Would posting every 3 to 8 hours on Steemit be better than once or twice daily? eSteem now gives me the option to schedule posts ahead of time which combined with writing shorter posts will now allow me to test making more frequent posts instead of the all in huge once daily posts I have been making. What do you think is the ideal posting strategy here on Steemit?
With the generosity our upvotes have continued to provide on my recent posts, I have been tempted to not change anything because of fear of not contributing as much with shorter posts that are more frequent. I often find it difficult when I am following others that post frequently because it becomes hard for me to decide which of their posts to read and upvote. At the same time, I have weeks of post ideas ready to go already many which do not need to be 10,000 word posts but rather just updates on what I have already said I was working on! For example, updates on Florida Steemfest, Steemj, advertising campaigns, etc.
What inspired me was reviewing the top 10 authors on Steemit and seeing that about half of them post 2 to 8 times daily. I think of this as the @craig-grant strategy because he was the first person I followed who posted what seemed like an unbelievable amount of times every day. While I figured few were up for making that many posts, I now see the following authors out of the top 10 currently at https://steemwhales.com/trending/?d=30 use this strategy.
- @papa-pepper posts 3 to 5 times a day with this post from yesterday have a lot of depth https://steemit.com/steemit/@papa-pepper/steemit-it-is-what-we-make-it-so-what-in-the-world-are-we-making-it while the one after it is fairly short with a soundbite.
- @knozaki2015 posts 2 to 5 times a day with several types of numbered posts featuring travel and food.
- @steemsports posts 3 to 5 times a day about well sports!
- @craig-grant posts almost every three hours which means he must schedule his posts or never sleep for more than 2 hours at a time! Craig is an absolute machine at posting sharing mostly videos or short thoughts in his posts.
For further research into the top author strategies on Steemit, would you please read this post by @hannahlicious at https://steemit.com/steemit/@hannahlicious/the-top-50-steemit-authors-posting-strategies-how-to-be-a-whale because it has an awesome in depth analysis of top author posting strategies and helped me test this new to me approach today!
Out of the top 10 authors in the last 30 days with hard fork 19, 4 out of ten post significantly more than once daily and I am grateful for their example in giving me the courage to try this because I find constant testing is essential for learning and a happy life. Meanwhile, these reasons have thus far blocked me from trying more frequent posts.
- Fear of overwhelming upvoters with too many choices.
- Fear of being seen as greedy for making so many posts.
- Fear of not being able to make more posts daily.
- Fear of feeling like one post per day is not enough.
- Using 2% of my voting power on every post means less to upvote others and earn via curation.
- Laziness in finally just installing eSteem after hearing about it for a month.
- Fear of making posts with small earnings.
- Fear of doing anything different when things are going so well!
I am amazed how much fear impacts decision making in life and am grateful today for the courage to take a leap of faith and test a different posting format on Steemit!
What do you think of posting once daily on Steemit versus more often? How often do you post? When you are following an author, what do you prefer? Do you like the choices of having more short posts on different topics or just one post daily to allow for browsing more by others?
Thank you very much for reading this! Would you upvote this post because when I get paid, you will also get a percentage of the curation rewards?
Love,
Jerry Banfield