This is very honest, very practical advice. The one thing I would add, that I've been thinking about myself lately, is to look for ways to get more bang for your buck, so to speak. Since the content we create for Steemit only has short-term value -- does anyone even read stuff more than a week old? -- maybe we could repurpose that content elsewhere to build a new following, which we could then bring back to the original source -- Steemit?