Ok so I am guessing this is a pick and choose your popularity thing, because I have posted over 20 Blogs and have not had one go any further than $1.12, but I look at the trending slash popular page and see others making thousands for very small no-informative posts. Is there a technique to gaining power or do you just have to get lucky on here?
Getting Discouraged after spending huge amounts of time and not seeing any potential so far.
Explanation Please.
I think you have to have established yourself as a popular person when steemit first came out. People won't want to vote on posts unless they know they're going to make money. Maybe make friends with the popular people so they'll vote on your posts because their votes are the only ones that will increase your payout.
Ok, so now im getting a better idea of it. Thanks
there are only some people, who can really give a POWER to your post. Others have no weight on their voice.
How are these people picked to give the power. Do they earn it somehow. Still learning.. Thanks for reply
They bought a lot of steempower, generally. Berniesanders has like 5 million dollars worth so his choices on who to vote for are massively important.
Not that you can tell who is important without digging into their wallet to see what their worth is.
Bernie Sanders is on here. lol
You must invest in your STEEM POWER
Either buy or good posts, but preferably - both
Unfortunately, what is a "Good post" is entirely subjective and depends on what whale is looking where .
I mean, was the post that was just a picture of marijuana with "Hey guys, what you smoking?" Under it really a good post?
There are a ton of posts, and only 100 or so whales. So you can't expect them to read through all of the content put on the site. Your best bet for success is to appeal to everyone, whales will be more likely to check out posts that are rising and hot (because of lots of votes) then posts buried somewhere. Get out there, get posting, get chatting and get people to know who you are.
Gotcha. Thanks
Today's whales are just early investors.
At least half of them smoke or vape.... so it becomes a good post... but do not forget - that was yesterday.
Tomorrows trend will be something else.
Have fun )
Thanks for the input
What in the world is a whale. lol
A whale is usually a huge mammal sea creature, but on #steemit, it is somebody with a lot of steempower in their steemit wallet.
LMAO, ok I C. Well damn I need a whale or two in this piece.
Is investing upvoting?
The more steempower you have, the more money a post will earn when you upvote it, including your own.
Ok im getting it now. I just need to become more known.
It may seem discouraging, but just keep on writing and it's likely that someone with power will eventually find you. I just wrote a post about this exact issue here: https://steem.ly/B
Ok thanks for the Motivation.
I am going through the same thing right now. Trying to get known. Only a few cents so far but maybe my give away of free glass pipes will draw some attention.
https://steemit.com/marijuana/@cryptocameo/hello-world-i-am-cam-the-glassblower-and-entrepreneur-let-s-get-started-by-giving-a-few-things-away
I feel your pain. It seems that if you stick to it. Maybe just maybe we will get known. Good luck!!
Maybe we need a way to share their voting power.. That way it gets into the hands or more people.
I agree. Some of the stories are very interesting and deserve the Upvote and attention, but most are very simple one liners and are making tons. Spread it out...
like. upvoted! :D
Thanks
Here, this might help
https://steemit.com/funny/@ecto/the-secret-guide-to-winning-at-steemit