well, you are at 20+ steem after this short time, after a while it will go faster. the first 100 are the hardest... just keep it up, interact and blog and you will get there.
also start selling your extra votes. it will bring a bit of extra income to you... check the link at the bottom of the post
Actually, I invested some Euro to buy SP because I believe in Steem and SBD.
Joined smartsteem 2 or 3 weeks ago when there were about 750 members which doubled already if I'm not wrong - great work !
I told @therealwolf already on Discord that I really appreciate the work that is put into the project by the team.
yea, there is still a lot of manual work involved but the voting engine is really cool and we are building a nice community there