RE: 🎉Two More And I Will Hit 🍻1500 Followers! That Calls For A Giveaway!🎉
I'll see your "this is just how it is around here" and raise you a "LOL", because that's always my response to that silly idiom. Nah, it's however I want it to be around here, because "here" is my page, my posts, and my finances.
Normally when giving financial advice on the internet (like this), we say things like "I am not your financial advisor" as a disclaimer. Because we can't possibly know how best to invest or manage another person's money (or time, or posts, or comments), unless we really know them inside and out. Their financial adventures and misadventures, their current situation, their goals, and so on. You know 4 things about me (months on Steemit, number of followers, number of steem, and reputation), which isn't even 10% of my "current situation". You don't know the intricacies you would need to know to offer useful advice.
You've offered advice you would like to send back in time to YOURSELF when you signed up. It's no good to me, and likely no good to anyone else either.
But good luck to you, too!
Well, Ive built multi-thousand member communities here, two 24/7 streaming news and entertainment stations that service the community, a worldwide charity known throughout the entire chain for serving a couple thousand people in a dozen countries with fundamental human needs and been a witness running your blockchain for nearly a year. I've onboarded members all around the world in person in 6 countries on three continents while travelling, and answered questions from literally thousands of members, hundreds a day over the past ten months.
You can waste your time here, that's your prerogative, but that is exactly what your stated position leaves you doing.
I actually AM one of the people considered an expert on this chain, how it works and what is to be done here, and I've built and directed multi-million dollar social networks for a career living at times during my 35 year tech career. So you go ahead, and do whatever, but your blog will languish as it is already, so why even bother at all?
I know four things about you that are awfully distant from your original post.
"I'd like to enter your contest for the SBD, and the reason I would like that over the others (even though the round is awesome) is because I'm trying to power up and grow as much as I can right now, and meet my goal of being able to withdraw a small income in 52 weeks. :D
Every bit counts, especially early on, to help with the compound growth I'll need to make it happen."
I've told you how to do it in like a month or two, but go ahead, don't take the advice. I can assure you with some historic certainty though, that if you don't take it, you will not achieve your goal. Been here and done this WAY too long, being the coach for way too many thousands (this is not hyperbole, i was former leadership in PAL from 20 members to over 5000 we handled personally daily as they arrived confused and new, and got them successful, they are all around you right now. and now that community has over 11K people in it) of new users to tell you anything but that stark reality.
So you can listen to wisdom of an "elder" or ignore it, that generally works out well for those that take the second option...
Heheh, well I won't embarrass you with a list of MY accomplishments.
And you clearly missed my point, which is that your opinion is useless to me because my goals are different from yours.
If you goal is to fail your stated 52 week intention, you are on the right track, keep doing what you are doing. If you'd like to succeed and sooner to boot, the person with experience here has provided the instructions.
Your accomplishments outside here do not apply here, unless they too were building very very very similar software and even then most ordinary rules don't apply here, and only someone with the right expertise would know which ones.
You've been offered guidance and advice that WILL achieve your STATED goal. As said, go ahead and ignore it. You will find in six months by doing so, though, you are barely even incrementally further toward your goal.
It's fact. Known from an incredible load of first hand experience. Experience you are arguing with. Good thing I'm not a driving instructor, I'd leap as far from your vehicle as I could, if you ignored the guidance on how to do that from a professional instructor too.