Keep doing what you are doing by having REAL conversations with other people in areas you like and enjoy, and can share your well thought out opinion. I think good commentary develops much more of an audience. The steemfollower platform I mentioned in the previous post is a nice way "weaponize 5-10 votes a day" and turn them into more of working asset. When visit with people on there I talk with them about their post, mention I found them on steemfollower, kindly remind them I post content on similar topics, thank them again and leave my last comment as my action UPVOTE (and/or) RESTEEM. Again, feel free to shoot with any questions, I like to help people get going on here, I have spent a lot of time on here since I joined and have able to research what many people are doing here as you may have found, there aren't many secrets kept on this platform. At least not for long if there ever are.