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A Guide on How-to Make it Big on Whaleshares

scipioPosted for Everyone to comment on, 5 years ago8 min read

A Guide on How-to Make it Big on Whaleshares

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Good day, Whaleshares!

When I was just a tiny little Plankton account on Steem, a few weeks after being there and having learned "the hard way" that my initial posts earned a little over absolutely nothing, I decided to first look around on how things work, who is who, how to connect to people, which types of content were appreciated, what my "niche" could be, how to get your content (posts) seen by others, etc., and then decided to wrong a gigantic post about it called A Conceptual Guide to Make it Big on Steemit... which received massive attention and appreciation, and then - all of a sudden - not only were the findings I wrote about in that post true, at least they were appreciated and they worked for me, but I had also then learned on how to continue doing so. The same priciple mechanisms I wrote about then, apply on Whaleshares right now, yet slightly different, as Whaleshares is different than Steem is, and a few things have changed over time as well.

So this post, can be seen as an update to the Steem version I published about 1 year ago, and also adapted to the specific Whaleshares mechanisms that are "live" right now. Let's dive right in!

Gaining an Audience

If you have published a post, there are many ways to get that post read and possibly upshared / upvoted by others, so you can earn Author rewards with your post. So gaining an audience that reads and appreciates your posts is key to earning rewards. Your posts themselves could be "stumbled on", for example when somebody read a comment of yours that he or she found interesting and make them check out what other stuff you have written already via your Whaleshares account page where also your previously published posts are found. Even if your old posts, they stumbled on only now, are well past their "payment" date, and you won't be able to directly earn any more author rewards with it, it could well be that those people decide to follow you. And if they do so, your NEW posts show up in their Feed, from which they might read them and upshare/upvote them.

Vote on other people's content (posts AND comments)

It feels good to be appreciated, right? On platforms like Whaleshares the concept of "appreciation" is (mostly) expressed in the form of an upshare/upvote, similar to a "Like" on Facebook or a "Retweet" on Twitter. If somebody else rewards your posts (or comments) then that makes you feel good! When your new to the platform, and not that many people have upshared/upvoted/liked your content yet, you want to find out who so generously rewarded your content; chances are you'll check their profile and content out, and learn more about them.
The exact same pricinples apply when you reward somebody else's content! If you do so, it could well be they will check out your account, read your content, upshare your content, comment on your content and maybe start following you as well. Or in other words: by voting other people, you get noticed yourself.

Bonus: by voting on other people's content, you yourself get what's called "curation rewards" as well. Depending on how much you voted their content which, when, and how much the reward value was before you voted and grows to after you voted, you will get - only by voting on that content - a percentage of the post rewards! Cool huh!

Comment a lot, engage with others on the platform

I'm personally a big supporter on rewarding people's comments, not just posts. Sure, there are some who argue that writing a post costs much more time and effort than writing a comment, but is that really so? If you look around the platform, many posts can be found that hardly took any time to produce. And if you look further, a lot of comments can be found that not only contain a lu arge body of text but a lot of thought as well.
Even a oneliner comment, if it "completely nails it", can be pretty valuable. Lucklily, more people on Whaleshares value comments, which reflects user engagement just like I do. Therefore, in case you are a beginner or even a seasoned blogger, it makes perfect sense to comment on other people's content, and reward those who took the time to respond to your own posts & comments. You might get noticed, you might make some new friends (or enemies, which can still be valuable as you'll then learn who NOT to seek contact with, maybe?), and you might learn a thing or two as well -- which is also very valuable.

Write Quality Content on your "Niche(s)"

What do you like to post about? Music? Food? Tech? Travel? Poetry? Your own life? Crypto? The platform itself?
Anything goes on Whaleshares! But if you want to "earn big", it might be an idea to take a 30 minute walk, and think about what types of content to write, fit you best. If you pick, for example, 3 to 4 "categories" to blog about, then you can turn those posts into a series, and it's pretty easy to find inspiratino for your next blog post's content. I strongly suggest to always do your best on writing them: the better the content, the better the rewards, at least in the long run.

Connect with Communities and use proper Tags

If you look around the Whaleshares platform, you will notice a few "communities". Business-related content for example, is evaluated by the @met communitity and the met tag. Music-related content is appreciated by @the-jukebox. And there are many more such topic-related communities! There are certain people "curating" or "moderating" content that's about their own niche, and if you use the appropriate tags chances are your content will be reviewed and rewarded!

Join the Whaleshares Discord

A lot of platform communication is currently happening "off-chain" on a direct messaging platform called Discord. On Discord, anybody, which includes communities, is able to start their own Discord Server, and others can join them. Whaleshares itself also has such a Discord server, and many people that you can find blogging and commenting "on the chain" are also active in there.
On the Whaleshares Discord server, there exist a number of channels, where the #general channel is currently used most. Because people all around the world use Whaleshares, regardless of the time you are chatting on the Whaleshares Discord server, almost always somebody is around. That somebody could become your friend, over time. You can - then - also send DMs, which is shorthand for "Direct Messages". Not everybody appreciates it if you "DM" them for no apparent reason, or only to promote your own post. Yet if you spend some time and get to know people more in-depth and personal even, it could well be they don't mind or even appreciate you sending them links to your posts. But first, take the time to introduce yourself, learn about other people as well, and remember "Rome wasn't built in one day": it takes time.

Participate in Contests

Whaleshares is strongly connected to Bitshares, a (currently much under-appreciated) decentralised exchange / trading platform. And on Bitshares you can trade cryptocurrency tokens for something else and store them in your Bitshares wallet. What's however also possible on Bitshares, is to create your own tokens. And although that doesn't make much sense when those self-created tokens never get used, some of the larger accounts on Whaleshares have also created their own tokens - called UIAs (User Issued Assets) and you can "win them" in Whaleshares contests. If you won some, then afterwards you can send them to the UIA account's wallets, add to the transfer your own, or somebody else's post URL / link, and get upvoted! More info is found here.

Buy your way into Whaleshares via Bitshares

You can "blog your way to fortune" by doing, more or less, as I've described in the above paragraphs. But if blogging is not your strength yet you do own some crypto assets, then consider growing your account by buying some liquid WLS on Bitshares DEX, send them to your own account on Whaleshares, power them up to Whalestake, and simply vote on other people's content (and comment on them as well!). You will then grow your holdings via your Curation rewards, and you might receive some author rewards on other people rewarding your comments as well!

What's your prefered strategy to "Make it Big" on Whaleshares? Let me know, in the comments!

As always, thanks for your time!
@scipio

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