1 Month Anniversary on STEEMit - what have I accomplished?
On June 15, I registered with STEEMit and on the 16th I was an Active member. Now, it has been 1 month since I started adding to the community.
Woo hoo!!
Let's see what I have accomplished.
I use the Steemit Board of Honor as a way to keep track of my activity as a Bone Fish/ Red Fish minnow. In a way, it was a guide on how I should interact on STEEMit. There are awards for being a 4 Articles a Day, 1 Article Each Day of Week and 1 Article Each Day of the Month. The Board has rewarded me 18 times for 4 Articles a Day and 4 times for 1 Article Each Day of Week. I haven't been on STEEMit for a full month, since I started mid-month in June. I have completed all the base awards, the First Payout being the longest wait to get. I think when I reach 1000 Posts and 1000 Rewards, I will make an image for my signature.
For the real stats, I head over to SteemDB and get my 30 Day History. As you can see, I have been doing a steady increase of Followers and Posts. One of those post gaps was due to the 48 Hour Film Project, which had me away from posting anything for a good amount of the time.
Followers is a steady growth. I have found that you can get a steady trickle of new followers if you continue to make good comments and posts, instead of just trying to follow everybody and asking everyone to follow you. I prefer to get my followers by earning their eyeballs. Of course, some people who give the best votes and comments aren't followers, which is fine by me as well.
Speaking of voting. I probably should do more myself, but I have decided to try to limit my voting, so that when I do give a vote, I can provide the most reward to the Author. I know some people say to vote down to your 80% level and then let it get back to 100%. Maybe when I have more STEEM Power, I will do that.
Speaking of STEEM Power. I have put almost every SBD and STEEM I've earned into boosting my STEEM Power. I got lucky around HF19 and got a big upvote, which helped grow my STEEM Power a lot. I have another big upvote coming in today, so that should push it up further. I'm surely not the most powerful minnow around, but I guess I'm not suffering in the murky shallows.
The last time I checked using Steem Whales, I was at #10020. Which, for around 25k Active users and 130,560 Steemians Tracked, isn't bad for 1 month.
My #765 ranking for Post counts is more impressive.
Where do I go from here?
I will continue to try to post 4 articles per day. When I post my articles, I will do more to provide original content to any videos, news or photos that I post that aren't originally mine. I think it is important that authors should provide commentary on why they are posting what they are posting. And of course, I will continue to post my own original videos and photos and general articles.
I will continue to leave comments on other articles I enjoy and reply to those who make comments on my articles. I think building a conversation on the article is important for building the community.
I will continue to put almost all of my earned SBD and STEEM into my STEEM Power. But, as my recent article SBD to STEEM a Market vs Conversion Discussion pointed out, I will switch back to the Conversion method and just wait it out. This is probably what everyone should do, for the long-term benefit of STEEM.
And, I will continue to share my Articles on Twitter and Facebook, in order to bring more users over to STEEMit.
How about you?
Has it only been one month? Seems years since you joined Steem! :-) Only joking of course. Congratulations on one month Steeming.
At the rate I jibber jabber on here, it could be a decade.
Are you working on the million monkeys sitting at typewriters principle? Given enough time you will eventually get something worth while! :-D
Only joking again. Keep up the good work.
I only have two monkies and they are pretty particular at how long they'll type.
I was going to try the Homer Simpson School of Marketing, but I wasn't sure of the results.
I shouldn't. It may prompt a visit from the local law enforcement. Or worse, you may get flagged! :-)
Congratulations! Just for one month here on Steemit you have accomplished a lot but we spoke about this few times already. I think you can be an example for the news ones as with passion dedication and good quality content everything is possible.
I am curious to see your stats after one more month. Keep up the good work and Steem on!
Thank you for the very nice comment.
I am going to try to do a "Where am I in STEEMit?" post on a regular basis. I don't know whether I will do it weekly or monthly.
You are welcome my dear friend!
Well it all depends how active you are here so in your case if you have time you can do it weekly!
Steem on my dear friend as you are doing a great job!
Nice article! This is my fourth week. I'm plugging right along. I still haven't had that big upvote yet, but I'm enjoying the grind and meeting new people. I want to produce more content on a daily basis but I'm really putting a lot of effort into each post. I'm posting now about every other day.
I wish there was an obvious secret for getting that first big upvote.
It does seem to be related to a good sized article on original content. I will test the theory, that my big upvote article is what caused the whales to swim by or if they just randomly passed by, with another article on the same topic. But, I do know that I shouldn't post the same big post topic more than once a week.
Congrats on hitting 1 month! I hope to have a whale one day and maybe able to catch up to your steempower. Not upvoting has been one of the most challenging aspects of being a minnow. Now with the price of steem I don't even get to reward a penny :/. Keep up the awesome work!
I keep telling myself I am going to wait until I reach 100% before I upvote again, but I already did some more upvoting today.
I'm sure there is a logical reason to upvote when you can't even give $0.00 . It might have to do with reputation. But, then, I haven't seen where reputation helps you either.
Well i'm hoping them it still provides them with steem/sbd, but the value is just worth less than $.01 so it doesn't change the reward in terms fo dollars, but is still contributing!
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Thank you for the very kind word. You are inspiration to muppets everywhere.
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Sweet man, you're moving right along!
Not to hit that Sweet Spot where my posts earn rewards each day of the week.
You know, if I do get that, that will be a celebration post. "I earned $0.28 this week!!"
Haha, oh man. It can be discouraging seeing a reward of .001.
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