Yes. Nice post, man. Nice tone to it. One cool writing trick is to see if you can remove the pronoun "I", which forces you to focus on the object of the sentence. So rather than

This is the million dollar question, how the heck do I get people to follow me. From my own personal experience and from my personal observation of successful bloggers here, the number one method of getting followers is, the more my contribution to the Steemit platform, the more followers I can attract.

maybe:

the number one method of getting followers is to contribute value to the (in this case STEEMIT) platform.

We, the readers assume that it's from your personal experience and observation, because you're writing it, and you're not citing another reference or (god-forsaken) study.

I hope that's useful. (obviously). : ) looking forward to more.