Hmm.. I can only speak for myself.
I used to have much higher payouts, when I was participating in the Sndbox "incubator." However unfortunately I came to feel that sndbox's "mentorship" and "resources" were pretty unhelpful for me, and unfortunately the only value to me was really the votes, so I had to stop paying them.
I stopped participating there so now my rewards are a lot lower, but I feel much better. And even with my modest rewards, nowhere near Papa Pepper or that level, I still feel good. I can earn more than $100 in a week without a single votebot or trail (other than random curation trail votes, unpaid for) of any kind. I'm proud of that.
Please enlighten me a little, i would be so happy with $100 a week
My most basic advice is to post at least one time per day, to focus on posts that are all original content with 200-400 words and 1-2 original images, and to leave genuine comments on other peoples' posts every day. Do that for a few months and dont stop until you have at least 1000 posts good luck @elektropunkz
Jeez. And here is the post that makes me think I'll just keep on keeping on for a bit longer :)
This place breaks my heart in a way. Been here for two months, gained a view of the lay of the land, got a bit of an idea of the feudalist system here, realised how hard it is to get anywhere with no guarantees even though I believe my content is quality, got hooked on the relaxed opened-up feeling I'm slowly developing here ... and then fell in love with the creative potential.
So I feel like I've fallen in love with the potential here, but at the same time feel much as @schattenjaeger did in his post where he was talking about "leaving this shithole" several months ago, which is how I wound up here in the first place :)
So I guess I'll keep on going here, even though there is stuff-all chance of me personally writing 100-300 word posts here though. I'm just getting started by that point :)
Thank you matt, that is very helpfull to me.