Week One on Steemit: Achievements and Thoughts
It's been a great week here on Steemit and beyond. This blog will cover some of the achievements as well as some thoughts.
When I signed up to Steemit I did not know how long it would take before my account would be activated. I had read people saying it took weeks to get the actual account going. For me, it took me 3 days.
Then I waited a few days to introduce myself and uploaded my first blog to Steemit:
Greetings Steemit. I’m Soular ECryptz!
From there I waited a few days before I would begin to unleash my music and art, which was/is the main reason why I came to Steemit. I was thinking that if I posted on Monday by a certain time it would be better than posting during a weekend holiday. So, I began to post a song a day beginning on Monday.
Soular ECryptz songs so far...
(Click on image to open main page on Steemit/DSound)
During the week I posted a couple non-music/art blog posts:
How To Mine Bitcoin Using Just About Any Computer And Withdraw At Only 0.00020000 BTC
This is what propaganda looks like
Steemit Achievements and Thoughts
Being that this whole project is brand new I figured it would be a slow start. So, going in with no expectations helped because I haven't had that great of a start, but things are picking up. It's very difficult to get people's attention these days, and even though I've been posting on my website, Twitter, Minds, and all the various other places it's still be very hard.
I've bought upvotes, bought promotions, and etc. None of it really worth it.
However, I HAVE gained 60 followers, and a few people have listened to my songs so that's great. Still, posting on Twitter has been more benefitting. When I posted about the "Max Keiser and the Bitcoin Resistance" song Keiser retweeted me and had hundreds of listeners on my Soundcloud, because Soundcloud has embedded features for instant listening. People are too lazy to click a link to my DSound page to listen. So, Soundcloud and Twitter is still a more effective means of building an audience. I didn't want it to be because I wanted to solely be on decentralized projects like Steemit, DSound, and etc. There's still a lot of work that needs to be done for the new blockchain tech to become mainstream.
I'm still learning my way around Steemit. I wish DSound had an embedded player so people could just click listen and play right there. I also wish I could add images and the same layout in DSound as you can in Steemit. I've had to update my Steemit post in order to get it to be somewhat of how I want it to look. Still trying to figure that out.
I've managed to build up to 39 reputation in a week. I think it's because I go looking around at other people's blogs and comment. I can see why it's difficult to leave your own blog, but I think it's important to go beyond and seek out others.
I've managed to get 60 followers, and I've followed everyone back. I've followed a few others, too. One thing that irks me is that someone will follow me, and then I'll follow back, then a few will unfollow. What the hell is that all about? I don't have time to go and look for who's unfollowed me.
I've posted my fith song today. From here on the songs will be posted as they come. I had these five from before I joined Steemit, which is why they were released on a daily basis. From now on, when I can create a song/art it'll be posted as they come.
Anyway, it's been a great week. I'll be posting more over the weekend. I just wanted to recap for this week and let others know of my experience so far.
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Thank you all!
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I noticed too that some people are following me and if i dont follow back, they unfollow a few days later. Its the typical behaviour on social media but they dont seem to understand that the number of followers doesnt make their money.
I think its best to build an audience that has a real interest in your content. It may be slower but more benefit in the long run. And if everybody would do the follow unfollow thing, it would be a real mess for everybody here.
Thank you for your insight how you promote your music. Thats a very creative way and i never thought like that! Very cool :)
I follow people back right away and they still unfollow me. I think it's a trick to make it look like they're gaining followers and not following everyone, or something. It doesn't matter, like you said it's better to slowly gain a true audience who cares about your work/effort. It'll come.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Great one.
I am so glad that you have come to Steemit. It is hard to get seen in the beginning. It gets discouraging but we have all been there. It does get better with time, I promise. As for the followers, I don't know why people do that. They do it to me as well but I wouldn't worry about it. Building your own empire is the best way to go, in the end the amount of followers doesn't matter as long as you have some good ones.
I think that you would do amazing in the contest that @greetersguild has just started. It is for new users to gain the attention that they deserve. The attention that we know is hard to get in the beginning. You have the chance to meet new people and you also get to post a new link to one of your post every single day that the contest is open. Communication is the key to success here on Steemit and I am glad that you have picked up on that. This contest has over 60 @steembasicincome membership prizes. If you win a membership, you get Upvotes for life. You have the chance here to win several. The more memberships you have, the higher the Upvotes from them are.
The leader of the group @terminallyill is also into music and likes to share his work. I think it would be a great place for you to get into so you can continue to grow. You can click here to check out the contest & just let them know that @magicalmoonlight sent you 😊 I really hope to see you there and if you enter, I hope you can gain some more attention to your post and music. If you ever have any questions about Steemit, please dont hesitate to ask me at any time.
Thank you @magicalmoonlight. It's very encouraging to hear from you.
Yea! I joined the @steembasicincome so I'm looking forward to that.
Also, all that you mentioned is encouraging, and I'm certainly going to keep at it. I'll look into the other things you've mentioned, too. Thank you once again. Take care.
That is awesome 😊 the more shares you have, the higher the Upvote is so I think you could really benefit from the contest! I really hope you get so much success here on Steemit.
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