Johnny, there are accounts that are designated to discover talented users. One of them is named "curie." They have guidelines as to how to be qualified for an upvote from them: https://steemit.com/curation/@curie/expanded-guidelines-early-2018

You were the one that got me into crypto and steemit. Thank you. I have been having success on Steemit. A few of my posts have generated $60-$70 recently and one even generated $153. By I received even more because I accumulated over $100 SBD that I sold between $4-13 and quickly made over $1000. All of them were upvoted by accounts like curie and hendrickdegrote. I mainly post content about travelling in China. Also, people can submit your posts to them and they can consider upvoting them. So for example if you post something I think is upvote worthy for whales, I can submit it to curie and if they upvote it, I will get rewarded with like 15 Steem or something. Read their guidelines. They do not upvote content related to Steemit. They want original content. You can even check out that link and browse through the posts they have upvoted so you can get an idea. I hope this helps you man. This is a platform I'm feeling more and more passionate about. I think it will help me live an independent life.