The first few days on Steemit can be both exciting and frustrating. You get excited knowing about platform and its potential. You start blogging hoping to become the next whale. You don't see the response you were expecting on your posts.
Most of the minnows will fall into this category unless they are hugely talented or very lucky. If you are both then you are already a whale and you know what you need to do ;) But to most of the minnows out there or new steemians I would suggest a simple thumb rule that keeps you afloat.
50:100:200:25
This rule can be explained as follows.
Follow at-least 50 interesting people
Any social network is only as interesting as your feed. As first step head to https://steemit.com/trending and follow 50 interesting people. If you want to speed up this process follow an interesting person and then checkout the people they are following. For example if you find me interesting you can find the people I am following on https://steemit.com/@gokulnk/followed Follow people who have common interests as you. Once you do this you will observe that your feed becomes interesting https://steemit.com/@gokulnk/feed and you would enjoy spending time on steemit if you are not into writing posts or earning from them.
Comment on at-least 100 posts
Once your feed has become interesting indulge yourself in reading the interesting posts. Even if you are not into writing you can leave a couple of lines as comments on the interesting posts adding your opinion. This will make the author happy that people are engaging on his articles and if your comment is insightful they might follow you as well. I have followed a lot of people based on their comments. Kindly refrain from comments like "I will follow you, you follow me". This is not beneficial to either of you in the long run and will generally put off people.
Upvote at-least 200 posts
Keep visiting https://steemit.com/created and upvote interesting posts. This will make sure that minnows like you don't feel the same as you felt when you were a newbie. I would suggest splitting 100 votes on new posts and 100 by the posts from your feed. If you cross this number early don't let it stop you. Keep upvoting good content in their early stages. It is this curation that will make steemit a better platform.
Write atleast 25 posts
If you think that you are a good writer. Write atleast 25 good posts before giving up on steemit. This is the target I am keeping for myself and I hope I would have had a decent number of followers by the time I finish my 25th post. Remember to write posts because you like to write and help people and not with the sole intention of rewards. If you write with the sole intention of earning rewards there is a chance that you might feel bad when things don't work out, wheras if you write because you love to write you are already content and rewards are only an additional bonus.
Happy steeming. Are you a whale, dolphin or a minnow. Do let me know in comments if these suggestions make sense to you.
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Minnow here. All the tricks and strategies for money stress me out. Fortunatley I'm mostly here for the community and getting feedback on my writing so I try to ignore optimize payout strategy and just write. Of course that is difficult since that's half the posts on Steemit. This has been one of the more helpful posts I've read since it is geared towards community building and not what time to post and stuff like that.
Rightly put. If you can write good content consistently I think you will always have an audience :)
You just inspired me to post something. I gave you a shoutout in the blog.
Happy that this led you to your post and thanks for the shoutout :)
I fully agree with you. Money makes it different than other platforms and I quite like the difference. However, it also incentivizes many users to use different tricks and strategies and generates quite a lot of spam. Let's focus on good content and meaningful discussion and see what happens.
You may also want to check this post about war on spam from @stellabelle - https://steemit.com/waronspam/@stellabelle/00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001-sbd.
Very encouraging post, helps to create a good strategy for our own commitments and resolves.
But for me, I ain't here for experimenting and I'm already in love with this platform. I'm also not a number man like you. So it's really time-consuming for me to go into statistics and gauge my own performance. I just go with my own liking without any targets or goals in mind. Goals create some pressure and stress on me and I don't like that. I love to remain a free-bird everywhere 😊 Perhaps, you have kept a door open for people like me by not specifying any time frame to achieve this 50:100:200:25 figures 😅
The idea is just to make sure that people don't give up early. They spend enough time and effort on the platform so that they start falling in love with the platform and community.
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Thank you for dropping by, Gokul. This post provided some wonderful insights. Looking forward to making use of them at the earliest. Kudos!
Very good info for new comers like me. Oh and for the record I’m a 🐋 😁
Wow! I really like this. Its very helpful on my part and to other neophytes also. There is a lot one need to learn in Steemit. Reaching the up in Steemit is not a piece of cake. Each one needs to be dilegent. This is not the platform for picking money up, actually there is no such a thing. Every endeavor needs to sweat. Im striving to become a good curator. I have found your work inspiring. While reading Im thinking, how much more if I have thousand of followers, upvotes, comments and posts.
I've read this post twice for me to digest every bit of info for I consider this a powerful tool toward my journey to become a good curator. Your post is artistic and easy to understand.
I gave thumbs up for this post.
hello Im a minnow!!., Thanks for such great suggestion @gokulnk actually I did some of your suggestions "following others interest as mine" and find my self enjoying as well as learning...
This is so true. Thanks for this tips. It's really helpful