RE: How to Launch a Steem Power Backed Smart Media Token!
Read thousands of posts and get to know hundreds of authors.
Write hundreds of posts and comments where we awkwardly try to build >new relationships mostly unsuccessfully.
Join a laundry list full of discord servers we end up mostly not reading >or getting banned from when we participate too much.
Buy votes on voting bots or exchange votes with other users.
Beg for upvotes from whales.
Make 10 posts a day and vote ourselves.
Follow a bunch of rules or meet high membership requirements to join a >few of the autovote curation communities.
Delegate to bid bots to get automatic payouts every day while losing our >most valuable asset in our voting power and ability to upvote others.
I didn't do any of that and I've made over 21000 SP.
I won't tell anyone how either because they will not believe that I simply started out as a minnow, produced at least one post per day(I even took time off), grew organically, and ignored every single sales pitch on the trending page like this one of Jerry's.
@nonameslefttouse joining earlier made earning from zero much easier. Today it is almost impossible to make decent upvotes starting from zero without doing most of those things on the list. When you joined there were not even a hundred thousand users, no bid bots, and very few posts a day. Today there are over a million users, tons of bid bots, and hundreds of thousands of posts a day. The system we have now simply does not work for new or even most established authors without intense effort and collaboration. Occasionally we may see exceptions and exceptions will not carry us as a platform. Systems making it easy to work together will.
Don't lie to me, Jerry. It was NOT easier to come here and blog for 6 cent STEEM. We had no idea back then if the the value would ever rise. If I earned a dollar on a post, it was worth a dollar and that was that.
The main reason why it's so difficult to earn now for new people is because people like you convince them to delegate away their SP to bots or crazy ideas like this in the post above. That concentrates 1000's of eyes into one paid vote, then these bloggers sit around and wonder why nobody is looking, all while not realizing they paid 1000's of people to look away when they purchase that vote.
You'd think with 1000000 accounts, getting eyes on the work would be easier now, but you folks threw the wrench in the works.
Please don't try to tell me it was easier back in the day though. I came back in December after a five month break and earned 6000-7000 SP since then. Never used a bot, none of that other nonsense. I simply produce a blog some people seem to be interested in. You can see by the amount of comments on previous posts, they're alive and looking. Again, it was not easy at the start and it hasn't been easy lately. Please don't tell me it's been smooth sailing because it hasn't. This took a lot of work. People these days come and look for the shortcuts offered and fail. That's their fault and partially yours for making failure easier to accomplish.
P.S. Your act of purchasing votes pushed another bloggers visibility aside, that trickles all the way down to the bottom. People do not stand a chance to ever grow because of this behavior. I've also flagged this post after making a few discoveries that lead me to believe a lot of people could lose money here with your little plan, while you take their hard earned STEEM. Much of what you wrote here today appears to be directed towards the novice crowd who at times can be a little naive and not realize your post here today is an advertisement disguised as a helpful article. You stand to make money while it seems like they will lose some and it might be a staggering amount if they are not careful. Also, you're attempting to mislead me with this talk of "working together" when it's clear nothing you said here today will help anyone but yourself.
Definitely the right words to say @nonameslefttouse. It's never easy back then and it's never easy up to now.
There are over 1 million accounts Jerry, not 1 million users. It's more likely that there are a few hundred thousand users with a small number of those users holding many accounts.
Very true.
I absolutely believe you did this organically. It is totally possible. Although I don't have as much SP as you, what I do have has been made completely in the last year from posting what I enjoy and curating. It's been bloody hard work but I could have been posting it on a wordpress blog and getting nothing for it at all. I've made a shit-ton of genuine friends on here too. I wonder how many genuine friends Jerry has made from here.
I looked. Followed along as well. You're doing good.
If more people would stop looking for shortcuts that don't work, and simply put in the time and effort, they'll see the same results. As for Jerry's list of bullshit he thinks is what it takes to be successful here; if that's the guidance he offers his following, it's no wonder people fall for his crap.
Why would a blogger think writing posts and building a solid following is silly and Jerry's plan is better? This dude does not know what he's talking about, but these people listen to him. A blogger will publish thousands of posts, because that's what bloggers do, and here, we get paid for it. If you buy your money, you don't get paid for it, and that's just common sense.
Keep going man.
I have done exactly the same. I started on Facebook. Made a page and just posted for fun. Now I am here because I would like to see if I can turn what I do into something more. I just post once a day and now I am nearly at 50 reputation. It can be done, it just takes time. There is no shortcuts. Well, maybe money is a shortcut, but even then you will eventually run into people who don't like that you are just taking advantage of the community