I think there are a few things a person can do to help a new user who is interested in staying and learning the ropes of steemit. It is very difficult for new users to get a following and build an audience, so a tutorship for a little bit with helpful opinions. If it is affordable for you, first a gift of an @dustsweeper account, this can be done with $0.500, and would give them protection on about 70 received dust votes from fellow redfish/planktons on the comments they leave Second if affordable is an SBI, in conjunction with the dustsweeper account that would give a payout of $0.030 on all the content they create. I know it is not much but when you look at a new user account it can be very helpful. Encourage the content creation, at least one post every other day, but post that people will comment on.

Encourage the new user to vote on and respond to at least one comment on the content they created. (this is why I suggest the every other day content creation). It is important for people to try and maximize their vote potential, yet it is also important to engage with a person's blog visitors. By commenting and voting on at least one comment, this shows other visitors to their post that they are trying to engage with their audience members.

Everyone's Idea of how to use the vote is different, Self voting at the earliest stages I believe is detrimental to a new user, it is potential reward that could be lost, so if a new user is going to self vote, it should only be on their post that have already reached a payout of $0.03. If they have a gifted @dustsweeper account, excessive self voting (and no I do not know what would be considered excessive) , could lead to termination of the account and funds returned, so make sure if they have one to be careful. Self voting on a comment is a complete waste of time unless it has also reached pay out level.

you see and want steemit, then promote the piss out of them drop their name, semi introduce them to others. Even as a brand new user to steemit, when I first joined, I found someone that was an awesome writer, I promoted him when an where I could without being blatant about it (like right now), he is now a REP of 64 and has close to 3000 SP earned not bought.Just a couple thoughts, it really does not take much to help a new user as a new user,(about one month old), you could ask @paparodin what he thinks has been the most helpful advice and help he has received. (I use his name because he is one of more recent people I have tried to help). Also when you have the person you think is going to be a good steemian and productive member of how

So that was just a few thoughts, helping does not need to be real complicated, sometimes just that little hand up, little piece of advice, and you have a person that may give it 6 months.