Sharing My Amazing 1st Week Experience on Steemit Which I Absolutely Loved. See Why!

in #steemit8 years ago

I applied for Steemit on 3 June, 2017. The account got approved exactly 2 hours and 10 minutes later but I checked the email late. Hence, I started being active here a bit later; 6 June to be exact. From that day till the end of first active week, a lot has happened.

This post is the story of my 1st week here. I love it and I hope you will love it too. 

Let's start.

The Amazing Welcome

Soon after being a little active on Steemit, I posted my introduction post. As soon as I posted it, welcoming comments poured in and I felt so special. Then I came to know that every new member is welcomed warmly by the whole community. It felt even better to be part of such a welcoming community.

At least 12 people cared to welcome me. I didn't know any of them, followed them, they followed back and we interact on posts often now.

Thanks to @danielsaori,  @welcomebot  @karmashine  @tremendospercy @sarasate @fredtomsyn @kenan1989 @bottymcbotface @flipstar @orinklev @bluepinokio  @pitterpatter @bitgeek and @muhammadhassib for welcoming me on my introduction post. It meant and encouraged a lot.

Featured by @steemisbeautiful

After my introduction post, @steemisbeautiful picked me to feature in  WHAT MAKES STEEM BEAUTIFUL? #011.

It was yet another pleasant surprise for me to be welcomed and then supported. That post gave me some good people to follow via the comments. Being featured on the post also gave me visibility on this platform. 

Here's how the beautiful feature looked like.

My First Big Success on Steemit!

I wanted to introduce Steemit to all the people of my country and all my facebook followers so I wrote a detailed guide/tutorial on how to join steemit and what to do on it. You can see that most successful post of mine below.

Link:  Introducing Steemit to 100 Million Pakistani Internet Users

It has earned more than $240 till now! 

It was just my 3rd day when I posted it. The post was no joke as I had a serious plan to do what I said. Hundreds of people have already joined and more are coming in. I'll share that amazing story some other day.

Featured as Top Author in Newbies

As I said earlier that the above post was written on my 3rd day here so I was still a newbie (and still am I think). The post got picked by @t3ran13 to feature in Top Posts in 'steemit'  tag.

My Second Post Which Went Big!

As I saw and believed that adding value was the best way to spend time on Steemit, I started adding massive value as already indicated by previous post.

I wrote a detailed guide on effective goal setting and it just took off! You can see the post below.

Link:  8 Steps to Effective Goal Setting - Set Effective Goals and Achieve Them

This post also went past $210 overnight. Here's a combined screenshot showing my most successful posts mentioned above.

Featured on Daily Hit Parade

After success of my second post, @arcange was kind enough to feature it in  Daily hit-parade for beginners - 2017.06.10 for being in the Top 10 Posts by pending payouts. Here's the screenshot.

Featured Again as Top Author in 'life' Tag

@t3ran13 was again very kind to feature me in the top authors in 'life' tag. He chose top authors from 1334 posts published in life tag. Thank you if you are reading this. Here's a screenshot again.

Featured in The Daily Curie

"Curie is a community project with a mission to discover and reward new content creators, and give them the exposure that they need." That's what @curie says about Curie. Based on performance of my goal setting post, I was listed among top new content creators in  The Daily Curie (8 June - 11 June 2017). 

Invited Thousands of People to Steemit

And hundreds of them have joined already. When I experienced the amazement here, I wanted to spread the word and bring people here. I did that in many ways but that is a story for another time. 

Steemit Board Kept Notifying of My New Achievements

Receiving a comment from @steemitboard is always special. It only means that you have done something right and good. I received a lot of notifications from it and have to share how it looks like now. See the images below.

Stats

Rewards

Next Rewards

First 100 Followers

The first 100 followers were completed on 8th day to be honest so it doesn't entirely come in the first week but most of work was obviously done in the first week to do that. The current number is 149. 

Best Performing Posts Earned Me Nearly $450

As highlight above and also shown in the screenshot of my two successful blog posts, the support and generosity of Steemit community has earned me quite some amount in such a less time. I am thankful to everyone who contributed and appreciated my efforts.

Conclusion

There can be no other conclusion than the fact that I am in love with Steemit and its generous community! That is the reason I have been generous in contributing to the community in whatever way possible. Here are somethings I would like to say in the end.

  • If you have just joined, please add value to the community and you will start loving Steemit. 
  • If you are struggling with Steemit, focus more on learning and less on earning.
  • If I can do it in one week, you can do it better than me in lesser time because you have a genius in you. Bring it out.
  • If you are an experienced Steemian who doesn't need any motivation from this post, please support by upvoting and resteeming this post. We starters and minnows need your generous support.

Thank you for reading. Do share your thoughts in comments. Consider resteeming and upvoting if you find this post useful for your audience.

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You are a rockstar, and I'm quickly behind you, chasing your tour bus! :) I upvoted and added a vouch comment of my own to the suggestion for you to become a curator on another thread. I hope you win that, you will be fantastic for it!

Thank you very much!

"added a vouch comment of my own to the suggestion for you to become a curator on another thread"

You suggested me to become a curator on some platform?

No not me! Someone else did, but I already knew who you were just from my short 3 days here and vouched right away! I'll go look up that post and link you to it, it's about you, after all haha! Hold please while I track it down.

Wow! That is something! Someone suggested me to be a curator and you vouched for me. Thank you for letting me know this! :)

See my last comment, I made a mistake, but you are still awesome anyway!

Sorry to get your hopes up accidentally!

I was more glad at your generous words than the unknown competition. :)

Oh man, I'm a big, fat, steeming liar. I saw this article about you, and got it mixed up with another article and a person with a similar multi-syllable name I also know, which was the one I voted for curator on, so I got confused. Let's face it though, I haven't slept since I got my registration here approved three days ago LOL, mistakes will be made! Congratulations anyway for making steemit beautiful!

https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@steemisbeautiful/what-makes-steem-beautiful-011

Lol. That's okay beause I've been awake all night too. High five! :D

congrats :) i hope i can do the same

You will and don't forget to share it. Community loves seeing progress of others and becomes happy about it too.

Love seeing stories like this exploring the site on my first day. I joined about 24 hours ago and have been back a bunch through out the day and evening to read more content.

Hey Michelle, good to see your reputation rising to 41 (from 25) in just one day. That's pretty darn amazing! Keep doing great things and I'm glad and thankful that you liked my story.

I am still trying to understand what everything means, but thank you. I been reading a lot and commenting on the articles that interests me. I also been trying to look out for these tip posts as you all have really great information to help me learn how the site works. Plus it gives me a place to show off my photos I am starting to take. I love taking scenic photos but I hope to one day be able to get good enough to open my own photography studio to take portraits of people. I think the concept of this site is great.

Thanks a lot. Photography is a very popular topic here. When you post a picture, make sure you add photography as first (main) tag and then add relevant tags like life, nature (whichever applicable). Best of luck!

Thanks for the tip will do as I add more photos on here..

Welcome and glad to help.

Excellent this means if we work hard then get the success & earn some handsome rewards from steem

I have been saying and you will it in official and unofficial documents as well.

"Steemit rewards value addition."

Brother you are doing Awsome.

Awesome Ilyas! You hit the ground running with this network. Earning happens after you learn how to contribute, how to make friends, how to share value and how to format your posts like a blogging boss. Thanks for sharing :)

Thank you, Ryan! There's a lot I have learned from you and fellow bloggers when it comes to delivering valuable content. I hope I apply that more and more. Glad you liked it. :)

One of the most illustrative posts. Great going man. Even though i have so many other things to do i got to this because you endorsed it.

Thanks a lot. I'm sure you won't regret joining Steemit.

I just joined two days ago, and am very impressed by your achievement! " focus more on learning and less on earning " this short line tells a lot of truth of your success, great follow. Not sure if steemit has a way to bookmark posts, this one would be a great reference, keep up the good work and hope to learn a lot more -Cheers

Thanks a lot. When the focus is wrong, right things seldom happen. Steemit may not have a bookmarking facility yet but you can use Pocket app or browser extension to add links and build up your favorite online resources list and history. I hope I have solved your problem not only for Steemit but for all your reading experience online.

I am here because of u bro and i am happy to be part of this community too it is amazing the best partof this community is you will develop more writing skills in time. Thank u brother and you article for teaching about Steemit was also amazing

Thanks a lot and I'm a bit late in welcoming you but so happy to have you here. Have a great time on Steemit and I hope you remember me when you're rich. No, seriously! Haha. Best of luck!

hahahaha InShaAllahthat day will come and i will remember u ;)

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