How To Write Engaging Post- Formula for building reputation class#1

So many people want quick reward without working for it, the truth of it is that you can never harvest what you have not planted. If you work hard surely you will reap the reward of your labour. @travelguide we are not saddle with selecting quality post and hardworking author only, but also to educate steemians on how to write quality post that your audience wanted to see. Many on Steemit are curious to making fast money, but not curious of taking time to compose informative and educative post and will benefit their audience. No way! By doing such you will never get better reward. The best mind-set to have in this life is how to build and protect your reputation by impacting in the lives of others through whatsoever you do in life. Without wasting much of your time, let discuss about the business of the day.

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Quality content is paramount to greater rewards, building reputation and as well as attracting targeted followers on steemit. But this cannot be achieved with lack of seriousness and passion for blogging. It is better for you to post a quality post in a day than to post five or more non making senses post per day. Only one quality post can make you a celebrity overnight if well structured. For instance Mr A post a quality content per day generating to $500 per week, Mr B post 10 valueless post per day generating $1 per week. Mr A will generate at least nothing less than $3000 for his 7 days post while, Mr B will generate $7 or less for his seven days post. Both are getting reward, but as you can see, one reward is greater than another. That is how it work. We all know that getting Mr A reward came as a result of his hard labour which is not overnight. If you wish to achieve something like that of Mr A or more you can follow this guide. Note: Rome was not built in a day. It can take such time before your quality content get to trending and hot, do not be disturb or discourage just keep on the good work as one day you will greater reward of your labour.

HOW TO WRITE A QUALITY CONTENT

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DISCOVER YOUR AREA OF INTEREST (NICHE)

Writers that are known for a specific niche like Travel, cryptocurrencies, business, motivation among others have a better reputations, because they are writing on what they have passion for. That make it easy for them to compose and structured their content in a better and captivating way. Example of such author on steemit are @jerrybanfield @sweetsssj among top other authors. They were able to make it to the top of their reputation because they have passion for what they are doing and they are really serious about impacting in the lives of others as well as educating others.
One of the biggest challenges facing upcoming authors is how and where to get started writing quality and captivating post. You really want to get your voice heard over channels, but you do not know how to begin. Yeah! It happens. Choosing a specific niche or category to write on can make that simple for you and make it much fun because, you have chosen what you have passion for and you are serious with it. The question you should ask yourself are:

1. What is your passion?
2. How can you impact the lives of others?
   If you were able to solve those questions, congratulations to you because, you are a step ahead of composing quality post.

HAVE A CLEARER UNDERSTANDING OF YOUR AUDIENCE

Before you will start composing any content, you have to have a clear understanding of what your target audience want to know about and also what will capture their interest. You have to put this into consideration what drafting your topic for your post. One of the best way to do that is to check what the top authors in your niche are writing about and also checking out the responsive conversation in the comment section of each of their post, it is time consuming but will help you a lot. Through comments draft out what others are saying about the content, the correction they make on the content and also the question they are asking the author.

PICKING A TOPIC

Before you even start writing anything, you can come out with a topic to start with. For instance, you want to write about tourist center in Africa. A lot of people had already known about the continent Africa. All you have to do is to stratify from continent to country, choosing a country in Africa and choose a specific tourist centre in that country or region. Make a research about the chosen region, also draft out information needed. For instances, cost of vacation, best restaurants in town, available vacation rentals, other places that may be visited near the place and other useful information. Also write about their cultural heritage and how you can communicate with the local people of that community. Draft out every information gathered from your researches that can help tourists of that specific region have the best memory of their vacation.

WRITE A CAPTIVATING INTRO

How you introduce your content to the audience matters a lot. Your post introduction is the hook with food hang on it to attract and catch the big fish (minnows,whales) in the water. If you have the educative content with poor intro, it will attract less audience. The first thing your audience will look at is your intro, if it is captivating, it will pin them down to want to read all of the post. Introduction is the first impression, how will you come up with that
• Start with an interesting fact
• and not those ones that are mostly used by every author
• As the same with your topic and also too common in your category
• Talk about facts that is obviously different to your topic but relevant. Things strange about the topics that will captivate their mind
• Find a way to talk about the end of the topic without throwing away the wow! factor in it
This strategy gives your audience some sense of belonging, therefore pulling alots of comments to your post.

STRUCTURED YOUR CONTENT

Perfect logical starting point of your content portray clearer information structure about your post, followed by the details of the post (the body after introduction,), summary, the conclusion and the lastly remember to reference any external source used in your post, including image credits.

EDIT AND PROOFREAD YOUR DRAFTED POST

There is no master of all, when it comes to editing and proofreading. For you to achieve better result you have to call on other people that know better than you are to help you proofread your drafted post and make all necessary correction before posting. Do not let your pride take you down or be too shy to ask other for help. Lastly remember to post your contents using relevant tags.

Your post can make a difference in the lives of others. Remember better reward does not come like magic you have to work for it.
Your quality post deserve better rewards, and that is why we are here. Help support this project so that it can grow faster. Very soon @travelguide curation trail will be reveal to the public.
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