They tell me i am doing good on steemit considering the time i have been here.

95 days : Reputation of 60.4
Quite a number of followers etc etc

Personally i don't think i am doing too good with Steemit, maybe because i know a few who are doing even much better and i tend to look up to them and think i got to do more. Sometimes i feel this helps, other times this is just how i discourage myself.

There are few things i want to share with you all, how i have done the little of good i have to my steemit account and the mistakes i have done and seen others doing, which you should avoid.

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Never stop posting

Never say never, if you want to grow here.

Sometimes it gets discouraging when you spend an hour on your post and no one cares to read it. Forget the votes, not even reads.

How can you help yourself :

-Promote your blogs well and promote free, i am not talking about the paid promotion feature of steemit which i have never tried and hence have no idea of. Promote your post on Steemit.chat #post-promotion channels and various discord servers.

-Improve your writing skills, the formatting style, and you will find a lot of tutorials on steemit itself when you go looking out for them. This happens over days, sometimes overnight.

-Observe and read, try writing on variety of topics, especially when you are new. This way you attract more number of people. If you write about cooking, you get to interact with the cooking crowd of steemit, the photography content will help you make photography connections here etc etc.

-Do not expect growth on steemit without posting, so blog whenever you feel like BUT avoid taking stuff from internet. It results in 'Cheetah comments' and you should take cheetah seriously and do everything to avoid it. Steemit as a community welcomes YOUR VIEWS on a particular topic, not what all of us can read on internet. My personal suggestion here is, try writing about your life. I am sure if you look at the things around you, there is so much to share, about our countries, the cultures, food and our outlooks towards life.

What you should avoid?

-DO NOT PASTE YOUR POST LINK TO ANY CHAT-HEAD except Post-Promotion, SPECIALLY TO WHALES. And yeah personally i would advice you to not to even send a 'HI' to whales. It not that they are rude or whatsoever. Most of them do not reply, some who do reply - won't reply with much enthusiasm. And a very few of them might mistalk or misbehave (specially when you are a girl and you are beautiful, because you will be automatically considered fake). Mistalk of 2 whales out of nowhere has happened with me, so trust me on this. No blames to anyone because :

Fact : Most spam accounts use pictures of beautiful girls to attract users.
Fact : Whales don't owe us anything, so they are not obliged to reply you or upvote you. They are just humans with more steem power, nothing else.
Fact : You are a human too with probably less steem power, and you are working hard to get fair attention to your content, but texting whales or for that case any particular user to ask for upvotes, WILL HARM YOU IN THE LONG GO.

You should build a network of people, who you support and they will support you. That is the fair way.

Reputation is everything on steemit, so my suggestion would be to live with dignity even if it comes with lesser votes.

And yes, when you are new on Steemit, you are advised to make connections, that takes time, visit blogs of others, put meaningful comments, thats how you interact.

Never ever put comments like :

"Hi i am abcd from xyz place, please upvote me and follow me"

When i see such comments, i just wonder who advised this person to do so or what makes him\her feel this is the way here? Just stop this, this will get you flagged and flagging is the worst thing on steemit.

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How to get more exposure once you become comfortable with Steemit?

Participate in CONTESTS

-Gives you exposure and followers(when they feel moved by your entry in contest.
-You discover more about your skills.
-Sometimes you win, best part.

Example : There are many photography contests on Steemit, the variety of themes will help you unleash the power of your camera. Specially when you would look at the pictures taken by another photographers of the same element/theme, you would learn about another outlook of capturing that element/theme. To Amateur photographers like me : Steemit is somewhere you will learn about this skills more than facebook, instagram or twitter.

Example : You will see a lot of artists on Steemit, drawing, painting, sketching, and at times - looking at them, you would feel making some sort of art too. So this way steemit motivates you to bring the finest out of you.

Honestly before steemit, my life was about my monotonous schedule of an IT employee and a partying girl. But steemit makes me better in so many fields : Photography, Writing (narrative style), Drawing and arts, cooking and Travel for the most part. I learn from this community and comeback to share with the community and i make some money too. Amazing, isn't it?

Be active on discord and steemit.chat

Ok, so this is not compulsory but beneficial , when you will interact in some chat groups, you would feel better, supported and encouraged.

You must be listening about boosters, resteem services etc?

When i was new here, making 2 sbd was really tough, and then i would read someone is resteeming for 1 sbd and they have huge followers. I would simply send my sbd and my post link, thinking i am undervalued and my content needs to reach poeple. But no, it does not help always, most of the resteem and boosting services here are shady, so be careful on this part. Try figuring out what actually benefits you. And you can always ask people about such stuff, specially the communities on discord, people are really helpful and genuine there. Don't get fooled in the process of getting upvotes and reads on your content.

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Try having a purpose here :

Some people might join steemit and get lost in the steemit politics. Yes i believe there is something like steemit politics, which is created by some negative users of the community. I have observed few users bad mouthing other users, because of ego issues and the blamegames(may be), i personally wonder how does all that help them in living a happy life?

JUST STAY OUT OF IT. Seriously if you are here to just learn and sometimes earn, stay out of all this. The end purpose of everything in life should be HAPPINESS.

We earn to eat, and we eat to stay alive. Better do it with a smile rather than a frown?

My purpose of joining steemit was TO WRITE, i always wanted to write about a lot of things in life. Whenever i would searching blogging on internet, it was wordpress/blogpress that came up, but it always looked tough to me, like how would i make people read my content after writing ,but then i heard about steemit. In my early days, it was tough, and looked impossible also. But with time i learned the art of steemit :

WRITE GOOD
INTERACT WITH LOVE
GIVE AND GET

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Ok so how do i earn?

What if my purpose of being on steemit is to just earn money. I donot want to interact and do stuff like that, then what?

Simple answer is, you make the earning part tough that way. Steemit is not a company, who owes you anything, and you cannot ask steemit to pay you for the time you are spending.

Steemit is a community and a community consists of people. A community is for the people and by the people, so contribute and that is how you get.

There is a whole new world of cryptocurrency that i didnot even know about before steemit, and now this is one of the future elements of my life.

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My best advice

Keep providing 'a kind of proof' of your work and your identity.

When i was new and i will be using my beautiful pictures in my posts, some people would come up and call me fake out of nowhere, blaming i am using pictures of some random girl(which are mine only).

No blaming, because spammers do that : using pictures of other girls specially.

My solution is to provide a picture of me in the end of my post, which can prove i am the same human being as in the pictures. Also many-a-times, i try giving proofs of my work. So if that is my photography work, i provide my travel and other pictures( of the same subject) as a proof. If i am cooking or doing some sort of art, i provide process pictures.

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That is all i wanted to share because i am still learning and i am still trying to make my steemit work better for me. These were just my views and leanings from my experience here,thought it would help some of us, though i am no expert.

Keep learning, always. :)

Picture source : Pixabay

With love :
Your's THAT Indian lady :

Till next blog, HAPPY STEEMING