STEEMIT FOR BEGINNERS

I have noticed many new people having a rough time getting started.
This post is linked if you have a welcome post (great!) but have missed something important.

1: Make your Avatar!!!
You don't want to be one of 100's of people that have a blank avatar, because then nobody can recognize you! A name is one thing but an image is much more memorable.
This is very easy to fix, click your non-avatar, go to settings, and link to a picture URL. DONE!
If you want to upload your own picture, you can use imgur.com it will be easy and well worth your time

2: Post about things you're interested in, and nothing else!
Many people are coming into the platform and immediately diving into long-form posting about things they clearly don't know a lot about (sorry), and it becomes obvious at some point they are forcing themselves to post based on the assessment of that category or topic and think they have to write about something specific to succeed. This is not true! You should post about what you care about, and nothing else! In time people that think the way you do or like your style and same interests will follow you, and they will upvote your posts about the things you like without you even having to try. Doesn't that sound so much better? Stick to the things you already want to talk about.

3: Engage with the community, read other posts, comment, and follow someone!
This one is very important. Many come here and immediately start posting 10x/day without ever reading what others have said, commenting their thoughts on other people's posts, helping the ecosystem by voting on other content, or following others to keep up with things happening while they are away. This behavior of posting-only essentially places you into a void, similar to going on Facebook and never adding friends but posting anyway. Before you start spending hours researching your next great post and writing a small novel for people to read, take a minute and look around, make a few friends and help someone else out, get some good Karma and go back to posting!