That's good to hear, at least you came out ahead. Especially early on though, having extra SBDs / STEEM may be more rare as well, which is also why I was suggesting to try and save your bucks for a bigger potential payout.
Regardless, if you decide to keep experimenting with it, I'd be interested to hear how it goes for you.
Regarding driving traffic behavior, I really wouldn't expect that much of a result from that approach, again, unless you're talking real WOW numbers (like in the hundreds or thousands). One of the best ways to drive traffic is probably by engaging the community, adding thoughtful comments and good quality posts.
If you're skeptical, notice that your follow count just bumped up by one more! ;)
thanks @alexpmorris It's all a bit of a learning curve early on and a bit of an experiment to see what works I guess.
Good to get advice from those who've been there and tried things to try to cut down the learning phase. And I only invest what I can afford to "throw away" so to speak and we are talking minuscule anyway :)
Yes I try to vote where I've learnt something or it is something I'm truly interested in like photography travel and food. And also actually read the posts.
Slowly building up my followers but I'd like to think it is mostly through making connections and having conversations with people. For the most part it is actually a really good community and I am enjoying it. The whale arguments etc are going over my head but I'm sticking to what I love which is just trying to write good content and not too worried about the rest for now.
Following you for more of your advice in the future :)
just thought I'd add these few posts by @shayne as well, which also confirm what I've been saying about how best to "build your presence" on steemit:
Link: Steemit Tips: How To Get Popular - Comment And Respond!
Link: New To Steemit? Follow Begging Will DESTROY You: DO - NOT - DO - IT! Here's Why...
Link: The Most Important STEEMIT Success Tip: Forming Relationships
Thanks so much Alex for taking the extra time, I will have a read through these.
thank you, much appreciated! I can tell you that for me, it seemed the hardest part was getting to 50 followers on STEEMIT. It just seemed to take forever (as in nearly 6 months of posting)! After that, it went quite a bit faster. I also vote the same way, and that's what's so cool around here. All types of people from all sorts of backgrounds sharing really interesting things, with posts from trading to programming to politics, then onto baking a sourghdough bread. Pretty kewl bunch of people around here!