My first few weeks in Steemit were filled with desperation. I followed everyone I could. You can see the proof in the number of people I am following.
I wanted to make the money as fast as possible because I knew what some of friends and ‘ogas’ where making from Steemit. As I ventured on my Steemit journey I found something very significant. I fell in love with Dan Larimers creation. I began to realizes that it is more profitable to do what the platform was created for in the first place which is socialize. So Steemit is going to pay me to Socialize and make friends. Wow!
Now I have a new perspective, a new strategy. Instead of looking for ways to game the platform, I can socialize and curate and create content, I can try to serve my followers.
Today I have a total of 300 followers and I'm very grateful.
If you have taken time to read this post up to this point please comment ‘300+ and counting’ below and I will send you a tip’. Offer valid for the first few people. This is just my way of celebrating my 300+ followers achievement. Resteeming this post can also guarantee that you get the SBD gift.
HOW TO SOCIALIZE IN STEEMIT.
BE FRIENDLY
I know it sounds too obvious but this is important. If you want friends or followers, you have to be friendly. No one wants to follow an a** hole who is just rude abusive or possess whatever unfriendly character.
MAKE GOOD COMMENT
Comment on people's post. Yeah! Care about what people are saying. Don't just say, ‘well done’, or ‘thank you’ or some automated trollish nonsense. Give a good and well thought out comment and you will be rewarded. Some of the people I am currently following are people who made some connection to my work through their comments.
I have noticed another set of people who no matter what I post their comment is always ‘great work’; I don’t know how to get them off my comment box, lol. Commenting on Steemit can also be very rewarding. Do you know that the first person to comment in @craiggrant’s posts usually gets about $1. I have also seen a comment that bagged $42.
REPLY TO COMMENTS
I was chatting with @ogochukwu the other day and this guy told me that someday he has had to cancel a scheduled post so as to respond to comments on his previous post. No wonder he is pretty successful. If someone spends their precious time to read and make a comment on your post, please respond and upvote their comments too.
GIVE
Give and it shall be given unto you(the bible). If you want to make friends in Steemit you are going to have to give. Give your time, give your expertise, give your upvote, comments, e.t.c.
Whatever you are doing must be adding some sort of value to your followers.
FOLLOW ME
I have seem some really funny newbies that will just come to steemit and start writing wonderful articles and hoping that their ‘quality content’ is going to give them followers. I laugh in Chinese. Baby, if you want followers you are going to have to fish for them, you are going to have to follow people too. This is very true if you are not an established blogger or vloger with huge reputation and following. I recommend that if you are not a really good blogger or content creator, your first week on steemit should be for socializing, commenting and making friends. Don’t waste your time creating quality content that no one will see or upvote. If you have a good number of friends on steemit then you will have people to upvote your post even if it is just a picture. I don’t mean you should go around spamming people’s post with ‘follow me I follow you’. Anyway, I’m sure you know what I mean.
I hope you enjoyed reading this post. Please leave a comment on what has helped you making friends on Steemit and I will upvote or reply.
Thank you for reading.
All images were gotten from Pixabay.
Its really funny how some newbies behave. Its actually better to focus on making friends and connections than to focus on making lots of money. That way you truely intaract with people and build connections. For instance, i spend much more time in the chatroom than on steemit directly trying to help some newbies mostly in Ghana out on how to go about their daily activities. Steemit is actually a social media and you should socialize. If you fail to socialise, you are definitely not going to make any good amount of impact and money and you will quit when its becoming more interesting. Great post by the way buddy
Wow @tj4real thanks for commenting. Glad that my post made sense to you.
yes @tj4real knows first hand how networking an find you people here that will help you and he was at one point making so many good comments that he as one of the top comment earners one week on this one list, if i remember correctly! The fact that comments can get you paid here and routinely go over $1 each shows you thatit is directly profitable to network here hey i upvoted, and @tj4real brought me hre as i by hance clicked his comment while uopvoting his comments ! (i go back to my friends at last every 6 days to upvoptethir posts!)
and I an following you now! I Can tell from your name u must be in Africa and I have a team of African steem members team Africa Steemit working with Operation Upgrade Africa! and we will bring solar chargers and smartphons cheap plentiful android smartphones with battery bricks to keep em charged days at a time, and then we want to buy mobile data plans in BULK for steemit mmebers to all get cheap wifi !
But yeah u have a new follower! Ill recomend u to hales that help @tj4real and @ortigas100 like @thejohalfiles who helps our tam africa cause with his mega upvotes as he is one of the biggest whales and he is MOST generous helping tj and @xpency and @mcsaam and ortyigas all make thousands of dollars from thir posts of getting other Africanson steemit!
Get africans near yuou localy to join steemit show image sof them and BOOM u will get attention of Johal hopefully and get upvpoted by the king!
Congratulations bro, coman share the money.
Steemit is gradually making me to become a better reader and blogger. Increasing my skills
Thank you
I am hapy to have found your comment at 99 cents and have pushed it up top $1 !!! Congrats on making $1 for just a comment on the internet! keep this up and you'll be a ful time Internet Commenter! XD Isnt steemit amazing? Isnt the WORLD amazing now? The world just got more inclusive! That Smartphon and mobile internet wasa GREAT investment! COmputyrs ALWAYS make a good investment even if you dont se a use for them at first there will ALWAYS be something a computer will help you with especially nowadays!
Contrary to the laws of physics and kitchen craft, only in comments is "Well Done" Half-Baked -- sorry, I just could NOT Resist. However, that being said, I generally agree with the sentiment expressed.
Real commentary requires thought, and, horror-of-horrors, that socially repugnant 4-letter word: "Work".
If one treats life as some kind of first person accumulator video game; then "making your numbers" might make some kind of sense. On the other hand, approaching commentary as an opportunity to interact with others and, through mutual attempts to entertain mind expanding thoughts and ideas, then all will benefit far beyond mere financial gain.
Anyhow, these are my thoughts and, BTW, since I did NOT do it for the money; please feel free [no pun intended] to give any tips to others as I am sure most will be more worthy than I.
Thanks for reading bro
NICE another 99 cent comment i found and i will finish the work of @infovore and upvote it with one more penny so @carlstreet can have a full $1 for his comment! doesntity fel AMAZINg to make 41 off a comment on the internet?!?! Keep this up and it can be your fulltime job XD Its funny because its true!
The key is socializing and exchanging information. You don't need to have too many blogs to earn good money here. People also like to see interesting or entertaining content and that's what will help you grow in Steemit.
Yeah thanks
Thanks for commenting
WOW ANOTHER comment at 99 ce=nts! @infovore (creative name BTW neverheard of that one) Must be giving out 99 cent upvotes and I am completeing them to getthem 41 ! haha so so cool! my OCD forced me to upovote these 99 cent comments!
Congrats on 300+ and counting! Thanks for sharing your tips, socializing is very important on here I guess I should be doing more of that haha!
Thank you for commenting @rebeccagomez
Good advice. I shall try to follow your articles
Thank you
congratulations bro. i'll be celebrating 600 followers soon.
Wow congratulations in advance...
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STOPCongratulations on ur 300+ dear. This is of course a beginning of greater heights. Resteemed
My geee!!!!
Lol
Great post and tips ...upvoted and followed.
Thank you
You're on point bro, 300+ and counting. That's cool!
Great advises, I live in Cuba and I want to show to the world what the life of people really look like. I know there are no much spanish speakers around here. Im a newbie, thank for guiding me to the right direction.
U r most welcome
Its a pleasure and privileged to be of help
Thank you for commenting
Wow!! 300+ congrats bro
Thank you
Please resteem and ill send you your prize