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Welcome to my blog :)

If you are new here, I can't begiun to express how much it means to me that you spend a few minutes of your day and hang out with me and my content!

A quick note about yours truly.  I'm 'Jongo' and I've been on the blockchain since December 2017.  The community kind of gave me the nickname 'Jongo' because of no one could figure out what my 'name' was....

You see, in all my brilliance, when I joined I thought it would be cool to add my middle initial to my username....Jon G. Olson. Of course, no one knew me, so I became known as....

Jon *Golson*

Soon, people started to shorten it to....Jongo.  I didn't name myself, the community did! So I wear it like a badge :)

And why is this important or what the heck does this even have to do about this post?

I'll explain :)

Jongo does these posts every Saturday night.  I call them #MyHiveGoals and it's my way of highlighting my week on the blockchain.  My wins, my losses and some metrics I use to judge my progress here.

I talk about the $HIVE Power I have accumulated over the past 7 days.  And how far away I am to my goals that I set for myself every year.  

I also track my $HIVE I earn per day, the $LEO I accumulate as well but there is a metric I leave out which I wanted to talk about tonight.

First up, the idea for this post was from @yeckingo1 and a comment they left on my blog the other day....

**Followers matter on this blockchain!**

It really made me realize how important that number is on our blogs....

Recently I reached a nice little milestone here on chain, where I earned my 4000th follower.

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You see, this may seem like a vanity metric to some.  Kind of like our reputation scores on the chain.  But for me, this might be the most important metric one can focus on when it comes to growth on chain.

Sure, there is lots of attrition.  And a lot of the followers I had from 2017 might not be around anymore.  But to me, this is the true measuring stick when it comes to....Success on a true #web3 platform.

One of my pillar pieces of content was something I called [the 5-500-5000 formula](https://peakd.com/steemit/@jongolson/my-5-500-5000-plan-for-2018).  The idea is simple, engage with 5 members of the community every day, this becomes 500 followers on chain which leads to eventually earning 5000 Hive Power from constant effort.

The spark to this maybe the daily engagement but I think what adds the fuel to the fire, is the target in followers.  

**Why?**

I don't know about you, but I rarely find the 'hot topics' here on chain.  What I end up looking at, engaging with and curating are things from my following feed!

So as a content creator here, I think focusing on growing your following is paramount to long term success.

Remember, your follower list is built into every app that builds here on chain.  I didn't need to grow my following on 3speak, and then Liketu and then InLeo....I just focused, on growing my following on the blockchain as a whole.

That's very powerful, considering, you own this account....No one can stop you from gaining followers here.

And to me, that's a great activity to focus on and spend my time on here.....Is this the one metric to rule them all?

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