I'm sorry to hear that you fell for Joe's sales pitch. Please take his advice with a very large grain of salt. As you'll eventually discover, he is not the expert that he pretends to be. There are many ways to succeed on Steemit, and Joe's constant promotion of bid bot use is not necessarily the best way to succeed here.

If you need any free advice, feel free to hit me up. Most of us don't feel the need to charge people for information that is already freely available on the platform