Bob's Work Site

Category: Steem

  • Question Answered

    Question Answered

    Angry Crab

    If you read yesterday’s post, you will remember that I found the Angry Crab badge. Every time I found that badge before, the next day the Angry Crab surf badges replace the more common Turtle surf badges. So I speculated that if you found the Angry Crab badge one day, the next day would have the Angry Crab surf badges.

    Now I can tell you for sure that this is not true. I did not have the Angry Crab surf badges today. Darn it. So I guess I will agree what one surfer told me. The Angry Crab surf badges appear randomly. I will just have to surf SeaLifeHits each day and see which surf badges are used that day.

    The CTP SealifeHits Mastery challenge requires surfing 1000 sites 10 times with the Angry Crab surf badges. I have 3 out of 10. Who knows how long completing this task is going to take me but I will bet not as long as one of the CupofTraffic tasks.

    It dawned on me that not everyone reading my posts is a member of ClickTrackProfit and therefore doesn’t know about the mastery challenges. CTP is one of the best, if not the best, training hubs on the internet. The mastery challenges are exercises which encourage you to use your training to accomplish specific tasks and “MASTER” a particular internet site. There are seven mastery challenges. They are

    All but one of the challenges requires getting referrals to join the program and all but two require earning a certain amount of commission. Other common tasks require surfing sites for the traffic exchanges, read and writing a number of emails for the mailers. Again, these tasks are designed to create good affiliate marketing habits; e.g., creating posts like this one or regularly sending emails, and not meant to be easy.

    But there is one task in particular that I just don’t understand its purpose or at least the ‘why’ for length of time it will take. CupofTraffic has one task, Login Points, that will require almost 3 years to complete. When you login to CupofTraffic the first time each day, you receive one half of a point (.5). 500 points are needed to complete this task. That’s 1000 days of logging into CupofTraffic or 2 years and 270 days. What am I learning after say 180 days of logging in? This seems a little excessive to me maybe too excessive for me to bother with this challenge. What do you think? Let me know in your comments. (If there is a way to get more than .5 points in a day, I haven’t figured it out.)

    I will talk more about the Mastery challenges in future posts and keep you up to date on my progress.

  • Steem Frustration Abated

    Steem Frustration Abated

    As you may have seen, I did manage to post to Steem yesterday. This is due to the generosity of @clicktrackprofit (Jon Olson) who delegated some Steem power to me. He also explained the reason for all the Steem cyrpto currencies being under maintenance. There is an attempt to take over Steem right now and this is a way to help prevent the take over. Also, @ph1102 sent me a link to another site where I could buy Steem. I haven’t tried it yet.

    Now, my Steem mystery is why I have almost all of my SP delegated when I have done absolutely nothing to delegate it.

    In Steemsavvy, I learned about steembottracker.com which can be used to track SP that a user has delegated. It showed that I have not delegated SP to anyone. Is there some kind of automatic delegation for newbies?

    I just got the answer about my delegated SP from Rob P. Crusin and CaptainBob on the CTP/SteemSavy server of Discord. As you see in the image above. I have 39.970 SP delegated. 14.970 of those are delegated by Steem itself when you open your account and is reduced as you earn SP on your own. The remaining 25 delegated SP is from Jon Olson when I ran out. Mystery solved.

    It is great to have community where support is available. I would highly recommend the CTP/SteemSavvy server on Discord and The Official ClickTrackProfit Telegram Group on Telegram. I had never heard of Telegram or Discord until CTP and SteemSavvy respectively. Luck for me. I really needed them today.

    For anyone who might be interested SteemSavvy is a great, totally free training site. Jon Olson created this site to help people become familiar with Steem and its functionality. I would highly recommend join this site to get you started on Steem. It is well worth it and will save you the frustration that Steem can create. Join SteemSavvy and save yourself a lot of frustration.

  • This Is Not The Post I Intended

    This Is Not The Post I Intended

    This replaces my intended March 4, 2020 post. I couldn’t post the post because I ran out of Steem power. I didn’t even know I had Steem power. To start with I thought, “No big deal, there has to be a way to buy Steem power.” Well, if there is I can’t find it. I spent hours trying to buy Steem power. Everything I tried lead me to Block Trade. At the moment, for some reason, Block Trade can’t deal with Steem crypto currency. All the Steem currencies are “under maintenance”.

    I looked high and low for a way to purchase Steem power. Every path I followed lead me to Block Trades. There has to be somewhere else to purchase Steem crypto. If there isn’t, sounds like a great opportunity for someone who knows what they are doing. That, unfortunately, is not me. I’m lucky to get logged into Steem at this point.

    If you can’t tell, I am brand new to crypto currency. I have always been amazed how a ‘currency’ without anything backing it other than “blind faith” could survive. But, not only are they surviving, they are flourishing. So I did learn a few things trying to buy Steem power. One place I can buy and sell crypto currencies is Steem-engine.com. Problem solved right. No, you have to have crypto to buy crypto. Catch 22???

    So where can I buy crypto using a traditional method or even PayPal. ClickTrackProfit training comes through again. In the CTPtalk.com training, there is a lesson on “Buy & Selling”. In that lesson, Jon Olson recommends coinbase.com to purchase a crypto currency using traditional methods. Thought I had my quest for Steem power solved. But, NO!

    You need verify your bank account to purchase crypto. With a lot of banks you can do this online. NOT MINE! At my bank, there is an account number and then there is the account number on the check which contains the main account number with a prefix and suffix. Neither one was accepted so they are going to make two small deposits so I can verify my account. This is going to take a couple of days, so until then I am stuck and can’t do anything on Steem.

    Very Frustrating day to say the least!

    I am going to try and post this since I received a little bit of Steem power today 3/5/20. I hope it is enough.

    PS – I have almost 15 Steem delegated. I have no idea how this happened. I just learned about ‘Delegating’ today on SteemSavvy. Anyone have any idea how this may have happened? THNX

  • Let’s Try SteemPress

    Let’s Try SteemPress

    Okay, I have copied the posts I already had on Steem. Now it is time to see how it works so this particular post will be short. What I hope to learn is

    • Did I set up everything correctly and this post gets to Steem
    • How long does it take for the post to get to Steem
    • Do pictures transfer
    • Do tags transfer
    • More questions I am sure once I see what happens.

    Angry CrabBefore I try this I do have to let everyone know the Angry Crabs are back today. YEAH! Personally, I hope they stay for a week but I know they won’t. I just have to take them as they come. After I surf 1000 sites today I will have 3 of 10 1000 site surfs with Angry Crab surf badges I need.

    Ok, lets see how SteemPress works. Hopefully I will have time this afternoon for another post.

  • Steem Day 2

    Hello everyone,

    I made it to Steem for the second time. This time was much easier than yesterday. I managed to log right in, at least for blogging and all the other features that allows me to do. I am looking forward to exploring others blogs and commenting as appropriate.

    I discovered this morning that I received several badges; e.g., my 1st post. I will have to investigate what the badges mean and what badges are available. I also noticed the number after my name had changed from 25 to 28. One more thing to investigate and learn what it means. I am going to guess that the number is some type of rating. But, I will find out.

    I am sure you noticed how terrible my blog’s header looks. One more thing for me learn about and fix. I can do graphics at an elementary level but they take me a long time because I don’t do them very often. I want to look around in Steem and see what others do for blog headers. Hopefully, I can get some inspiration from others.

    This morning in SteemSavvy, I learned about payment is Steem. This is definitely a lesson I will definitely view more than once to make sure I understand. I know next to nothing about crypto currencies so yet another topic I need to learn about to fully understand Steem.

    I need to start my research so I am going to end this entry for now.

    As always, I thank everyone who takes the time to read my posts and encourage all comments. I need all the help I can get to become proficient in Steem.

    Thank You,
    Bob Caine

    Logged in without a problem - YEAH!

    #learningsteem#blogheader

  • My First Steem Post

    The following post was my very first adventure into Steem. I am going to copy the posts I created in Steem before I installed SteemPress and then I will try a short post to learn how SteemPress works.

    Hello Steem World,

    My name is Bob Caine and I am brand new to the world of Steem. I have been learning about Steem through the training on ClickTrackProfit and SteemSavvy. At the moment, I am on information overload trying to understand the ins and outs of Steem. I realized that the only way I am really going to learn how Steem works is by using it.

    I spent a good 30 minutes this morning just trying to get logged in to follow Jon Olson. But the age old trial and error method finally was successful as you can tell by the fact I am posting this blog entry. I plan on posting several times a week just to report on my Steem Educational Journey. Once I get more comfortable with the functions of Steem, I will expand the focus of my posts.

    I know there is a lot to learn and am going to take Jon’s advice. I will not try to rush to learn it all. I will take my time and make sure I understand what I am learning. I have already discovered that there is a whole new way to stylize my posts that I have to learn.

    Wish me luck. All advice is welcome and encouraged.

    Thank you for taking the time to read my first post,
    Bob Caine

    I Will Find the KEY!

    #steemsavvy #jongolson #jonolson #learningsteem #newtosteem