Hello and welcome to steemit.
I joined in July but only started posting last month.
One thing I have found is that it is difficult to get followers and therefore have your posts seen and upvoted. If I may reccommend something to you it's steemfollower. basically it's just a much smaller subcommunity where you can find followers and we all upvote within that community.
It doesn't cost anything and participating on steemfollower has no impact on your profile here except in the normal manner of upvoting.
Feel free to check it out via my referral.
https://steemfollower.com/?r=1716
(All steemfollowers receive a bonus for referrals).
Good luck in your steem voyage!!!
You have heard of dead and ghost followers, right???
See you have the wrong side of the point here. It's about having your posts in front of a much smaller subset of people, each of whom needs to upvote 5 times. In effect Steemfollow is an upvote or curation boosting club. The follower aspect is becoming less relevant.
Here is my referral link to assist joining Steemfollower.
https://steemfollower.com/?r=1716