STEEMIT TIPS- You can make a lot of money by reading other people's posts. Closing in on 700 followers!
Hold on! There's no mechanism in Steemit that let's you get paid just for reading! How can reading a post earn me anything?
I'm glad you asked!
Your goal as an author is provide a service to your audience. The service has multiple parts.
- You provide entertainment, which is one of the most heavily valued services in the world!
- You provide information. You are relating something someone ought to know, but doesn't, and won't learn it unless you share it with them.
- You provide a unique perspective. Your stories in your voice with your character are truly unique. Hearing a similar story from you with that vantage can inform my own life.
Reading good stories helps you provide those services
So, go ahead and read some blog posts that are making traction. Some of the posts that make traction are trash being upvoted by bots and friends, some are probably too technical for you to follow in their foot steps, and some are really great pieces of writing that can help and inspire you. Learn from what good steemers are doing so you can find ways to riff off of their success. Hell, the style of this post is straight based of authors on here who I learned from (looking at you @kaylinart).
Learn what your audience cares about
When you write your story try to think about who the audience member is that you're appealing too. If you have to imagine what they are like you may not actually know much about who is following you. Go lurk on some followers feeds and see what interests them. You may want to spend extra time looking at who has a lot of Steem Power in your followers and cater to them somewhat. True, it's kinda selling out if you're tweaking your posts to cater to wealth, but if the message aligns with the wallets then you're just monetizing the message you stand for. That's just good business and Steem in many ways can act like a business.
Summary
Go read! Read the best posts. Read your followers posts. Read the wall of people that you want to follow you. Find overlap, improve your writing, and get 'Riggity rich son!'
Upvoted for the dancing Rick haha.
get schwifty
Thanks for the encouragement!!
How long ago did you start, and what do you do if you wanna talk about multiple topics?
I think eventually you have to branch out. If you only talk about one thing you can't grow your audience enough! You can't start out talking about things in general because it's too hard to initially attract followers like that (you're missing credibility). So, pick one or two things that you're going to really go after to start. Then as you get some more followers expand. If you get really big then you can start using some generalities and have it resonate with everyone.
Build a niche audience. It's a lot easier to start!
Thank you! I know one of the posts that I want to write now.
And yeah that dancing Rick was frac'n wonderful little addition. Geek power = Steem power!!!!
Love the dancing Rick! I made my first post and it was horrible. I wanted to test uploading pictures and it was a fail! However, I appreciate your article knowing that even researching and reading my peers does good to further than I thought. The advice does validate my personally theory of how I want to approach my Steemlife. Once I can figure out how to even upload my own profile picture maybe I will then become less frustrated and actually write more! (LOL)
Settings. Next to the wallet. You choose a file off the web by copying and pasting the URL. You don't need an actual photo upload. I'm glad this helped. My first posts weren't that good either.
Thanks! It worked! It is good to hear your journey on Steem had humble beginnings....
Nice photo!
Nice advices . I will take them in count.
good advice.
Finally! Social media thats functional and FUN!! Im addicted already. Need.more.steemit.posts!!
Good, basic writing advice--know your audience, emulate the success of others.