Cool banner! Using the Vault Boy is a nice little extra, because it adds more value to your content or your own community. You give your old and new followers a little taste of your interests and they might share that same interest. Very nice!

You've inspired me to work on my signature line by creating a banner, I have a graphic I pieced together out of clip art, but I feel like I need an upgrade!

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Hey, i would love for you to create a banner for me (Something like yours) =) 

Let me know and i will transfer the 4SDB :)

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fairly to say I just found out. Handige post :)

Hey @rvanstel! 
As promised here we are to provide you with some feedback regarding your blog. 

First of all: great idea to offer your design services here. If you have time it would be awesome if you could create a banner for my main account: @surfermarly :-) She's a surfer girl, so it would be amazing to have a banner showing her with the surfboard. Here's a photography that may inspire you:
https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://scontent-mad1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18882254_1493218234094056_4185058936107690682_n.jpg?oh=10a75331371cb424d66b2c147990b9a9&oe=599B94B8

If you need more info/input, just drop me a link in one of my articles.

**But now back to business!**

Before I start giving you some tips, I need to say that you are doing quite well! More than 300 followers and $200 since May 2017 is a word! 
Especially when thinking about the masses of new users that have joined the platform since then. 

That leads me to my first point... 

Your profile description could be a bit more precise. Imagine that your blog was a magazine. Readers love very much to know "what they get" at once. So imagine that you went to a newspaper stand in order to buy a magazine. What would need to be on the cover to make you buy it? 

> Voluntarism, Dutch, Always studying, always learning, Geopolitics, History, Economics, Crypto

That is quite a lot. You might focus on two or three areas, also mentioning that you design banners for steemit accounts which is a great plus :-)

That also means that you shouldn't write about uncountable different topics. You may rather try to be good at 1 or 2 than pretenting to become a jack of all trades :-) Imagine that a star chef would never be able to become a world leading tennis player - and the other way around. Try to be a cook or a sports man - a history enthusiast or a photographer. 

You will see: the more you focus on one thing and really try to become good at it, the sooner your blog will get noticed. It's hard to stand out in the masses here, so try to be clear in your messages and try to offer a well defined "brand". When users read your username they immediately should think: "Ah that's the Dutch history expert!" (for example).

When it comes to style / format, I actually can't tell you much. This article I'm commenting right now is pretty good: nice structure, well separated by cross heading, paragraphs, not too overloaded. I enjoyed the read! 

The fact that you included steemgig shows me that you're getting involved with the community. That's brilliant and another important advice: if you want to become successful on steemit, then you have to think first what you can do for the community and THEN what steemit can do for your. So the more value you contribute, the better you're going to get rewarded for it.

Again, you're doing very well already! 

We'll keep in touch - @surfermarly needs that fancy banner :-))

@steemaniacs

Nice idea! Can't wait to get a banner from you :-)
Please feel free to contact me for more details.
Have a nice weekend!

Nice idea, Richard! Question: Isn't this character from Fallout protected with a copyright? Just curious
btw, I never played Fallout so didn't recognize this as being a game character. I actually thought you designed this guy to look like you, haha