STEEMIT TIPS- 4 Steemit Tools I don't go 1 day without

in #howto7 years ago (edited)

So, you're new here and trying to figure out how to get rewards, how to get followers, how to get resteems, and hopefully how to write really good content that other people want to respond with. What you may not know is that a lot of stuff happens on AND OFF of the blockchain beyond steemit.com. So, I use a fair number of tools, but I wanted to give a glimpse inside my blogger's studio to let you see the 4 tools I can't live without. (that's a monkey with a stick tool by the way).

Discord

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This is your social hub. That I know of there are three sizable groups right now. In all of them your goal is to go in humble and try to make friends. Starting with please spam my post or starting a flame war isn't going to help you the way you're hoping it will. All these people want the platform to succeed, but if they deem you to be obnoxious or bad for the platform things could go down hill for you; where as, if they see you as helpful and great you might catch some big upvotes and resteeems.

Steemspeak Discord channel- This is the baby of @fyrstikken and @contentjunkie. They are old school cryptohounds that have been around the block for a while. You're likely to find over 100 people in there at any given time. Many of them have been around one another for a few years. That makes it a little intimidating for completely new people, but they are friendly as long as you're not spammy. I met so many people in there and made some great friends. It's a powerful group capable of pulling ned into it. So, you know they got Steemit sea legs. This channel is one of the reasons I created the one for minnows.

https://discord.gg/qjpRj7w

Whaleshares- This is the baby of @officialfuzzy. He's an oldhat to crytpto sharing idea's with Dan before Steemit was even a thing. He's an old WoW buff like me and a BTS advocate. He's the brain behind whaleshares and thinks of it as a way to reward people in his Steemit guild. He was actually a big inspiration to me to create the Minnow Support Project within Discord and think about using the community bot to support others. The future of Steemit will be in curation guilds and he showed me that.

https://discord.gg/GykFB6S

PALnet- This is my baby. We're about to hit 500 people that have visted us. This morning we were at 98 just sitting in the channel. We're dedicated to helping new people on the platform find success. If you're new it's the best place on the web to get the help you need on steemit and start finding a community. The whole thing is public and free. Technically you need 0.001 steem or sbd to register for the public community bots, but someone will give that to you. We have 4 senior witnesses and a jr witness (Proph is still a legal minor) that all support that community with their upvotes, resteems, support, and guidance.

https://discord.gg/HYj4yvw

Steemit Chat-

If you're not on Steemit chat as a minnow you're doing it wrong. This place is filled with Steemit legends and people are on there around the clock. I know folks trade early follows, promote their articles, find groups with a similar mindset. There's even a Minnow Support Project channel #MSP. I currently get like 12-15 messages a day there and I've reached out to lots of people through there that I wouldn't have any other way to find. Flat out 100% if you're not on steemit chat you're doing it wrong.

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Hop into general chat and be sure to tell @acidyo that @aggroed sent you.

Esteem

esteem- I didn't need something like this when I first started. But follower maintenance as you grow is a real thing. You need to be able to connect with people through the comments sections on your posts. Most people ignore the comments, but the follower-whales I know are obsessed with them. If you want to be able to do that while on the go you need a mobile app, and for that reason it's a total blessing.

The mobile platform is great for curating and commenting. I've done some transfers on it. It's also great for checking how posts are progressing. Occasionally it has some broadcast errors. I'm having a little trouble uploading images, but every update makes that thing better, and it's really easy already to recommend using it. Like I said. It's a daily tool for me.

Here's an early post about it.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@good-karma/what-is-steem-mobile-esteem

One thing to keep in mind is they have a small 5% post reward fee to use it when you're posting or curating. But to me that's a pretty sweet tradeoff for going mobile with Steemit. @good-karma did a great job makin' this so show him some witness love if you end up using it.

Steemdb

Last up is Steemdb.com. I don't know if I should be proud or scared of how addicted I've become to this site. It's not super newb friendly because it uses terms that are the actual backbone of the blockchain and some coding terms, but if you want a live update of what's going on the blockchain look no further. You can get updates to who is voting witnesses, your posts, who follows, who is replying. You get a live feed of all the clicks that are taking place.

As a witness I can check settings. I can check who is voting or unvoting me. I can check total votes. I can see inside individual blocks my server is witnessing, and I can check to see how many blocks it gets. If you're a minnow it's probably not that important as it'll go too slow. If you're a dolphin it's hard to resist.Screen Shot 2017-06-17 at 4.54.53 PM.png

@jesta is basically the sickest programmer around. Send him some love if you end up using this tool.

Honorable Mentions

I can't really live without my steemvoter or streemian apps right now. I've used and advocated for steemvoter for a while. It autovotes authors I like at times I like. I think of it like a Steemit Patreon account. It let's me support their work even if I can't hit every post. Some folks game it to try to maximize rewards by hitting only the people on the trending page before their posts go to the moon. But I have a lot of folks that I htink are good posters that I just try to show some automatic love to and then I can curate additional ones mannually. If you're already on it consider adding @minnowsupport. It only posts once a day or less, but your upvotes can help a whole community of Minnows grow. If you have questions visit the steemvoter channel in steemit chat or ask @cryptomancer.

Streemian is a cool app where you can find curators who are good and just follow them. If you dont' have the time to curate a lot, but still want the rewards and help good people you can find a curation trail you trust and follow them. Minnow Support has one on the front page so you can trust that to spam out a thousand votes a day to minnows who could use your votes. Just keep the power setting low or we'll drain your vote power in an hour.


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Wow that's even worse than when I Randowhaled my post and got 8%... 😞

lol.. randowhale is fraud

Well, that sucks!

It depends on his current voting power. If it's low, you'll get a low upvote.
https://steemdb.com/@randowhale

Lots of good info here @aggroed
Lots of things I"m not doing that I need to start doing! :)
Thanks

I a gree with you

really great tools and great way to grow up here
for me, I think steemit chat is the most helpful one
keep up your good work and giving tips to newbies to succeed here
thanks for helping the community man

This is actually the good stuff. These are actually the tools I learned over the last couple of days. And now I am hooked. Don't believe that we had the pleasure to talk yet but I am confident it will happen anytime soon. Cheers and Steem on!

Sure. I'm always lurking. Can't wait to meet.

Lurking haha. Good one. But you can't hide from me :P

After reading @acidyo and @aggroed comment spree, this meme makes perfect sense

And as always, great work on the post and your Minnow Support!

that's me when reading steemit.chat most of the time, its funny when people take me seriously

Tack så mycket för "upvoten". Det värmer!

Varsågod, jag läste att du är en curator men svensk också?

Kolla min tredje senaste post, skulle kunna behöva några svenska curators snart. :)

Jag försöker så gott jag kan hitta nytt material från nya lovande Steemit medlemmar. Och jag är Svensk, men bor i Tyskland med Japansk fru. ;)
Hittade din post igårkväll redan och har svarat, vore jätteintressant.

Ah oops, antar att språket fick mig att glömma din post. :P

Haha låter intressant, min tyska är lite rostig men löper helt okej ännu enligt @lenatramper. :P

Din tyska är nog bättre än min. Jag är en äkta expat som försöker klara mig bara på engelska, min Holländska är t.o.m. bättre... :)
Dax att sova nu. God natt och tack så mycket!

@aggroed apologies for hijacking your comment trail with some Swedish...

i'll vote on some of the other comments so this doesn't take all the view.

See, dropping posts in the comments section is where it's at for minnows.

Yes, will be well earn $ to support my new Challenge. :)

Fuck he's rich. Look at that 80 cent post he dropped in here like a boss.

Great reminder to use all of these awesome apps @aggroed! Discord has become my go to app and I usually have it open every morning I turn on Steemit. Great job with PALnet and the Streemian minnow trail! I'm gonna start using Steemit chat more often as well as the eSteem mobile app which I just downloaded yesterday!

Just make sure you tell @acidyo hi for me when you're on there

Will do @aggroed, can't wait to meet him there!

thank you for sharing @aggroed. I think I finally have to spend some time in the different Discord channels. I heard of them already but didn't use them so far, which seems a bit foolish to me know after reading your Post 😅

yeah, all the magic happens there.

And I've missed out on it so far, damn... 😒 Gotta change that!

Very informative post. I use most of them on a daily basis as well.

Upvoted, excellent work.

Following. First found you through @gardenofeden and @saramiller in one of their posts!

Peace.