Let's reach out and grow...

I would like to tell you a little story about some experiences that I had lately on the blockchain.

It seems that lately the interaction on posts on Steem/Hive has decreased a bit and this is a pity. Not only for the people who post content and don't know whether anybody read their content at all but also for the reader that doesn't leave a comment, he misses a chance to grow...

The amazing effects of reaching out

Most of us on this blockchain are authors, readers and curators. So we can put ourselves in the shoe of the guy who writes a post, gets some upvotes but no or very few comments. We have put a lot of effort in these posts and I believe we want more than just to earn a couple of cents with it. With our posts we want to vehicule a message or at least we want to get a minimum of attention.

My experiment

Ispired by a very good friend, I made an experiment with my personal account. For a couple of days, I reached out to people and read their posts. I chose posts that had now comments and were of high quality. I took the time to read their posts and left an upvote and also a comment. I did that 3 to 5 times per day and it took me no more than 10 minutes per day. I believe I reached out like that to something like 10 to 15 people.

You can't imagine the return I got from that.

Not only did I have some very interesting interactions. Most of the time I got a full upvote of the author and a comment answering mine. I also got 3 new followers. Some people read my latest post and gave me an upvote in return. In one case, a person looked up my website and started to use one of my tools. I also got several referrals for my Lbry channel that I linked in my signature.

The best spent time on steem/hive is to pay attention to others

If you want to grow your sphere of influence on the blockchain, I believe the best strategy is to reach out to others, pay attention to their content and engage with them. You can only profit and in the worst case you spent a little time and earned some curation rewards.

However I believe that we should do this only if we are really serious about it. Leaving a standard comment that is unrelated to the post, simply doesn't cut it. We need to put an effort into it but it's really rewarding. You should try it out...

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