This is what this post is about ,this is about me "a minnow" and many others like me ,we do mistakes plenty of them without realizing "where I was wrong" !
I will be focusing on these major pitfalls and how to overcome !
- Blind following /Mass following
- Not taking care of your Followers -
- Resteeming and upvoting without content reading
- Comments that arent heart felt
- Impatience ,too many posts,and errors
- Lack of confidence
▀▄▀▄▀▄ 1. Blind following - Mass following ▄▀▄▀▄▀
Lets focus on what these two terms mean
a.)🅑🅛🅘🅝🅓 🅕🅞🅛🅛🅞🅦🅘🅝🅖 :- When you follow someone cause you see he has a great Rep and his posts get a lot of earnings so he might
be a great add on to your shelf , and you dont care if your area of interests collide with him or not.
for example the person writes about cosmic activity and universe and your expertise is animals and photography !!
so when his post comes out on "string theory" your comment would be like "my cat loves to play with ball of string here is a photo of Mr.puddles I hope you like it" he bloody wont like it he will probably flag you for a spammer no good can ever come out of following blindly !
when you follow someone from your own field you grow together people start to notice you when you comment in there posts cause they know you too belong from the same field and an awesome way to build followers honest ones !
(b.) 🅜🅐🅢🅢 🅕🅞🅛🅛🅞🅦🅘🅝🅖:- well members of this community could be seen begging Follow for a Follow
you want to gain an insane amount of followers overnight ?? then go to any whales for example go to @firepower 's account
and look at number of people he is following let me save you the trouble ,
click on it and start following all the people without caring about their rep or field of blog !! If you follow that amount of people I am certain over night you can have more than 2k followers (cause majority are members of that follow for a follow community)
well here are three reasons why you shouldnt do it
- He is a Whale and you are not, he can probably post a photo of his ceiling fan and get 100$ upvotes
- you cant have your home screen filled with updates from so many people and expect to give time to each other
- Dead and ghost followers
No need to be alarmed its a terminology used to for people who have either not been active on steemit or have been staying away from your blogs ! you went for a mass following and you got some followers back,but did you expect loyalty from them ?? no they probably have followed more people than you did ! they can never help you to lift up and engage in a conversation or will never even open any of your blog
let me explain it with a beautiful website http://www.steemspectacles.com designed gracefully with love and steem by @pilcrow and @sjennon
I have a friend here on steemit @chapterclosed he gets his fair share of upvotes on steemit but he has 1200 followers yet he gets only 20 upvotes on an average lets look at his profile on http://www.steemspectacles.com
what the ?? out of 1223 followers 1117 followers dont engage with him and rest around 350 have been inactive on steemit !!
this could be really demoralizing for someone to have only 20 views on your blog to which you gave your whole day to despite having 1200 followers ! but we know @chapterclosed he manages finely ! and constantly provides us with great song lyrics !!
and he is about to make it to 51 rep .....!
So if you want an honest following who really appreciate your content ,cause numbers matter as long as they are real !
A Big shout out to @reggaemuffin for being keenly involved in helping out minnows and his sharp eyes at spotting talented writers
