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Good day! I am Zak Ludick from sunny South Africa (It is November after all) and this is the first of the Busy Bee Class tutorials. As I explained in LINK TO INTRO POST, I have a class of new Hivers to teach. Since I start teaching people about Hive in 2022, I have learned more things myself and taught and learned about teaching.

Now I have a new group of Hivers to teach. Generally the things that I post about in these posts holds true for any Hiver at any level, but are crucial to understand for the newbie on the blockchain.

Newbies can sit and watch and emulate successful Hivers and sometimes it is difficult to understand what specifically drives the success of others when they are already established. Even the bigger accounts flourish by applying these habits but for the new blogger the difference is felt more acutely.

I am not going to lie, I love analogies. While I was thinking about what to teach and how to explain this I had come up with some analogies to help visualize the explanation. Then I revised the idea and I realized that the more I thought about it, the simpler it became.

You see, while there are many factors to the success of good Hivers on the blockchain, I could make an analogy of the pillars holding up a structure, a roof or the legs of a chair. Or maybe this would bloat over time as I found other useful tips and tricks and instead of four legs like a dog, we get an Ant or a Spider or a Centipede! 

I realized then that this would be incorrect. 

When you remove one leg or pillar from a structure or animal that has lots of them, then generally they can keep going. The more legs there are, the easier it is to discount some of the legs and then ultimately the lesson is lost!

Instead I thought about it some more.

I realized that although there are a hundred little things I could teach you to do and make a centipede out of it, this is false since two of the legs did most of the work and some of the legs in my analogy serve as nothing other than to support one of the other legs.

That is when I realized that there are only two legs! So… human legs. Human locomotion happens when you use your two legs and walk forward, one and then the other. Perfect! This is EXACTLY correct for my analogy!

All the other things are about how to make those two legs work better, but there are still only two legs. Thus, this example is extremely simple:

The two legs that hold up and drive forward Successful Hivers are: Posting and Engagement.

Without these two basic things, you will not earn well on Hive. You need to post something in order for people to vote on it and when they do, there will be an allocation from the Rewards Pool based on the HP stake of your voters. You simply will not earn anything should you never make a post.

Let’s call this the dominant leg. The one that you always use to take your first step. The second leg is Engagement. This is interaction with others. There are dozens of little things that you can do to improve Engagement but in a nutshell, if you do not communicate with others, your own work will not be seen and thus there will be a limit to how many upvotes you can get.

This is especially true for new Hive accounts. Nobody knows you. Usually you have no HP either. For what reason would people see your posts?

There are aspects of Posting that will help increase the awareness of your posts but there are far more aspects of Engagement that will do 10 times the work. Regardless, they are all important.

Your roadmap to success is therefore determined thusly:

1. You need to post to earn.
2. You need to Engage with others to increase visibility.
3. Visible posts will gain you greater income, a visible and active account will gain you more Followers.
4. Repeat this process to keep earning!

And there you have it, the successful habits seem rather simple don’t they?

Busy Bee Class levels of action:
I realize and respect that not everyone can be super active and do the same as others. I want to give the group of newbies Weekly tasks so to acknowledge this, I will set the task this first time and see if you fall into a Low Activity, Medium Activity or High Activity bracket.

This week’s task:

Make some posts: One post is better than nothing. 3 posts a week is good. 6 or more posts is a super productive.
Make some Engagement: Go look at topics and communities that you like, read the posts, upvote them and MAKE A COMMENT. Try speak to someone new every day, this is better than nothing. Speak to 3 new people per day is better and speaking to 5 new people every day is great!

Also remember that you can follow others (especially when they submit good content you’d like to see more of) and that there are no limits. You do not have to follow everyone you speak to or that speaks back to you but I would strongly consider giving a follow back to anyone who follows you!

Let’s see how you do. I can see the posts you make and we shall review that component by the time this post is 7 days old. 

For your comments, please make a comment on this post every day and put the person’s name in your comment without the @ sign so it does not tag them in.

There will be other guides possibly posted before this one runs out but it should not give you another task while this one is active.

Thank you for reading and if you are not part of this class, you are welcome to join in!

Taglist:
@riesakashiya
@xenowolfza
@tomster-17
@kerras
@hellsveiah

Cheers!
@zakludick

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