It's funny you say this.

We are doing the same thing and it's actually the opposite. The harder we work on a post the less of a response we get from the Steemit community. So if it were just a quick photo post with a question. That may illicit more of a response then a longer worded multi media post. And our community engagement and growth in followers has slowed to a crawl.

bottom line, it's great, but we don't have a system yet. Youtube we are doing really well, Steemit and our blog... Not so much.