### Dear Steemian Friends,

Time has flown by so fast.   It has already been 7 months that I am on Steemit.  Continue to **Steem on** even though these days the SBD had gone lower. Wait for the next round of boost which will coming very shortly.

![7Month.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1521188747/dtifwrvesyvthgefukyc.png)

I continue on this series of Steemit milestones to share with newbies what had been working for me on Steemit.  And every month I share with you what has worked for me on this platform.  Today, I share 2 Big Tips for Steemit Newbies.


### First Big Tip on Steemit: Do  Consistent Blogging

When you are on Steemit, you need to remember this is a Blogging Platform.  Everyday, thousands of people come on this platform to read blogs, to post blogs, to comment on blogs and share with others.

So the most important tip that I want to give to newbies about consistent blogging:  KEEP posting Everyday!

Don't disappear from the platform and come back in every week.  To keep the momentum going, you must BLOG EVERYDAY!

The Next question is: How to be consistent?  Perhaps this is the area that you are struggling with everyday.  Read on.

### Second Big Tip: Need  Strategies in your Consistent Blogging

- I make plans for my blogging. I don't just go on the dashboard and write my daily journal on Steemit.  People are not interested in your daily journal, unless your are a famous person.

- So what you  need to do is to look at the "SKILLS' that you have so that you can give value in your consistent blogging.

- When you can capitalize on your 'SKILLS' or 'EXPERTISE', then you can work out a plan to contribute value everyday.  You don't need to wreck your brain to make new things up everyday.  You can create a long term sharing with golden nuggets so that those who read your blog, learn something NEW everyday!  They will follow you for sure!

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### How I Plan My Consistent Blogging in the last 7 months:

1.  I blog  about **Travels** on Steepshot platform  with amazing photographs.

2.  I blog about **Piano Music** on Dsound platform to share some great piano runs and fills sounds.

3.  I blog **Music Theory Tutorials** on Dtube to teach people how to Read Music Fast Effectively.

4.  I blog **Open Source Projects** on Utopian.io with translations, suggestions, & tutorials.

5.  I blog  **Steemit Milestones**  every month to share tips & new platforms for Steemit newbies. 

I don't do all of the above in one post.  I stagger them.   Sometimes when I have more time, I blog TWICE a day.  If I have even more time, I blog THREE times a day.  That is probably the most I can go for each day.  But even if you BLOG one subject a day, it is very good already.

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### NEW Platform - [Smartsteem](https://smartsteem.com?r=rosatravels)

In the month of March, I discovered this NEW Platform.  I have only joined this platform for a few weeks and am loving it.  You will too when I list out the following 3 Great Advantages for you as you collect Steem and SBD into your wallet daily.


#### 1.  Great to buy upvotes to give a guarantee initial  boost to your posts

For us newbies, we need to  use some of these services to get some upvote boosts for our posts for visibility.  I don't recommend buying and selling upvotes but for practical purposes, for us newbies, we need to rely on them a little bit in the beginning.  

For Smartsteem, Just like all the other bot services, you can send any amount of SBD or Steem to @smartmarket, and they will upvote you from different users who sell their votes using Smartsteem.

In return you will receive an upvote from 2X to 2.5X of the value of your transaction. All this depends on the current curation reward.  This upvote is guarantee which makes it better than going for other bots that nowadays give you less than 2X.

For example, I just need to post the link of my post that I want to boost, and the following will show up:

![smartsteem1.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1521189680/lwhbvr2dyxgjyd4rmocs.png)

- I keyed in 5 SBD for the market
- In return, they tell me that they can give me an upvote of $11.25 guarantee.

This is what I like about this platform.  It is not a bidding gamble.  You know for sure what you will get in return of the upvote from the smartmarket.


#### 2.  Sell your votes on rainy days when you don't have time to curate

Some days, you may not have time to curate material.  So you can use smartsteem for this purpose.  I use this on rainy days when I am on a business trip where I cannot upvote and curate material.  Then I let smartsteem help me curate valuable material so that I don't waste my upvotes.

So you can go to the dashboard and do the following:

![smartsteem4.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1521190263/pd7n9lri6pad58gtjsmc.png)

- I set it to 80% because I still do my own curation to upvote good material.  I don't want my upvote to be lower than 80%.  You can decide what you want to set here.

- I set the payout everyday because I use it only on days that I don't have time to curate material and don't want to waste my upvotes.

- Notice that you get 85% profit sharing which is quite good.

- Lastly, I have 3 Selections to Vote for who:  Everyone, Choose Users, SmartSteemStars.  I choose the last one and let the platform curate those users with Stars meaning that they are excellent bloggers with valuable material.

####  Daily Payout for this is quite good:  
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![smartsteem6.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1521190749/bmp4wznn1mntlczyrsdm.png)

I did this yesterday, just 19 hours ago and I got a return of 2.392 SBD

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#### 3.  Bonus Rewards when you Refer Others to this platform.

Smartsteem has a referral program with your referral link.

#### This is my referral link:
https://smartsteem.com?r=rosatravels

By clicking on the above link, you can join Smartsteem through my referral link.  Smart steem wants to reward us when we invite  friends and other fellow steemians to smartsteem.  By doing so I receive 0.5% profit of every sold vote by my friends. The cool thing is that this profit is not taken away from you, but it is given to us from the smartsteem platform for promoting for them. 

You can do the same too.  

So do use my referral link so that I can see how many people I have helped in the process.  You don't lose anything at all.

On my dashboard, you can see the number of referral bonuses I have gotten so far:

![smartsteem2.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1521191249/jgmehsthtd4a1golsyjs.png)

Although the .5% profit you get from each vote from your referrals is not great, but they do add up as time goes on.  Right now I have 583 items in about the span of 3 weeks or so.  Pretty good, eh?

I would love to have you listed on my referral board.  So let me know if you joined through my link here and we will continue to help each other out in the long term:

https://smartsteem.com?r=rosatravels

Thank you for your attention and I wish you all success on Steemit,
Rosa
@rosatravels


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### Hope you have enjoyed reading this post. Upvote, Comment and Resteem if you like this post.

谢谢你的阅读！希望你喜欢。如果你喜欢我的分享, 请跟随我。

You can contact me at Utopian here: https://utopian.io/@rosatravels
You can contact me at Steemit here: https://steemit.com/@rosatravels
You can contact me at my Website here: http://LearnPianoWithRosa.com/