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Hello Hive and Ecentials! I am back on the blockchain in a far more active a bullish way.

The end of my latest project at the Docks left me Exhausted and unable to post, but I reminded myself that the blockchain would still be here once I am done with the ship and that once I am back, I would be able to get right back into it and get busy.

I am always SUPER optimistic and ambitious with my idea of how many posts I can make, how many comment engagements I can make and support I would like to give by reading and upvoting other's content... but it is always best to aime of the moon and land on the mountain rather than aime for the mountain and land in the meadow!

So off I go again, pell-mell to post and comment my way on the blockchain.

Now, for those that have not experienced it themselves, or those that are new on the blockchain, they might ask:

Is a super busy session on Hive worth it?

In a nutshell: Yes it is.

There are a LOT of metrics to assess your success on Hive. You need to know what to look for!

Posting

I would recommend that a person try to blog at a steady pace before they post 3 posts one day and then nothing for 3 weeks.

It goes up in levels:

• Level 1: Post but 1 post per week
  If you want to have any success on Hive/Ecency, then you should make sure that you post something every week!
• Level 2: Posting 2-4 times per week
  If you have more than one topic, or something that you can post about every week and have other posts about other content, then you should be able to maintain some sort of schedule. This will naturally give you far more success in general than the Level 1 - 1 post per week.
• Level 3: Posting daily 7 for 7.
  Steady wins the race. If you can post 7 times a week, then posts one on each day of the week, Monday, through to Sunday. Now, you don't need to sit on your PC/Phone every day. You could prepare some of your posts and use the Draft function on Ecency and most of the front-ends and have them ready to launch. You can also try schedule a post to launch at a certain date/time... however they don't always work and its best to have a close hand on things.
• Level 4: Posting above 7 posts a week.
  All I can say about this posting level is that you should first master Level 3 and maintain the post-a-day frequency before you try tackle something bigger

- SPAM? Quality/Quanitity?

There are some that say that posting more than twice a day is SPAM but I disagree: It depends on what you are posting.

You have the capacity on Hive to post anything. You could be posting a work of art, a thought-provoking article, a travel blog, a fiction story or financial report. You could also be posting something vague or niche that nobody cares about. Lastly, you could also post absolute garbage.

If you are posting garbage or spam or niche stuff nobody cares about, you cannot expect people to upvote your stuff. Posting 10 posts in 24 hours will probably not do much for you and it might not do much to you either.

There are agencies on Hive that watch for blockchain abuse and farming. One of the things that would get you in deep trouble is posting garbage and then getting all those garbage posts automatic upvotes through a service and/or upvote circle of other accounts that also only post garbage.

However. If I were to posts a decent post with pictures and text of myself taking a trip to a local tourist attraction, another post about me cooking something in the kitchen with good pictures and instructions, ANOTHER post of me doing woodworking and a FOURTH post about some philosophical thoughts... then it could hardly be seen as abuse of the blockchain and instead as HARD WORK.

However, again, if you do this - there is no guarantee that all four posts will get good support or even any support at all!

But POSTING is NOT ENOUGH!

Commenting and Engagement

You should not be focused on only your own content on Hive. The best way to make friends and get support is to support and engage with others.

There are enough users on Hive that you SHOULD be able to find a group(or groups) of people on Hive that you will enjoy interacting with and about topics that you enjoy doing.

If that is the case, then it should be quite easy for you to interact and push up your activity.

There benefits of supporting others comes from three places:

• Curation
  You get rewarded in HIVE as a curator of other people's work. If you let your Voting Power reach 100% then you are effectively losing money. Why blog for it all? On top of that you get to allocate rewards to another blogger that you wish to support. This might be because you really liked the content or just liked the person who did the blog.
• Building friendships
  Because you support and talk to the people that you support, it gives a chance to build friendships on Hive and this is worth MORE than the upvotes on a post. It MEANS that you will have some reliable people engaging with you as you continue to blog and grow. If you are both blogging and engaging - this will spark reciprocal growth! That is what we do at the BUSY BEES Activity group.
• Visibility
  By commenting and engaging and upvoting others you will increase the chances of other Hive users to see you and see your content. This includes newbies on the blockchain as well as moderators, curators and everything in between.
  A great example of this is the Discover function on Ecency. Right now you need 13-14 comments/posts within a 24 hour period to appear on this list. Easy. Get to the top 10 though? You need over 35.
  You will see me on the Daily list within 1-2 hours of me hitting "Publish" on this post! This is because my activity on Hive is based on Posting and then a session of Engagement before making another post!

Right, there is probably MORE that I could share about even more metrics to assess your own success on Hive... but I shall leave that for another post. Right now I need to focus and do for myself what I say in this post.

The Proof is in the Pudding

Only by successfully demonstrating the success of what I am talking about can I have any platform to give this advice!

Watch me tumble!

But seriously... I hope this post was read and appreciated by those who need the advice or who need the motivation and direction to get back onto the horse/bicycle/dragon and get into posting again!

Thank you for reading this post!

Cheers!
@zakludick

Hive South Africa