Scorum is undoubtedly an amazing platform for people to earn with their passion. Scorum can turn the poor to the rich (for those who know how to play their cards well) and can as well turn out to be a waste of time for those who don’t know how to play the game well.
Without beating around the bush, there are some bitter truths about Scorum which no one will tell you which I will be unveiling
This is just to clear everyone that I’m no expert on this subject. I will only try to share what I’ve learned on this platform in my past few months here and I hope this will be helpful to the newbie. I decided to do sub-heading so as to make it easier to skip to the part you might be interested in
- Followers doesnt matter, having fans is the real deal
Are you happy about having hundreds of followers? Well, what a lot of us fail to understand is that having tons of followers is somewhat useless. On Scorum, you don’t need to build followers but FANS. There are two types of followers on Scorum- Organic and natural followers. The organic followers may not be fans as such, but probably followed you because you begged for a following or because they want a follow back. They are going to follow and forget. The natural followers are people who followed you because they like what you do. They are potential votes and you can easily turn them to your fans by visiting their blogs, upvoting and commenting on their posts just show them that you remember them. Building fans is the real deal because these are people waiting for you to hit the publish button and then reward you. Your fans will not jealous of the bucks on your posts because they want your success as much as you do. Having just 10 fans is better than having 100 followers. You will see a lot of people telling you to build followers but nobody will tell you to build FANS
2. Strive to be popular
Now this is very important. People tell you to build network, interact and try to communicate with as many people as you can on discord and telegram. Of course, it’s possible to receive 10 upvotes after talking to about 100 people but instead of speaking to hundreds of people about your post, it would be much better if you spend time doing what will make you popular.
My definition of being popular is not to turn yourself to a clown, spam or cause controversy on the platform. Commenting on peoples posts and giving out time to help people grow is one of ways to make useful on the platform which will bring about popularity. Just take a look at the big boys on Scorum, some of you may write well than they do but may not earn half of what they earn. Why? Because they've made certain sacrifices to help minnow and are known here, and that's why they will surely have a lot of bucks on their posts. I just told you a secret
3. You may not get noticed even as a good content writer
The biggest lie someone will tell you is to post good content and the whales will locate you. There are over 25,000 active users on Scorum and we have less than 30 whales. It’s practically impossible for the whales to go round upvoting all the posts created by the minnows. All they do is vote the few ones they are able to read and leave to VP to replenish, so you need to erase that mindset that a whale will locate you. Even if they do, it may be only once and you may not have that privilege for the next couple of weeks. Well, the truth is that you should keep improving and amending your ways till you get noticed. Don't be discouraged at the face of discouragement. Don’t wait to get noticed, use your brain and try new techniques
4. Scorum is not Youtube
Oh yeah! You heard me right. Putting up a lot of videos won’t grow traffic as much as words and pictures. Videos are good when it's minimal because not everybody can afford to watch too much videos due to data consumption. When you put up much videos, there’s 80% probability that some people won’t bother to watch it. Keep it minimal and try to compress it if possible.
5. The misconception of building your SP
Voting on trending posts won't generate much curation rewards as a return. The simple way to get more curation rewards is by upvoting newly publish posts which are at least 30 minutes old and has the potential to grace the trending page. By so doing, you stand a chance to get more curation rewards.
6. Scorum is more of a game
Always learn to play it like a game, not a knob. Knowing how to play the game is all that matters. People who know how to play the game well survive easily while those who don’t are found gallivanting
7. People have favourites
The earlier you realize this the better for you. Nobody will tell you that the best writers are not the highest earns on Scorum. In fact, you may write better than Williams Shakespeare but your post will still be struggling to get $1 and that's why it's never a good idea to drop a post and zoom off.. People have favourites. Same thing in the offline world. Get that into your skull
8. Caption and image are your selling point
When writing a lengthy post, bear in mind that you should add at least one picture in every 3-4 paragraphs because words are not enough to convey your message properly. If your post is lengthy and you fail to add pictures in-between paragraphs or sub-heading, it may be a turn off to most people.I hope you learnt that?
9. You can’t survive by begging
If you take a look at my blog, I’m not earning much like I’m supposed to. This is because I’m not that type that licks people's butt to get upvotes from them. I make my post and let nature play its role. If people upvote it, fine! If they don’t, I pick up my pen and try to write something better hoping to get better upvotes. The bad side of begging is that you can only increase the number of your votes but not the number of bucks. Remember that if you deserve something, you don’t need to beg people you have it. No one becomes rich from begging
10. Long worded posts get more rewards than short worded post
Your post must be lengthy.. Ooh yeah! Except maybe you’re a whale, no one is going to reward you well on a 2 paragraph or 4 line post. On Scorum, some people may not even read your post. They only glance through it and scroll down and when they see that it's lengthy, they reward you because they feel the length of your post signifies that you have put much effort in it. Although, we still have some people who don’t mind whether a post is long or short provided it makes sense but the vast majority are less likely to reward a short worded post.
I drop my pen at this juncture
I don’t know if this post makes sense to someone
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