Probably I am done.
I tried everything. Contests, challenges, giveaways.
I have been actively engaging in the past few months.
So actively that I literally reached the top 10 in the engagement league.
I support others by upvoting, by giving them tokens, sometimes even by giving them beneficiaries and by reblogging their posts.
But still almost no one cares about most of my posts, and I am earning cents (usually around $0.20) with most of my posts.
My monthly pension-like income is approximately $250 USD.
The monthly price of my mobile internet subscription is $18.68 USD.
So if I count my average earnings ($6 USD per month), I cannot even earn back the price of my monthly mobile internet subscription.
I live with multiple disabilities, and with an income much less than the minimum wage. Nowadays I work in a 4 hours part time job, but my income still does not reach the local minimum wage, which is approximately $550 USD per month. I mean the local minimum wage, not my income.
Nowadays my total income is approximately $490 USD.
I think that it is easier to cancel my monthly mobile internet subscription, and save money on it.
This is not the first time I think about this. I already thought about it in the past, and a few people supported me for a short time. I mean encouraged me to stay on the Hive blockchain by giving me good upvotes.
But it was only for a short time, and people still did not cared about my posts.
I am not complaining now. I am not blaming anyone.
I am just/only stating that probably I will cancel my mobile internet subscription until the end of 2021 to save money. I am considering/taking into account what is best for me.
Believe it or not, but saving approximately $18.68 USD from my $250 USD monthly pension-like income is actually a huge advantagle over paying it, and earning cents on the Hive blockchain.
I have a signed contract with the mobile internet service provider until 2021.12.10, so I cannot cancel it until this date.
I have approximately half a year to decide.
This depends on the community.
If I will get long term support, then I will stay, but if not, then I will cancel my mobile internet subscription on the above mentioned date.
Hey there @xplosive , sorry to read your efforts aren't paying off. I'd like to offer you two different perspectives on how you can approach this (and Life in general regarding abundance):
The first is that instead of thinking what you're getting, you might want to think on what you're offering. Do you offer something you consider valuable to the community? Would you like to hop on Hive and check out your own content? Perhaps that shift of perspective can make you start progressing on making this a more fulfilling experience. Though I know for sure that some hard worked posts sometimes don't get much appreciation and that can be frustrating. But in the long run it pays off.
The second is that you might want to focus on the what you're grateful for, instead of what you lack. We create reality with thoughts and words, so if you're only focusing on what you don't have, you won't be able to boost what you DO have.
I don't consider myself to have everything figured out and I understand completely there are days when we just can't see all the blessings that surround us, so we give our time and energy to lamenting all that we wished we had and don't have. But the real battle, the real challenge is to keep going back into the abundance mindset so that we can enjoy all the wonders Life has to offer.
Just my two cents, hope everything picks up for you!
I will try to see and approach things with different perspectives. Thank you for the suggestion.
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All the best.
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I'm sorry to read it, but I can understand your feeling, believe me. I'm here (on hive since the start and before on Steemit) since 4 years and I remember my first year when I earned few cents for post. I know how it's frustrating, especially if you do all the best writing original contents, engaging with the community, etc. There was 2 things that motivated me to continue: at first engaging helped me to know interesting people I liked to read and follow and at second every cent I earned was a cent I couldn't earn writing on other blog platforms. I think the tips @playfulfoodie gave you are the best tips to grow up here. Stay up and think positive, don't give up.
I am also here since 4 years. Since 2017.05.17.
I saw literally thousands of people leaving the Steem blockchain over the years. Nowadays I have more than 1200 followers, but most of them are inactive nowadays. They left the platform long months/years ago.
It is hard not to give up after basically getting ignored for more than 4 years, but I still try not to give up.
I give you some !PIZZA for the motivation.
Have a nice day and have a nice weekend.
All the best.
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So sorry. :( I just upvoted your comment at the best I can, to give you an encouragement ^_^
Thank you so much. It means a lot to me.
I also try my best to encourage others by writing meaningful comments, giving tokens (in this case I called the pizza bot too many times a day), and posting useful content.
Nowadays my upvote is worthless, but I am trying to build my account by constantly/regularly providing the above mentioned things.
Exactly!
I know this place can be frustrating and very unfair. You'll work your ass off and earn cents, while others post cat pictures and earn the big bucks. It's all about who you know and how big your account is (in terms of HP, reputation, followers, etc. etc.).
I'll be blunt here: If you expect fairness and people giving you money out of the kindness of their heart, that's not going to happen. Get your money mindset on and figure out the best way to earn if that is what's most important to you right now. Check out which communities give the highest rewards, which ones give the most upvotes, etc. and join them. Check out the articles these communities upvote and learn from them. What do they do what you currently don't? (Like using more images and writing longer posts).
Analyse posts that do well here, see what people care about. It might not be what you currently write about. You'll have to choose what is more important: The cash flow, or your own interests. Hopefully you'll find something in common with whatever does well here (I find that in gaming and food related posts, photography a little bit aswell). I'm not saying that's all you should write about, but accept that what lies close to your heart might not get the most votes. Check out my posts feed: My gaming posts blow up, but my blogging posts are much, much lower. It doesn't mean I'll only go for the gaming posts, I care about my life blogs, but I have low expectations for them.
Also, and this is just my view on this: Don't go overboard with the amount of posts you create. If they are all long, high quality posts, then by all means. But personally, people who share multiple posts a day kinda scare me off for the voting and I certainly don't vote on multiple of their posts the same day. Once a day should be enough.
Lastly, like @cwow2 said, build up your Hive Power, or atleast use your liquid tokens to make you money. You'll enter people's notifications with any vote that gives atleast 0.03. The higher your vote gets, the more likely people will notice them and follow you, hoping for more of your votes. It's the sad truth: Not everyone is here for the content or socialization, plenty are here for the money (atleast partially), so lure them with your votes and HP.
If you do want to quit, just make sure you decide that way in advance, keeping in mind the power down time and time to sell your Hive.
Perfect example!
Like my actifit daily. Its not there I made the most od my hive its from other posts :D
Just wow. I like the pure honesty in your comment. Plain truth. I often say it myself.
We are here for the money.
And I do not want to scare anyone off, but nowadays I often post multiple posts a day, but just/only because many of my posts go almost completely unnoticed, and earn a few (mostly 10-20 cents). And if I post multiple times a day, these cents are adds up in long term, which helps to build my account.
I do not necessarily want to quit. I listen to the suggestions, and I try to improve what I do in this platform. Especially after a detailed supportive message like this.
And the technology is very good behind the Hive blockchain, but I often feel that the people are not grown up to it because of their selfish and greedy behavior. I am poor, and almost no one cares about me. This makes the growing of my Hive account very difficult. And there are many similar users to me.
My upvote is currently worthless, but I give you some !PIZZA.
The writing of this reply probably took some good amount of time and work. I will also set you as a beneficiary on my next post.
Thank you again.
Have a nice day and have a nice weekend.
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I understand and that's one way to go about it. I'm not saying it won't pay off, I'm just sharing how I look at these things and I don't think I'm the only one. But honestly, there's not one good way of doing things here.
It's almost like this is the real world :-)
Very frustrating, but also, we can't change people's behaviour, so just go with it and try to do as successful people do.
That's really sweet of you, but really not necessary. Keep your rewards for yourself, I know you need them. I'm happy with the pizza!
Edit: By the way: Repost your content on Steemit, might earn you a couple of extra cents.
Might wanna be careful with that, some people here will downvote content here if its also posted on steemit x)
Bah, that's sad. Exclusivity can only be bought and seeing as there are no guarantees here on Hive, how can anyone demand that? Or is it whales with some Steemit vendetta?
Well.. A lot of Hive users was fucked over by the trackover, so anyone supporting that "regime"(steem) is downvote worthy x)
I don't really understand though how they were 'fucked over'. Granted, I didn't live that story as I was away at that time, but when I came back, my account was copied here and everything on Steemit was still there aswell. Didn't everyone basically get away with double their account, including any crypto on it? Might not have been a fun time and it might have been a forced copy, but in the long run (as in how it is now), I see Hive thriving and I still have 'moneyz' on Steemit. Don't we all like money?
What does Steemit's content take away from Hive? For me, Steemit is just a Korean site now where I can syphon a few cents of the rewards pool and distribute a little to other English posts.
You and many are in the same boat when it comes to trying to get noticed. Pushing forward is all anyone can do. I won't tell you to stay like most others will. I won't tell you that hard work pays off and you'll eventually get good upvotes because that (in part) would be a lie. Many good topics go unnoticed while other topics with very little effort in them make multitudes over the more quality topics. I don't see this changing anytime soon.
Some pointers:
I noticed your tags don't contain any Hive-Engine "clone" sites. These sites will add more returns for your effort. If you take a look at my blog you will see I use tags such as #SPT (Splinterlands content) #Battle (General Gaming). These tags allow me to earn extra tokens on top of the HIVE rewards I earn. They are paid out in Seven days just like HIVE rewards. They can be sold/traded on the Hive-Engine exchange. I would suggest you look into these tags and use the relevent ones for you topics and your rewards will increase because you will be earning a wider range of crypto.
Some other "clone" (Tribe) tags
#leofinance
#palnet
#neoxian
#hivelist
#hivehustler
Good luck on your HIVE journey.
Actually there was a time, when I used #palnet, but that was a long time ago. I will probably use it again in the future. Thank you for suggesting other tags.
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All the best.
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Be sure to only use the tags on the right posts.
But common tags for every posts is, #archon #proofofbrain #neoxian #palnet at least use those :D
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So buddy. You have been here for 4 years. You know how the blockchain works.
Write good quality content and you get good quality upvotes.
Use the right tags and post in the right communities and comment.
It takes time..
Look at my posts, I get around 0.5 on my actifit posts and I have been here for around 4 years aswell and I have bought SBI(HBI) to get upvotes on every post.
Also having liquid hive as you have with an account as small as yours doesn't benefit you. Liquid hive doesn't help you grow.
They should be powered up or be used to by HBI or tokens which gives you passive hive which you can use to power up daily or weekly. Its just that hard to grow on here, there are so many options :D
Great advice!
Thanks! I have learned a bit being on Hive in those years :p
I have tried that multiple times, and it does not work like that.
When you put hours of work and effort into an article, which earns $0.20, then that is really disappointing and discouraging.
I have been doing that. I reached the top 10 in the weekly engagement league.
But none of them really worked. At least not for me.
Have you done it for years, so people can find you and see your work? Or is it just now and then you do? and which of your last posts within 7 days have been high quality?
How often does this happen? Only this 1 time? And being no.1 in Engagment doesn't mean its good/meaningful comments all the time.
Which one? I can literally guide you if you need me to :D
Putting hours of work and effort into anything without results for years, and expecting a change is literally the definition of insanity.
I am not insane. Maybe that is the problem.
What does high quality mean? It is a subjective term. Especially in this place.
But if I have to mention one, then this one is probably at least a good quality:
WriteReadThink: Bob Marley passed away 40 years ago, but his music is still alive (7 days ago, post payout: $0.31)
At least one person commented on it. Most of my posts do not have real, human comments.
I put time, work and effort into that post to remember Bob Marley, and the post went almost completely unnoticed.
But some people earn more than $1 with the photo of their cats, and a few sentences. Is that high quality?
Maybe people don't care about Bob Marley? Also they way your is structured isn't "good/friendly" you need to play around with html such as h1, center, b or I and maybe even sub.
You get visablity and engagement if people find value in what you write.
I wrote 1 post about Dividend tokens and 3 posts about who you could delegate your hp to in order to earn dividends. Those posts got a lot of attention and a lot of comments and upvotes because it was valuable to the community and didn't serve a self forfilled purpose.
Some people are part of cyclejerking and they are also getting downvoted :)
That is simply sad, unfortunate and shame.
But looks like this is the case.
There were posts, in which I tried that, but maybe I should put more focus on this thing.
There is no value in culture? In remembering one of the biggest characters of the music history?
Ye maybe for you. But I don't care about Bob Marley or anything "old" Thats not how I am wired xD
I am not saying there isn't any value in this, but maybe your followers/audience doesn't feel like it has value. Maybe not post it in Freewriters but post it in a Music community??
Also. Do you use Hive-Engine? You have $133.72 worth of POB sitting un-staked doing nothing.
Either Power it up and curate in the POB community or delegate it to Brofi, which will give you BRO Tokens and they payout a lot of tokens which you can sell and get Liquid swap.hive :D
Nowadays I rarely check my Hive Engine wallet, but thank you for the suggestions.
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But why? There are alot of Hive to be made from HE :D
I do not like trading. It is risky. I have a small amount of money, and I do not want to lose that.
Trading is when you buy and sell.
If you only buy, then is investing and you will never grow your money if you just hold on to it and isn't putting it to work, just like real life
Studying trading seriously was the best thing I’ve ever done in my life. Seriously. Conquering fear is all we need.
Since you are in experiment mode, perhaps start letting the auto powered up hive stay, use only the liquid for living expense. The more HP you have the greater your curation rewards will be. I'm just getting to the point that I can vote on some comments and still vote on the content I like.
You have some very good comments to your post, think about what they all said, and remember the choice is yours. I went full in when Hive started, pretty much closed my steem account down and transferred all funds to Hive, that was a huge boon to me. Especially my vote power.
I'm just a mish-mash poster, posting a few things to share, not really a content creator, pretty much just a consumer, but I can be paid to watch, to vote to read. I like that, but I also understand that the more HP I have the greater my consumer rewards are.
I manually vote on everything, and while I may not get as many rewards as some of the trail voters, my votes go on stuff I like, not what someone else likes. I am still amazed that I am almost approaching 14 HIVE a week in curation, a year ago it was not even half that. Let that Hive Power build, if you don't do it go to full on manual voting for things you like, people you like.
Luckily/fortunately I have not sold any Hive in the recent past, and I have also not powered down any amount. I am not planning to power down in the near future either.
I know. I have experienced this on the Steem blockchain, like you.
Yes. I read every suggestion, and try to improve my Hive blockchain experience.
I like that approach. I do mixed (both manual and automatic) voting. I do automatic voting, when I do not have time to manually use the Hive blockchain (for example when I work, or when I sleep).
This is what I am trying to do. It is hard, when most of my posts are earning cents, but lately I saw some improvements.
I wish you all the best.
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That is quite a deadline.
I can say I was experiencing the same situation before. And someone told me, that you should not think of earning from the community. That person said, that I should be more focused on creating content and loving what I do to get engagements and be noticed. And honestly, I couldn't believe that because of my circumstance. That was years ago and it is somewhat the same as of today.
Why I never left? Because imawreader existed here in the blockchain. I had so many memories, hard ships and encounters that I don't want to forget. I was depressed and blogging assisted me to manage it atleast. Although, it seems to others that I'm only wasting time, I know that I've been doing progress. And that is why I kept coming back even though I was inconsistent. Living in two worlds is quite a hassle, but it's fun.
I'm not saying this to oppose your decision. Rather, I want to tell you that you have the freedom to believe in what you think is right and in what you believe would be good for you. Take the courage to choose your decisions wisely.