My first seventeen days on Steemit & D.Tube....Has it really been 'worth' it?
I tend to be a patient and methodical person and definitely am in no way short sighted yet I have to ask myself if my time, limited electricity and limited (and albeit intermittent) data connection has been wasted over the last seventeen days.
Considering that I have put in something near eighty hours of work painstakingly typing articles, reviewing videos, compressing videos, creating 'snap' images, uploading videos and doing research in the hopes of 'doing it right' on these platforms....I have to seriously wonder if it is worth it to continue.
If you have advice then please share it.
Every person here waits for a significant following before having much success. The exceptions are those who invest twenty thousand. Those guys get an instant following in hopes of getting those monster votes.
There was a great article about this written a while ago.
https://steemit.com/tips/@sponge-bob/surviving-g0-00se-eggs-as-your-social-status-grows
Nothing is instant. Sorry to say that, but it is quite true.
Yeah I see your point there. I have been seeing folks post their first video to D.tube and instantly it is at like $30.00 from upvotes and I am like 'What the hell I have been doing this for a few weeks and uploaded around forty plus videos and none get that kind of return'..so what you are saying helps that make some sense to me. I embraced this platform because I love the technology behind it and like I said in my other reply in hopes of 'engagement' and meeting interesting people. :)
That article was written before DTube existed. I have noticed that DTube has a different thing going. If a video has a few votes as it becomes older than thirty minutes, whales will pick it up and make direct payments to their wallets for supporting that video.
I don't have much, but I can vote your video up and see if that triggers other votes. Anyway, as an observation, I have noticed the way this works.
Interesting. I appreciate the upvotes. :) Thank you.
I gave you one. All the actions begins at the 0:30:00 mark. Something to do with dtube.rewards. Look in my wallet. I get a reward in the transaction section for voting past the 30 minute mark on DTube videos.
These are the wallet payments. I am not sure why I don't get more of them.
Another thing I read in that article is that you should post one or two times per day. Nobody has enough voting power to cover all their friends. They certainly don't have enough to vote for all of your posts even if they love them!
Hey! Thank You @sux I did not see the image before. I did not quite understand how the 'voting power' worked but now I do. :)~
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By the way that article was a good read. Thanks.
A lot of people come here thinking they'll be driving a Ferrari in a week and live in a megamansion on a private island in a month, but it doesn't work that way. I've seen many new users make a few posts and they didn't make any money and they gave up. Even people I know IRL who I got to sign up gave up, including a writer who has worked for many well known publications. It takes time to grow a following. I noticed a lot more people are following you that you're following. It's common courtesy on social media to follow back, unless it's distasteful or spam. Some people may see that as selfishness. A lot of people follower churn, and they won't follow you hoping you'll follow back because of your ratio, and that's usually not really who you want as an audience, but most people are sheep and want to do what they perceive everyone else doing; so the more followers you have, the more you will get. That ratio does make you look good to organic viewers who are truly interested in your blog. You're doing better than most new users I've seen. You caught my attention with more than 1 account, and I think your posts are good quality and you will be very successful here in time. That's why I'm following you and upvoting all your new posts that I see and like.
Best of luck, and I wouldn't give up. A lot of people have gone from rags to riches on here. I'll tell you a little secret. The more steem power you have, the more valuable upvotes you will get.
Wow Thank You! To be clear I did not come into this with the proverbial 'dollar signs' in my eyes. Far from it actually. I was honestly hoping for more engagement and meeting more interesting folks...which I actually have met a few so that is pleasant. I was actually following a lot more people until earlier today when I decided I could no longer stand all the spam in my feed. Unfortunately I still see their posts in my feed even though I no longer follow them. Sigh...such is the nature of an evolving platform that ultimately is still in 'beta'. I hear you though..I hear you very well and appreciate you taking the time to type all that out. I do not plan on giving up at all. Especially since I have about five hundred plus more daily videos that I want to get uploaded onto D.Tube. I cannot fully express what your words mean to me. Once again....Thank You!
You are doing something that is weird and cool - give Steemit some time to figure that out and they will show up to vote on your new posts.
Slow down and try to do only 1 or 2 posts per day. If I was you, I would do one text post with just a picture or two about what is going on right now in your world and another one that has some video clips of what your property looked like back when you started.
This sound stupid to introverts (I'm thinking you might be one based on your choice of living arrangement) but selfies get you noticed. Get that camera right up close so that your face fills up the frame and tell them Jacob Fucking Peacock is gonna show you how to live off the grid!
It is going to take about a year or more before a lot of people notice you are here. That is just how it works. Until then, every post you make is an introductory post to tell people about who you are and what you are doing. Don't assume that anyone has read anything you have put in your blog or watched any of your videos. The most important people have never heard of you before. If you are lucky enough to get their attention for 5 seconds it better be good, or they are gone and you will never see them again.
Your interaction in the comments is really good. Keep that up. There are a lot of people who are looking to make friends.
Try to figure out how you can take @jackdub up on his offer to interview you on the Meadows & Makers podcast. They will give you a lot of exposure to like-minded people.
That is all I can think of right now. Keep on working at it. You are going to be a Steemit Star.
I appreciate your insights and advice and will definitely be taking them all into consideration as I continue to move forward. As for @jackdub and the Meadows & Makers project...as soon as the leaves fall from the trees and my cellphone connection becomes better I will assuredly be taking him up on his offer. :) Once again: Thank You!
So here I am and it is day twenty-two for me of using Steemit. I have followed some of (but not all the advice) given to me and not really noticed much in the way of 'change'. I am generally resistant to any advice whether good or ill so kudos to you all for penetrating my obstinate nature. The one piece of advice that I refuse to follow is the whole 'only post once or twice a day' yeah I totally get the 'voting power' thing but ultimately I must ask myself (and maybe you should as well) do you want Steemit to grow or do you want it to stay the same comfortable place where it is both predictable and horrendously stuck in a 'beta' mode. I am opting for it growing and becoming what it looks like (in my not so humble opinion) what it truly is already...the very cutting edge of a social platform that rewards it's users and bolsters a community of people that actually value their contributions. I guess that history will ultimately decide what happens but personally I think that it should 'piss or get off the pot' and seize the fucking day. As for me personally I look at my video project being uploaded to D.Tube as an archival process more than anything else and if folks like it along the way that is cool, if it generates revenue along the way that is cool as well but what I really want is the longevity of the information that I am sharing. As I am often fond of saying 'Money will never have more value than my personal integrity' but also it will never have any dominance (nor a greater importance) over my dreams. Anyway thanks for the advice @xsrian-cooking @sux @professorbromide and as one of my favorite authors says: May you have long days and pleasant nights.