Greetings fans and followers... I must start this piece by appreciating you all for your massive endorsements on my entry post for Steem Ambassador position. It was a huge show of love and acceptance. And I was really humbled. Thank you! Thank you!! Thank you!!!

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On the business of the day, I want to talk about some points I know if properly worked with, will surely launch you to success on this platform. I have seen steemians...more especially the noob steemians going about indulging in all manners of unethical strategies to draw attention to themselves and their blogs. And no matter all efforts being made to guide them aright, most have practically turned deaf ears. And this is unfortunate...very unfortunate.

There are a lot of informative articles on dos and donts of Steemit out there that you can lay your hands on and read for a successful outing here but many wouldn't do that. But would rather go on indiscriminate visiting spree to different blog pages, doing nothing or whiling away time in various chat rooms. Remember, as you keep postponing getting serious with what you do here...you keep postponing your success.

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You need to wake up; you need to be serious for once. Set goals and put modalities in motion to achieve it. The beauty of this is; even if you don't get to achieve goals 100%, you will have recorded significant achievements by the time the set period elapses. With that being said, let's quickly look at the things you must consider avoiding totally....

Useless comments

This could be called anything but I chose to call them useless comments because that is essentially what they are. They are spams and add no values to the subject of discourse and mostly coming immediately after the article is published and intended to fulfill all righteousness. Examples of useless comments includes...

• Great post
• Nice post
• Awesome piece.
• Wow! Very educative, etcx

This strategy will not only make you prone to being flagged, it will also make you to be seen as unserious and desperate "fool".

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"I just followed you, please follow me"

As much as possible stop spamming people's blogs with Follow for follow commnets. No sensible Steemian who is conversant with steemit etiquette will listen to this meaningless pleading. Know this: for well established steemians, you don't just get on to their following lists on a platter of gold. They have standards which is not the same but varies among individuals. Your comment maybe so captivating that the author maybe considering following you, but once you mention it by yourself. It is over.

Not Replying comments on your blog

This is also toxic to your growth in Steemit. If you have not been doing it, start doing it now! Not replying comments tells people you are only here for the rewards. And it will make it very difficult to grow your followers list. When you reply people's comment, you give them a sense of recognition and acknowledgement. And most people really want to know whether you read their comments. And some may regard you as a pompous person and will forever stay off your blog.

You need friend to grow in Steemit, not enemies. More importantly, always make sure you are the last commenter on the comments of those you "admire". What did I mean by this?

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I meant that comments can lead to a conversation which could be beneficial to you eventually.

For instance you visited @papa-pepper's blog and left a comment. He came online, red your comment and also left a counter comment on your comment. Now this is a great opportunity to try to start up a conversation. So don't allow it end there. Go back there and comment on his comment. Sometimes, this will lead to your "admired" Steemian ending up following you.

Don't beg for Upvotes or send people links privately

This is another steemit sin you must not commit. Noob Steemians do this very often and I am yet to see anyone who has ever had a smooth ride on Steemit doing this. In some scenarios, you get flagged rather than the requested upvote. So please, avoid this. Keep working... On Steemit, no amount of work is enough because the day you stopped working, you start losing your fans.

Those whom you think are successful here never cease to work. I have had a conversation with most of them; @surpassinggoogle @ehiboss @gbenga @ogoowinner @ejemai...even @drigweeu, a senior moderator with utopian.io, told me he sleeps only 3 hours in 24 hours. So you have to keep being active to remain relevance here.

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Why I won't be at Ibadan meetup

I am supposed to be on the road to Ibadan for the highly publicized Steemit Ibadan meetup in which I was not only invited by its prime instigator in the person of @tojukaka, a master blogger with impeccable leadership aura, but was also penciled down as one of the speakers for the event. I am in mourning mood, and spiritually in a very bad shape! I lost an uncle — my father's younger brother in the early hours of today. And I am among those selected to take his body and deposit it in a morgue that is close to my hometown.

I am just feeling bad...but I am only a human and definitely cannot fight nature.

***My love goes to Ibadan Steemit Community. I miss you all; no time is late. We will definitely meet some day. Thanks you very much for finding me worthy of official invitation.

Yours truly,
@eurogee.

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