Steemit Journey - Looking back at my 3 months on Steemit

Hello Steemians! It is the day of the month again 😉, for me to do a monthly check of my progress on Steemit. Exactly a month ago, I posted on what I have learned so far. Today I am going to update the list and add on new observations that I have made over the past month. As usual, let's take a look at a few standard metrics:

Reputation and Followers

Last month I built my reputation by 8, from 37 to 45. But for the past month I had only raised it by 4, from 45 to 49. It is indeed getting exponentially difficult as I expected it to be. Considering that the past month was a short one, and I have not been actively posting, I am quite happy with my 4 reputation growth. Again quality content is the only way to go and I am going to continue to deliver them.

I had 278 followers during my last update and it is 405 now. It is a 127 followers increase and I am happy with it. In future posts, I think I am going to plot a chart to show my progress visually.

Posts

For the past month, I only made 8 posts. It was a huge decrease from 16 posts in my previous month. I have to apologize for my lack of posts as there was a period of time which I was very busy and I didn't post for 1 full week 😌. I will try to post more actively for the coming month, probably at the rate of 1 post every 2-3 days.

The most popular post of the month was a post on Cryptojacking being predicted as the top cybersecurity threat in 2018. It is great to know that people have such strong interest in security related topics. Being a cybersecurity professional, one of our missions is to spread security awareness to others. The topics that I will usually cover are those are easy but important for most people to understand. I think that will be most beneficial to my readers on Steemit.

Investments

The past month had been quite difficult for most cryptocurrencies investors, including me. For those who were following my blog, you will know that I bought STEEM at 0.00397 Eth and 32999 Satoshis. At the point of writing, STEEM is at 0.003736 Eth and 22780 Satoshis, so I am clearly at a loss. However, I am holding STEEM as a long term investment and I have bought more about 1 week ago at 0.00325 Eth. As usual, I have powered them up immediately.

Lessons Learned

Below are some lessons that I have learned and I hope they serve as some pointers for new joiners on Steemit.

• Focus on delivering quality content and comments.
• Be patient. Do not be upset or disappointed when the post your spent hours on only get a 5 cents upvote. It takes time to build your profile and reputation on this platform. There are over 700,000 accounts and it is impossible for your content to stand out instantly.
• Be active and social! Try to engage your readers. I always make it a point to reply to every comment I receive and selectively upvote good comments. In addition, join your local community like #teamsingapore! I hope the communities feature will be released soon, so we can have our communities built on the Steemit platform. (Credits to @dannyzen for providing the update).
• Use bots wisely. As you might have noticed, most upvotes on Steemit is done through bots. I am not entirely against it but I advise to use them wisely and do not abuse it.
• Power up if you can afford it. If you are not in need of the cash immediately, try to convert your rewards into STEEM Power. It helps make your votes more valuable and since people tend to follow others with high reputation or STEEM power, it will help you gain some followers.
• Be kind to others, especially new joiners. We want to grow Steemit collectively and in order to do so, we have to make it as welcoming as possible. So we should all do our part to help each other out.
• Have a niche and build on it. Focus on blogging on what you are good at or passionate about. Do not blog about topics that you think is popular even though you may not know much about it. Why? Blogging takes time and effort, if you keep writing on things that you are not interested in, it will just bore you and eventually you will stop writing. This is especially so if you do not get the upvotes you expected.

Once again, thanks for reading. Do comment below to share your thoughts with me. I always like to engage in discussions.