๐ Steemit Comment Challenge #18 - $15SBD Giveaway - Comment like a Champ, Grow your blog like a Champ!! ๐
Transform your Comment into Cash
Welcome to Steemit Comment Challenge #18!!!
It is time for a new round of amazing comments!
I hope you are ready to deliver some awesome comments in Steemit Comment Challenge #18. Payout for this round will be 15SBD, again split into two prizes, 10 SBD to the winner and 5 SBD to the runner-up
The partnership with @davemccoy & @mudcat36 from #newbieresteemday initiative will continue. They will encourage "newbies" to join this challenge, with the aim to support and motivate better participation, and what better way to interact with others than through excellent comments.
Get ready to deliver some magnificent comments! Polish your keyboard and sharpen your mind, I wanna see those comments rolling in. Please show me what you have got!
It is important to get followers, but you also want the correct type of followers. Followers that are truly interested in your blog and what you write, and not the โI-follow-you-if-you-follow-meโ kind of type. And to attract the right type of followers, you need to write godlike comments.
This challenge is all about writing godlike comments.
- In each challenge a post from a fellow minnow will be featured.
- The challenge is to write an amazing comment related to that post.
- I will resteem the post.
- I will give it a 100% upvote.
This will be part of my campaign to help other Minnows. The #minnowsupportproject helped me and I want to help others.
Join the challenge and practice your skills.
Please join the fun! ๐ ๐
Challenge Instructions
Write a comment linked to the content in the section below "Post To Review"
Write a comment that will intrigue the reader. The comment should be interesting and create an urge in the reader to click through to your blog.
The entry needs to be written as a comment to this post.
Please resteem to help promote this challenge!
Tell your friends to come and vote for your comment!
Prize
The prize money for Challenge #18 will be 15SBD.
We will have a 1st and 2nd place with the following prizes:
- 1st prize - 10SBD.
- 2nd prize - 5SBD.
Rules and conditions
- The comment should be relevant to the content below in: "Post To Review".
- The entry needs to be written as a comment to this post.
- Entries limited to one per person.
- I will reply to your comment confirming it is a valid entry.
- The challenge ends at the end of the 7th day of this post.
- To vote for an entry, reply to the comment with the words "vote or voted"
- Upvotes are allowed to make the entry more visible, but the upvotes themselves play no role in the challenge.
- The Top5 entries with the most votes(i.e. replies with the words "vote or voted") will be potential winners.
- The judges will pick the winner from the Top5.
- For the 2nd Prize, the judges are free to pick any of the contestants.
- If the judges can not reach a consensus, they will each pick one candidate and flip a coin. @dorabot will be used for this in MSP's Discord server.
- If the winner is not a Minnow, the prize will be split in 2 and the other half paid out to the best Minnow. After all, this is a competition to encourages Minnows, so hopefully that will be fair.
- The definition for a Minnow from #minnowsupportproject will be used. A Minnow is someone with less than 5K SP. (I have removed the followers requirement as I don't see that as relevant.)
Post To Review
Here follows the post for you to review:
Challenge #18 Post - "Why Am I Such A Failure On Steemit", by @christalopez.
@christalopez is a Steemit newbie and this is her "IntroduceYourself" part 2. She makes an excellent job at outlining what makes up a great post and covers essential writing skills. She starts out by mentioning how difficult it is to get traction on Steemit. What makes a great post and what makes a post go viral? To feature @christalopez in this week's comment challenge I will do all I can to make her post go viral. :) Please give it your best comment!!
Remember that a valid entry is a comment written below, but please feel free to add the same comment to @christalopez's post.
Guest Judge
I will be doing all the judging by myself this week... "lonely... I feel so lonely..." :)
Would you like to take part and act as a judge?
If you are interested, please indicate it in the comments or send me a message on Discord (@danielsaori).
Please donate, please help a minnow
If you like this idea and would like it to grow. Please feel free to donate and I will add it to the Prize Pool. Mention #steemitcommentchallenge in your memo.
History of donations:
@zeartul 10SBD
@destinysaid 5SBD
@dray91eu 8SBD
@tech-trends 10STEEM
@fishmon 10SBD
@destinysaid 5SBD
@fishmon 5SBD
@nanosesame 10SBD
@amariespeaks 5SBD
Previous Comment Challenge Winner
Here follows the list of all the previous winners.
List is from oldest to newest:
@guyverckw
@stephcurry
@timeshiftarts
@dray91eu
@digitalking
@fatpandadesign
@fishmon
@kslo
@learnandteach01
@cryptobychirag
@japh
@brandyb
@stellastella
@amos-robinson
@lucyc
@bridgetnnenna
@adesojisouljay
...will YOU be next on the list??
Starting with this round, I will aim at having a new challenge out every Sunday evening (UTC time). And the winners will be announced on the Monday, a week later.
Thank you for reading!
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Click HERE to learn more about Minnow Support Project.
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I can totally relate to both segments of @christalopez's post - the struggle to gain views/votes/constructive feedback as well as the insights into technical writing.
If there's one thing in life I'm any good at it's research and writing about what I've researched! I found the advice on making technical writing fun and readable very helpful. It is a difficult job getting your point across in a way that keeps the reader engaged. Bringing yourself into the writing is definitely putting your best foot forward. :)
As far as the disheartening feeling you get when you see a goose egg next to that eye symbol or the empty 0.00 waiting for you as pay day approaches, I can only say stick with it! We write for the love of writing (at least most of us do). I have journals and docs that have never seen the light of day yet I personally got a lot from writing them. Yes, nothing feels better than having someone (even just ONE person) read, enjoy and comment on something you slaved, sweat and maybe even cried over but you have to remember the platform is growing rapidly, it has a STEEP learning curve, and it really is a long term investment not a get rich quick scheme. Best advice: build your relationships/network on here, find a tribe (or 20!) and get to putting your awesomeness out there - people will recognize your hard work and return the love - just have faith! :)
best of luck @christalopez and what a great choice for this round @danielsaori !!
20 tribes? I can barely keep up with the one with our group!!
@beeyou very true! but hey I don't wanna deter anyone from branching out or boxing themselves into one group :-D but definitely spreading yourself pretty thin with 20 LOL
Yeah, definitely no more than 17 tribes. ;)
Lol @danielsaori. Just the one tribe is a handful. I will find time to make room for more!
Thanks for stopping by my blog. I notice. :)
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Great comment Amarie! Love it. :)
thank you!! the girl's got talent, what can I say!? that was one well written double - post :) excellent find !
ย ย ย ย ย And here is my two, maybe three cents worth of a vote for your participation in @danielsaori contest, so you already won something. This vote was made possible becuase of the group below and their sponsors.
We invite you to use our tag to connect with more of our members. To learn more visit: Come Join Us!!! (Newbie Resteem Initiative)
Lots of votes made possible due to the kindness of @abh12345 and his Steemit Curation Leagues
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While I have never participated in any of these challenges before I feel like I have to because I genuinely found the information in that post totally relatable. Being a minnow myself I can whole-heartedly speak about the complications I have gone through and how I have applied most of what was in that post.
Currently, I have almost no topic that I write on. I mostly just write what is on my mind and try to do that in a very clean way. In the very beginning I had almost zero traction becauss I barely put in any effort in my articles.
One thing that helped change that was engaging with other authors by posting genuine comments on their articles and actually having a comversation with them.
As a minnow what mattered most is how you interact with other people. Even for the dolphins and the whales the biggest issue they have, and they will admit this, very few people actually read what they have written as demonstrated by the low quality comments trawling for upvotes.
Interact, interact, interact and success will find you ladies and gentlemen.
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Do you think you would benefit from having a specific niche and keep to that topic? Or do you feel you would just constrain yourself and lose the freedom to write about whatever you like?
Thank you!
I honestly think that it doesn't matter if you decide to go into a niche or not. However, I do believe that people actually gravitate to those authors that actually post something that they can relate to.
Basically, anything about your experiences, anything happening about Steemit and Steem. To get that genuine engagement people need to feel invested in what you are writing in your post, I believe.
My articles that have had that genuine engagement have been those 'How to' articles, motivational articles and stories about my life.
I agree with you completely @deniskj!!! I love that attitude and any time you want to hang out with #newbieresteemday people we could use someone that "gets it" like you :)
Even though you aren't a newbie, you get 2 newbie nickels for the awesome comments!!! ;)
Thank you for the nice gift. I am always ready to help newbies in any way I can. Like you said, I am not really a newbie but my SP says otherwise. I hope to do better in the future.
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You got my vote! We had the lines of advice. I have learned interaction is the number one key. You have to build relationships with people. Great advice :)
I got my first gig on steem through interaction. It is the best way to build genuine relationships that last beyond the platform.
Definitely! :)
ย ย ย ย ย And here is my two, maybe three cents worth of a vote for your participation in @danielsaori contest, so you already won something. This vote was made possible becuase of the group below and their sponsors.
We invite you to use our tag to connect with more of our members. To learn more visit: Come Join Us!!! (Newbie Resteem Initiative)
Lots of votes made possible due to the kindness of @abh12345 and his Steemit Curation Leagues
Also posted as is to Christa...
Hi Crista, as a plankton myself, here's what I've learned so far...
There are basically 2 ways to approach this:
Money, money, money
Use money to gain money. Buy SBD from exchange to power up your account. You could then do any or all of the following:
Build human followers
This is the hard and long way. It really takes time and effort, and we might be "burnt out" by seeing zero view or zero money on our posts day in day out. However, this is the "clean" way and in the long term, the most profitable way. If you want to take this method, here are some things that I've learned:
If you haven't joined any community, I would like to suggest 2 communities for you.
Hope that helps
Damn, it's long. I should make a post for this. :D
You can... just click the "edit" button... copy it.. and paste it into a post... It is not a bad thing to do when you want to share a message with your followers! Also you should tell them about this particular game, it will help them a lot... We have many people in the #newbieresteemday initiative that want to help you and your friends, so its a good place to get some love!
I will give you 2 Newbie Nickels just for your two great answers!!! I'm glad we connected and if you do that post to your blog I will also hit you with another newbie nickel if you mention to people to come play @danielsaori's game!!! (and then tell me you posted it so I can go to it!) :)
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Long ;), but with some solid advice.
Early on, bid bots can be a complicated thing. It could prevent people from voting as they feel the user is less in need of help. Thanks for the shoutout and thanks for calling me "one of the good guys" ;)
I see. so the bots can do that. :') You are of course one of the good guys, if you are not included, I'm not sure who would. :D Steem on!
ย ย ย ย ย And here is my two, maybe three cents worth of a vote for your participation in @danielsaori contest, so you already won something. This vote was made possible becuase of the group below and their sponsors.
We invite you to use our tag to connect with more of our members. To learn more visit: Come Join Us!!! (Newbie Resteem Initiative)
Lots of votes made possible due to the kindness of @abh12345 and his Steemit Curation Leagues
I had to go back and read the post over and over again and I can promptly say that @christalopez had just laid down my heart cry and frustrations.
actually today makes me four days old on steemit and I have come to notice some unimaginable Success feats recorded by some people, some times I just put it off as a miracle and runminate on it being an exceptional happening.
4 days ago I wrote my introductory post, and since then I've been unable to cross the $6 mark, it has been a herculean task to at least take it up to $7,and I spent over a day, writing down the best part of myself and even creating a wonderful way to introduce myself. Funny enough, I just saw a post that is 5 hours old, which is just a little introduction and pictures ranking above $234 and was even esteemed by @jerrybanfield.
I am amazed at this, but as funny as it may seem, that is why is happening.
By the way, the solutions highlighted by @christalopez is and will always be my personal strategy for growth in steemit, be that as it may, I can really argue that it might not deliver similar or same results to everyone,due to environmental, time and personal differences it might only work to a particular extent.
My simple advice : find a strategy that works for you and stick to it.
I am trying out different styles right now, and be sure to mote that once I find an excellent way to get value for my posts in the most efficient way, I'll definitely stick to it and grow from there.
Also, always show up and help someone. This can be proven to be a great succour in growing your steemit reputation.
This is your baby @steemcenturion, saying good morning ๐ถ
Very good @steemcenturion! I like your honesty and style of your post here. I think you will get it and learn how this place works... I've been here for 2 months and the learning curve is faster than you think! We welcome you to hang out with our people too at #newbieresteemday... We are all either newbies or minnows and our goal is to make all of our experiences better by connecting with one another! Good entry!!!
ps you earned a Newbie Nickel from #newbieresteemday!!! :)
Thank you so much sir, am indeed grateful
Welcome @steemcenturion! I checked out your blog, and you are doing terrific! Your introductory post was well written, and your pictures are adorable. Since you are trying out different styles right now in an effort to "find what works for you, and stick to it," I thought I'd offer a little advice that has worked well for me personally - not just here on Steemit, but as a life principle:
Find out what the successful people are doing, then do what they do.
I don't have to re-invent the wheel, I just have to duplicate successful peoples' efforts. Find someone you genuinely respect, who is also having success, and learn from them. Before I made my first post here, I read hundreds of posts on Steemit on how to be successful here. That's how I found this group. I liked them, every single one of these folks are the real deal, authentic and kind, intelligent and helpful. I watched how they interacted with others, how they conducted themselves, and how they genuinely desired to lift others up. I wanted to be like them.
My secret was reading hundreds of articles before making my first post, and finding out what the successful people were doing. Do you know @davemccoy is averaging 30-50 comments a day? His comments are all centered around helping others be successful, and to me, that is the epitome of success. One of the best kept secrets in life is, when you help another become successful, you yourself benefit. It's a win/win! It is also what the Steemit platform is all about. Because of him, I found an entire group of earth angels at #newbieresteemday
*They are the type of people I want to be like, so I made them adopt me, and they will be happy to adopt you, too!
Thanks @seaslim, I heard about the newbieresteemday team, and I really want to join them, apart from telegram and discord, do they have another group for people without high edged devices? Like a WhatsApp group? My mobile device is of low version and am unable to use discord, if they do have a whatsapp group, please send me a link to join, or send me your whatsapp contact, let me get to you from there.
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Thank you for your comment. It can be frustrating to see some posts with high upvote value without any good explanation for it. Remember that often it is only 1 vote that made that difference, either due to luck/friends/vote-buying etc. Important is to not get upset about it. Maybe you will catch a whale vote tomorrow and be +$100 on your post. :)
And I want to congratulate you on your Intro Post. Seems like you had done your research. Great verification photo. I did what I could and I pushed you above that magical $7. :)
To customize your Steemit profile I would recommend you update your profile. Add an avatar, background image and fill in the about-me fields.
Thank you very much sir, am indeed grateful, I'll fill in my profile details today, at first I was having issues as to how to make it happen, but I just stumbled upon a newbie tutorial on how to do all those, and be sure am so trying it out today blushing
See now, you think $6 or $7 is little money... I would love to make that! :D Youve been here four days and you already at 35 rep and making $6, go you!! At this rate, youll be flying soon! Good luck!
totally agree! you're doing great @steemcenturion :) keep steemin'!
Me too @smylie2005! Give me a post that can make enough for my cup of coffee. Iโll be one happy camper!
Thank you so much @smylie2005, I am indeed grateful, I'll visit your blog soon.
ย ย ย ย ย And here is my two, maybe three cents worth of a vote for your participation in @danielsaori contest, so you already won something. This vote was made possible becuase of the group below and their sponsors.
We invite you to use our tag to connect with more of our members. To learn more visit: Come Join Us!!! (Newbie Resteem Initiative)
Lots of votes made possible due to the kindness of @abh12345 and his Steemit Curation Leagues
@christalopez Let me start by welcoming you to steemit. I understand how you feel and I can say that most of us here had the same experience. The frustrating feeling of spending hours to research about a post and typing it carefully and painfully only to make some lame reward of less than $1. I've once seen an introductory post which went viral in a way I could not understand to make an awesome reward of $380. Till this day I am still unable to assimilate the gravity of that situation because it was the very first post that individual had ever made from that account. It was a lady like us but I can't just recall her username.
Sincerely since I joined steemit 20days ago I haven't made over $10 on a single post and I do not feel so good about that. Steemit is really all about creating yourself and by that I mean bringing out the creativity in you to become an activity and in that way you will certainly make more money.
Secondly I learnt a lot from your introductory post, honestly I never knew how to do what you thought over there before now and I do think those tips will be successful for us both if we apply them.
Lastly I wanna encourage you to keep on keeping on to face the life on steemit. It can only get better. Try not to live your live on steemit on a reverse because you do live will become EVIL (reverse spelling of live) and if you LIVED in evil you are a DEVIL (reverse spelling of lived).
REMEMBER NEVER GIVE UP no matter what.
I am a minnow like you and I want to encourage u to consistent for better days are coming.
I encourage you to join my ongoing contest for minnows which was inspired by @newbiegames and @newbieresteemday.
Join from the link below
https://steemit.com/newbiegames/@steemdiva/newbie-games-get-paid-to-create-1
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Nice to have you with us.
ok its time to get this awesome game fired up @danielsaori... Lots of my people are just now getting their bandwidth, so I will get the word out and help this awesome game rock!!!
:) Thx Dave!
So we had a bandwidth issue again?
It is a bit embarrassing lately how frequent these issues pop up.
yes... it seems like it is now every weekday for about 8 hrs... 8am to 4pm US est
Its killing the newbie community... the good thing is the ones that survive it are tougher and learn how to overcome... but the bad thing is that I'm sure we loose many good ones in the process too... I remember how frustrating it was to me... And I'm a pretty patient guy!
From the positive side, it also means the community is growing. Hopefully, there will be a fix for it soon.
With the minnowsupport bot, I'm seeing this issue every day. Your comment reminded me to check for failed transfers. Thx! :)
Agreed... There is no doubt on that... The bid bots on the exchange have been jammed with overbidding now for about 10 days. It could only be from an influx and I think it is coming from dmania (judging by some of the more agressive overbuys)
Glad I could help you check for failed transfers!!! lol :)
and ps... I love this game selection this week... She sums it up beautifully what the newbies go through. Sometimes its good to remember those days!
This one is not a bid bot, just a registration bot for MSP/PALnet. It is used to confirm the link between the Discord and the Steemit account. In hindsight, it was not so clever to use a brand new steemit account to deal with the registrations. But on the other hand, it is not that crucial. We are just returning the 0.001 registration fee as a nice gesture. :)
A well written post.
It is really difficult to gain attention when you are a newbie in steemit. I mean most of my post do not even get veiws, not to mention votes. It could be very discouraging when you think of the pains you went through while working on a particular post, just to make it informative to the audience.
I hardly write these days because of it. I was advice to spend more time reading other people's post and do much of curating more. I have to say that it has really helped.
I think another reason why people fail in steemit is when it comes to arranging their tags before posting. You might have a good post, but the tags may not go well with the post. So one needs to learn about tags and how to use them. steemit.com/tags will be of help in this area.
Secondly, is the topic. Most of the steemit big guys looks for catchy topics, before they even venture to open a post. So, one needs to work hard on putting up an attractive topic.
The key to every success is consistency. So wether your post is being veiwed and voted for or not, just keep doing what you know how to do best. In time, you will get the attention you need.
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I understand how you feel and many can relate to that.
You have done the right choice as it is important not to spend hours and hours producing posts every day. Early on, the majority of the time need to be spent on networking, comment on other people's posts and connect with like-minded people. Having as little as 1-2 posts per week is fine.
Another thing, don't look blindly on the $-upvote values. Many people with high earnings, get it with 1 big upvote. Just work consistently and try to grow your view and upvote count, if you produce good content and are lucky, you might catch a whale in the process.
Ratcha that loud and clear sir...
Thanks for the enlightenment..
I'll work on those point you've made...
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I like what you discovered naturally and yes reading and connecting with others is the key to this game @jhaysnsonofbenz... I think you will learn as time goes that you can get your posts seen and I will be happy to show you how, but the more important thing you've learned is that interactions are the key to success here.
By you replying with a good sincere comment on this post, I can see who you are and how I can help. And you have now made a connection to me! I invite you to use our #newbieresteemday tag and to also get to know our members... All of us understand what you are going through and we are here to help!!! So keep up the good attitude and connect with us if you like, we are certainly welcoming you in!!!
Have a great day and here's a newbie nickel from #newbieresteemday :)
Thank you for the encouragement and vote
I just followed you sir and found out am a little late for you #STSL competition... What a nice initiative..
God bless you for helping new comers like me...
I'll try not to be late for the next contest.
I'll make use of the # in my next post
Thanks
ย ย ย ย ย And here is my two, maybe three cents worth of a vote for your participation in @danielsaori contest, so you already won something. This vote was made possible becuase of the group below and their sponsors.
We invite you to use our tag to connect with more of our members. To learn more visit: Come Join Us!!! (Newbie Resteem Initiative)
Lots of votes made possible due to the kindness of @abh12345 and his Steemit Curation Leagues
Thanks...
I'll sure make use of the #
Your blog is full of positive and wonderful information, how glad I am that I thought about following you...
One of my best decision so far, and one I know I won't regret...
Thanks
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"You are a good writer and your skill is needed badly on steemit. why waste it? and why waste your time when you could earn big from it. You should join steemit you know?"
After hearing such motivating words, you become so excited to get started on steemit and light up the place with your piece of writing but after your first, time invested post on steemit, you get humbled and knocked back by the failure of your work to get audience and votes.
As if that is not enough, you decide to go through and seek answers to your post failure and you come across a line from a user and its gotten a monstrous traction already.
I give up! this place is not what it promised... these are the painful thoughts As a newbie, i stay worried and angry and still wallowing in confusion for many days staying away from the community.
Finally, you get back and you still notice same poor turn out on your post as you even get scammed by some bots, until you meet some nice people like @davemccoy. Initially everything they say is like a bluff but with persistence you begin to come along and realise that what they say are doable and workable.
What i have come to realise as a newbie is that a post is only as good or bad as the kind of people you follow, the kind of people you seek advise from, your activities here and the decision you have made before and after you joined whether to succeed here or give up.
You need people and activities to make that desired impression here. This is why I have started building on that and found @danielsaori through @amariespeaks and @Davemccoy. With these kind of people, you can make your post go viral and you can make a great post.
Now I am glad i will make it to the top and you too can with these people.
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Thank you for joining and for the nice words. :)
You are welcome!
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