Steemit progress report 2 - Playing around with bots

This is my second progress report on steemit. It is now my fourth day on steemit and I have been playing around with bots...

I used the knowledge of the article by @gingerninja to use bots to upvote my first progress report.

My steps

So I wrote my article and I got 2 upvotes… (one of them was from myself and a big thanks to @vintageverve for his vote). The value of my post was around $0.01 then.

Discordia bot

The next step was for me to send 0.2 SBD to @discordia. I got an immediate upvote from the bot and the value of my post jumped to $0.41. So I invested 0.2 SBD and got 0.4 SBD in return thanks to the bot. (Hope I am calculating this correctly…).

Nice side effect

With a value of $0.41 my post started to stand out in the sea of posts with little value and it gave me two more upvotes. It seems the more value a post has, the more it attracts upvotes…This brought my post to a value of $0.60

Trying out Smartsteem

Ok since I was started I tried out another way to get upvotes to my post. I registered with the service smartsteem. You can buy votes for your posts and also sell your own votes. I bought votes for my post for 1 STEEM. After a couple of minutes I got 0.931 STEEM back. So I paid 0.069 STEEM and I got 6 upvotes that brought the value of my post to $0.73. So again I almost doubled the investment.

Randowhale not responding

What is one more bot… I now tried another bot called @randowhale but the 1 SBD that I sent came immediately back to my account. The whale is sleeping… might have been a good idea to check it out first before sending the money…

How much can you get out of a single blog post with bots?

To try to find an answer to this question, I tried another bot called @booster. I sent the bot 0.2 STEEM. I immediately go two payments of 0.001 STEEM back to me from two services that offer to promote your post. I probably will try them out with this post. After 3 hours I did not get any upvote related to my investment in @booster. So I wonder whether I did something wrong there…

Keeping in mind that I will not get 100%

When calculating the return on the bots, I have to consider that I will only get 75% of the value of the post. Now I wonder whether I really calculate the things above correctly. Do not forget that I am a novice with 4 days experience and I am very thankful for any feedback or help.

In my next progress report I will keep you informed about the two services that I will use on this post to promote the post to a community…