Yeah, starting is hard. I said somewhere else that Steemit is about dedication, my first few hundred posts probably got next to no payout but as I posted more, more people started following. One thing I think that's quite useful are upvote bots. I use them to promote my posts to gain reach!
It is very frustrating when I see low quality content being promoted though, I try to promote my content based on quality. For example I think this post deserves to be seen so I boosted it a lot, whereas the other post I posted today was only boosted with 3 Steem, basically nothing haha
https://steemit.com/memes/@tybodish/dad-memes @cryptoeater look at this example . I am reading steemit from one year but I started creating articles and content right now , and I remember that idea of this portal was good content, that definietly is not good content . But now there is many Junks :/ And now I know when I am opening steemit my eyes will be bleeding...
wow... seeing posts like this make me sad. I try so hard and get so little upvotes LOL
If it makes you feel better, it's probably just the one person with many accounts upvoting himself!