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Well seen as ginabot pinged me twice in this post, I thought I'd better come take a look!

It's really a case of time/money - however, 'time' can be devoted by someone else as per later in my reply.

You have a 1SP per 1000 SP vested return, which isn't so bad seeing as you are 75% auto.

Manually though, I think you could do much better - 50% better. However, your curation time would also go up. Unless...

For a while, @dontstopmenow was the champion of my weekly league, and that got him a job at the head of a trail in which @cryptoctopus (175k SP prior to him leasing) followed.

Circumstances have changed there recently and so @dontstopmenow is currently available (that may change soon though I guess). Anyway,I think he could get you up to 300SP+ a week.

He was up to around 320SP a week with 175k SP for cryptoctopus, who was suffering at around half that.

https://steemit.com/curation/@cryptoctopus/dontstopmenow-is-the-best-steem-curator-for-4-weeks-in-a-row-ridiculous-0-74-curation-to-sp-ratio

I would guess that you could keep some of your trails running, and perhaps lower the vote %, but that could discussed with the man in the know, if you are interested.

Cheers!

Need some serious mentorship on curation here. you guy are good at it, I know I will get there soon

Hola Asher!!!
This week I'm doing super-great, better than the last weeks ;-)
... but I'm out of the league 1 now.
Gonna check your post and the new winners tomorrow ;-)

Do you mean you want to be removed from league 1? I'll forget to do that as I use the same lists! :D

Let's see how I'm doing this week... I'm gonna stay if it's ok for you.

Haha... yeah... let's just say mannequinly