Hello steemians, welcome to my blog today.
Today will be talking about the fate of a steemit post. This post was inspired because I have made several other posts and watched it “fade out” into the annals of steemit block chain after being in the steemit market for 7 days. So I decided to leave a blueprint for newbies that maybe interested to understand the rationale behind a potential post.
Every single post is birthed by an idea(s) or an inspiration. Remember the cause and effect we were taught back then? (The cause is the reason for making the post and the effect is the post you come up with.) I think there is no single exception to the rule, even the bots are configured in the same way.
Ideas are your mental thoughts flying across our minds that could be useful if harnessed properly. When ideas are documented, it is a good step towards actualization of a great project or dream
A prospective post will go through 2 phases, before it completes the remaining 3 phases when it is made.
INITIATION PHASE
This is the first phase for a prospective post. This phase starts with the flow of thoughts and ends just when the post makes a debut on the stem block chain. If you notice, on the panel, there is a column for title, body and tags.
The title should be a best seller if you want your post to catch the attention of your audience.
The body of your post is your documented thoughts or ideas. This no doubt has to be interesting. It should be well formatted with the right mark down styles and it should be appetizing to the eyes. This is because “the average attention span of a human being is about 8 seconds.” Meaning, after 8 seconds, a prospective follower or up voter will lose interest in your post and move on to another one that tickles his fancy.
In the #INITIATION phase, there is a “post window” that I would like to call “input-panel” and “output”/preview panel”. The input panel is what I described earlier. The output/preview panel is a window that helps you to see how you’re beautiful your post looks to the end users.
Once you are satisfied with what you get at the preview window, your post goes into the next phase, I would like to call the LAUNCHING PHASE. This is a transient phase that ushers the post into the steemit world for your prospective audience to read. This stage is preceded your choice of reward (either as a 50 SBD/50 STEEM, 100 STEEM, or a decline of payment) when you check any of these.
CURATION PHASE :
The first 30 minutes is the rate-limiting phase in the curation phase( what I mean here is simple, this phase determines if the post will continue its journey for the remaining days or stop the long awaited journey) . If a post gets a vote from @cheetah, this is a bad sign, because your readers will be afraid to visit that particular post for fear of the unknown.
Fast forward to past, 30mins after you make a post, congratulations if your post crossed the 30 minutes gap, your post is already on its way to greatness. You still need to work extra hard to help it succeed. Which leads to the next phase.
POST PROMOTION PHASE-
This is just you helping to promote your post to the audience that were not in your target when you made the post. Sometimes this could be very tasking because it requires self-discipline to focus on marketing your post to every prospective target.
Upvote turn out might be poor, prospective voters sometimes may have challenges ranging from #time- if they are the busy type like me, #bandwidth- if they are the very active ones that mean business on stemit, #battery issue- if they are those in areas with poor power supply, #communication- yes communication can also be a barrier. Have you read a post in Hindu? I bet comprehension might be difficult.
It is wise to remain steadfast and determined in marketing your post no matter the odds. It only takes extra effort to make this happen, you can be proactive and envision the challenges I listed and think of a clever way to solve this transient problems, if you figure out beautiful ways, it could be the beginning of a lasting relationship if you play your cards well with prospective steemians.
PAY-OUT PHASE
After seven complete days of your post cycle, the upvotes accumulated is converted to #STEEM or #STEEM-BACK-DOLLARS which is immediately transferred to your steem wallet. You can imagine the joy when you go to your wallet and you see the fruit of your HARD WORK welcoming you with a romantic question.
“Do you wish to redeem your reward?”
Disclaimer.
This post made is just my observations from my short stay on the steem blockchain, you can also carry out your own study to corroborate my findings.
No animals were harmed in the making of this post. Every username used here is just for reference purposes and I apologize if it hurt your feelings.
All images were directly gotten from https://pixabay.com/ and a screenshot from https://steemit.com/submit.html and re-editted with my infinix hotnote.
It’s me your boy @antigenx
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Nice post.. Thanks for sharing..
@profsam i glad u stopped by. Gracias
Nice finding, good work!
@chijokecj thanks for stopping by, i am glad you enjoyed your read. @antigenx
@antigenx , You've absolutely hit the question that every newbie on steemit has. You've covered everything including Dos and Don'ts for newbie steemians. Great article.
@drvnpatel after a rough sign up on steemit, I decided to dedicate my stay on steemit to help every prospective newbie be a better steemian. I only hope they get to find my post useful and learn from it.
thanks for sparing your time out of your busy schedule to read through my work.
It means so much to me
yours truly
@antigenx
Very helpful.👍👍
Thanks@uchegod
My boss doing what he knows how to do best....
Thanks for educating us on how our content journey starts and end.
Bravo @antigenx
@joagawu its my little token to the steemit community for being my treasured social media
A good introductory post to the concepts, I love the creative way you presented this information, and its pretty thoughrough!
I am happy you found it creative and interesting. Thanks for stopping by.
@skycae wow thanks for finding time to read to the end. I was once told my articles were too verbose. @antigenx
Great post! You have some good info here, thanks for sharing!
@smylie2005 thanks for sparing out some time to go through it. I am glad you found it good. @antigenx
This is a great post for newbies, I love that newbies give back and can teach other newbies! You are a great addition to what the @asapers represent. :)
You always know how to simplify big things in steemit.
@adorablechi lol , its called breaking the ice for those allergic to iceblocka
This is very educative for newbies. Thanks boss @antigenx for this.
@evarich wow! you stopped by. That was thoughtful of you. Thanks for the august visit @antigenx
Great outlay!
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@simplymike wow, this is beautiful. I never thought one of my "out-of-boxness" will be considered for a resteem.
I feel so humbled by this kind gesture of yours.
Heading straight to the discord channel to help in influencing some newbies
@antigenx
I thought your post was full of good information. Very useful stuff you point out, making it something a lot of newcomers (and ‘veterans’) should read before they make a post.
I especially liked that you mentioned the 8-seconds attention span. A lot of people tend to forget about that.
Your reaction also proves I’ve made a good decision resteeming this post. :0)
The best way to go is to help out others to succeed! Thanks for that!
@simplymike
@antigenx at it again, thanks for teaching us, I learnt alot here
Good to know this post is vegan. Not vegan myself, but good to know all the same.
OK, all joking aside, rather informative and accurate from what I've gathered as well, I've really not much to add to it. Though there are off chances that you end up attracting a whale, that's happened to me a couple times.
Lol @outheshellvlog a "non-vegan" loving a vegan post. That is hilarious. A paradox
Now that got me scared. Is it a good sign or a bad one?
But this post was mainly educational sha
It can be good or bad, depends if you really give a damn about your reputation and if the whale is upvoting or downvoting. I personally choose to follow the @bernisanders approach of not giving a shit about your own reputation and I'm sure as hell not really here for the money. =\ I just want what I write to not go down a memory hole.
Congratulations @antigenxIssue 15, your post has been selected by the @asapers for a resteem and a feature in our brand new curation post.
What does this mean for you? Well first an upvote from some members of the team, we are no @curie but who is going to be unhappy with some extra upvotes. Second each post featured in the article will receive a 10% share of the curation post.
Please wait seven days for payout.Keep up the great work and please consider supporting the @asapers with a follow and an upvote on the post you feature in.
Your friendly @asapers
Giving back A.S.A.P
@aspers thanks fam, i am flabberghasted by this random act of kindness. It means so much to me.
#asper to the moon. I love this family @antigenx
Pretty nifty!
🙋#nifty as you said@allseeingewe thanks fam..
Good post. There are a couple different things I read here that I wish I'd known in the very beginning. I hope a lot of newbies out find this post useful to them.
We can only if we desire.
@queenvick i also have the same wish too. But i know it is never too late to start up big projects. @antigenx
This is good information, great post as always
@ponmile a one in a million lady. I sight you dear. Thanks for stopping by @antigenx
Beautiful @antigenx, I think you did a great job explaining in the basic of terms and this post will serve as a guide to all my newbies on Steemit here. Also to readers to note that the marketing or visibility stage of a post is as important as the post itself. This doesn't means spamming others with your link. But in whatever way you can put yourself and your post out there for others to see without bugging anyone, do it. For you can only received rewards on post that people see.
@lordjames wow thanks for stopping by, i will sure do a post about visibility and marketing.
Oh how i hate to be spammed. Thanks for stopping by bro.
@antigenx
Hi there,
What happens if i don't redeem my rewards? Any issues?
@morgangreat i think it can take the whole time to patiently wait for you to authorize the "redeem transaction". Except if your account is hacked and your rewards get redeemed by a hacker
wow. may my account never be hacked oo. My money haha