Announcing 7-Day Build Your Steemit Profits Weekly Accountability Challenge

Hey Steem Fam,

Preamble

The idea of this 7-Day Build Your Steemit Profits Weekly Challenge is to support each other to:

  • pubish two new posts per day
  • make a bare minimum ten, preferably minimum fifteen comments every day


ONGOING WEEKLY CHALLENGE GOAL

The ONGOING WEEKLY CHALLENGE GOAL is that EVERY weekly Challenge participant will have:

  • FIFTEEN UPVOTES and
  • MINIMUM FIFTEEN COMMENTS

on EACH of their TWO DAILY POSTS.

The bigger vision for this is to help every Steemian around the world who's willing to do the work, to build their Steemian income, READ THAT STEEM PROFITS, to the equivalent of:

  • US$1,000/month MINIMUM PART TIME

or

  • US$3,000/month MINIMUM FULL TIME

Those are minimum figures. You get to choose and scale your Steem business to the level that suits you through your own smart strategic thinking and active, consistent implementation.

FULL DISCLOSURE #1:

I've provided business profit accountability coaching in all my offline jobs and consultancies and online Heaven on Earth Life and Business coaching.

I continue to do so as part of my vision to assist as many people around the world as I can to create their own version of their unique heaven on Earth lives.

Manifesting financial stability then freedom is a big part of this.

My hope is that through this Challenge we can work together here on Steemit to help countless more people achieve their chosen level of financial stability and freedom as a foundation to building happier, more meaningful and fun lives.

FULL DISCLOSURE #2:

I'm practically brand new on Steemit. This is my 19th day.

There are a TON of things I don't know about how to do things correctly on Steemit.

I'm winging it. So if you see me not dealing with something important, PLEASE let me know.

You can either use the comments below this main Challenge Introduction post or the latest weekly Challenge post when things get going this Sunday.

OR you can leave me a message in Discord chat using the same @angelacs username. The former is probably better right now.



Let's now flesh out the idea and structure of how this Challenge will work.

MAIN POINTS:

  1. Accountability works

  2. Accountability in a group makes accountabiity work better

  3. Topics of interest don't matter

  4. Your commitment and taking your Steemit business seriously is what matters

  5. Set your short, medium and long term Steemit income goals to undergird your daily activity

  6. Develop minimum two types of series posts that you can publish regularly, three to four if you choose.

  7. Publishing in series makes it easier for you because it adds structure and maximizes consistency

  8. Be creative. This si your chance to express yourself via text, audio or video.. choose your combination of preferred formats

  9. Intend to have fun. You won't stick to this and WIN every day if it's laborious, boring or unexciting

  10. Know that you deserve even more success and happiness than you currently now enjoy. Money doesn't buy happiness but it sure is as essential as air and it does facilitate being able to make choices that up your happiness levels in all areas of your life

  11. We'll be using Steemit as our platform to build our Steemit income. But succeed daily with writing two posts and making fifteen comments minimum and you will learn, master and be able to apply the principles of building new income streams of profit any time you want, with any business idea you choose, especially over the internet.

  12. Moveover, you'll be able to apply these accountability principles to any area of your life that you want and choose to experience increased blessings in.
    You are the creator of your life. You get to choose the level of success, happiness and meaning that you experience.
    If you see an area of your life that you are serious about improving, you'll be able to practice these same daily, step-by-step success-manifesting types of actions to accomplish whatever goals you set yourself.

  13. Change is stressful. The level of stress you feel and experience will be directly related to how big you decide to transform your Steemit business and your life. But that's why having a group that supports and encourages you is so powerful.
    This accountability group will be your family. And like all good family members, we'll be there for each other when we're doing out stuff right and when we slip, fall down and need an encouraging word, upvote, comment or kick in the a**. We're family after all. ;)

  14. I like starting my week on Sundays. So this ongoing 7-Day Build Your Steemit Profits Weekly Challenge will start this coming Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 12:00 noon, EST.
    It will end Sunday, March 11, 2018 at 11:59am at which point the second week's Challenge will begin again one minute later, at 12:00 noon, EST, the same day, Sunday, March 11, 2018.

  15. My intention at first was to make this a 5-Day Challenge, running Monday to Friday. But as I paused to word the title for this post, I got to make it seven days. Do you agree? Let me know in your comment below.

  16. In terms of how this will run along every week. I will post the week's challenge announcement a bit before 12:00 noon, EST each Sunday.
    My aim is to post it at 12:00 midnight actually so that peeps from earlier time zones can start at their 12:00 noon. But that's just between me and you and stays in this room, ok?

  17. If you are taking part in the Challenge for that, week... you know the drill. Comment to hold your space, upvote and resteem. All those three are important but the comment is key as I'll explain in a bit.

  18. I suggest you work ahead of time to at least list out the types of posts you'll be publishing each day of the week.
    So for instance, some of mine will be my Quotation posts where I share a fav quote and my insights on that quote. So for example, I'll probably pick the seven quotes I'll be sharing each day for the week ahead of time and try to create the matching graphics for each one.
    So have your post topic ideas straight so you can get to creating your two daily posts quicker without having to stop and figure out what you'll be posting on.

  19. Once you publish your two Steemit posts for each day, you will return to your 'spot' in the comments section of that week's Challenge post where you said you were going to participate. And you will hit 'Reply' to your own comment, Type in 'Day 1 Posts:', hit 'Enter' so it becomes a comment to your original comment.
    Then hit 'Reply' to that Day 1 comment and put in the link for your first post and click 'Enter'. For your second post, make a second comment under your Day 1 comment and enter your second post link.

  20. Now the cool thing is that to meet your minimum 15 comment daily goal (AND easily surpass it if you want), all you have to do is CLICK on ONE link for fifteen other Challenge participants.

  21. Before you post your first link for the day, LOOK for and FIND at least two other particpants' links. Read/listen/watch their post, then UPVOTE and COMMENT.
    AFTER that's done, RETURN to their links in the main Challenge post and enter a comment UNDER the post you just Upvoted and Commented on and TELL that participant that you visited and did that. TYPE IN:
    "Upvoted and commented". When picking the posts to visit, pay attention to the ones that do not yet have any such "Upvoted and commented" comments under them and go to those posts. As pointed out earlier in the MAIN POINTS section at the top of this post, the GOAL is that EVERY Challenge participant will have FIFTEEN UPVOTES and COMMENTS on EACH of their TWO DAILY POSTS.

  22. At the end of your day, go through the 'Upvoted and Commented' comments you made on the different Challenge links that were posted for that day. Count them up.
    Then go to the Comments tab on your Steemit profile and count up the other Comments you made for that day on Steemains posts that were not a part of the Challenge.
    ADD both numbers and then RETURN to YOUR DAY 1 (or whatever Day it is), HIT 'Reply' to your Day comment for that day and TYPE IN the TOTAL NUMBER of COMMENTS you made for that day.

  23. Before posting your SECOND post link for the day, do the same thing you did for your FIRST post as set out in #22 above.

  24. You would then have DONE your Daily Posts and entered their relevant links under your Day Comment for that day AND you would have totalled up your Day's comments and entered that under your Day's Comment too.
    Day's Actions DONE!
    Day's Accountability Report submitted honestly and proudly as a testament to your day's achievements!
    Yayyyy!!! ;)



RECOMMENDATIONS and SUGGESTIONS

So there are probably a few more ideas to thrash out.

For instance, one of the things that kept me from starting to post consistently in my first twoo weeks here at Steemit was sifting through my post series ideas and deciding which ones to run with first.

That may likely be the thing that you'll want to tackle first if you have not been posting regularly, twice daily, in Steemit yet.

If that's you, start there.

Tackle this from both the topic and the format angles.

Pick a couple topics that you're:

  • excited about
  • very interested in and/or
  • can do with as little stress and strain as you can

These can be:

  • Hobbies (don't leave out your childhood, teenage and younger adult hobbies if you're older than a teenager now)

  • Area/a of work (again, don't leave out types of work you did in the past)

  • Inspirational type material eg:

    • Quotes
    • Memes
    • Prayers
    • Meditations
  • Collation of other people's content meaning taking an excerpt or two or three and expanding on them with your own comments, insights and ideas of how and why you differ in opinion

  • Whatever else you can think of that floats your boat that you'll find interesting and exciting and want to keep doing

In terms of format, choose at least two if at all possible. Not only because it's great to mix it up for greater audience appeal and to keep things interesting for your fans but also because that will be more interesting for you.

It's going to take discipline, focus and passionate interest to crank out two posts a day, every day, for as long as you choose to build your Steemit income.

No doubt, you will grow, expand, stretch way beyond what you even begin to now think is possible. Just participating and sticking to doing the deal each and every single day may be a big stretch if you have not already been doing this.

So ensure, as I said earlier, that you build in a big 'fun factor'. Make sure that you will enjoy creating and sharing your posts with your growing audience. If you are not having fun and loving what you do, your audience will know and they won't have fun, nor enjoy what you're offering and they will go where they'll feel good and enjoy themselves more.

So choose topics that light you up and choose formats for your topics that you also love and enjoy creating.

For me, that's audio posts, be that quickie meditations or gabbing about some consciousness/spirituality topic that I can transform in to videos when and if I want. And inspirational pictures and quotes that touch, move and inspire me in my heart.



CONCLUSION

It's now HOURS after I started writing this post. ;) I welcomed my sister on Steemit, resteemed some important posts, took a cat feeding break because my cats all wanted some of my chicken dinner. ;)

I KNOW that I have left out a few things. As I remember them I will add.

And PLEASE, do make suggestions that you feel will strengthen this Challenge and help participants to succeed.

We'll have between now and next Saturday to finetune ideas and get things straight.

Talk soon and I look forward to our very first 7-Day Build Your Steemit Profits Weekly Challenge this coming Sunday, March 4th!

HEY!!! This is the FIRST day of March, 2018!!!

HAPPYYYYY First Day in March... 2018!!! A Thursday. So the very FIRST THURSDAY in March, 2018.

Amazinggggg how time is a flyinggggg!!! ;)

Namaste,

Angela xox





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I've been wandering around Steemit like a person lost in a new city and just found this post today although I should have been here 2 days ago. I am a huge fan of accountability and am glad to be here at the beginning of this challenge.

I'm like @peggyhazelwood, just figuring out Steemit and that darned out of bandwidth aggravation.

Working my way through replies and saw this one right after your Way Too Longggg comment. Thanks, Joanne!

I am a huge fan of accountability and am glad to be here at the beginning of this challenge.

Welcome and so good to have you!

darned out of bandwidth aggravation.

Yes, it hit me several times earlier, so I waited each time for my bandwidth juice to boost back up. As we grow, we'll experience it less.

If you focus on:

  • publishing your first post
  • doing your first round of 'investment' type upvotes that you think will earn rewards
  • upvote others that you want to comment on and encourage

... you will find a balance between giving and getting, Joanne. And the bandwidth issue will work itself out with patience and growth over time. xox

Hi @angelacs! I like this accountability challenge. I am learning a lot about how Steemit works (I'm really new, too!) and know that I can't use up too many upvotes or they don't mean anything/don't do any good. So, with that in mind I'm not sure what I can do on a consistent basis with your challenge. Does that make sense? I want to participate but can't spread my self too thin.

Hi Peggy! Thanks for stopping by!

Upvotes always mean something, it's just that with we plankton/minnows, it's sometimes more heart value than monetary value. Several more experienced, 'higher up' Steemians have told me that comments mean more to them. And post authors always notice who passes through and comments but leaves no 'thank you'. And that affects whether someone will even want to go visit your blog to see if they'd like to follow you. Upvotes are just 'Thank you's' for the privilege of having one more space in Steemit to reach out and make friends, right?

Minnows usually have about 10 or so upvotes that give monetary value per day. After that, it goes down. But I see that you have developed a great commenting habit already. Can you imagine the power of that combined with working with a group who are willing to also comment, upvote and encourage you as well? Building relationships of support will be a great investment now and for future Steem success.

What you could do if you'd like to participate is split your perfect 'ten' between your normal daily commenting that you do to earn curation rewards and this challenge.

To post links to two of your daily posts, you'd just need to upvote and comment on four posts. Then depending on how many comments you'd like to receive from this Challenge's community, you could invest more upvotes with other participants after you're done with your 'outside' Challenge upvotes.

Instead of hoping for the best that your posts get upvoted, other challenge participants would be making their own upvoting/commenting rounds so they can post their links too. I'm sure you'd benefit from that because your posts are always great. ;)

What do you think? How does that sound?

Hope we'll be steeming with you come Sunday, Peggy and thanks again for taking the time to comment.

btw, Peggy, see how this works...

When I first tried posting this a few hours ago, I got the usual 'out of steem' red message'. I waited at least two sets of ten minutes, still got it and had to go offline.

JUST returned, edited a tad, hit publish and there was enough juice back to put your comment right at the top of this Challenge Announcement's comment stream. ;)

You asked a great question by voicing a concern and are now 'head of the comment stream' to be seen and maybe visited by other Challenge visitors now and in the future... because this post will be linked to as the 'master Challenge instruction/vision' post in ALL future weekly Challenge start pages! ;)

Commenting and upvoting is one of my FAV fun things on Steemit. I got to rank 33 JUST with ONE post and many 'reach out and make friends' comments within first few days of being here. I'm posting a bit more full posts now, but commenting is the most powerful way to build an audience. And from a recent discussion I read just this morning, Steemit may end up rewarding good, meaningful and conversation-continuing commenters more than the system already does. ;)

Raising a Steem salute to you, Peggy... you're doing so well!!!

AND thank you as well for being cause for me to FINALLY implement TWO new post series I've had cooking but not taken action on. One is definite, the other probable.

The definite one? I tend to write long comments and it's been a source of humor in at least one instance. ;) So I decided to turn that into lemonade... by turning my 'way too longggg' comments into posts.

So the above two will now become #0000001 in that series. And THIS one may become the first of the second series. ROFL!!!

Thanksss, Peggy! ;)

Hi again, Peggy! I just saw and responded to your comment on my other Way Too Longggg Comments post. Part of your comment was for this Challenge, so as I said in my response there, I'm re-posting the Challenge-related part of your comment here and will respond below it:

I am all for teaming up to connect and help each other out. Upvoting just 4 makes a lot more sense to me than being required or expected to upvote ALL.

So, I'm in! Keep me posted!

And this is a comment that Andy also made in response to Peggy's comment on that thread about this Challenge so re-posting here too to keep all Challenge-related posts on this thread:

Just my opinion here - I don't think that upvoting just four is the way to go at all - this whole system works on the upvote and personally I upvote probably 50 posts a day to help others progress - I upvote at 20%. The more established people here flag you if you comment and don't vote.

NB: Upvoted so it would come right under Peggy's comment from the other thread as it did there.

And this is the response I made to Andy's comment on that post:

Andy, thanks so much for dropping by and chiming in.

As I said in above (or below ;)) response to Peggy, I wanted to keep Challenge stuff on the Challenge post page. I just finished re-posting her above comment there and my response. You can find the latter here:

I'm also now going to post your comment over there too. ;)

XOX

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Sounds a fab idea and a great challenge. Posting twice a day can be difficult but I think its the best way forward, and commenting on others is great too as it builds up the Steemit community.

Thank you for your encouragement, Kezza! It's a scary undertaking, so I appreciate. ;)

And exactly: doing the challenge will take discipline and forward planning but building the two daily habits can only lead to expanded success and upward movement.

Looking forward to steeming with you come Sunday! ;)

WOWZA, @angelacs!!!

You put a ton of time and effort into this post!!! I really like this idea, and I love that you have taken the time to share how to comment and upvote to be sure that all participants get their content seen.

As I mentioned to you recently, I was very disheartened about a blog challenge I participated in. When I reached out to the person who was running the challenge on a webinar, he asked me to touch base with him personally. You know how FB shows that the person has seen the message? He did (he accepted the message request) and yet never replied. That was really disheartening, and I decided at that point to not participate anymore (hadn't gotten anything out of it at that point anyway).

So all this to say that these challenges are wonderful, if people take the time to actually participate and do what they are supposed to, to help each other out.

Great idea - thank you!

Glad you like the idea, @sasukhram! It's for peeps who want to cultivate relationships with other Steeemians and work together in a group to assist each other to grow.

Sorry you had that experience. Steemit is different than Facebook and we'll have a chance to work, play and earn together.

This is critical:

So all this to say that these challenges are wonderful, if people take the time to actually participate and do what they are supposed to, to help each other out.

I see many newbies seeming to prefer to upvote larger accounts because the payout is high, not realizing that everybody else is doing the same, so earnings per upvote will be tiny. Plus not many whales and dolphins have as much time to go around upvoting lots of minnows.

Thanks so much for your feedback and looking forward to steeming together come Sunday! ;)

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I upvoted your contribution because to my mind your post is at least 61 SBD worth and should receive 156 votes. It's now up to the lovely Steemit community to make this come true.

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Yayyy!!! Thank you! ;)

Hey Angela! Thank you so much for organising this challenge!

My name is Paul Williams and I just got onto Steemit after applying ages ago. I've just been reading loads of posts and sat scratching my head as to what to do here :-) Luckily, I saw your Facebook comment on Phillip Lopez's post about Steemit and I am so glad that I did! I think an accountability challenge is a great idea and I'd love to take part if I may.

I'm brand new and I hope this won't disqualify me? This is literally my first comment on Steemit and I am still writing the draft of my Introduce Yourself post :-)

I already had a bunch of topics that I wanted to do Series posts for, so I think I will be more than ready to get started here. I love the idea of a community where a large amount of people are dedicated to creating and adding value, and to helping each other out.

And I think your challenge begins today too? That's perfect timing for me :-) All I need now for an absolutely perfect combination is for the school I teach at to declare a snow day so that I can give a few extra hours to creating Steemit posts (we've had bad weather in this part of Wales and everything has ground to a halt). But even if I am in work tomorrow, that's all part of what I do and who I am so it's all to the good.

So I am very happy to make your acquaintance and thank you once again for this challenge.

Best regards,

Paul