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A good point @jocool. There are a lot of posts that lack substance but get big upvotes. There's no absolute secret for visibility or success... but being consistent and persistent will pay big dividends. Don't try to mimic the content you see doing well (when you don't believe it should). Continue to publish work that means something to you. It took me 2 weeks to make 2 cents on Steemit last summer (this is @voronoi speaking) but I was stubborn and persistent. Eventually I started to engage with folks and that yielded better visibility.

It's a great time to blog on Steemit, the community here is young! Explore and experiment :)

Really good advice. I will persist! Thank you for the motivation.

Persist! We're all in this social-media experiment together :)

well said @voronoi, this is absolutely the best way to proceed -
"being consistent and persistent will pay big dividends. Don't try to mimic the content you see doing well (when you don't believe it should). Continue to publish work that means something to you. "

go figure. Lets just support each other as the pioneers of this new format and cryptocurrency and make some good content and some money while we are at it. Screw YouTube and these other social media greed machines!!! :D