Tips for new Steemians

in #introduceyourself7 years ago

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I have been on this incredible platform for a month now and I wanted to share some important tips for new users based on my short but fantastic experience to date.

So.. what is the best way to hit the ground running and make the most of yourself on Steemit? Here are my top tips (in no particular order):

1. Make your first impressions count

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  • Writing an excellent and impactful introduction post is a great way of welcoming yourself to the community. It is very important you tag “introduceyourself” as the community is always keen to meet newcomers and support them and the introduceyourself thread is the best place for that purpose.

  • In your introduction post, it is worth spending a bit of time to ensure your message is clear and written in a way that captures the attention of readers. Including pictures, humour, compassion, emotion and just being yourself will improve your chances of getting across to readers.

  • Try to communicate what makes you different and what you intend to bring to the community. For me, that was statistics and technical analysis.

2. Build followers and start following!

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  • Start following people that write content that interests you and make the effort to comment on their posts and interact with them where possible.

  • Build up your followers by introducing people who are new and making connections. This may seem like a lot of effort but the more connected you are with the community the more you will get from it. I have built up a lot of followers in the last month.

  • Connect with users with significant Steem Power (as well as newcomers) by taking an interest in their articles and writing interesting articles that will attract bigger fish! Remember, an upvote from a Whale can carry as much weight as 1000 newcomers. It’s not all about payouts but It is good to have a mix of followers to ensure you get good rewards for good content.

3. Try not to be put off by low rewards at the start

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  • This is very important and easier said than done. I guarantee that most people will write many incredible articles that get very little credit. This is not necessarily a reflection on the quality of your post but can be related to many other factors such as luck/timing, how established you are, your follower base etc. Just take a long term view and consistent quality content will win out in the end. And remember, $10 of Steem Power today could be worth $100 in a year’s time.

  • My personal experience has been that you win some, you lose some. There are some people in this community that consistently make significant rewards for their articles. This might seem like easy money but I assure you that in 99% of cases, this reflects very hard work over many months. Most of them will have started out like you and built their way up.

  • I have been very surprised both by posts of mine that have performed well (in terms of rewards) and ones that performed less than expected. Sometimes, it’s a short meaningful message written on the bus ride home that will have the greatest impact. Other times, you will spend a couple of hours putting together something you feel is brilliant only to be met with tumbleweeds.

Stick with it, keep writing and be proud of your content.

I hope you found this helpful.

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Some extra tips:

  1. Get your #Steemit link posted on the Steemit Official Facebook page:
    https://steemit.com/facebook/@steve-speaks/comment-with-your-post-and-i-ll-post-it-on-the-steemit-facebook-official-page
    & https://www.facebook.com/SteemitOfficial/
  2. Check out & sign up for Streemian. This is an initiative which has been created to give permission to bots which votes for you. This increases your curation rewards and influence automatically. @streemian & https://streemian.com
  3. Sign up for SteemBoost. You can post links here which will get boosted by this service: http://steem.link/RRLGI .
    Read more on: https://steemit.com/steemboost/@steve-speaks/how-the-f-do-i-earn-more-readers-and-followers
  4. Follow me, send me a message and I'll follow you back :)

Thanks, amazing - Following you too :)

really nice tips. I'm following you :)

Steve, This may be very useful to increase the value of payments.

I gave you a follow :)

Excelent follow me

Great advice and tips shared to many many of us including me and of course the new steemian which would eventually help us grow by taking your piece of advice. And it's actually necessary to communicate with others to build a healthy relationship with everyone. Thanks @bitgeek so this wonderful message. :)

Honestly, the best thing you can do as a beginner, is to read and sincerely comment on as many posts as you find interesting. I wish you the best of luck here, stay patient, and stay active. :)

I'll take note of your advice and will follow it. Thank you

thanks for the tips @bitgeek . I want to make a change in my community in Zimbabwe ,i want people to know about this great platform,and how it can help you socially and financially while enjoying what yo do.

Yes you can which would help everyone and then you would get tons of good people helping you in your real life in times of need bacause you're gonna help them too. :)

Thats true.

VERY USEFUL! Thanks your advice is what I needed exactly

Thanks for the tips Bitgeek :) I get what your saying about the tumbleweeds, seen a few of those roll by my posts of recent! But after reflecting upon it, I realised that my posts are not necessarily bad posts and it's just that i don't have the followers yet to see them get the recognition they deserve. Once i realised that i felt a lot better about it! :) Have decided to post a lot more comments with the occasional article for the time being until i gain a good following.

@bitgeek, Thank you very useful tips, i will try to do it.

great tips @bitgeek! i think it should be being able to share your thoughts and contribute to the steemit community first, then rewards later (for me at least, for now) ;-)

Nice post! I will definetly be learning from this one :) Following you!

Being a steemit starter myself, i can totally relate to every word you have said in the post. A great bunch of advise to carry along for a newbie