Perhaps you need to adjust your votes. People who get a lot of upvotes in a short amount of time, you need to upvoting them sooner (10-20 minutes). People who do not receive many votes but you want to support you should vote (25-45 minutes).

Either way you aren’t going to get a ton of curation rewards with low steem power. You have to start somewhere though. Staying consistent is the only way to continue to grow.

Larger accounts will be the ones who benefit the most from auto-votes. I mostly just use this process to support people who I trust to create great content. I feel they deserve my vote, even if it is small right now. We must grow together.