Many people will tell you to create high quality post with good content. Unfortunately, in today's steemit, that is not the case anymore, especially if you are a new comer in Steemit. Yes a high quality post might capture a curie or ocd curation, but how about your second or future posts? I had seen tons of good quality posts being buried under the pile of junk posts, hardly earning a few cents. I had also seen good authors with good contents getting curied, but subsequently left steemit due to future posts not getting any support.

Networking and engaging in conversation with other authors is what a new comer should focus on, besides creating posts. Choose a tag or topic of your niche and spend time to read and comment on others post. Join the Discord servers of these communities and mingle with other authors. This way, you will start gaining true followers who are interested in what you write. Followers are what determine your worthiness as an author in Steemit. This is evident as steem-au, which is now using a new and unique algorithm to determine an Author's score, mostly using your followers count.

If all else fail, try to build your Reputation value in Steemit. This is the first and only number that everyone sees. If you have to, spend some money on bidbots and raise your Reputation. Not recommended though.