Perhaps it is time to start investing your time in researching tribes and tags to use, and then invest in posts?
Also, are you active on discord and shilling your posts?
Keep going, it is a game and we eventually learn how to play it.
Right now, my posts are all low earning, but I found that for every 5-10 posts, I end up getting "big" upvotes from certain accounts. It makes the average of my earnings much higher.
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I've been active on tribes and using communities now, but my complaint isn't just about how much I make. It's about the attitude of the whales that upvote themselves for every little thing they do, getting massive rewards while others work hard to bring actual value into the blockchain and go ignored by them. It just doesn't seem right to me because I never agreed to work for them and I end up feeling we all do.
If I'm going to spend time here it's because I find the community to be awesome and doing elaborate posts wears down the mind, takes away energy I could be using to do more enjoyable things (or more lucrative things if I need the money). I find supporting others drains less energy and involves less thought, so that's why it seems more appealing at this moment.
Thanks for stopping by!
I get it. I used to do more research oriented posts regarding depression, and parenting. The "problem" with that is that we are a worldwide market of readers, and our posts sometimes get lost. Especially, because say how a Southern California Mom deals with her problem of excess clothes that makes it hard to keep up with laundry, is NOT exactly what many here are dealing with. Even in my specific group of steemitmamas... I have found that those who have a consistent following have pretty specific niche - that many here can relate to.
I think the answer there is to write your long, detailed posts, and then wait for the right opportunity to share them, like when there is a contest or a call to action. If not, you can turn them into an e-book and upload them to the steemleo store, and advertise them on the bottom of your short posts.
Currently, I am stringing a lot of my posts together, and putting a few ebooks together. I have been writing here for years, so I have some fiction, and some niche posts that can easily be put towards an e-book. Of course, all this excitement has me watching the feeds instead of tweaking my work. Or. Maybe I am just a procrastinator... lol.
As far as the whales... it is hard to be mad at them, since you don't become a whale by writing great posts, you had to have put $$$ in here. Many of them put money in here during times when they money could have easily been lost (if steem fails, their money goes) or when steem prices were high, and they lost a lot of investment. If I had put whale amounts of money in here, you bet i'd be going for investment growth of my personal funds before helping out "the little guys" that said. There are some whales, who have helped me grow my account. My posts have never really paid more than $30.00 STEEM - and those were rare, but their $1.00 votes here and there, really keep things going.
Yeah, I'm not really mad at them, just stating a situation which I believe should be improved. I feel it got a bit out of hand with the hostile takeover as I saw too much of whales voting for whales, and too many small accounts with less than 1 USD rewards in their posts.
You are right that they are taking big risks with their money and that is something to be thanked for. Nonetheless, this has to be mutual for their money is also lost without the community and the thousands of small accounts that make it happen.
Anyway, this little rant got me into doing something enjoyable that has been already appreciated by some so that's cool :)
Be very careful.... I tried sharing a few links to posts on Discord and it Backfired spectacularly for me. Leads to Downvotes and getting blacklisted by Big Whales.