At least that's how it was two years ago.
You know, I made a plan, stuck to it and gave everything of myself to achieve it,
But why did I do all this? And how did I came to the conclusion I should do it the way I was?
Well, Steem has a way of earning tokens by using the social media platforms built on the blockchain. There's the key word: Social.
To actually earn tokens you have to be social, engage and interact with the community. Post amazing, relevant and interesting content for the people you are targeting as audience. You have to start from zero and have patience, endurance and perseverance.
No votes or engagement will just because you are you and you should leave outside of steem any entitlement and prejudice you may think of bringing with you.
If people don't vote on your posts, when they don't engage or comment, and if you don't make the rewards you are making, it's not the community's fault...
It's your fault
Stop blaming Steem for your own failures. Instead, work harder. How do you expect other people to even know you exist if you don't visit other blogs? How can you think that you'll get votes on you content if you don't engage with like minded people and let them know you are the same as them? In what brain is possible to think that just by hitting the post button people will flock to your content if you don't actually make an effort to be noticed?
No, not by buying votes. Take that idea out of your head already. Buying votes hurts the steem ecosystem and actually, it will only bring you dead followers and a worthless audience that are just looking to leach something off someone.
Organic engagement. Discord and steem.chat interatction. Building real social relationships on the blockchain.
If after all that, you are not achieving your goals, then maybe you have to ask yourself if you have what it takes to be a blogger/writer/video creator/photographer.
Yeah that's blunt, but that's how life is.
You have to work hard for what you want, you know, making an effort to achieve your goals and actually be good at it to be successfull.
Stop Blaming the Steem ecosystem for your own laziness, lack of drive, unwillingness to put in the time and effort necessary to achieve your goals. Stop saying its everybody else's fault but your own that you are not getting noticed and supported. It depends on you, your own, and yourself. It's not the whale's or curation groups that you are not getting votes, it's your own fault for not engaging on their discord channels or commenting on other people's blogs and then maybe getting resteemed or followed.
No, it's not anybody else's fault but yours.
Stop blaming your lack of support to Saturdays, that day of the week when whales are dormant.
... and the people who could do with reading this probably never will, because they don't visit other blogs. Oh, the irony! 😆
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Yep, the irony here could cause me liver failure xD
!engage 100
Great post.
Personally, I just post when I have something to say and comment when I think i have something worth saying. For some people, socialising isn't easy, even in comments on here but that doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't doing things for the blockchain in the background. There are unsung heroes everywhere, working in curation groups and producing great content and apps that people just don't know about but are invaluable to the success of steem. They often don't get much in the way of rewards, and take no offence at not getting the rewards and remuneration they probably deserve.
These are my favourite people. They are here for only one thing - the success of the blockchain.
I think that your strategy made sense. It takes a while to get noticed and some traction, but I think eventually you do. You are right, success is up to each individual user.
Anyone can have a different strategy, the main point is to make it your own, commit to it and do as much as you can to achieve your goals. There's no half efforts on any social media when you want to become a highly followed and supported person.
Ah! THAT'S EXACTLY THE ISSUE & BIG PROBLEM HERE. ...when you are NOT the same as them and certainly you may have your OWN mindset and code of ethics. ¿No es así carnal? };)
Ditto!!
If I had never been dragged into steem.chat, I might still be doing exactly what I was doing before, not knowing much about Steem at all. Now I have changed what I do, and still don't know much about Steem ;D
I only know that I know nothing. Well, maybe a little cause of chats and that nerdy stuff :P
Yeah, I still remember the old steem.chat days and I rememebr manual curators supporting active chat users just for the sake of them being active and chatty. Social media after all.
I think it would be good to have a chat stream feature that was much less serious and could run alongside steem without it being votable. Perhaps using RCs to moderate.
Lol. Like seriously? Dormant? I don't think so. Like you rightly said. We should not blame STEEM for failures at all. We should spend more time with Creativity, empowerment and investment through STEEM. Thanks for sharing this with us. @anomadsoul. Please check your Twitter inbox. Asper 🤗
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It is easy to blame others for your own shortcomings, right? While there are so many opportunities to see as growing methods, people mostly choose to avoid them and go for the easiest thing there is. In case everybody goes for easy, there will be a high demand for people who choose the hard way. Thanks for sharing Eric, hope all is well.
I know many people like that not just on steem. Actually its kind of hard to realize you're one of them and even harder to get out of that vortex. Indeed, either they stay and steem starts to go viral or they leave and we just keep the good ones, delaying a bit the mass adoption process but keeping only the worthy ones. Hope everything is great too, Ruben!
I absolutely agree. I just wonder how there are so many people that don't interact, they don't comment, don't upvote anything, they just publish their posts and they're getting so high rewards every time without buying votes...
Well you have to take into account their past. Some people did all their heavy work years ago and now it's just a matter of staying active. Newbies see these guys and assume that if these highly rewarded authors can just post and earn, they should be able to do the same, but the truth is, everyone had to make a name for themselves, just because you didn't see it happened it doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Well said. Resteemed. And are whales really not active at the weekends?
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I'm not sure about how it is nowadays but back then I read a post where saturdays were the days where whales voted the less, so posting on Saturdays was a bad timing to get support on a post. It was back then when before bots and manual curation was a thing (like now :D )
Haha dormant? That's a first I think newsteem has even made it easier, from my perspective I think it takes the right engagement like you said, people only need to just take a little time and give newsteem a chance
Yeah, it's easier today than it was three months ago. All you have to do is engage, create great content and give a shit about other people and you're basically going to turn your old steem life into a great one.
i just got $14 bucks on a post today on saturday (which is for me a lot) ..... its what you make on it yourself dude...
Get you some!
I was thinking about not bothering, but now..... :D
hahahha you are such a disaster!!! a lovely disaster!
Such a lovely disaster :P :P
Siempre tienes que tener esperanza de una de tus publicaciones le va encantar a la comunidad
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Speakin’ the truth here... 💪🏼🙌🏼💯
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Just tryna do my part :P
Astonishing this photo of sleeping whales. We need more photos like that.
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You are absolutely right, this is hard to learn and even harder to apply, but it is the only way ...
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Upvoted 👌
There might be other ways but the be honest, at this point as long as they engage its enough because the bar is low. You don't need to be a scientist to understand that the more you engage, the more eyes your blog will get.
Yes, of course! Valid on all social networks. I have seen many successful examples only from regular engagement. Thank you for your reply!
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Thanks for share your thoughts
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Tienes razón. No es fácil dedicar tanto tiempo a la interacción, pero es satisfactorio.
¡Saludos,@anomadsoul!
nice photography
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Brutal honesty! I like what I'm hearing but there ain't no quick fix for being a lazy old man! haha, um wait, maybe there is...