Yes, contests! That’s how I got some of my first STEEM, and how I met many of my first followers. You have a really good chance of winning if you enter them because usually there aren’t that many competitors. Worst case scenario, people will usually upvote your entry or your comment, and you always make friends. Some of them are pretty easy too. Mine only asks for 3 paragraphs and I’m not at all specific with the prompts, which most of us can churn out pretty quickly.

A point of clarification though, the prizes up for grabs are about about 23(ish) shares of Steem Basic Income and counting (so it’ll probably be higher) to be divided among the contestants. So far you’re only number 9 so you’re almost guaranteed to at least win a share or two. 🙂

Thank you so much for entering and helping to spread the word! I hope your newbies do enter because we could all use those auto upvotes when we’re starting out!