Steemit 101 - Interacting with your viewers

Never fear new steemians, I'm back with another episode of Steemit 101!.

Todays episode of my Steemit 101 blog is focusing on gaining followers, keeping followers and what type of followers you don't want.

Nobody likes beggars

In your time starting on steemit and throughout you will come accross the beggars a lot, people who don't really care what you post or who you are and are purely looking for you to follow them. The type of people who you get the 'Hey I followed you, follow me back' comment and being new to the platform you do it thinking 'Yes! I got a follower!' These are what I refer to as useless followers. Personally I don't really understand them and they feel like the legacy of such platforms as instagram or snapchat where followers are like a social status symbol, the more you have the cooler you are. On steemit these are the type of people you don't want and more than likely they will unfollow you shortly after you follow them anyway because they have what they want from you.

The thing about these people is you can check their profile and often they will have 1000+ followers but check out their posts and they will be making mere cent per post, that's because their followers don't give a damn what they post because they were coerced into following someone they don't like.

Genuine

What you need are what I refer to as 'organic followers' these are the followers who didn't give you the follow begging comment and they didn't unfollow you because you didn't follow them back, they follow you because they enjoy your content, these are valuable followers you want to keep these followers and I will often reward them by checking in on their content periodically and upvoting their content.

Right now it is difficult to reward everyone due to the fast voting power dilution but it's always great to ever now and then pick a follower who upvotes you and check in on their content and upvote them as a thanks for being a loyal follower.

If they applaud you say thanks!

When you post content you will often get a comment telling you they like what you are doing, if they took the time to comment on your content then have the common decency to acknowledge them. NOTHING will ensure you have a regular following more than some social interaction with followers, just like a business you need to build a reputation and a relationship with your followers, talk to them, check out their blog and read and give them a comment if you enjoyed it. Having a social bond with followers will bring them back to your content and make it much more likely they will upvote you.

Check out the introduce yourself tag

Periodically you'll want to check the introduceyourself tag and welcome some new steemians, upvote them and follow them if you like the sound of them, new steemians who have no followers love nothing more than to see their follower count increase and more than likely follow you back and upvote you because its nice to get attention from a more experienced steemian.

DO NOT BEG!

I said it above from your perspective but this is it from everyone elses perspective, begging and pleading for upvotes and followers is possibly the most annoying thing you can do on Steemit. People will follow you if they like what you write and those are the people you want. Think of it this way. You sell sushi in a street cart, a guy passes you and you ask 'hey you want some sushi?', he tells you 'no I don't like sushi'. So you grab him by the head and force it down his throat and tell him to swallow. He might have eaten it that time because you forced him but do you think he will keep coming back to you everyday to eat your sushi? No he still doesn't like sushi. The same goes for Steemit if you coerce someone to follow when they don't like your content do you think they are going to come and upvote you?.

Let people decide on their own if they want to follow you those are the type of people you want. I myself if I see a comment saying hey if you upvote me I'll upvote you, I'll instantly ignore them and go out of my way not to check out their content. It's like that feeling on holiday when you walk down a street and these cheap vendors are always trying to force you to buy a fake chanel bag, you normaly either go a different way to avoid them or tell them to F off. When you beg for follows you become that cheap vendor.

If you build it they will come

Write great content!. Their really isn't any easy way to do this except post great thoughtful content. Do you think I just brought up Steemit and copy and pasted the whole lot? No, i've been sitting for an hour or so writing this blog and trying to get it out in a way that is effective. Theirs no cheats to gaining followers fast no up down left right hold A press start and you have a level select on how many followers you want. Followers come with time, Rome wasn't built in a day, just keep on posting and be consistent and your followers will increase.

That's it for todays help, hope you found it helpful and maybe make you change your strategy on how you acquire followers.

As an added bonus the cheat I posted up there can anyone tell me what game it is from and what does the cheat do? 😁

See you soon in the next help blog.

For more help blogs check out:

• Upvoting
• Payouts, Steem dollars, Steem power, Steem
• How to Power up!
• Using Markdown to liven up your content
• Introduce yourself!
• Use of Tags
• Cashing out Steem into your bank account - Part 1
• Cashing out Steem into your bank account - Part 2

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