Welcome to step 1 of 6, you can find the intro here!

1. Start with small posts

If you're like me, you're reading everything on the site about how to get ahead, and get those sweet rewards you keep seeing in that trending category, right?

That's a good inspiration! But, my advice is to put that aside, put your head down and lay a good foundation.

While best practice is to add a lot of value with each post, this can be done in a very few words!

In fact, it can be done with no words at all! Platforms like dmania and steepshot will allow you to post a single photo with a title and description into the steemit blogosphere. Busy.org also allows "short posts" with an image and a headline, for a little more punch.

• All three sites allow you to use your same steemit acccount, through steem connect, a well-respected and safe "passport" service connecting various platforms
• All of your work will be seen on the site you added it from, plus steemit.com, giving you more visibility.
• The presentation will be neater than posting a single image in the steemit editor.

While it's typically best to add at least one image and a couple of hundred words of text to each post, you have to start with what you've got.

Choose your images and text wisely!

I've experimented recently with a few posts in each of these formats. They don't typically get as big of payouts as longer blog posts, but for a beginner, they may do just as well, or better. Here are some things I learned.

• Add value, by writing a poem, or sharing a verse or quote with your picture.
• Try to be topical. And if you're going for funny, it better be really, really funny.
• You can post only a couple of times with your limited bandwidth and the editors use up power too, so pick your images and text before hand.

A few carefully selected images a day, with well thought out short quotes and thoughts, can establish your presence. This reserves your bandwidth for things like upvoting and commenting.

INTRO

STEP ONE

STEP TWO