7 Days Milestone at Steemit - A Rocky Ride From 25 to 42 // 7天里程碑 - 25 至 42

Dear Steemit Friends,

Do you want to know what it has been like for me in the first 7 Days of Steemit?  I was literally lost when I first came in as I didn't have any followers to start with.  So, today I received my first payout. Yay!  Not a whole lot but enough to buy 'coffee'.  

Thank you Steemit for the 'cup of coffee' for this past week's of hardwork! 

Give Back to the Steemit Community - Especially Steemit Newbies

During these 7 days,  I watched a lot of videos on you-tube and started writing my own blog here. I was quite lost most of the time but as the days went on, I begin to get a hang of what is going on on this 'steemboat'.  

I also notice that there are a lot of Steemit newbies who also posted in my blog's comments and they are quite lost too, so I decided to make this post for newbies so that they can get some tips of what to do in the first week.  

I have created a new tag for us #steemit-newbies  

Hopefully in this way, we won't be so lost together!

From 0 Followers to 68 Followers

As I said, I didn't know anyone here when I began.  I now have 68 new Steemit followers.  After I learn the ropes of Steemit, I will bring in my thousands of followers from other social media to here.  But for now, these are all new Steemit friends I made this week.  

Here are my 68 Followers. Thank you for following me.

A Big Thank You from a Steemit Newbie

I want to thank all of you who read my posts and upvoted for me.  Your support is much appreciated and I want to give the credit back to all of you.   You have all been very kind.

Must Do in Steem It in the FIRST 7 DAYS

• Blog everyday so that the community can get to know you when you begin
• Spend some time creating beautiful images so that your thumbnail is attractive to get noticed
• Spend lots of time writing good quality content post because people want to learn
• Create your profile background to welcome people coming to your Blog site.  It took me 2 days to get the dimensions correct.  For mine, I used 1000 X 400 pixels.  Use dark color background. 
• Join the dtube.video to upload your videos because they synchronize to your steemit blog and you don't need to post in both places
• Always read other people's blogs and comment on each one because that is how other steemit users get to know you
• Don't get discouraged when you get $0.  All journey begins at zero step and we move inch by inch.
• I downloaded the esteem app and read a lot of people's blogs from there. You can also upvote in the app and comment there.

Must NOT do in the first 7 Days

I want to mention 2 things.

1.  When I first came in, I saw the 7 messages about keeping our passwords safe.  I tell you, I was so nervous that first day when I got approved.  As soon as I got my password, I opened a new Word document and copied the password in there.  And all of a sudden, my computer crashed on me.  OH NO!!!!!  I screamed.  I didn't want to copy the passwords on any of my social media sites that I could retrieve on the net because we are supposed to keep the password offline & EAT it..... so that no one gets to see.  

That was a big drama for me.  

I thought to myself:  This is the end of Steemit life for me.  I just started  and died on the same day.

This is how incredible this beginning  Steemit journey is.  I literally DROWNED my steemboat on the first day!  

Luckily I went all over the net to see how to recover my Word document and I found my password again.

Whew!!!!!  

It is now in my 'safety deposit box' - INSIDE MY STOMACH.   Ha ha... no one gets it unless I throw up!

2.  The 2nd thing is that you are supposed to keep the PASSWORD to yourself. So do NOT go and post it anywhere else.  When I first came in, a window always pop up for me to key in my active password.  I was so confused and I would take that password and  post it into that field. 

NEVER NEVER NEVER do that.

I didn't know I can use OTHER passwords on my dashboard.

NEWBIES - Look at your wallet and there you have Permission Tab.  

USE those other keys there.  Be Smart.  I didn't know they existed.

==> You can click and check my post here!

One Tip For Newbies:  Steemit Shorten URL

This past week I discovered a new tip in Steemit and that is you can shorten your url link.

For example:  I want to refer people to my first post.

The present url link is so long like this:

https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@rosatravels/my-first-day-at-steemit-hello-from-hong-kong

You can shorten your url  like this when you bring people into Steemit:

http://steem.link/RosaSteemFirstDay

Go to: http://steem.link/

You can customize your link like what I have done there.

Hope you have enjoyed reading this post as I prepared it especially for Steemit-Newbies!

If you find this post helpful, upvote, resteem and follow me.

Rosa 

 
P.S. See Chinese Translation Below / 中文翻譯在下面