Great advice, as always.

I can definitely relate to the last part about not doing it alone. For a while, I was trying to use vote buying services to keep my posts visible on the "hot" feed longer. However, I found better success in just finding similar works to my own, or posts that I just liked, and interacting with the community via commenting. I'm not killin' it, or anything, but the profit margin is about the same as when I was using voting services. The votes, however, are way more fulfilling when you don't ask or pay for them. It's also starting to lead to ongoing interaction with some of my followers which helps motivate me to keep going.

Again, you always give great advice and I hope your followers and newer Steemians take it to heart. Thank you again!