Ready to get some followers? I'm going to drop some common sense word-bombs onto your eyeballs.
I know you're ready to make crazy money on Steemit, but the first step to getting paid is earning followers. On classic social networking, you just get followers without much effort, but on Steemit you most definitely need to earn them.
How do I earn followers?
You want to know the big secret? The Secret is 3-Fold...
1. Follow Others
Explore the tags you're interested in and find people to follow. Reputation score is a good indicator, but not the only thing on which you should base your decision. It's easy, and you can always unfollow someone later if they end up spamming your feed with some boring rubbish.
2. Read Their Content
This is pretty simple, and there's really no way around it. You just have to read. It's the respectful thing to do, and that's what you would expect to be done with your own content.
3. Comment on Their Posts
This is why it's so crucial to read the entire post (not just the title). This is the most important step in earning quality followers. Find something within the post that actually speaks to you and make a real comment. Sometimes quality comments are multiple paragraphs. After all, you get authorship of your comments on Steemit. Occasionally you'll get substantial upvotes on comments that add value to the post or discussion. This is how you're going to find your followers.
They're out there
There are actually people out there who are interested in what you have to say. Maybe not everything, because frankly, some of it is quite boring. On Steemit, there are so many quality people out there just waiting to follow you and curate your content. It doesn't even matter what kind of weird stuff you're into. You just have to work a little to find them.
Final Word
I hope I didn't get too technical, as I was intending to write this for the new user. The bottom line: You need to participate in all of Steemit in order to maximize what you can get out of it. That means not only creating quality content consistently, but always spending time reading your peers' content and commenting like you mean it. They deserve it.
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