Tips for minnows #1 / Tipps für Minnows #1 /

I’m almost daily roaming through the steemit ocean in the search of tips for minnows (aka plankton). I decided to reveal my most favorite findings. The search still goes on after this post and I hope I will be able to complement it somewhere in time. I like the concept of follow-up-posts respectively post series a lot.

This or that person may thinks, that it is not very reasonable to make it easy for others if you are struggeling yourself. In my opinion it is the solidarity and the cooperation that constitute steemit and that it is reasonable to support one another.

Some of the processes here are complicated in a way that one may must assume, the community is kept together by them. For me they appear as a kind of security mechanism that prevents people from profiting in a dishonorable manner. Infact they appear as a kind of currency themselves in my opinion.

My current favorite tips:

• If you’re interested in curation rewards, you may let https://steemdunk.xyz/ automatically upvote the posts of promising accounts, e.g. 15 minutes after they have been published. I am currently testing the system on accounts I am following (like @sevenseals and @erh.germany for example) and some bigger accounts (like @dlive and @infinityroad). This may not guarantees high curation pay-outs, but at least you are optimizing the cost-value ratio of an upvote
  Thanks to @crokkon for his very helpful post on curation rewards[1].
  ATTENTION! In order to do so you have to login to steemconnect and that is a little bit tricky. I STRONGLY advise to exlusively use your private active key to login. If you don't know how you get yours, I suggest you go along this tutorial [2]. Of course you should not select the private posting key as in the tutorial but the private active key (one line below). Thanks to @sevenseals for his persistant advises on that ;)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Post via https://busy.org/. Busy.org claims being an alternative steemit interface [3]. If you are posting on busy.org the post is published on steemit simultaneously and busy.org will give you an automated upvote. [4] But you have to enter busy as one of the post tags.
  Again I'm thanking @crokkon for his great post about busy.org
  
• Write for the three most lucrative tags: #life, #blog und #steemit if you can. Alternatively you may go through this tag list [5], sort it by its third column ("Payouts") and look for both the most fitting and lucrative tags for your personal purpose.
  
• Follow @gaman and @steemdunk. Both of them are upvoting the posts of their followers randomly and automatically and I did actually profit by them in the past.
  
  

The bitter truth for me and probably many other minnows unfortunately is, that we will nonetheless struggle in order to reach the ‘old stagers’ with these tips. My tips are only small optimizing ‘adjusting screws’, while the true advantage on steemit lies within the factor of time. Time has gotten a totally new notion for me.

I guess that a minnow would have a smooth life here on steemit, even if he had made an account in 2016 without doing anything on it and would dig it out now, almost 2 years later. But that is just speculation. Please forgive me this small argumentative uncleanliness, but this is what I get sometimes. 😌

Would you like to share your best tips for minnows here in the commentaries with other steemians? I am looking forward to your reactions!.