I’ve truly been blessed with the overwhelming amount of support & kindness the platform and its users have shown me.
Where do I start? There are so many people to thank and so many nice people I met due to this platform since I started nine months ago, my baby really grew!
Like most members of this unique community I was not an investor and started at zero, with almost no computer experience.
Those who’ve been following me from the start know I almost quit one more than one occasion.
My goal to use my blog as a one-stop spot for travel junkies to share tips, tricks and stories in order to help people around the world and create a trusted network of travelers, did not succeed at all in the beginning. But I am very happy that I still put in the work, because by now I am really enjoying the platform and if you ask me it did not reach its full potential by far.
So to everybody who second guesses the decision on still putting in the time and content, just keep going!!
For the people who don’t me and my account yet; here is my introduction post and the introduction of NBA Basketball to my blog as well.
This post will be about my goals on Steemit for the future and about the things I learned so far,
Lessons learned
I am on Steemit for nine months now and there are things I like and don’t like. This post will be about just that and the goals I have to help Steemit grow.
Newbie Support
I really try to give back to Steemit, so a few times a week I look at the introduce yourself tag and upvote people that have the same interests, I then look at what they are posting next to decide on following them. For almost everybody Steemit is frustrating when you are new so give people that join some love!
No Follow to follow
This is probably the thing I dislike most about Steemit, please don’t ask people to follow you, they will if they think you are worth it, what you should look for is meaning full connections. By now I met so many nice people who I would love to meet in person, only because we genuinely like each other’s content, are you really able to follow several thousand people? I know I don’t, so just find the people you like following.
Dont give up!
Many promising bloggers stopped because they did not get the reward they expected when they started. In the beginning I was close on quitting many times but I am glad I did not. I really believe in the potential of the platform. So my advice if blogging and posting is not your hobby and you think you can earn money easily don’t even start.
Just enjoy the many quality post you can read for free and if you like them don’t be shy to reward the author.
Fulltime job
If you really want to see your blog grow and use the full potential it has, you have to put in the work. I believe that putting in your time and energy fulltime will really benefit your account. To me Steemit is all about connecting with people. I put in around 15 hours a week, that is writing content and interacting and responding to other people. I work 40+ hours a week so it’s not realistic for me to put in more time, my ultimate goal will be working a day less to use for Steemit.
The best example of the guy that really decided to change his approach is @world-travel-pro, he (like me) at first just wanted to share his stories but noticed he did not have to time to connect with everybody so he decided to focus on Steemit fulltime and now his account really took off.
So please remember be patient regarding your account grow.
Goals
As mentioned I enjoy the platform more and more and have many ideas on how I can contribute more the platform and am really excited about on what the future will bring. The upcoming months I have some goals I like to accomplish so my account will be more enjoyable for the people that follow me.
Interviews
I really like connecting with people, that’s why my goal will be to have fact-to face meet up with fellow Steemers and interview them about their travel preferences. My goal will be to post an interview every month.
My first interview was with @juliank and I really enjoyed meeting up.
I also really like the work @travelfeed puts in, they create a platform for travel-minded people.
More appealing post
I know we live in a rushed world an people don’t really have time anymore to read everything they won’t, therefore my other goal will be to present my posts the best way I can and I think I can do a better job on making my posts more appealing. I am very bad using computers but I will try!
My first step to reach this goal was to create an avatar made by @skyleap. He is really good and fast! Love his work. Thanks again!
“really like it! What do you think?”
Languages
I would really like to offer my post in multiple languages to cater more people on the platform, so right now I am saving some money to invest in people that can translate my posts! Really looking forward to the moment I can add a language. Don’t know if this goal is realistic but he, let’s keep in dreaming.
More travel content
I also would like to share more post when I am om the road, last year I only had a holiday in total for three weeks, so I mostly share travel memories and best travel-destinations. My goal for the next year will be being on the road and post about in order to create more unique content. The good par is I was able to save some money to prepare for the decision to change my life completely. I also signed up for a TEFL course yesterday in order to be able to teach English as a foreign language.
Reputation Score
I just got up to reputation score 60! A great milestone, which took a lot of work! I have for months left before I am a member on Steemit for a year and my goal is to get up to 65 when I celebrate my first birthday here!
Thanks again everybody for your support, really enjoy the platform because of it. I hope you like the goals I have and lets just grow this awesome platform together!
Congratulations on making it to 1000 followers. Thanks for sharing your experience. I've also felt like giving up many times but, so far, I have kept plodding on! ##sn
Thanks for stopping by! really think Steemit will grow and show more potential. happy you decided to stay, keep up the hard work
Thank you @heyitshaas. I admire your positive spirit. I'm not so sure myself but willing to keep giving it a try!
Hope it works out really well for you and you reach the goals you've set yourself! 😁
Congratulations on your 60 milestone! It's always difficult starting something new but I am glad that you did not give up. When the opportunity occurs, I do enjoy meeting other Steemians. Everyone has been so friendly and hopefully I'll be able to meet you soon!
That would be great! thanks for your kind response
I noticed your high reputation score, looks like you are one of the "big" Steemians now, congratulations :D
I don't know if you remember, but you actually commented on my #introduceyourself post and asked me to promise that I had come to stay. And here I still am! So thanks for that :)
Thanks for mentioning @travelfeed. We are doing our best to make travel bloggers stay on Steemit and I think especially with the delegation we got we are on a pretty good way :)
haha I think I do rememeber! thanks for putting in the work for all the travelers, hope we can meet up one day. Steemit it great to find like-minded people.
@travelfeed really helps!
A meet-up would be amazing! I am probably leaving Europe in late July to study in Asia for half a year, maybe if Dan makes it to Europe before that we can all meet!
We can't wait to see more of your posts in #travelfeed and with the changes to our curation system that we announced today it becomes more likely now to get an upvote as well.
Sounds good! would be much fun! depens on when Dan will be here, Study in Asia for a half year, how cool!!
Hey congrats getting to this milestone! And you are correct, you have to put in the time and effort to anything you do so make it happen. Congrats again!
thanks! love the work you post aswell, travel-minded people are really inspiring to me, I will keep them coming
Congratulations!
I only started blogging actively last month. I'm in for the long run this time. Thanks for your inspiring story on not giving up
Thanks and you are welcome, keep putting the time and you will enjoy the platform more and more
Congratulations!!!...1000 followers ain't a joke.
Someday soon. I will be like you..😌🙏🙏🙏
If you like it here your will stay and really conect, goodluck with your Steemit journey
Thanks! The more replies and uovotes i get, the more inspired i get to write.😁
Congrads on 1,000! I just crossed by my 3,000th!
congratulations! 1000 Followers and 60 Reputation score!
Thanks my friend! the avatar really helps!
Congratulations, thanks for the advice. Steemit could be so frustrating when you input so much and get very little or even nothing.
When I read your post you can give me the feeling, that you are really in love with steemit. Nice to see!
I like your 65 goal. A hard way!
lets see if I can make! so many nice people on the platform what's there not to love. Thanks for stopping by
Nice Haas! Congrats on the achievement, bud! Glad to see your hardwork paying off! You'll be at 10,000 followers in no time :D
Hi. Thanks for the post. I am currently working on my second post, so this is definitely strikes a cord with me. I'm actually still trying to get a hang of the site and how it works, and I was wondering if you could let me know how to delete resteemed posts from my blog. I resteemed something by accident when first starting my blog, and cant seem to undo it.
Hi, you cant delete a post, but you can stop to resteem only when a post is not older then 7 days so in your case there is nothing you can do anymore, beauty of the blockchain
Congrats on reaching your milestone goal! I appreciated reading your nice tips and find your information useful. It feels good to grow a communityorganically not just spamming users for upvotes and follow backs. Congrats and I will be checking out more of your posts moving forward! Blessings to you!
you to! keep it up buddy, keep grinding