Thanks, Emily! This was really helpful. I recently read a comment that made me want to up my Steem game. The writer essentially asked, "if your Steemit blog was your company and you were the CEO, what would you do differently? You need to think like that if you want to make money here." Wow! And then you said you spent about 80 hours researching ... talk about living out what I had just read. So thanks for not only inspiring me to keep learning but also making it easier by sharing what you've learned!
I still don't understand how we get back our voting power ... I know I've been draining mine too (upvoting comments just to be nice). You mentioned getting yours to recharge ... does it just take time?
Hey @helenoftroy! Thanks so much for reading! Haha, yeah I tend to get obsessed with something when start something new, and Steemit is my new obsession. :)
Your voting power regenerates at a rate of about 20% a day. I obviously dont take my own advice though because I have not been able to get it to recharge. If you completely get off steemit if your voting power is down to 0% you will have 100% in 5 days. Hope this helps! Im going to follow you now and look forward to seeing your content :)
Hey @helenoftroy, I just noticed that you are selecting the 100% power up option on your posts for payout. I explain in the post above but basically you should be choosing the 50/50 payout option right now. This is because STEEM is worth $4.40 (or so) and Steem back dollars is SUPPOSED to be worth $1 but its actually worth $5.30, so if you choose the 100% power up option you will be missing out getting half of your payout in SBD, which is worth way more than its supposed to. You can then use that SBD to trade it for Steem to power up later. Hope this helps (Sorry I didnt wanna comment your nice posts but rather do it here lol)
Haha (about not wanting to mess up my posts) ;) Thanks so much for reading and following!
I read what you said about the 100% power option but had already posted mine. I'm going to go in and fix it before I post again! I like that you explain why that's old advice :)