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RE: Top 5 takeaways from my SIX weeks on STEEMIT - Minnows, listen up!
I don't think upvoting on popular articles early is a good strategy because those authors have a ton of voting bots attached to their account that vote waaaaay before the 30 min penalty period is up!
Even if you manage to vote in the first minute and have a ton of curators follow you, 99% of that reward is going to the author.
The part about not reading the articles and commenting is very sneaky indeed haha I actually read yours tho because of that bomb ass title. In my opinion as a minnow you need hella followers, a high rep, and bomb ass titles so people actually read your articles!
Thanks for the comment! You are totally right about the up voting. The rewards are minimal, but I would say about 90% goes to the author, not 99%... ;)
I experimented on two articles last week where I was within the first 5 votes of both articles that now have over 300 votes and $250 in rewards. Still have a couple days before the payout, but we'll see if that early voting helped...
Your last paragraph is spot on. Also, to get followers early, I found that resteeming popular authors is an easy way to "generate" content that appears to have a lot of activity.
BTW, I just hit 100 followers! BOOOOOMMMM!!!