I read about Steem 2 years ago when I was doing a research about which Altcoin to trade on at Poloniex. I bought low and sold high and forgot about it, last year a friend told me about steemit and how I could earn money if I ran a blog with it, it sounded cool but I didn’t just have the time then.
How I Joined Steemit
I started a facebook fan page for my rabbit farm around the middle of this year but felt I wasn’t getting the response I wanted. I now remembered Steemit, did some research on it and even called the friend that recommended it to me last year to know how he was fairing. The response he gave me was shocking, he said “forget those people, they already know the people that will make a post and get upvotes” he further said “I have been with them for more than a year and I was posting every time the first month I started but since then I’ve been on Reputation 25 and have earned less than $0.65”.
That was really discouraging for me to hear but I didn’t give up because I read about some really cool stuff in the reviews I read about them. So, on the 17th August, 2018 I went to the steemit website and made my application. I was further discouraged to wait out the whole of August without getting a response from them as regards my successful application. I had used the first 2 or 3 days reading up various to post on steemit about how to be successful in it, what to post about, how to introduce yourself and all that, but as the days turned into weeks my interest kept weaning. I was so happy to receive an email from Steemit in the first week of September stating that my account opening was successful. I was later to discover that my wait for opening an account on Steemit wasn’t necessary because you can do that instantly if you’ve got someone with a Steem account already.
How I Started Posting On Steemit
I was so excited when I got the email for successful account opening that I didn’t know where to start or what to post about. I did a search on steemit and got the idea of doing an introductory post of myself first. And that was what I did and bam! My introduceyourself post got an 3.68% upvote from @postpromoter courtesy of @reseller for winning New Steemian Of The Day, apparently, the award was sponsored by @postpromoter and @yabapmatt and the upvote at that time was worth more than $6. This was a great boost for me as it motivated me to write I think 4 or so more even though not so regular basis before the end of September. My irregular posting then was more like a time of studying and learning more about steemit and when I felt I’ve learnt enough to keep me going, from October 1st 2018 which was Nigerians’ independent day, I decided I’ll be posting at least 1 post a day and that is what I’ve been doing from then till date.
How Was I Able To Make It In Such A Short Time
I’ll like to give thanks to God for giving me the strength and good health to post, the experiences to have what to post about and definitely thanks to you guys for always supporting me all the way, you guys are the great. Having said that, I think there are things we can and should do to get to a higher reputation faster, hey guys, am not saying I am there yet, need to get to 70 ASAP, but some guys can’t wait for me to get to Rep 70 before telling them my dirty little secrets. Lol.
So these are some of the things I’ve done or I am doing to get to the top which am still heading to, I am going to add more as more stuffs are been introduced to the steem community, remember guys, by March 2019 SMT is rolling out hopefully so I can’t say I’ve stopped doing new things, this is just for starters:
- Be Original – Been yourself makes life easy for you from the very start, it means you’re not trying to be anyone else but you and you know a lot you can say about yourself and what you go through and experience in life. Now why would I want to write about cryptocurrency because they say it is the hottest topic in town but I don’t know jack about it. There is a lot people around the world want to know about the food you eat, your clothing, environment, culture and all that, your story can inspire someone to visit your part of the world.
- Create Good Contents – I’ve seen people say I’ve followed me, please follow me back and I’ve gone to the blog to discover they haven’t even made a post or sometimes the only post you see on their page are only resteems. Lol. Sorry guys I just had to laugh. If you blog page looks scanty or unserious then it’ll be hard to get profitable followers. Good content attracts the big guys to read your post and give you a nice upvote.
- Invest – Invest a little is you can, this will go a long way to grow your account. Remember that buying Steem, Steem Power or Steem Backed Dollar does not increase your reputation. Upvotes on your postings, comments and curating are what increases your reputation. So, invest a little in your Steem Power so you can have enough Resource Credits to make postings, comments and upvotes. It also means your upvotes have value and you get more value for your curation. The rest should go into promoting every post you make so that it becomes more visible, it also pays you because after 7 days you get SP and SBD for authorship and curation which improves your reputation.
- Study – Learn what works and what doesn’t work on steemit, learn from people that more experienced, more successful and more knowledgeable people that are highly placed, they got there because there is something they are doing that you haven’t started doing.
- Use DApps and Steemit Alternative Platforms - @busy, @esteem, @partiko, @DTube, @actifit, @Dclick and host of many other such projects provide incentives in the form of upvotes or their token or both if you use their platform to do your postings. They also help promote you in their post if you are performing well on their platform. I started using @actifit just about 5 days ago and on the 3rd day I won 3rd place in Top Daily Actifitters and that was a boost to my post.
- Follow People With High Reputation - No offence to beginners, They must be people that post regularly, respond to the comments people make on their blog post and do a lot of upvoting. If you regularly make reasonable comments on their blog about their post or make suggestions that they find useful, you’ll definitely get and upvote from them and they might follow you.
- Join Communities or Projects or Curation Trails – Most of them will upvote your post as a member which help you grow fast. There are so many of them on Steemit look for the ones that fit into what you like talking about and join them. We also have subscription based membership communities just do your research before joining.
- Participate In Contest – Contest are a way of rewarding people who take part in an activity/activities which offers a reward for winners. Winning such contest and having your username mentioned and upvoted by high Rep members is a big plus for you rise. I won 3rd place in Ask Me Anything Contest / Best Questions Win SBI - Dragging You Up With Me Week #10 and the prize for 3rd place winner was 2SBD.
- Upvote Good Post or Comments – Take time to go through your feed and upvote good post and comments as much as your Voting Power can allow you to upvote. I try as much as I can not to make my voting power go below 85% that way my upvotes are always worth much to the receiver it also means that I get to earn more curation reward. Upvoting is a win win situation, don’t be miserly with it. If you don’t upvote people you won’t get curation reward. So enjoy putting smiles on other people’s faces. The larger you Steem Power the more you can upvote with lower voting weight and still give guys a lot to be happy about.
Delegate If you Have Some Available Steem Power – Delegate to projects to show support for such projects, this is also a win win situation, some of the projects you delegate to will upvote you post when you make them, some offer tokens which you can exchange for upvotes of wait till the coming of SMT. It also has a feel good effect on you because you’re a part of the success story of something that later went very big.
Run A Contest – I already mentioned that you should participate in contest, but in this case you should sponsor a contest. Look for ideas that you can a contest about to give back to the Steem community. You might think it is not profitable to you, but that’s not the case, it brings you a lot of followers, friends and the joy you feel in helping to make people succeed. I have ran a Fastest Finger Contest not twice, this is a project I am sponsoring myself to help uplift beginners and old timers that are finding it difficult to grow. It might not worth so much now but I am hoping to grow it larger according to the resources available to me. Maybe someday the first prize winner may be getting 10 Steem you never know where these things lead you to.
And I’ve got to say this, these are just my personal experience of how I got from Rep 25 to 60 in 75 days, it is definitely not a financial advice, please do your own research before taking on any actions.
My Next Goal
My next goal is to get to Rep 65 before the New Year and Rep 70 before the coming of Smart Media Token in March 2019. That’ll be making it 6 months to get from Rep 25 to Rep 70. This will definitely be hard to achieve seeing that I just completed the easy part. But I’ve rolled up my sleeves and with God on my side and you guys always having my back, who know what can happen. So I am not going to celebrate too much on achieving Rep 60 because the work ahead is much harder, but the Steem community always offers a helping hand for people to grow and succeed in whatever they’re doing so I believe we’ll make it, I’ll see you when we get there.
Thanks for reading, please upvote my post if you liked it, follow me, resteem and don’t forget to leave your comments or questions and I’ll definitely respond to them, you might even get an upvote for your comment. I’ll truly appreciate your support. Thanks once more and do have a great day.
FREE UPVOTES
To show my appreciation for reading my post, I’ll upvote and reply your comments if you do the following:
Upvote the post if you like it (not compulsory though).
Make a comment about content of the post.
Follow me if you have not already started following me.
You can get between $0.02 to $0.45 worth of upvote. Click Here
This is my little way of starting to contribute to the growth of the Steem community.
My recent post on: Cure for Boredom
• How to cure boredom – Join A Steem Cause
• How to cure boredom – Start A Hobby
• How to cure boredom – Start A Hobby
• How to cure boredom – Go watch a movie with friends
• How to cure boredom – Plan a trip
• How to cure boredom – Read a book
• How to cure boredom – Start writing
• How to cure boredom – Visit to the City Centre
This is great. A good lesson for all of us.
Thanks a lot my friend.
My requested post is finally released.
Thanks
Lol, I just gave you my full vote for making me fulfill your request. Wow! that pushed you a point up.
Now my reputation is 39
You help me a lot
Thank you so much 😃
You are very welcomed, I do hope the post will inspire you to get to Rep 60 before the New Year?
I will try my best
And I know that your support is always with us
Yes of course. I'll do my possible best as a human being. God on our side, you'll make it.
Congratulation your Reputation turn 60
Cheers!!!
Thank you very much.
I am very happy that I was the first one who noticed second to you and congratulated to you regarding your achievement of 60 rep (replying on last post). And again the outline of this post was first you reviled in response to a question I raised in a previous post(https://steemit.com/life/@promisingico/re-ketcom-my-visit-to-iyanoba-market-and-my-encounter-with-an-agbero-20181110t144625445z) So I am happy about those things and also I am very much grateful to you since my reputation was mainly due to your up votes given to me. Look forward to hearing more good news from you. Cheers....
You are very correct and you get full upvote too. I hope it inspires you to greater heights? Cheers for your support always I am indeed grateful.
Thanks very much again for your full upvote. I wish you get more and more when you help us more. You will get multiples of what you give. All the best for you!
Lol, I really wish so too. I pray the multiples start coming in very fast. Thanks for your good wishes for me.
This is a very good post for all beginners like myself to learn from. I will surely learn from this.
@ojukwu Thank for your kind words and I do wish your well on steemit.
I am older than you in terms of steemit birthday. But I consider you as my senior as you have proved that you can reach the target sooner than me. Congratulations bro for your success!!
Hi my elder good friend, thanks for your comment, but am not there yet, the target is 70, but some of my friends here wanted this so I had to do it at Rep 60.
Great info, thanks!
That's a lot for liking it.
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You did a great job for a short period of time on the incentive. You're doing fine.
Thanks a lot for your supportive words.
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Can I ask you one question ???
What is the difference between upvoting for 1% to 100%
And what is the lose you facing, when you give anyone upvote by 100%
Please do, you know I love your questions.
If your steem power is low say 100 SP you should be giving an upvote of 100% because it is just going to give the recipient $0.00 value. Now, if you have a high SP say 10,000 SP your 100% upvote will be worth say $0.32 while your 2% upvote is worth $0.01. So you will normally want to move your from 1% to 100% depending how supportive you feel about a post or comment. Whichever range you use, the receiver of your upvote gets something. Now their are people with huge steem power, their 100% can be worth more than $100 or more, their 1% upvote gives you $1. So, the bigger you get the more you shift you range of voting percentage.
Also, each 100% upvote take 2% of your voting power. If you have a lot of steem power, you spread it so that you touch as many people as you can.
This is amazing and an inspiration!
Just followed you and see how you progress through Steemit! :)
Thanks for following, I am still learning though, so i hope to be much better by the New Year.
wow, amazing
Thanks my friend, I hope to see you there soon.
Congrats
Thank you very much.
Is this post is the part of the fastest finger contest.
Nah nah, fastest finger is when I announce it. But I always upvote any comment people make on my post, that's the one you're seeing. Cheers.
I am 321 days old on steemit with 53 reputation. Participating in various contests but not growing much. Will start follow points which you have suggested. What you will advice to a person like me who do not have much skills in english and still want to grow here?.
Survival is hard here but pushing myself. In India steemit is illegal thats why we do not have much users here. To attract English auditions I have to write in English which is hard for me.
First I write in my native language which is Hindi and then help of google translator translate the content to English, like this comment.
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Wow! I didn't know Steemit is even banned in India because I see a lot of Indian members here. In any case, I think the method you use to communicate in English works very well. I've checked your blog and see that your post are not getting a lot of upvotes, for which using a DApp like @esteem mobile app gives you $0.20 I think based on the last time I used it. Since you're in the Himalayan area I think you are already pron to activities that will make you do very well on @actifit. I got an upvote from them valued at $0.57 yesterday and today I got $0.44 based on the fact that my activities were not so much. People with very high activities get more than a dollar, also your steem power is not so much based on steem price currently, so if you can lease steem power from @minnowbooster or @blocktrades, that way, you upvotes will have higher value and you'll also be earning curation rewards. Hope I was able to help.
Hello @ketcom I have a little question :to lease steem power how much we want to pay. say If I want to purchase 200 sp how much I want to pay for a week or month.Thanks in advance.
Keep your questions coming, There is a difference between buying SP and leasing SP. To buy 200 SP you just buy Steem from blocktrades or any other exchange then sending it to your Steem wallet on Steemit then you power up. With current price of Steem, buying 200 of it and them powering up may cost you about $100+ and it is permanently yours. To lease SP for a period of 1 week from Minnowbooster, with the prevailing ARP% of about 18% to be able to get your order collected it will cost you about 1.33 steem or O.664 SBD. The entries will be 1 week, How many SP per STEEM per week: 150, NETT APR** (Approx +-1): 18.2, Total Steem Required: 1.333
It's because our government has not created any terms or conditions to use crypto here. Yeah there are many Indian in this platform and more want to join but waiting to get it legalize.
Just trying my best to communicate the Himalayan experience with steemians. Right now I am posting from portiko app, haven't tried @actifit app but now I will give it a chance.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Namaste from Himalaya
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I see what you mean. Just keep trying your best and you'll get there someday.
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This is great. unbelievable speed. you can go higher.......
Thanks a lot my dear, I hope it inspires you to move fast too. I'll see you at the top.
Congratulation !! awesome
Thanks a lot my friend.
very fine.
Thanks my friend