@theaverageman I try to build up my Steem Power. The more SP you have the bigger your curation rewards will be.

I also set some of my rewards aside to promote posts with bots. You can find a list of bots from @yabbapmatt's website https://steembottracker.com/

They're really useful for promoting your posts if you want to invest in getting them into the 'hot' page. There's also resteem bots on there that will resteem and upvote for a small charge. Helps build up followers. Think of the bot services as marketing tools.

If you ever have any questions feel free to ask. I've been using Steem for about 9-10 months now. Helping people is what I do!

Also, check out https://busy.org/ it's an alternative to the Steemit interface. I find it far more useful for blogging and the layout is cleaner/more modern looking.