The Steem Life: It Starts with an Introduction
The Beginning
Like all journies, we'll start this one from the very beginning. Way before I arbitrarily cooked up my introductory post and earned my first few SBD and Steem. Its been a year and 9 months but I still remember how my brother calls me up and tells me of a neat opportunity to make money through blogging. He told me the name of the platform is "steemit".
It is a free account, Why the hell not?
I must admit, I was very skeptical about the prospect because I had spent many years trying to make waves through an unsuccessful sports blog. Well, I can join for free so why the hell not? and join I did.
A couple of days after applying, my account was approved and I was ready to take over the world, I was set to start blogging. While I must say that my brother sucks at explaining things, he is a very patient man. He carefully nudged me through the introductory post. His advice was;
- Talk about yourself
- Keep it simple
- Include a picture of yourself
- use the following tags "introduceyourself, stach, minnowsupport, nigeria, blog"
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The First Post
I followed his advice and came up with my introductory post that earned me $5.05STU worth of upvote. After one week, the time came for me to claim my prize; eager to see this internet money turn to real money, I was referred to @bhoa who transferred Naira to my bank account for the available SBD
Hood Millionaire
14 whole dollars my people and it was perfect timing too because I was dead broke at the time and Christmas was just around the corner. Steemit was sent by the gods to reward me for all the years of toiling. Prior to joining the platform, I had made a grand total of zilch from all my articles, yet here's this place where I barely even put any thought into a post and made this much. I started fantasizing about all the money I'll make, dreaming is free after all.
I'm very sentimental about steemit and by extension, the entire blockchain. I joined the platform with the sole aim of making money and to a large extent, I have actually fulfilled that part. For those of you that live in better societies, $14 is probably what you spend on cat food every day but for people like myself in Nigeria, that's a whole week's upkeep.
Beyond Cash
In the months that followed, I earned from numerous posts and participation around the platform but I'd be lying if I say it was easy. I know many people that started with me but have left the platform because of the dip and despite my efforts to encourage as much as I can, I know it is not easy. Steem blockchain has grown from my cash cow to a part of my life, I'm in it for the long haul.
The Steem Life is a series of articles that highlight my journey so far and hopefully motivate others. The next episode will be about the difficulties of settling into the community and adapting to the new surroundings.
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The force is with you! You got a 16.15% upvote from @steemyoda courtesy of @belemo!
Interesting to see how much more profitable platforms like these can be in Nigeria. As Dutch person 14 dollars is literally just enough to buy a single KG of meat. (I always use meat as the standard for cost of living). I've noticed that a lot of people from poorer countries have a lot of benefits from platforms like these because ad networks tend to discriminate against people from poorer countries.
I hope you find more opportunities to earn and im keeping my eyes close on your posts for that so I can follow your journey.
Thanks and I appreciate your comment. In Nigeria, One kilo of meat(beef) is slightly less than $3. in the market but could be as low as $1.5 if you buy straight from the guys that kill the cows. I'm glad I got your attention, please always stop by. I'll be looking out for you as well
Hey bro, i can relate a lot, the possibilities behind this blockchain is a fantasy to a lot of people here in Nigeria, while its a reality to those already in it. I like your banner
Thanks man. It was done for me by someone awesome I met in discord. Steemit came at one critical point in my life. Please keep up with the series, I will be releasing the next episode in a few days. You will find that a lot of us actually have similar experiences
@splatz
Sorry I don’t respond to people attempting to self-Splat. Also seeing bid bot votes bought by yourself makes me go another direction.
Oh my bad. I didn't know. Thanks for the first splat. I hope I get splatted on again
I have one question for you, bro, that I hope you will answer in return for my little upvote. Do you use Jumia? And if so, how much?
I've used Jumia a couple of times, yeah, why'd you ask?
I just think it’s a very interesting company and I try to ask everyone that I meet who has been through or is from Nigeria that question. Do you mainly use it to order food? Or buy phones? Or what?
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I bought a phone from them once. Its a nice experience. They do home delivery or you can go to their pick up centre.