The Steemit Newbie Guide: How to Grow Fast and Get Those SBDs

STEEMIT has been growing a lot lately, and the gates are flooding with new blood. This is a great thing as we need the platform to grow and love each and every new user who plans on using this platform and invest himself in it.

I've been writing about how to promote Steemit, how to onboard new users and giving out some information that newbies should know and nobody tells them. I realize there are tons of posts out there explaining how things work, but we still need fresh guides to come out on a regular basis because of not only the forks (updates) but also because of the fact the search bar sucks and those new users can't find those posts.

Having said that, today I'm going to give newbies a guide on how to grow their Steemit audiences lightning fast in a natural and easy way.

This will also ensure that these "noobs" get a great income level right at the start.

 

Why Should I Talk: I'm a Newbie Myself

My reputation is 50 and I have incoming rewards of about ~800USD for the next 6 days as of now, but I'm not even a month old. I'm a newborn really, but I grew fast because of one thing that is true for everyone of you:

• Steemit Rewards Hard Work!

Steemit is easy, it is very easy, but it takes work, it takes lots of work.

So, if your interpretation of easy is to get things effortless, then I'm sorry, but if on the other hand you consider easy to be being rewarded fairly for your efforts, that I can guarantee you it is.

Those who put more work into the platform get more out of it, those who want to take "easy street" get less.

My metrics look great, but it actually may repel you to know that not only have I published daily, sometimes more than once or twice, I also started out by commenting...

...And commenting a LOT!

 

Here's the Holy Grail of Newbie Steemit Income and Follower Building: Comment, Comment, Comment!

When I was first starting, posts would give me mere cents if anything at all, because I had no followers, but I made a whole lot of SBD and followers through commenting.

My account grew because I commented sometimes more than 100 times a day. Heck, on my first days I made:

• ~1.5 USD on Posts;
• ~170 USD on Comments.

Let that sink in. Imagine the amount of comments I had to make in order to reach those numbers as a newbie.

Now, quality is a heavy influencer of course. Don't comment spam or one liners. Add value, because if you don't sound smart people won't have a reason to follow you, and won't upvote you.

 

Use Proper Steemit Etiquette:

Let's face it, there are protocols to follow around here, and Steemit Etiquette can make or break your onboarding experience.

So, make sure you:

1. Always Upvote the Post You Comment
2. Comment Smart Things Related to the Post, don't talk without knowing what to say.
3. If you can't say anything pertinent, don't bother, go to another post.
4. Comment on the "New" section.
5. When you're sick of commenting, go do another thing, then get back to commenting after 30 minutes.

Always make sure you comment at least 100 times per day for your first week.

Do this, and I promise you you'll have a great start here.

 

Do You Want to Overkill It?

Finally, if you comment like 200 times per day and you really want to make sure you get those SBDs and Followers as fast as possible, join every Steem Community under the sun.

Let me be clear, I couldn't pull this off. I joined 3 of them and dedicated myself to those three. They gave me a lot of value and vice-versa, and I can see you can reap a lot of benefits from them - Steemit is after all a "game" in which you depend on others so networking is vital.

On the other hand, I know that I would have benefitted from joining and dedicating myself to more than those 3, but chose not to.

If you want to overkill it and have the time (if you're a stay at home person, unemployed etc...) Then do join all the communities.

GIVE before ASKING!

Do nice things for them all, it will come back.

 

But Max, Why Are You Talking Like a Greedy Person?

This is easy to answer and easy to understand: The absolute crushing majority of people that enter Steemit, enter it because they are motivated to do so Financially.

They join it to pursue the rewards, and I'm no different, I did so too. What I found is that those who do not get their rewards in the first weeks don't bother coming back.

We NEED more people. We NEED the community to grow.

That's why we NEED to give newbies the tools and knowledge, the tips, they recquire to ensure they find success here as fast as possible.

 

To sum it all up, spend the big majority of your time here as a "freshman" commenting, and really put your back into it.

Comment until you're sick to the stomach, comment until you drop comments from your eye sockets and feel like mashing the keyboard!

Do this and I promise you the rewards and followers will come.

Don't despair, find likeminded people and help us all make this community BIGGER!

Cheers.

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