Good morning LEOians, we're approaching the end of our first month of Premium! So, how do the figures add up? Let's have a look and see! Is Leo Premium worth it for a small user on Hive? 

 https://i.imgur.com/g8XvQmh.png 

We'll start by premising the post a little. We're not the most active users on #threads by any stretch, and this is our fourth post via InLeo. In our first post, we removed the beneficiary award to InLeo. Our second post found some love from the InLeo curators. But overall, we've flown under the radar it seems. 

Looking back to our first post with our Premium sub, we were utilising the hopes and prayers model. Hopefully, everything works out perfectly and we make some $. After all, that was the message conveyed upon getting this 'free month' of premium! And, to be fair, we have at least earned more than we did on Twitter! 

 https://i.imgur.com/1hfl7aw.png 

Unfortunately, as mentioned previously, we've flown a little under the radar. Is there too much InLeo content? Do we just not have enough followers to be noticed? Do we not own enough LEO to be favoured by the Elites? Whatever the reason, we've received hardly any backing from the InLeo curation team and accounts. Is it possible our content didn't meet some requirements? Not every post should be upvoted, especially with a bumper upvote we do concede! 

Here are our other 3 posts so far under this experiment: 

[First Post](https://inleo.io/@slothburn/the-first-premium-sloth-on-inleo-not-a-burn-post)

[Second Post](https://inleo.io/@slothburn/one-week-into-premium-hows-it-going-)

[Third Post](https://inleo.io/@slothburn/making-the-most-of-premium-month-lets-power-up-)

What do you think, were they too low quality for curations, or were they just overlooked? Either way, let's check how we've been rewarded over the month and compare it to our predictions. I'll be honest, mega rewards were never our intention, of course, it would be great to afford premium again, after all, it would help continue to support InLeo's growth. However, our main goal was followers. We want to continue to grow as a Hive user and have an impact on the future of Hive, not just InLeo. 

|Starting Wallet:| Current Wallet   | 
| --- | --- | 
|https://i.imgur.com/O67XJqh.png |  https://i.imgur.com/VSk93u8.png | 

We're sitting on 19 LEO tokens we've gained in rewards. Overall we've almost doubled our value here, so not bad. (However, considering it was based on a $2 starting balance, it's not good either!) 
We've also been saving all the HBD rewards we got this month, ideally earning enough to buy another month of Premium. So far we've earned $2.50, a long way off the required amount. 
 https://i.imgur.com/UJzeJy0.png 

Finally, how are our followers looking? We started the month with 36 followers, we've gained 3 and are currently at 39 followers. So another poor metric to measure the success of Leo Premium. 

We've got 9 days left of this experiment, with a little luck our next couple of posts before the end will net us some better results and hopefully springboard us into another month of Premium. For now, we're feeling a little sloth! Let's see what the next week holds. 

What do you think, is there anything we could have done differently? Have we missed a trick? Did you forget to activate something? Or is this just the reality of being a little sloth in the big pond? 

 


Posted Using [InLeo Alpha](https://inleo.io/@slothburn/the-final-countdown-)