RE: Why Isn't Your Steemit Following And Earnings Growing?
Well once you get past 500 Steem Power you will have a slider bar where when you vote you can turn it down to 50% or 25% or any percentage you want. That will save a little bit of power. But to be honest with you in a lot of ways it doesn't matter a lot right now. If I was you I would just vote like mad to make people feel good even if you voting power is clear down at 20% like mine has been around. When you have less Steem Power you can't earn that much in curation rewards anyways and you vote isn't super impactful financially for the person or yourself so I would say just vote like crazy.
One thing I have been looking at is how well you are doing and how much you are gaining traction. It is tough for sure but I think you would agree with me that it has been way easier than building you YouTube following and earnings initially. I understand the thinking that you should be able to hit the ground running and have success pretty quick on here. Steemit is sort of a weird place in some ways and right now so many people are joining that people are getting lost in the noise in a lot of respects. Just like someone starting a new YouTube channel right now. It would be damn tough to get a big subscriber base. I follow one YouTuber who's channel is sick as fuck and I can't believe this guy doesn't have over a millions subcribers. It is nuts.....but he doesn't.
https://www.youtube.com/user/farmerfran53
The URL looks weird but it is Adrenaline Addiction. That dude is epic.
I'm also going to probably do a pool meeting eventually where I talk about a topic I'm going to call the "Insta - Hotties Entitlement Paradox" There are girls that go to U of Arizona and Arizona State that are so hot you almost lose your mind looking at their pictures. but then they will have 2 or 3000 followers and I seriously just shake my head and think "Does this girl not realize that she could have a million followers on here?" But they have an entitlement. They are so hot that they feel that their hot pics are enough and it isn't anymore. There are a lot of really hot girls on there and unless they hustle and really push it the following never blows up.
Now some people would say "well maybe they aren't trying to become big." But if you got a truthful answer out of those girls they would say that it would be awesome to have a huge following. They clearly want the attention.
So how this relates to to Steemit is this. And I'm not talking about you because you are doing a great job engaging and writting comments and learning. But I think a lot of content creators sort of assume that they already made it and their content alone will carry them on another platform just like the hot girl thinks that she will just blow up for being hot. In reality the hot girl still have to get out there and comment and like other people's stuff and try to do collab pics with bigger accounts and go through the grind. I hope that make sense. If I do the post it isn't directed at you because you are doing a great job of connecting and all that.
Hey thanks for the encouragement. Yeah I was a little down yesterday like man I kinda fell into the trap of thinking I join and following explodes, money starts rolling in, etc.
In reality I should be thrilled I been on here for like two weeks at most maybe and am at 180 followers so I think I should probably be really psyched about that as opposed to down about not having earned 10k or something crazy like that.
I think like a lot of the advice I give to people on Youtube, don't get frsutrated because your store isn't killing it 3 weeks in, thihngs take time, etc. Have to remind myself of that. With any platform its going to take time and consistancy to really build that up.
I tried starting a new tag the other day for my Youtube peeps and one guy messaged me and was like dude I used the tag nothing happenned and it kind of brought things back into focus for me like dude thiis tag is 24 hours old, it's not some magic bullet where you use it and your guranteed 10k per post, I told him the goal is to get some more eyes on your content so it doesn't get lost in the shuffle but there's no gurantees of anything.
Anyhow man really digging your content. Really liked the vid you did the other day talking about papa-peper and stackin, I'm gonna start studying guys like those accounts and seeing the type of posts they do, frequency, how they structure their posts and try to start taking some cues and as you poiinted out in the vid spend as much time if not more time focusing on interacting with others and commenting as you do creating your own content.