Haha....your title made me laugh because I can relate! I've been here for around 9 days now. I feel like as soon as I found steemit I just wanted to come back to it, keep checking on it, keep writing content on it, etc. It was really exciting at first, then I had a few small successes which I was really proud of, then a sort of 'usual' kicked in where I average around 5 votes per post.
I'm doing good and happy to be involved, but I can relate to what you're saying in your post. It's certainly not easy (for me at least) to get those big payouts right away like you see in the 'trending' sections. It can be hard getting a following and posting stuff that a person wants to post but also stuff that other people are interested in reading. It's also hard to get visibility, especially at first.
My plan is to keep going though, keep engaging, little by little on a consistent basis. It's good that there's people that relate to the struggle though and can lift each other up when we get down as I'm sure this whole journey won't be easy for me and I'll likely feel like giving up from time to time too.
Anyways, glad to see that this post was successful for you! It's uplifting to see people who have put in the time and work starting to get higher rewards and is something for me to strive for too.
Steem on!
You started with a pretty good post making you nearly 40 Dollars. I am sure that is misleading in terms of expectations how it will continue. But look, your comment here made quite a nice bit thanks to @fulltimegeek looking out for the minnows (strange word, it reminds me somehow of muggles).
My advice to everybody is to find community projects and challenges because these will bring you more reach. There are many great topics out there you can dive in by simply using certain tags in your post for example.
Yes, I was really surprised and excited with that approx. $40 post that happened right at the beginning but it was also kind of a double edged sword in a way because it made me wonder if maybe my posts that came after that weren't as good quality/weren't valued as much.
I soon realized that I had to get over that and just keep putting out the best quality posts that I can that I'm interested in and hope I find an audience for them. As long as there was a tag related to a post I wanted to do, I assumed at least some people on here would be interested in it.
Yes, super happy about the comment upvotes :) Another unexpected bonus and I'm definitely going to be following @fulltimegeek....as well as you
Haha....muggles...funny....yeah, I didn't like the whole 'minnow' thing at first but I'm getting used to it now. Looking forward to getting into dolphin territory.
Thanks, that's really good advice. I hadn't thought about getting involved in community projects before but I'll look into it. Do you know of any neat projects going on right now that you would recommend?
Anyways, take care!
By the way: If you are into VR/AR you shoudl write posts about that and look for the right channels to post it. I would certainly read. Follwed.
Check out:
#Whalepower
https://steemit.com/esoterictrailcontest/@esoteric-trail/esoteric-trails-first-contest-get-your-article-on-the-trail
There are many more but right now I don't have any in mind. But you can specifically search for that and I am sure someone wrote an overview for some.
Thanks, I'll check that out!
Really? Okay, I will then. For some reason I didn't think there was much interest in AR/VR here because I haven't seen any posts about it, but I'll make it so that my next post is about VR! I'm actually building a VR flying experience for the Gear VR. Building VR experiences is tough though because it's harder to optimize than for a PC. You're awesome, flauwy....thanks for all the great advice!!!!
It is even better if there is nothing on the platform yet (although I doubt that) because you can fill your peer group hashtags with your original content. When people start searching for it, they will find YOU.
Good point!
steemit is BS ha ha ha ! You guys are killing me making me laugh so hard! This website sucks! Ha ha ha