RE: STEEMIT is NOT a GET RICH QUICK scheme!
The best advice I can give you is don't give up!!!! It is normally when we are about to give up that we are simultaneously about to succeed!
What I meant about sharing your content... was - are you sharing your steemit content elsewhere... but you cleared that up by saying that you havent really posted much until recently.
Keep that up! Keep posting. Use the correct and best relevant tags (this is pivotal) the best to chose from being "life/steemit/blog/writing/story/food/travel" etc. you can search the highest paid tags to get more familiar with that.
When you post something on steemit - share it on FB, Twitter and every other platform you are on - and be sure to tag steemit when you do.
You know... I was going to write an article about precisely this today - how to maximise your exposure and generate interest - in fact I got about 4 paragraphs in - but decided to write what I did instead...
I think perhaps I should write it....
Your thoughts on that?
Oh yes - I do that social sharing. I re-post my own posts and also those I upvote on Twitter, FB groups, linkedin and pinterest if they have a vertical image. I can definitely see the monetary difference in some of the posts I promote.
From what I can tell, I am one of few who promote the posts of others, but it's been working for me. A couple of my upvoted posts have gotten good traffic and further upvotes that I believe came from my social media sharing.
I'm most active on Twitter and find my poor steemers very afraid to retweet or click links! My hard fought Twitter engagement rate took a big nosedive when I got connected with steeming tweeps. I've posted a couple of Twitter tips and have more to come.
I coach twitter and have a lot of success, so I hope for the best. Right now 90% of my steemit twitter connections are dropping their links and doing nothing else, so we really need to up our game.
Helping others to understand that social media is a "give and take" would be the most beneficial here. Right now, there is a lot of "we love steemit!" type posting which definitely turns off the rest of the world. It needs to be a "show" not a "tell".
One of my Twitter posts coming is going to be about"
in order to succeed on Twitter.
Unfortunately, my hero, @jerrybanfield just wrote a post encouraging his followers to drop their links and not even bother going to the twitter site at all. I realize there is a lot of do to succeed on steemit, but dropping links without engaging is a poor plan. This strategy works for jerry because he is famous and has a following. The rest of us will have lead balloons with this strategy.
I would love to see your post on this topic and will surely promote it :)
I have an excel file with the tags divided up and try to post to the more "valuable" tags. I think that is good advice, but mostly for the search engines. I'm not sure how many steemers are searching tags, but maybe that is something I should look into.