I feel for you :( and everyone else who is having problems with exposure. I dont do awesome but I don't think I'm doing too bad either.
I've been here for a month. I have never asked for a follow, upvote or a resteem either.
The first few days was slow and I was fumbling around posting this and that, feeling out what people here are into, which tags are popular etc.
Then I joined @teamaustralia and my steemit world opened up. Instantly I was connected to people and I can use a tag that heaps of people in the team australia community check every day.
I then seized the bull by the horns and took an opportunity to design their logo and next thing you know I'm making heaps of friends and being part of the community.
This is a two way relationship. I know who my faithful few are and I go out of my way to check their blogs when I dont see anything from them on my feed.
The key is to participate in the community.
Check these two tags out #teamaustralia and #minnowsupport - see if youre interested in joining.
It doesnt matter what your objective is. To be successful on Steemit you need to engage and that doesnt just mean writing your content, it also means commenting on peoples posts.
Yall have to take into consideration that Steemit is still new and at its early stages. Things seem sucky right now but it wont be like this forever, its in the best interest of the developers to ensure a fairer system for the sake of future growth - and I doubt theyre into self sabotage at that magnitude.
Nice post Arly. SK.
Cheers Sk
Thanks so much, I'm using those tags you suggested now.
@gunternezhoda
I hope you joined the groups before you used the tags.
Contact
@choogirl to join #teamaustralia
@tjpezlo to join #teamphilippines
@minnowsupport to join #minnowsupport
Hi again,
I see, you have to join groups that vote and follow each other. I'm not interested in that at all. I'd rather have less followers but they are interested in my posts and vise versa.
I never liked that "You follow me, I follow you" mentality, on any network. Thank you though. I removed the tags.
Success feels so much better if you actually did it.
Yep. You join groups with like minded people so when they look up the tag they know they can find someone like them.
Eg. Team Australia is where aussies find each others and where friends of team australia can post and find us. Same goes for Teams Philippines, USA and GB.
I don't like that mentality either. Like I said. I have never once asked for a follow, upvote or a resteem and I never will. Ive been there with facebook and I know the value in getting real followers.
We are not required to follow every member - team australia voted on that not long ago and decided theres too many of us now and we follow who we like.
That said youre right the majority of people that I follow, upvote and resteem are people from those groups. Not because its required, but because I like their content and admire what theyre trying to achieve and because theyre my friends and I wouldnt have found them, or you - since I was asked to read this post by a friend from team australia, if I didnt join the group lol
Success for me, feels better with friends around me who I can talk to 3 months later and reminisce about HF19 because we grew and travelled together.
This is a big wide ocean to be swimming in alone. Just saying.