@wanderlass. It was really hard for me at the beginning. Just like you. I started in August 2017. I posted long and interesting blogs and got no votes. I kept doing it. Then little by little, the followers came. At first it was one a week then one a day, and now it averages five new followers a day. Now I have 500 followers and often get 20+ comments.
So far I have posted more than 1000 blogs and comments. None of my blogs or comments were lazy short pieces hoping to attract attention. I focussed only on high quality original content on the topics which interest me most. To start with I got hardly any views or votes and even less comments.
How a fried egg sandwich changed my steemit life
One day when I was in a particularly adventurous mood I decided to a long blog in the food section on how to make a fried egg sandwhich. (All my blogs are long). It was a stupid topic which deserved less views than what I had done before.
This time I livened it up with lots of photos, mixing humour with stupidity. Guess what. It attracted 65 views and 25 comments and earned over $5.
That’s much more than a typical blog about food. It earned me some followers - FOR A FRIED EGG SANDWICH!!!!
The point is, you have to keep blogging content and eventually something will work for you.
If you keep at it, they will come, slowly but surely.
By posting only photos, it seems like you have given up. That won’t bring any followers.
You have to persist with quality and depth. Quantity will get you nowhere. It’s quality not quantity which makes the minnows into dolphins.
Don’t worry about the rewards. They may be only a few cents. Just put the rewards into steempower. It won’t take long for steem to rise 10X. Probably just a few months in my opinion. Then the rewards you saved won’t look so meagre, and the larger number of followers will make new rewards much bigger than today. Your time on steemit may seem like work for nothing, but as an early bird you are getting in at a time where you have a chance to be big before the crowds arrive.
@swissclive thank you for sharing about your own experience. That's really encouraging because for other newbies it seems so easy for them and makes me think what I could be doing wrong. While some seem to be natural superstars, they're like celebrities and i'm not like that. To read about how you started gives me that reality part of Steemit. I think if the whales and dolphins share about the hardwork on how they started maybe that will also inspire us newbies. Or maybe there's already existing content about that and I just have to search.
I was feeling a bit discouraged but I haven't really given up by posting just photos (I'm also enjoying Steepshot at the moment). I have read a blog here and the advice for us newbies is to focus on commenting more as posting would most likely just get ignored . But I agree with you, I plan to add quality content in here and I'm just thinking of the right time when to do more blogs.
I have read about your fried egg sandwich. It really looks delicious and the article is so funny. I like that part you mistakenly got a salted duck egg haha. But they look similar to normal eggs so I can't blame you ;) You also gave me an idea to watch the crypto charts while cooking :)
Sorry I'm replying to an old post, but I saw this thread linked in another welcoming newbies thread and happened upon this comment. I see that you're telling someone that steem will rise 10x in not that long of a time, do you expect steem to endure the market volatility that the collapse of Tether will bring? Not trying to be a bother, you are well-respected by many for good reason, just wanting to get your thoughts on the matter, and am hoping you are well-informed of why current valuations are as they are. Thank you for your time, hope you're feeling better soon.