RE: Best Blog Posting and YouTube Video Creation Strategy for More Views?
I always enjoy reading your posts as well as watching your videos! In fact, I joined Steemit before I had ever even heard of you and your YouTube videos. I was just browsing through YouTube one day trying to learn more information about Steemit when I stumbled upon your videos, and I loved all of them! I couldn't stop watching! This post was super helpful, so thank you so much for providing us with these helpful tips! I do have a few points to address/questions to ask, though:
I do videos and blogging full time, and if you're just having a full-time job or if you're a student and you just want to give this a try, I still think doing one post a day, if you just want to do a blog is ideal.
How long did it take for you to be able to do this kind of thing full time, and what was it like for you when you were first starting out? Did you start out growing organically, or did you have some initial capital to invest in order to help your grow quickly?
The key to building a following online is to have a core group of about a thousand people that you do a really good job for every single day whether that's blogging or Facebook posts or whether that's on YouTube.
What kind of tips can you give me to help grow that initial following/core group of people? Are there any tips and tricks? Or is it really just putting in countless hours into organically interacting with people and just hoping that they will help spread your word for you?
The nice thing is if we do a new post or video every single day, we can afford to experiment. We can test out different subjects and we don't have to just work one single niche. We can afford to test all kinds of different subjects, see where we get the very best response, and then continue to go there.
I'm actually still in my experimental phase on Steemit right now, with my posts so far being on a variety of subjects. I've noticed, though, that one of the subjects that I was more passionate about is doing the poorest out of all of them. Do you think I should not be posting about that anymore and shift focus to others that are doing much better, or should I just keep on trying until even that one starts to do better?
Doing a post every day, you're certain to make someone mad almost every day. The goal is not to make everyone happy but rather to be of service to those that are interested in being helped.
It's quite expected that not everyone will always be happy with everything one posts. I think this particular section is very important to remember, because you're absolutely right, the goal isn't to make everyone happy, though in an ideal world that would be nice. As long as we keep in mind that our goal is to provide something usueful to those who do enjoy the post, we can avoid getting discouraged when other posts aren't received as well.
In creating every day, we are certain to have someone decide to unfollow every day.
I've actually come to notice this recently, once I started to post every day again...I've started to get my first few unfollowers over the past week and a half. At first I scrambled around trying to figure out what I must have done to turn that person off to my message, but I quickly realized how silly that was. People will follow who they want to follow, and unfollow who they want to unfollow. There are billions of people in this world, so even if a few people unfollow me, as long as I keep on posting every day, more people will come in and follow me to replace those who have chosen to unfollow me.
I don't pay that much attention to the views I'm getting on a day-to-day basis because when I'm doing videos every single day, I'm going to get some videos that do really well and a lot that go nowhere which is fine.
This is such an important reminder for me! I still pay too much attention to my views on my posts here on Steemit, and man, what a stressful thing it is to constantly be worrying about numbers! I just have to keep your reminder in mind and tell myself that some of my posts will be seen more than others and that's fine. What will really bum me out, though, is if one of the posts I'm truly very proud of is the one that doesn't do too well (such as my Veterans Day poem, and my Veterans Day informative post, since I am a veteran myself). Do you have any personal tips that you use for yourself to help you stay on track when the videos you make that you're more proud of don't get the reception you hope they will get?
Here's a tip: don't upvote yourself. Or, at least wait until day 6, when others are less likely to call you out on it. 1/2 :)
Thanks. I usually only upvote my own comments when I know that there will be a sea of spam comments. Am I still not supposed to be doing that? :/
Good question. Jerry is somewhat of an "authority" but he does advocate self-voting, in another post which I noticed from a screenshot in the above: https://steemit.com/steemsecrets/@jerrybanfield/earn-24-renting-steem-power-with-minnowbooster-8
I was interesting in reading that other post, because I had used MinnowBooster but recently have found that using http://steemvoter.com is working much better. I'm staying down around 40% voting power, which is fairly low, so I'm probably going to change the 23 (20 from the contest last week which I put a link in a different comment to you, plus 3 from an even earlier contest) from 50% voting power, down to 25%; I already changed them from 100% to 50%, the day after announcing the winners, as my voting power had dropped dramatically.
Anyway, a lot of folks say self-voting is bad, and some whales will downvote/flag self-votes that they see, which both eliminates the earning, and often has a negative effect on the self-voter's reputation. I did, early on, and stopped once it was pointed out.
I have come to be of the opinion that I will never self-vote myself, with two exceptions: one, an "angry whale" decided to attack me a while ago, so I self-voted to undo the damage he had done. Two, when I make a comment to one of my posts and want it to be the first thing seen, I'll upvote it 100% so it will be above the other comments that I've upvoted -- which I generally upvote 10% for everyone who comments on my posts, unless they're obviously fishing for upvotes or follows, and sometimes when I just can't make sense of it, as ambiguity could be positive or negative, so I generally just leave those alone.
Anyway, I see this as a flaw in Jerry's otherwise excellent output. Then again, I still have a lot to learn! :)
nice post
uuuuuh no u need to upvote your on POSS just not your own COMMENTS only upvote your own comments if you need to get it seen and to the top of the list!
But I agree with you about waiting ONLY IF Youre already a whale! Some whales 9i wont name names, lets just call him Minertia, will not upvote his own posts untill after a few days when hes seen that everyone ELSE likes it,then he can feel its ok to upvote his own post, and then no one notices!
But when youre a minnow like me, and you only geta few cents to upvote your own post, i dont feel its wrong to have the self vote check box always on, i barely make much in curation so u can be DAMN sure im gonna be upvoting my own pots 10 cents every time. JUST NOT my coments!
Upvoting your own comments is just lame UNLESS youre trying to realy get it seen or raise it up to the top!
But just dont comment spam and upvote bullshit like a period or a blank comment like ther IS abuse and it DOES happen but we will be fine
steem reward pool will be SO BIG you wont even CARE about self upvoting :D
Well, I was responding to his comment which he upvoted himself on, but you're right -- the devs put a checkbox to upvote your post while creating it.
I leave that checkbox unchecked.