This is more than just another guide! You should read it!

If you haven’t read my first guide and you're new to Steem, then I recommend you go take a look at it before continuing this one. (The ultimate guide to Steemit). I won’t re-list what I’ve list there. You might also want to take a look at the prequel here.

credit to steemit inc for the picture

Both of my guide have been well received and they have receive a lot of positive comments from new users and also experimented users and are still getting upvoted.

I’ve spend many hundreds of hours learning about Bitcoin and now Steemit, more than a 1000 hours, actually for both combine. I’m not exaggerating and I’ve invested more than 100 hours learning about Steemit and that’s on the very low end of the estimate.

2 days ago, my best paid Steemit post was ranked 43th of the best paid post of the very young history of Steemit.

This follow up on the ultimate guide can help everyone, to better understand Steemit, but also to better market it.

Steemwatch

Everyone would gain a lot by using Steemwatch. This is the best tool I know, to be up to date on what is happening on Steemit. I might be wrong and I’ll be happy to read it in the comment.

It take some time to really set it right but this is well worth it. Its helping me get some good curation rewards, most of them would have been impossible for me to get otherwise.

How to use it

Go to Steemwatch.com, log in with Facebook, and then begin adding your favorite writers to the list of people you want to be notified when they post.

Steemwhales

Steemwhales.com is very useful for all sort of things! Use steemwhales.com to help you decide who you should add to get notified when they post. Rank people by post reward to see who the best paid writers are.

Add notification, to see who the top Steem Power holders are voting for. This help knowing what is happening on Steemit, what are the important post, what the legends are upvoting.

Add your name to be notify, whenever your name is mentioned, so that you know what is being said about you and decide whether or not to intervene.

Steem autovote bot

ANNOUNCE: - STEEMBOTS.COM Your Source For Everything Bot Related! - NOW HIRING

Big news: @wang's robot is fall in love, she is voting on every posts of @xiaohui

Autovote bot

Get one if you have the time to learn how to set up one, but don’t get all worked up if you don’t have one. I don’t have one and the persons who have been getting the biggest curation rewards don’t either and even those who use one I’d be surprise if they get most of their curation rewards from their bots.

Steemit.com is now Open Source

Steemit.com is now open source. This is big news! This is huge news! I couldn't pass that one up!

More awesome posts!

These aren't just post that you might want to read, if you are serious about Steemit and haven't read them, you should read them.

• Steem Version 0.12.0 Released (Must read)
• How Agile is your Chain? Top Digital Currencies Transaction Per Second Comparison (Most people don't realized how much faster and scalable the Steemchain is. Everyone interested in Steem and cryptocurrencies in general should know about it.)

Steem Chat

[steemit.chat] – FOSS Alternative to SLACK deployed with RocketChat (Replacing the old to be defunct slack chat)

Some Steem Stats

• It's official, females dominates males on steemit !!!
• Steemit climbed 3259 positions in just one day on alexa.com (now at 24,763 Global rank and 11,901 in the USA)
• When to Publish Your Post on Steemit? Based on a Survey

Liquid Steem

• 98% of Steem currently held in Steem Power!! Securing the longevity of Steem!
• The TRUTH about how much Steem actually exists. The REAL reason Steem cost $4+

Steem Tools

• cyber•Fund all-in on Steem
• SteemLeak::Steemleak.com launched
• Steemdollar.com calculating the worth of a single Upvote - What is your Upvote worth?
• Celebrating 40.000 Steemit Users with SteemStory.com What's Your Story? (Don't miss that one.)
• Steemit Notifications - Browser Extension - Download now! (It might be a good alternative to steemwatch.com, I didn't tried it yet.)
• SteemTools.com Indexing All Tools & Services For Steemit Users (the name says it all, all tools)

Interest Calculator

• Steem Power Interest Calculator!!
• Steem Dollar (SBD) Interest Calculator!
• More on The Steem Power Interest Rate

Useful Steemit links list

• A Collection of Steem Services and Tools
• 38+ Links for SteemIt Beginner

Some interesting uses of Steemit

• Get Free Physical Steemit Stickers
• Free T-Shirts For The Steemit Community
• Hi, I'm Baby Ri, I'm 3 months old and I use Steemit to save my Memories
• GitHub + Steemit. How awesome would be both together?
• I'm homeless but not forgotten (Most touching Steemit story I've seen, real story, we need to give huge credit to @creationlayer on this one, we really need to support him, what he is doing his huge, this story is huge! They both need our support!)

The funniest Steemians

• Hitler Finds Out About Steem
• How I became the Shitcoin-Singer
• THE FIRST STEEMIT MALE MAKEUP TUTORIAL
• STEEMIT'S SECOND MAKEUP TUTORIAL

Bonus links

• Listen to this 24/7 LIVE Talk show about Steemit and cryptocurrencies with @fyrstikken /stakepool.com (Join in yourself 24/7)
• Response to Coindesk Article “Steem Provokes Doubt of Market Observers” (Dan Larimer's latest article, very interesting read)
• Write a STEEMIT-Plugin for WordPress Get Rich Work Fast Huge Demand!
• To those who listened when I said: "Buy some Steem!"

Thank you to everyone who have some of their links appear in this post and everyone who are making Steemit possible!

@void @heimindanger @williambanks @wang @xiaohui @laonie @complexring @steemitblog @steempower @dan @cass @liondani @nkdk @steemingnow @hisnameisolllie @hipster @steemleak @mauricemikkers @roelandp @deeprocks @lukestokes @bob-the-poster @msutyler @dunja @cryptojoy.com @kristina @icaro @brookdemar @creationlayer @fyrstikken @roelandp @silentpower @tuck-fheman @cob

Let me know if I forgot someone!

Together let's make Steemit better!