Steemit 101 - How to power up!
For an explanation of the Steem economy click here
For a guide to upvoting click here
So this was in my previous blog but I thought I'd just post this on it's own as a seperate blog purely to guide you in how to power up your account for newbies as it's an important guide in how to increase the value of your upvote, feel free to link to this guide in any help guides any of you are creating.
POWERING UP
This is a quick way of explaining how to increase your Steem Power after you receive your reward.
Go to your wallet.
Find your Steem Dollars (I have just powered up so it's at 0).
Click the little triangle next to your Steem Dollars to open the menu then click 'market'.
Next in the 'BUY STEEM' section enter the amount of Steem Dollars you want to exchange for STEEM. (Mine says 0.000 if you have Steem Dollars it will tell you how much here.) Once you have entered it click "BUY STEEM" then click through the various screens including your password. Once you are directed back to the market after a few seconds a notification will pop up at the bottom of the page saying "order placed"
Time to power up, return to your wallet and once the order is complete you will see the balance of Steem appear. Once again click the little triangle and in the menu click "power up"
That's about it for powering up, my suggestion is to power up everything you get, Steemit is in its beta stage and hasn't got that many users, once Steemit gains more users and the value of STEEM tokens on the market increases to say $10 your Steem Power will be worth more than 5 times the value it is right now. Your upvotes will also be worth more when you upvote yourself.
If you cash out the little you make right now you devalue STEEM and Steem tokens are only worth $1.50 (last time I checked.)
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how to power up but i don`t steem or sbd?
You will earn steem and sbd 7 days after your content has been posted.
Also For an explanation of the Steem economy click here to check out a guide to payouts and the Steem economy.
I appreciate your effort.
I get the information clearly now.
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Very helpful and well illustrated. Thanks!
Thanks. This helped me a lot lot. Followed you. Hope to read more of your Blog. It's very self explanatory
Wow! Thanks for the easy button explanation! I tried doing this through block trades to no avail. Following your tutorial I was done in about 17 seconds. I can't thank you enough!
Great post Ricky, this is exactly what newbies wanna see when they enter, layouts of how to be successful in the new field. I did one earlier about exchanging Steem Bucks for other coins. I remember being confused too and it sucked.
This is great!
Just like you I used to be so confused so I thought I'd dedicate my blogging for a while to newcomers to help them understand and in turn it'll help this platform grow.
Good man!
Thanks for the advice!
gg, great explanation. power up!!
thank you! This was exactly what I was looking for! Very helpful.