There are many articles on how to succeed on Steemit. This one is a little bit different.

You've heard that success on Steemit takes time, consistency, patience, and creating original content. Those are all absolutes. But you probably have not heard anything about selling on Steemit.

But...Selling on Steemit?! I don't have anything to sell!

Oh, but you do!

You have to sell yourself.

To succeed in anything online, you have to sell yourself.

Take online dating for instance. You are competing against thousands of other one dimensional non-beings. You are not real until they get to know you. And that takes setting yourself apart from the rest. That takes time and effort to prove that 1. You're not a bot. 2. You're not a prostitute or scam artist. 3. You are someone worth getting to know better in the really real world.

Steemit is no different. There are hundreds of articles posted every day. You have to give the reading population something to entice them to click on your article, as opposed to the other dozen on the screen.

Now is the crucial time. A reader has clicked on your post and is reading your piece. You have them! You invited them into your home and they took their shoes off. Now you gotta keep them there. Make them comfortable so they want to hit that Follow button and come back again and again.

1. Image and Headline

This is where you grab them. You need a good and royalty free image to capture their eye, and a headline that captures their attention so they are compelled to read more.

2. Content

Entertain with your information. You can be the foremost expert in your field and provide all the knowledge they could possibly need, but if your piece is not entertaining they will grow bored, get distracted, and go in search of better entertainment.

3. Be Yourself!

This is where you are selling yourself! Readers want YOU. Do not be afraid of putting yourself into your writing. This is what's called your unique voice. Nothing on the internet is new. Everything has been written about a thousand times over. It's up to you to use your unique voice in your writings. You are the only human on the planet who has experienced things as you have. Your viewpoint and perspective is different from everyone else's who has written a similar article on the very same subject. You must spin the content from your perspective and put a little bit of you in it to make it unique. To make yourself stand out from the rest. Sell yourself! We want to know about you and how you view things! Giving your writing a personal touch will give people something to relate to, and look at the subject in a slightly different way.