Help Me I'm A New Minnow...Help Guide!

Recently I made a comment in a response to a blog that I saw titled "Why am I such a failure in steemit?" So I have edited my response and also added a few links where I am soldiering in the background reaching out to other potential steemians and although I am still a minnow in the steemian universe I hope that my experience so far will make it easier for any one that may be struggling to get ahead or just simply feels a bit lost.

The above video I recently uploaded to youtube which I will later transfer to dtube. Please feel free to share the content to other people that may find this useful and if there are any social media marketers that would like to team up with me discuss some ideas or if you think I may add value to any of your existing campaigns that are promoting the steemit platform you can get in touch via my steemit profile.

I am not experienced when it comes to blogging but smart enough to understand that it does not matter how good your content is if you don't have followers then your going to burn yourself out hoping that you just might pull of the right article with the right tags which to be honest is just to hit and miss.

My first passion above anything else is I am a free stylist alto saxophonist who enjoys turning up to the club and playing alongside the DJ entertaining playing my heart out giving my best and lifting up the atmosphere of the night. It is the positive feedback the positive interactions and thank you's the vibe that I get back of the crowd where the reward lies. So how does this relate to a new person in steemit...Most people would agree that in general to gain you need to give. I have never met a leader of anything that skipped this process, have you?

My first three weeks here were pretty challenging and I am far from where I would like to be right now and admittedly took just over a week out to recharge and rethink. I would advice starting from day one make sure you actually sort your picture out on your profile sort your wall post out don't skip the basic setup. Been honest I won't follow a picture of your pet cat or your dog. I like to see a face or something that does reflect what your interests are.

This quick guide video to setting up your profile will help.

I am not attracted to people who promote upvote me and I will upvote you and neither should you be. It is not attractive its not real it's freakin fake. I don't turn up to a club and wait for an audience to start clapping before I play. I give and give my heart out so if I was to start right from day one again I would say do not even do an introduction for a week. Sit down and list the things you honestly like the things you feel you have a genuine interest in and go and have a tour around and search for those people that have the same interests.

Drop the ego you are not in a competition with anyone, you might be inspired by others but you are totally unique there is no other you. Here you don't need to be focused on trying to approve yourself to other people. That will cause you a lot of frustration just be who you are and interact with other people that have similar passions to you.

Give out genuine constructive comments don't try to live on an island figuring this out for yourself. I know I spent my first 3 weeks asking more experienced people for advice but its like anything. There is always going to be someone in your niche or niches that have more experience than you. How much headache can you save yourself by actually asking. The very fact that you are asking is a compliment to the person you are asking and you will find that genuine successful people love talking about how they got to that success so do be the perfect student and go and ask.

I don't want to stay on the minnow level I want to be a whale so I make an effort to swim with the whales but I also choose to give my 0.01 upvote to those that come in after me again in the niches that I have an interest in and I do it because when you lift other people up and encourage them karma eventually does reward you back. Compliment people but keep it real and related to the blog that they have created and keep those relations going ask questions about what they have wrote to encourage a conversation. I try now to just resteem the blogs that are also linked to my passions because I don't want my profile to an endless list of everything. It only turns away the audience that I really want to follow me and they are the people I want to like me for who I am. I don't want the genuine value I have to be washed away by any random posts so think about how and what you are resteeming think about the content that you want people to see on your feed.

Try to get organised or find someone who is, which in all honesty is something I am still working on. It is so easy to get addicted to steemit and lose hours and I have done that myself and again it burns you out. So now my approach is get my 10 upvotes done at a regular time every time I do it and it is very important to understand that as a minnow we get 10 valid upvotes in a 24 hour and been quite blunt anything more than that is a waste but if you are watching the bandwidth you can get away with giving out quite a few comments daily.

A useful tool https://www.steemworld.org/@yourusename

I can't really advice on how many people to follow I know personally I have slowed that down and have stopped following anyone that does not relate to the topics I am interested in and I don't ever make comments on posts I have no knowledge of whatsoever. Your not here to be a master of everything. Lead with what you are most passionate about and then maybe later look into another interest. For me it would firstly be music then education about marketing, so what I have learnt so far I put into videos a few posts and where I have seen others walking into a wall, I have shared the lessons I have learnt in the hope that it helps them which it has quite a few times in my fairly new stages so when you learn something new write about it because there are plenty of new people here that may benefit from it. Then it looks like food for me and a few other things but only you know what you love so take your time in really having a good look around before rushing into putting posts out go and mingle

If you are new to blogging like I am and you get stuck on what to write about it helps looking at past pictures that you may already have, write a story around the pictures but again my biggest tip I feel i can share is spend more time to start with making new friends giving great comments uplift other people and be realistic. It is very rare that you are going to make $$$$$s with a small audience and although this might sound backwards if you are focused only on making money here it is going to be a long journey. Get excited about meeting new people who can't judge you because here you have the opportunity to write a fresh page.

If anyone here would like to get the link for my earlier educational that I created to help introduce new people then feel welcome to check that out here. You will also find some useful links of other people that have helped with my educational process to that I found very easy to resonate with.

https://steemit.com/education/@clivemartin/6zwuxf-how-to-get-started-in-steemit

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One Last quick big shout out for 4 more awesome steem powered add ons!

If you want an alternative to YouTube without the censorship and all the sponsored advertising go and check out @dtube
If you are someone that uploads music or podcasts to SoundCloud then your going to love @dsound
Or maybe you like the idea of live broadcasting why not bring your radio show to @dlive
If you like Instagram then check out the "MEME" posts at @dmania

All these can be accessed simply by using the same password that you use for your steemit profile and offer you rewards when the followers you attract upvote your content. So yes I hope this helps and look out for a few more tips and ideas in the future......

Nice post Clive, says the steemian with a cat photo profile pic! I do understand what you are saying and its good advice. As a minnow that has only been here a short while, I cannot agree with you more when you say, posting on steemit is much like getting attention for performing. This realization was a turning point for me. I stopped trying to figure out all the strategic angles and I started to relax a bit. Now I am getting to know people. I spend some time hanging out in discord and I have discovered steemit poker. The group over there at lucksacks are just about the most laid back poker players I have ever met. I am making friends. I feel motivated and inspired. If someday it becomes something bigger and I elvolve from a minnow status then I will be very pleased.