, and SteemIt Japan., I'll summarize. Thanks to @roelandp, @steemitcity gets 2 free tickets to SteemFest so we can do a 20 minute presentation on what we're all about. As someone who's jumping in feet first, @menta invited me along. At the conference I want to talk to people about what I love about three SteemIt projects,
Currently, my bank account is sitting at about $120. Before the month is out I have about $300 in bills to pay, not including food. I should be able to cover that as usual with what I'm paid from my part-time job. But, I also have to rush order a passport, which is another $200. This has to be done ASAP. Then, the flight is about $1,200. I've also looked at taking a 10 hour bus ride to Chicago to fly from there. That would just about cut my travel expenses in half. I'm not even considering paying $300 for a hotel room, so I'll be looking into couchsurfing, assuming everything else goes well—which, of course, I do!✨
Thank you all so much for your support. Let me know below what kinds of posts you want to see from me!! I'll try to get another game stream out either tonight or tomorrow night.
Special thanks goes out to @reneenouveau for the awesome verification seal! It's in my colors!!!
Edit: My apologies to those of you on mobile devices. Even after several edits, I cannot get this to format properly for your screens.
Edit: Hope you guys got some good ideas for your next posts. Thanks so much for the support in the comments below!!
Edit: Thanks soooooo much to @thecryptofiend, @raymonjohnstone, @sykochica, & @menta for resteeming this post! 💗
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All the best. Hope you can make it to Steemfest.
Wishing you success, and we cannot afford it right now.
Wish you well! Wish I could go to. Someday... Also thinking of some idea of a virtual Steemfest, as this may be a more workable idea for some.
Very cool to combine online steps with offline goals!
Let me know if there is any way that I can help.
Not sure. Looking for more ideas. TYSM, though.
I hope you can get there. I can't go. I really want to go though.
This is a lovely post and completely different layout. Good luck to you as my posts are making zilch
Have you checked out SteemPrentice yet? They got me started off right. I probably owe 75% of my earnings to their help! 😄
Well I hope you make it! Do catch up if you do! Many of us are in the same boat as you are, trying to make it to the fest!