Hey @markrmorrisjr,
in case it didn't already came up here is my idea on how to promote the promotion posts. Go to SteemAuto and create a curation trail with @dolphinschool. Everyone can then follow this trail and will upvote on posts you do. You can pick and upvote supporting posts and everyone on the trail will follow.
I know, thats a little bit of cheating but it's still the community deciding to follow your upvotes or not.
Well, I'm not opposed ,but if we're promoting organic interaction, I don't see how this fits.