I've been on Steemit since sometime around mid June. I'm a Youtube and a couple people who subscribe to my channel and watch my videos had been mentioning Steemit to me in the comments but without much context as to what it was, just here's another way to monetize your videos and your content.

At first I kind of made a mental note to go check it out but never actually got around to doing it. Fortunately @vogeltron1 and a couple other Youtubers were persistant and kept telling me to check it out and asking if I had. Finally I got around to signing up.

It took me a day or so to get approved but got approved and fell in love with the site and the community right away.

I feel I was very fortunate I got off to a good start. I think I got in just before the huge rush of people came on so was probably a bit less competitive and also had a couple established Steemians like @brianphobos and a few others kind of take me under their wing and explain how things work to me as well as showing me some love on posts which was huge in keeping me motivated and active on here.

As far as the growth of my account, like I said @brianphobos helped me out getting some of my content some eyes on it early on, also some of my Youtube friends were already over here while others followed me over here and helped support me as well.

While I know it's kind of a smart strategy to chase whales and try to befriend them and get them to notice you and your content, it's just not something I've put much effort into. I know wanna run around kissing butt hoping someone will like my stuff, I just want to naturally connect with people with similar interests because at teh end of the day I want to be authentic and I want to enjoy my experience on here. One gentlement I did have the pleasure of connecting with who has helped me and my content is @stackin. I had heard a couple guys talking about this new guy on Steemit who'd been on less than 30 days but was rising through the ranks and putting out a ton of killer content. I decided to check him out and sure enough we had a lot in common and were both into entrepreneurship, self improvement, taking action, having a positive attitude, and listened to a lot of the same speakers and such so kind of made a connection there and he's also been a super valuable member of the community and helped me along as well.

Early on I also created a post tag called SteemitRebels and encouraged my Youtube audience to use the tag on their posts and to support others using the tag.

One of my earliest successful posts made $75 and was nothing more than me asking a question about the relation between Steem, Steem Power and Steem Dollars. It kind of made me realize you never know what's going to be well received or what's going to be successful. Sometimes posts we expect people to love, not so much, and othertimes something we may just kind of slap up there winds up doing really well.

I think the number one thing about Steemit is to be active and consistant and to immerse yourself in the community. I'm going to be going on 2 months on here soon and loving it thus far.