Steemprentice Success Stories
The Steemprentice Mentoring Initiative Group has been active for two weeks now and is still going strong. We are in need of some mentors who are on during the later hours in the US, so we can try and have coverage across the time zones better, if anyone is interested.
The #steemprentice channel in steemit.chat is just shy of it's 100th member. At the very least we are averaging almost 7 new members a day!
It's been fabulous to see group members get that first post that 'popped' and got a much improved payout from what they were used to. While money is the mechanism, being able to see their reactions to feeling recognized (regardless of the money) is invaluable in itself.
Some Success Stories to Share.
@bmwrider
The sheer perseverance that @bmwrider is impressive. For the past three weeks he's posted a number of articles including a multi-part series on some of the more intense situations he's had while being a teacher in the inner city. He has made 17 posts with a TOTAL payout of $0.12. That's right, averaging less than a penny a post.
I was so glad to have run across one of his posts and invited him into the Steemprentice group to see if we could help. His writing was already very strong and our suggestions had no bearing on the content itself, just a little title tweaking and adding captions to the pictures. In just one day after joining his post got a $40+ payout! Regardless of the money, I could 'see' his joy through the ether of the interwebs.
We're all so happy for you @bmwrider! Keep up the awesome work!
@mlialen
This user joined the group shortly after launch a couple weeks ago. Prior to joining he's made about 25 posts with a TOTAL payout of a bit under $10. That's about $0.40 payout per post. Since joining he's made 13 posts with a TOTAL payout of $87.79! Just compare this average of $6.75 per post since joining Steemprentice to his previous $0.40. You've come a long way in a short amount of time @mlialen and we are thrilled with the success you are achieving!
@anarcho-andrei
Anarcho-andrei has been in the group a little while and had already had some success before joining, but was still open for suggestions to improve. Prior to joining he'd made 37 posts with a TOTAL payout of $439.26 averaging $11.87 per post. Since joining Steemprentice he's earned $214.17 in payouts averaging $26.77 across 8 posts! He's now averaging more than double per post!
There are many more success stories within the Steemprentice Mentoring group and we will continue to share some of these with you along the way. A number of our members have been picked by both the @robinhoodwhale and @curie groups thus far and I'm working on getting those numbers in place which will be in the next group report.
A Little Reporting
There is continual work being done on the Steemprentice FAQ and TIPS document and can be accessed by anybody by clicking this link.
Steemprentice FAQ and TIPS
Feel free to leave suggestions in there and I can incorporate them in to the document. Currently there are two sections I plan to fill out; How to Source Images and What Flagging Is and Isn't Meant For. Any help is appreciated as I've been short on time recently.
I've been keeping track of the total numbers in the #steemprentice channel, finder fees given, progress rewards given and unique users that have been confirmed to have received help from mentors in this Spreadsheet.
Steemprentice Spreadsheet
We are currently needing some mentors to monitor the channel in the later hours in the USA to better cover across time zones, if anybody is interested. There is no obligation on mentors to help or be in channel, just pop in when you feel like it.
We also are needing a few people to monitor new user categories and/or watch for 'frustrated with steemit' type posts and simply leave a comment directing them to the group if they would like help. Since we have had limited exposure, it's been difficult to let those who could use a little help that we are available for them.
Mentors, if you help someone out, please DM with who was helped and a few words on the topics discussed to help our reporting. I'm doing this by hand right now and that helps me out immensely. I do want to thank everybody in the group for the time and effort they have donated. If I've missed you in the spreadsheet, please DM me and I'll get it added in.
How We Deal with Plagiarism
Since this group doesn't promote or feature posts for users we rely heavily on the @steemcleaners group to inform us when there is an issue with a certain post. Most of these incidents have been new users not quite knowing what is and isn't a problem on Steemit and after a brief discussion can provide some understanding so they are able to move forward. With user retention being a big Steemprentice goal approaching these new users in a non-accusatory, positive way allowed them prevent the same issues and provide some great original content.
Just so it's stated...I prefer to give users the benefit of the doubt (whenever possible) and this means giving one (rarely more) time to use the 'I didn't know' answer. However, a pattern of plagiarism or abuse can NOT be tolerated. I am in frequent contact with the abuse channel and some @steemcleaners so I'm able to stay in the look regarding our group members. A pattern of problems with the same user results in their removal from the group and mentors withholding their help. We are not there to assist scammers and this only seems fair so we can focus on the members with benefit to the community as a whole
Keep Smiling and Steem On!
Images:
Original Image Mentor Source
source: steemd.com
@sykochica - this is very impressive! So glad to see that there is progress for the people you've taken under your wing. Hopefully steemprentice will be around forever. I would love to volunteer but will not realistically be available until December as I've got another mentoring commitment coming up soon. NaNoWriMo anyone?
TY! This is definitely a group effort and couldn't have done it without the other mentors in there. No worries on volunteering, there's only so many hours in the day. That's the joy of the setup..just hop in the channel when you feel like it.
We actually were going to talk about the NaNoWriMo topic on the podcast but it slipped by this week, have it for sure mentioned next week though. :)
Awesome! @dicebot what do you think? 1D20
Haha, tyty! Love the dicebot by the way. It gives me some great usage ideas on here :D
Awesome! Yea I am doing a couple more improvements to him over the next few days, but he will be online mostly while I do that, you can use him if you like :)
Dice Bot Rolled : 8
You've scored a critical success! Whale upvote!
Rofl
Interesting piece. Count me in if you need any help. Happy to upvote. Did a recent post about STEEMIT. You might be interested to read it. Now following and looking forward to reading more of your posts. Catch us also on Twitter Twitter✔. Cheers. Stephen
Thank you! Feel free to drop into the #steemprentice channel in steemit.chat. We usually just monitor the chat for looking for some help and/or suggestions. Keeps it easy on the mentors to prevent burnout. :)
I'm heading to check your links out :)
Love to have ya!
Cheers. Will check it out. Will be busy the next few days. SILVER is about to make a huge breakout and my Twitter account is on fire. Will drop in when things settle down. Cheers. Stephen
It's a honor to be a part of something as awesome as this. Wohoo! Gratz to the users who have made tremendous progress! Respect to everybody who's involved.
Ty! I'm so glad you joined us! :D
Awesome post. Great group of Steemians! Very happy to have found such thorough involvement!
Awesome! Somehow I hadn't heard about Steemprentice, yet. I'll be joining for sure as it sounds like a great way to meet people, chat about writing and improve as a writer. Yes!
We're still working on getting exposure of this group to a larger portion of the user base, but we'll get there. Our launch was only 10 days ago :)
Love to have ya! :D
I've been helping out #projectnewbie, so I can add a link to #steemprentice for those newbies I touch base with who seem like they'd be interested. I fear becoming the new @wang, but no...that's impossible. ;)
Oh, that would be great! When I've had time, I've check the project newbie channel (and associated rabbit holes) to keep an eye for those in need, but yea..that time thing lately. Lol
I appreciate you adding the link! That's a perfect group to have it listed on! :D
Oh yeah, your FAQ are awesome! Love that I can be connecting new users to this!
TY! It got put together with the mentality of 'what I would have loved to have when I was a newbie.'
With it being a google doc it lets it adapt/grow over time as well, without having to find a new post link. If it's helpful, here's the google doc link (users can make comments that I can easily add/change too):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U4BacoM5E_m90K-DK3rdS-MUdQ68NLAG1D_3yP0AiuI/edit?usp=sharing
Awesome! I'm putting together a post encouraging everyone to reach out to new users and give them helpful links. I want to empower anyone to do this to free up time for members like you. My thought is that I will ask steemprentice for mentoring on this article and hopefully improve it's value that way. I'll definitely use the link provided and call it The Steemprentice FAQ.
Question, for feedback from Steemprentice, do I simply add the link to the #steemprentice-links channel or do I need to fill out a mentoring form and be registered as a mentee?
@pulpably (ran out of comment nesting)
Yea, I (and sure others) are more than happy to take a look at the post and see if we have any suggestions. Link name is perfect, tyty! :D
#steemprentice-links is more for group post promo (so they do get lost in chat/make chat hard to read). Just toss it into #steemprentice channel, links in there are solely for suggestions/feedback.
You really don't have to worry about the mentee form...originally I had this as a closed group, hence the need but with it now being public it's not a big deal. Now I just try to get mentors to fill out the mentor form so we can have a reference of individual skills, especially those that speak multiple languages. It's really a pretty laid back group. :)
Feel free to DM me too if helpful...im the same name in steemit.chat. :D
I am grateful for the assistance and suggestions received from the steemprentice chat room mentor team!!! Thank you, oc
Absolutely happy to help! Thrilled to see you progressing as well as the nice recent payout for your kim chee post! :D
Great!
Now I am hungry for some kim chee. :)
I have learned a lot about how to present my content. Thank you for all the help.
More than happy to help! You've put in a lot of work and we didn't touch your content at all! Just spiffed up a few things around it, hehe. Glad you joined the group!
Great job!
The steemprentice is a good initiative and I have personally benefited from this. Thank you @sykochia and the team at steemprentice
Thank you! And we're more than happy to be helpful.
So glad you joined! :D
Good article, I hope steemprentice give motivation to other people and make them happy to write more. :)
Thank you @happyphoenix! So far it's seemed very helpful both in skill and user motivation/retention.
I'm so glad to see you around again! :D