HOW TO GROW EFFECTIVELY ON STEEMIT : TIPS FOR STEEMIT NEWBIES FOR A SUCCESSFUL STAY ON THE PLATFORM

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• Complete Your Achievement Post Tasks

The first thing you should strive to do once you join steemit is to strive to understand the entire ecosystem. You should therefore visit the Newcomer's Community and participate in the newcomer's achievement program. This enable you to learn how to write good articles, use the appropriate markdowns, avoid plagiarism, learn the proper use of steem tools, and so on. There is a team of dedicated greeters and greeter helpers who are willing to guide you every step of the way.

• Follow The Rules

One of the fundamentals of the steemit ecosystem is the ability of every steemian to successfully follow rules of blogging, steemit's content ettiquettes, as well as the rules of individual communities. If you understand these basis, then you are good to go. Be sure to make sure that all pictures are your own or from a copyright-free source. Also, in case material is used from an external source, please specify your sources. I have provided some suitable sites and how to cite the sources in this article.

• Start Projects

In order to stay active and consistent on the steemit blockchain, you must always strive to produce good and quality posts in a community of your choice. This is particularly helpful when you have a project that is serving some purpose either in your locality or within the steemit ecosystem. This is why it is always advisable to work in teams so that you could collectively ponder over ideas and have some activities to do on the daily basis. Currently, there are several of such projects that are being run. These include the @bettervision, @campusconnectgh, @bettervision, @ghanacare, @lumiersteemmedia and so on.

• Avoid Deception

Due to the diverse nature of steemit, we are an amalgamation of countries here. This opens up a space for people to create deceitful posts about the origin and so on. This is not something you should resort to if you want to grow efficiently on the blockchain. However, you must strive to only create genuine articles that are reflective of the subject or place you are talking about. Mind you, once you are tagged as a deceitful writer, that is it, it could stay with you for a long time.

• Use The Right Tags

In any article you write, be sure to include the right hash tags. This is because, that is the most important thing that a post is identified by. In case you are running a contest, use the appropriate #contest tag and that is demanded. If it is an art post, be sure to specify in your hashtags so that people can easily find them. Also, be sure to use your country tags such as #ghana, so that your country reps and promoters can easily find your posts.

• Be Thorough & Detailed In Your Writings

In order to make a great post, don't be lazy in your writing. You must make sure to be very detailed and provide every bit of information that needs to be conveyed. By so doing, there is always clarity and no room for any sort of confusion. This brings readers to your post regularly as they are able to learn something each time they visit your blog. This also increases your followers as well.

• Visit Other User's Posts Regularly

If you want to gain popularity and attention on steemit, always make sure to checkup of other steemians regularly. Read their posts, vote on them and leave a good comment that can spark a conversation. This is how you build healthy and genuine relationships on steemit. Otherwise, you would just be focusing on your own blog without having any genuine friendship on the platform. Remember, before anything else, this is a social media platform and we must treat it as such.

I would be happy to hear your thoughts and contribution on the various items discussed above. Thank you for your attention.