I'm not earning!

A common problem of any person who just got into steemit. Yes, I myself struggled a lot and still struggling. I have joined several steemit groups from other social media and I have noticed that there are a lot of people asking for upvotes. Not that I dont get upvotes from my very supportive friends but why does a lot of steamians do this and ditch out from steemit? I was thinking that the possible reasons could be.

• Lack of Interaction in steemit
• Lack of Engagement in Interactive posts like contests
• Thinking too much about the income
• Lack of Engagement with people outside steemit
• Lack of Quality content

I don't assume these are all correct but these things were the ones I faced before and currently facing still.
Please do comment some reasons if you have any. thank you!

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Lack of Interaction in Steemit

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Mainly Steemit is designed as a social media for everyone to use and could earn at the same time. The thing about social media is you have to be sociable or needs to interact. Without interaction then you as an individual will not be noticed. You can't expect everything to be instant. It is a process and begging for upvotes as well as followers wont help.

What did i do?

Commenting on other posts and replying those who comment to my posts. Then and there you could gain trust from other stemians. How hard could it be anyway?

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Lack of Engagement on Interactive posts like contests

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I am a multi-media arts student and yes I deal with photos and filming. Knowing that photography is quite a challenge here in steemit I still never stop posting photos. I have noticed that there are people helping photographers like @photofeed but still it requires a good post. Aside from that, you can join contests like I did.

I didn't win. Nor gained SBD for posting it but I gained viewers. Not much but still a gain is a gain. Theres no harm in trying though 😁
Perseverance is the key.

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Thinking too much about the Income

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Money, Dollars, Pesos, Crypto, name it all. I am fascinated by the thought of posting articles and getting something in return. But how are we able to gather that certain Income through our articles? I have friends who helped me a lot when it comes to my post being upvoted. However, these posts are not just posts. I travelled far places just to have articles.

I didn't have much income on that post but still a gain is a gain. I couldn't ask for more. I don't wanna go to anyone's inbox asking for upvotes and follow me. It would be better if I will be rewarded by the hard work I did.

This post was made by @deveerei. Click here to read about the whole article. It is indeed a good post 👍

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Lack of Engagement with people outside Steemit

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What do I mean by this? Meet up with people. Steemit is so vast and you could meet people that is near your place. You could work together on how to be an effective Blogger.

One of the best example is @kennik and @artguildph with @deveerei. @kennik was planning to do a charity work through art workshops with the kids. Indeed a noble work. @steemph saw the good intentions of the charity @kennik was planning so the team decided to help him gather funds for the charity through Steemit! Then on many people pledged their help for @kennik just like @jacinta.sevilla, @dandalion with @steemph.davao and many more!

Look how much they gathered! These people don't know each other in the first place but they engaged into something they could work together then I believe that they are effecrive Steemian 👌
You could connect to them if you have a very kind heart and help them gather more funds for charity.

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Lack of Quality content

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When can we say that our article is a quality content? Here is one good example of Quality content.

_{An article by @legendarryll}

It got tremendous upvotes from the whales of steemit. One of those whales is @curie.
And by way 😂 I have never been upvoted by @curie. If you are wondering about @curie then i'll have you know that @curie helps those who just started posting on steemit with Quality content. It only means that if you are doing great posts then income will follow. Quality content never come easy. It has to be original and unique.

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Those are my thoughts about a struggling Steemian. Once again I would like to invite everyone to comment down the common things that you think are factors why we are not effective bloggers. I'd be happy to talk to you guys 😊

By the way. Follow these people and groups. They are great people who never stop supporting those who work hard

@kennik
@deveerei
@jacinta.sevilla
@dandalion
@qyugmo
@steemph
@steemph.davao
@artguildph
@bestproject

-cj