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RE: Hey everyone! I'm here to talk cryptocurrency, writing, cooking, and gaming (in that order)
Hi Chris, and Welcome to Steemit.
Good to read your well-written intro. With posts of similar (or higher) quality, you'll surely find an audience and followers on Steemit.
Also, you various interests will prove to be good resources for your input. As long as you are passionate about what you post, you will be successful ... eventually.
Below are a few basic points of advice re posting on Steemit.
- Longer posts are more lucrative than short posts. If you make a post of 20–30 paragraphs, it's more likely to earn rewards.
- Include some photos, images or graphs, to complement the text.
- Make sure the text and photos are formatted properly, so that your post looks attractive and appealing.
- Be yourself.
- Be interesting and informative.
- Create quality content. Steemit is intended to be a platform of quality content. (You will see many insignificant posts with meager content and no quality. Most of those of posts [called “shitposts” by Steemit whale Stellabelle] will earn few rewards and soon pass into oblivion.)
- Get online and start curating. Read various posts, comment on those posts you find interesting, and upvote those posts. That’s the best way to attract followers.
Hope this helps for now. Good luck, and Full Steem Ahead!
Thanks for the tips, the first is actually surprising. I've always been taught to write concisely, but I suppose longer post = more total value. And value is what brought me here :) Thanks for the awesome welcome and helpful tips. See ya around!
Hey, glad you like them. Yes, I agree the first is surprising, particularly consider the Tweet limit and the emphasis on brevity in other social media.
Here's another surprise.... Short posts can be more lucrative at times. Case in point: Months ago, I made several very long photo diaries, with a decent balance of text and photos, and they earned me minimal rewards. So I stopped posting such.
A few months later, I started posting into photo contests, just one photo at a times. They not only provide more exposure and more followers, they also turned out to earn me more rewards than my longer diaries.
(Of course, I had powered up, and I now have more followers, but it's clearer that, in certain cases, SHORTER posts may be more lucrative.)
Here are some photo contest links;
... @photocontests ... by @juliank
... #tepchallenge ... by @theexplorer