There are two ingredients for success on steemit.
1. Creating quality content.
2. Marketing your content.
If you have been writing for a while and hold a sound knowledge about your niche, creating quality content is as easy as pie, but the real deal comes in while marketing your content. Most people lag in marketing and that's why they are less successful than others.
So the answer you must seek in order to become an established author on steemit is "How to market your content!".
I have found a very useful tool which I used in my last post, and it was quite beneficial.
The tool was whaleshares token. And by using it, I was able to push my post up to hot tab and that too among the top 5 hot posts.
As you can see, the 4th one, i.e Why Do We Get Scared! is mine.
So if you want to know more about whaleshares token and how to use it in marketing your content, you can read below.
What is whaleshares token!
Whaleshares is a meta-token designed by @officialfuzzy to summon whales on any post you want.
The vision behind whaleshares token is to give incentives to whales for not powering down, which will boost the steemit economy, as the more steem power we keep in steemit, the stronger steemit becomes.
The incentive is in the form of whaleshare token.
How can you get some whaleshares token?
You can trade them with bitshares on bitshares.org
You can create your bitshares account in 3 easy steps.
First go to https://bitshares.org/, you will land on this page.
Click on try online exchange, and then create new account as shown in the pic.
Now you will be asked to choose the model, I will guide you through account model, but you can choose wallet model too if you like as both of them has their own benefits.
Now, if you click here, you can buy whaleshares from bitshares. You can either deposit bitshares if you already have or you can click on buy bitshares and a popup window will appear showing you bitcoin address, by sending btc here, you can purchase bitshares and trade them with whaleshares.
You can also get free whaleshares through Steemtrail discord channel free whaleshares or participating in contests of Whaleshares channel.
One of the contest going on is SteemGIG: The Best "How To Use Whaleshares" Tutorial, Wins A Potential 500 Beyondbits i.e Almost $800!!!. Beyondbit is a similar token to whaleshare, the only differenece is @fuzzyvest will upvote your post instead of @officialfuzzy.
How to use whaleshares?
Once you have got whaleshares in your bitshares account, you can use them on any post you want.
First you have to go to http://whaleshares.net/, then you have to paste the url of the post you want to be upvoted and click on the upvote option. Then copy the memo starting with U and the URL of your post and paste the memo while sending the whaleshares to whaleshares account like this. As you can see, I have used 100 whaleshares tokens to see the full effect of whaleshares token.
The result of using 100 whaleshares was quite enhancing as you can see.
So if you think you have written a high quality article and want to get a shoutout by exhibiting it on the hot page, you can use maximum i.e 100 whaleshares or beyondbits on your posts within 30 mins of posting the article. Like I have again tried on this article.
As the hot page is quite dynamic, so it might not stay there for more than a few minutes, so you should be pretty sure about the quality of the content youb are promoting as low quality content will be buried down again and high quality content will make it up to trending page.
If you have tried whaleshares or beyond bits, share your experience with me.