Once again @carpedimus, you have a indeed hit the nail head on.
First, I can tell you that it is VERY difficult to get your great articles noticed when you have no followers. I believe it is very important for you to write only one or two articles a week and then spend all the rest of your time engaging and curating. Build up the connections first, then write the killer articles.
I really do not recommend upvote4upvote nonsense, I have done it and it just does not match the character I want for Steemit or myself. But promotional tools can be very useful to get going, they are something that you should definitively use when the article is worth promoting.
If everyone uses these tools and it is not good for the platform, then market pressures will prevail and they will disappear, until then use them wisely.
Thanks for the tips @bycoleman , I have already re-read some of your posts 4 or 5 times, really helpful my friend!
And although I feel really awkward sending my hard earned steemit coins to some software, just to have this software visit my posts and pretend it is interested in them, strange...but hell... beats having 9 views on a post that took me 17 hours to write.
They are simply tools to help get quality articles some visibility.
Junk articles will not benefit and are not worth throwing money at them.
In your case, you are creating quality and a visibility boost might be all that is needed to get a real following.
It is really hard to type with the kangaroo looking down at my key strokes.
Many blessings!
Lol, the Kangaroos are always looking...
Thanks for the compliment brother, trying it out with my huge claims on my latest post, lets see how it works out.
I would just start with MB and buy some votes from your balance. In order to really get things noticed it takes a LOT of promotion. The good thing about MB is does not cost anything in the long run, you will break even at worse.
Feels very awkward...but i will try to look at it as google adwords for now :)
Exactly!