This is good advice and judging by your payouts it is clearly working for you. However, I have to wonder if it is really that simple. Looking around Steem I see a lot of really good content hardly pay out at all and at the same time I see rubbish articles earn in the hundreds of Steem dollars. So I think that yes, you can make some money by creating and commenting, but the biggest pay offs are given by people with lots of Steem power to people they like. I am not entirely sure that the effort I put into Steem pays off as much as, say, the effort I put into my blog outside of Steem. Based on the inconsistency of the posts that get rewarded a lot of Steem (I am NOT talking about your posts, which I think are always great and to the point) I feel like Steem is more a popularity contest than a place that curates good content.
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I think it's a bit of both. Having a personal brand and engaging with other people on the platform is what helps individual bloggers shine. So yeah, you want to have friends with lots of SP. But how do you make such friends if not by making connections in the community?
As for an external blog: since most of my career I've written for others, I did not invest enough in my personal brand and blog on techslut.com . So if I want to make more money there than I do here, I have to invest a lot more in marketing. Both time and budget wise. On steemit it's pretty easy - make comments, buy upvotes if you want extra post visibility, and roam the Discord and steemit.chat making new friends. Some of those friends will turn out to be Dolphins, Orcas and sometimes even Whales.