I joined steemit with great expectations and with this your post i know its going to take dedication and hardwork to get it big..
Key line to note... Never give up 💪

my post were always below $1.00 .. 
thanks for the post, never give up!
maybe on next 2 to 3 months and up, i will earn more than $1 sbd. per post..  
ang hirap kaya.. just hang on..

I hear you man but to be honest it's a bit disheartening when I finally get someone on steemit and they do one or two post and give up.  This site is awesome but it's a bit skewed.  I'm still going to promote it.  Hopefully SMT makes things a bit better.

I really liked your post. Im new in this community, Thanks. I know I have to be patience.

I was gone for 3 months due to emigration.. but I still have a lot to learn ;) Can't figure out how my upvote will be worth more, still only 0.01 lol .. wrote some posts last days, but little votes.. On a dutch blogging platform I have many followers and I hope I will have that here too one day :-)

There is a lot of truth to what you stated. I have seen a great increase of value but I do feel there are issues with how rewards are distributed at the moment. There are a lot of authors with connections that get inordinate rewards in my humble opinion. I keep grinding though. 

I've spent a lot of time on my last scripting project for instance to map followers Steem Power to their respective Dragon Ball characters. Thought it was a valuable idea that hasn't been done before. Maybe it'll break a dollar but guess it's ok otherwise. I mean if it meant something to 8 people I guess that makes it worthwhile, right?

It just gets me sometime as I see post upon posts that are clearly low effort that make bookoos of rewards (with not enough flags to hardly make a dent. Not enough policing imo). 

It makes me think that this gig isn't really about content quality or effort but rather who you know, using bid bots and self voting. Guess I'm getting kind of salty after but hey at least Steem/sbd is rising so that is a good consolation.

Congratulations @stackin!
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first of all i totally agree with you .since i start  steemit i thought from where will gat the content for it i cant write souse my English is so bad and there are people who are really serious they will not like my posts and i will just wast time and they one day just few days back some body up voted my comment and i got some $$$ and  i was so happy because i thought it can work and they guy who up voted me was you and after that i made few more goals so thanks to you and keep writing such stories like this i am motivated with this so much thank you so much

Never give up

Gotta keep crushing it and building that community. So many people give up when prices drop or they are not making a lot. What they fail to realize is we have all been there. This is what makes you successful or not true commitment.

keep hustling never ever give up

Well spoken sir...I almost gave up too myself sometime back, but I'm glad I came to my senses and stuck around before it became too late. Thanks for your sincere words of encouragement and advice sir.

Great motivational post. It takes hard work and dedication to succeed. You know it best:).

People born without money, don't let money motivate us. I had to work hard for everything I have. I refuse to climb onto the "please hand me everything" train now. Great pep talk though. I appreciate it Charles! ;)

@stackin I am totally agree with you but as well as there are also some questions. Everyone is much smart in today's era. Most of the people who have a enough welth to invest somewhere, they want to grow fastly everywhere and here is just the same. I see that some new Steemians already have a big amount of Steem power so that they can attract a big traffic of the steemians on their post. And mostly I see that it works. And the users who feel that I am giving my best to this community but I think I am not getting that what I deserve from my blog. I think Every steemian should help to grow this community because as you also know many users accept the defeat and leave this community. I think if a person comment and upvote on other steemian's post then other steemian should also check his/her and encourage his/her. I am not saying that they should upvote his/her but they should check the quality of them and guide, co-operate.

Good post good job bro

It is hard for us newbies/ small users on steemit. But sold some sbd when it was 15 dollars and got some groceries! Very encouraging. Seeeing sbd holding at 10 dollars gives steemit users like me hope that I can succeed! Never give up and steem on  :)

Yes, you were right about the price going up. Just hang in there and keep on posting. :)

Yeah bro I have around 3 weeks here and my goal is to establish myself and achieve a good reputation on 2018. 

My plan is to dedicate myself to steemit and give it my best. 

Steemit is a golden opportunity and it’s future looks bright!!

Thank you for the motivation. Indeed very helpful in your intial days especially. All I know is that instead of wasting my time on other social media platform, even if I don't earn much at least I will learn much here :)

Well I for one am having a hard time getting my pool of people to even view my posts but I am not giving up. I look to really hit Steem hard in the new year. Thanks for your post it has inspired me to work even harder.

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This is to true, I am someone that stepped away. Although, I had to and it wasn't stepping away from Facebook or Instagram! lol.  However, I came back to see how much a lot of people have grown since I was gone!

That's true.
never quit because quitters never win and winners never quit.
An encouragement to all Steem users.
#StayStrong

i absolutely love steemit :) I mostly make stuff on my blog,  which means that it automatically takes a bit longer than it normally does. At least a few hours for sure. Sometimes posts goes unseen (quite often indeed), but sometimes they recieve a larger income. Honestly, for me it's not that much about the income. I want to share my ideas, and have a great discussion with people, so i want people to join :) 

Right now i just wish i bought more steem for steempower, when it was cheap. That way i could help newcomers better ^^

Have a great day people

I completely agree . Im in full time education myself and because of that I can't get any financial aid from the government.  I have to work over 20 hours on the weekend and travel 4 hours each day to go to college. I only get the minimum wage and all of it goes towards sustaining myself and paying for rent. Steemit has allowed me to invest into more photography equipment and buying good books for college which I couldn't afford. With the introduction of zappl , sharing content has never been easier. Although not all of my posts do well and I do have some lazy ones because of my hectic lifestyle , I am still grateful a place like steemit exists. There are so many interesting people on here and I can learn new things every day.  Steemit has been so much better than Facebook or Instagram which make you earn nothing even when you invest all your time on them.  Naturally for anything you just have to have some patience in order to get somewhere. Great post , upvoted ^_^