Along the Journey - STEEM Reputation Story

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at first the beneficiaries @null 3%, @steempeak 2%, @patlog 3%, @steem.dao 2%, @ocdb 3%
NOW have fun with the post :))


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A STEEM Reputation Story

We all start somewhere

It was a little bit longer than a year ago, that I became a STEEMian. I had no clue what this platform really is, but I was on-boarded by a DTuber and just followed them to STEEM. As soon as arrived, I felt like it's some kind of an entrance into the crypto world for me and so I gave it a shot.

Witnesses & STEEM Power, DApps & Bid Bots, Whales and Thuna :p - so little did I know! Looking back feels already so nostalgic, even if it's just a year ago.

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Staying up to date

While I try to get updates, I sometimes find traces of old and dead STEEM projects. I stumble over services that I've never seen before, which actually are dead or shockingly working very nice. Then again there is an overflowing amount of #NewSteem and upcoming project, STEEM Games to play and Discord stuff to read... a lot to do, just to stay on the ball :p

I have to wonder, what it feels like to find this STEEM at the end of 2019 now, maybe even without any kind of guidance. My guess is, that people get super confused by it and don't understand what it actually is about. All their attention will be dragged to the --> '$' <--, next to every post.
And they might wonder: "Can I earn that too"?

In my case, it made me wonder: "Why is the payout visible?" Other Platforms don't show payouts next to the content, what is happening here?

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My Start-Struggles

Since I was stranded here and interested, I needed an account. So as a 100% new user, without any additional information, you will not buy an account. There is too much fraud in the www to go for such a bold move. You just go through the registration and expect easy access.
Well :)) I verified and waited 11 days before anything happened! That was really confusing! Then finally an email reached me and I could finish the account creation - super strange.

The first thing I found out was basically that my vote is worth nothing and comment sections are not that interactive - because I wrote a few and got 0 answers. Again - super strange.

New I know, they ALL are talking on DISCORD. But I didn't even use Discord in 2018 and it took me another year to get started with it. STEEMians are really co-dependent on discord, that is super dangerous and also - super strange.

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STEEM vs Engagement

From the very first day on I realized that engagement is a major issue on STEEM and it didn't get that much butter up until today. At least Steem-Engine Token bots create some traffic down there now, what a blessing! @detlev <<-- beste Mann

Engagement is the most important word when it comes to social media posts. From the perspective of an advertiser, it is absolutely everything. Even while content creator here doesn't have to rely on ad money, it still has tremendous value. Higher engagement rates would increase the searchability of the content and therefor also the exposure of STEEM and for sure impact the value of STEEM. This is a social media site after all.
We see a little bit of a renaissance of engagement with the manual curators since HF22 / EIP, but there is still a lot of empty space to grow into. The overall social media engagement rate is very low, especially considering comments.

to sync us, here is the general definition:
Engagement rates are often used by social media marketers to define the success of a campaign, as well as social media influencers as evidence of their engaged audience. Engagement rate is calculated by the engagement (interactions) on a piece of content divided by the number of users following the account.

Let's take an example

Taraz is for sure one if the most skilled daily authors on the Blockchain. There is not a single bad post he made, everything is compelling and well written.

So let's look at his engagement rate:
@Tarazkp has nearly 6000 Followers and an avg. of ~300Likes and 15 Comments per post.
==> that makes ~5%, if I substract auto upvotes now, where do I end up?
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I tried to start conversations in the comment section lately again. Of course, related to the actual post and in a good way,... but guys I got in a lot of trouble for that!

It feels like a lot of STEEMians have a hard time with real engagement. They enter upvote circles, buy SBI and evade efficiently all conversations in the comment sections. That can be rude, is for sure bad for the engagement rate and makes them less valuable as an influence. My guess is, they don't care and they never did.

Don't even trip, BRO.
Justin Roiland

But advertisers and investors do care. If they are used to invest into social media campaigns or projects and look at the engagement rates, they will act accordingly.

What do you think about this? Write a comment or 50 of them, I'll answer you for sure :))

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Time to 'put the pedal to the metal'

In the last few weeks I started to go deeper and deeper into the STEEM game.

  1. Visiting Town Hall at MSP Waves
  2. Hearing Banjo music with @r0nd0n
    (if you don't like Banjo music, you're probably not a real STEEMian - sorry)
  3. Reading and Listening to what the wales are publishing

--- That was all the part ---

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4. Started Project 3xi Influencer On-Boarding3xi2.png
5. Started the STEEMBROS Spliterlands Video Series20191029 12_14_12HChallenge_vl_2.mp4  VLC media player.png
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Leveling up my Blog and VLogsMMBanner1.png

... And there is so much more to come already for just this week... We really do some heavy lifting, not just random content on budget.

So maybe follow me around, if you ain't doing it yet :))

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Meanwhile, we have Tuesday and I am planning to publish 5 Posts today.

Everything is scheduled very tight......and I really need to stick to my plan... BUT HEY
I'm about to hit REPUTATION 62!20191029 10_06_09Manni  manniman _ SteemPeak.png

Well isn't that great! Somewhere along the journey, I gained a lot of reputation and I love it!

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Good morning and thanks for reading!
Manni over and out :))



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