If you are new to Steemit I would like to Welcome you with open arms. You have just joined a great community. A community of people blogging for fun and for money.

I don’t want you to have the expectation that this site will make you rich, but I can promise you one thing - You will definitely make more $$$ than you would on Facebook.

With a clever strategy, hard work and determination you will have a good chance of earning just more than a few bucks. If you are new and want to know more how to make Steemit work for you, then part 2 is especially for you.

The first section is News of the Week with some interesting recent developments. Please have a read and find out more.

Many thanks and regards, Daniel

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Here follows a summary of events linked to the Minnow Support Project in the last week, as well as some of my own achievements and interesting posts. If you have the chance to join the Minnow Support Project you will understand why I’m so happy to be part of this lovely community. 

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3000 users in Minnow Support’s Discord server!!!

PALnet, the name for Minnow Support’s Discord server reached 3000 users last week!

It is purely amazing to see the amount of work going on in the MSP community. @aggroed has done an amazing job in the last two months building up this project. The number of true active participants, users adding an awesome value to the project and spending a great deal of their own time to make it grow is just staggering. A big thanks and a very well done to all involved!

One example of the great growth is the number of curation bots that popped up. Bots created to encourage great content and to give a supporting hand to bloggers of different categories.

Please have a look at the following list of current active bots: @centerlink, @minnowsupport, @msp-africa, @msp-creativebot, @msp-lovebot, @msp-shanehug, @muxxybot & @nettybot.

🏆 MSP Medal of Honor 🏆

The Minnow Support Project has awarded its first Medal of Honor. An initiative to show extra appreciation to a member of the MSP community that has done something out of the ordinary, an epic-like event.
This first ever MSP Medal of Honor has been awarded to @netuoso for his bot controller app called, MSP3K. The app is intended to ease the work with the MSP bots and to allow for users to interact with the bots according to their MSP level.

Please read about the announcement here: First MSP Medal of Honor announcement!

And check out @netuoso post about MSP3K here: MSP3K

🏆 Minions vs Minnows 🏆 - Some MSP Love

For my own adventures I have been extremely inactive and have hardly spent any time on PALnet. I have at least tried to keep some curation going and spent some time commenting.

The only post I pushed out so far in the last 7 days is my attempt to create a fun comparison of Minions and Minnows. Please have a read and see what you think about Gru vs Aggru(aka @aggroed)

Read my Minions and Minnows comparison.

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Steemit Introduction - Grow Minnow, Grow!

If you are new to Steemit or don’t know what to focus on, here are some quick tips that will get you started.

I cannot stress the importance of this enough. Your #1 priority early on will be to grow your followers. Having a godlike introduction post, that highlights your blog’s purpose and presents a picture of yourself, will help you attract the correct type of followers.

If you feel your introduction post wasn’t up to par, and that your other posts don’t really present you in a correct way, by all means feel free to write an updated introduction post.

Tip 1b - What to write

This is not a guide on how to write your introduction post, but here is one crucial things that you need to get right if you want to grab some attention.

You first picture in your post (It is the picture that will be displayed as a thumbnail) need to have a picture of yourself, holding a piece of paper with three things written on it.

1. Steemit
2. Today’s date
3. Your steemit name

For the rest I would recommend that you head over to the Trending page of #introduceyourself and have a look at some of the successful introduction posts.

This is what you should do with the majority of your time. Making well thought out comments, preferably on posts related to your own interests and related to your blog and your godlike introduction post. Don’t just produce comments that praise without adding any reflections of your own or without asking a follow up questions. Anyone can produce comments like: “I Love your post!”, “Amazing story, I’m happy I found you” etc.

You have to bring your commenting to the second level. You want the original poster to feel a need to interact with you. You want him/her to get interested in you. You want to create the urge in them to click through to your blog. Instead of just telling them that you loved their post, tell them why you loved it and connect it with your own experiences and feelings. Instead of “I Love your post!”, consider “I Love your colorful story of the trip to the coffee fields in Ecuador. I’m a big coffee enthusiast myself, trying different coffee beans and roasting them myself. I always dreamed of making one of those trips to a coffee producing country. Looking forward to your future stories.”

There is no need to ask them to check out your blog or to ask for a follow. That is actually a big, NO NO. It will work against you as it will put people off. People normally don’t like to be told what to do. Just focus on writing Godlike comments and for sure they will follow, not because you asked them, but because they really want to.

Minnow Support Project & PALnet

If you are a minnow, aka newcomer, I would strongly recommend that you check out and join the MINNOW SUPPORT PROJECT. Don’t expect this will bring you riches and easy money, but if you are serious about building your Steemit Blog to something extraordinary, then this is the place where you can get inspiration and advice.

Part of the MINNOW SUPPORT PROJECT we have PALnet, which stands for Peace Abundance Liberty network. It is the name used for our Discord channel at: https://discord.gg/HYj4yvw. Please login and join PALnet. I’m currently a “Greeter” in PALnet and I will happily welcome you and give you a hand getting started. If you connect to Discord, please drop me a godlike message or just a simple “Hi!!”. 😃 Please feel free to hookup with any of the other Greeters if I’m not online, they will be more than happy to help you out.

Thank you for reading!

Proud member of #minnowsupportproject & #teamaustralia -
Thank you @aggroed, @ausbitbank, @teamsteem,
@theprophet0, @someguy123, @canadian-coconut and @sirknight
Click HERE to learn more about Minnow Support Project.
Click HERE to connect to our Discord chat server.

Please comment and let me know if you have any questions.
See you around!