Treat your Steemit like a business?
There is a poker book written by Dusty Schmidt aka Leatherass.
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I read that book multiple times. He was/is a famous but very unpopular player. He did not really care. He was sitting on his leatherass grinding and he made a ton of money in a game where most people loose their money.
The book is about how to organize your life around poker. Your mindset how to approach the game.
The mindset of a businessman
I like to compare Steemit and Poker. For the reason poker is one of the things I know best.
I played my best when I was organized and with a clear routine.
When I was playing
How long
How many tables
Stoplosses
etc
For almost everything I had a plan.
Steemit I approached different. I had no idea about social media. I read a bit about creating email lists but that was not really my cup of tea.
I bought steem as an investment and I was not really sure if and how I am gonna be active here.
Now I am writing more or less daily here.
I am thinking about ways to become and stay a relevant part of this community.
But often I feel I fail. I am often clicking randomly around. Starting a comment and just delete it after. I feel like I am not going out enough anymore --> reading and commenting on other peoples posts.
My votingpower gets so low that I need to take breaks from upvoting other people`s posts on a regular basis.
I am writing about any topic which comes to my mind and I can form a sentence about.
I don`t want to loose the fun in all this as I want to enjoy my job most of the time.
But I don`t mind to have some seriousness in all of this. It is about my livelihood afterall and that deserves to be taken serious ( at least a bit )
What I want to change ?
Before I can answer that really I need to know where I want to end!
Or better asked how does success look like for me? I enjoy the engagement I receive and I try to keep up with answering every comment ( except spam, fuck that shit ) but I can`t go to my landlord and pay him with me bragging about how many comments I get.
How much do I need? As I wrote in a previous post to jump in here full time I want to earn a risk insurance I can put to the side if shit would hit the fan.
Some of them have a lot more steempower delegated or in their own account.
Others write way better content then me
Then there are those with a huge and real following
and some are engaged in projects
So where do I find my niche?
Just writing about one topic? Getting more involved "behind the scenes" (discord, steemchat)
I don`t really know yet. But my business plan will look something like this
set aside a time were I just comment and upvote other people
set aside a time in which I will just produce new material
control my voting power a bit better
don`t lose the fun in all this
or short just be a bit more organized again
Maybe there is no method to that madness at all
As in Poker sometimes you just need a little bit of luck
"I`m a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more luck I have"
I think as soon as someone does something like steemit for a living it starts loosing the fun for him because it gets a job...
Just my two cents 😉
you can still like your job but there is no denying that you will and have to treat it different than a hobby
Yeah, thats completely true.
I really like my job for instance, but still there are days when I don't want to go to work 😉
But if you depend on a steady income from steemit and you just get it if you post several articles per day/week what ever, it can loose its fun factor.
When it comes down to fixed date ranges for upvoting/commenting, this could actually lead to economical disadvantages. I guess right now you vote when you see a great post or you wait a few minutes before you vote it if it is really fresh and you want more curation rewards.
If you limit yourself to certain times, you therefore will either miss out on curation rewards or you will upvote worse content just because you still will focus on curation rewards.
I guess both things are neither good for you or the network (which incase also is bad for you longterm).
So while I agree that f.e. creating content can be organized better - I wouldn't say it's easy to use the same approach with voting!
Greets,
Martin
that is a very valid point I have not really thought about
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Interesting post, like usual. Your plan is a lot like my plan. But obviously I came here with a quite a tight niche. Good to check in with you Mr Star! I'm now in Arequipa Peru, leaving to Arica Chile tomorrow. Hope you are well my friend! -Dan
Hi @flipstar :-) Nach meiner Lebensmittel Vergiftung vor 2 Tagen bin ich jetzt wieder da. Habe Käse gegessen und das hat mich 2 Tage jetzt richtig fertig gemacht. Deine Post hat wahre Worte. Je mehr man daran arbeitet desto mehr Erfolg / Glück hat man. Es kommt nicht einfach von heute auf morgen.
Many interesting points here to ponder (and implement), some which I have found myself revisiting often. Thanks @flipstar.
I`m a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more luck I have Awesome quote. iam hard worker now i, waiting for luck.
Yeah it doesn't hurt to be a little more organized but it's also important not to lose the fun in all of this. A couple of friends who became small-time professional athletes say the fun has gone completely out of the game when they turned pro.
Edit: Thanks for the book recommendation. Going to check it out.
I totally agree with you. I was actually just thinking about this few minutes ago before seeing this. Steemit is truly a business place, a market place that doesnt have any opening or closing time. Lol. Millions of people post 24/7 throughtout the whole day.
Even though you get an upvote or not, its still a business. Because even in the normal evidence business we know, you lose some, you win some. This is an amazing article @flipstar
this is what I call "Perfect planning". really it is so helpful. yeah you are right one can attain success by planning it perfectly . nice article and worth reading . thanx for sharing the key points @flipstar