Hey @derangedvisions. Glad you are not losing hope. I believe your talent will go far in steemit. What you need is exposure and the subscribers and upvoters will follow in drones.
You make superb content and your posts has good intentions. I've actually recommended you to be whitelisted in Minnowbooster and its the perfect platform for you to get exposure. :)
Thank you. I don't know anything about minnowbooster, but I have seen it on other people's posts. I will have to look into it.
Promoting your post is just as important as making awesome articles. For your awesome articles to be appreciated it needs to be seen by a lot of people thats where MB comes in and helps you.
Since you are now whitelisted . You can now use their service to promote your post. You can do that by sending your SBD to Minnowbooster with the link to your post as the memo. MB will then upvote you at around 2.6x the amount that you send. So a 10 SBD sent nets you $26 worth of upvote and 100 SBD gets 260.
If you do the math on the rewards assuming the STEEM price doesnt go down a 100 SBD boost sent to MB If we do the math You will get 96 SBD Back and 26 STEEM POWER!! ( I've already factored out the curation rewards ). This will not always be the case but in terms of SBD + STEEM you get in rewards it almost always results in profit for you.
The good thing about high voted posts is that more people get to see your post as they are reflected on the trending section meaning more exposure and followers and readers in the long run.
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