3 weeks in still trying to figure it out myself.. main thing I c so far is that u have to get a number of whales to simultaneously vote on your posts, making their followers notice and follow you, and as your rep and steem power increase people will auto vote anything you post for your $.. no doubt tho getting this ball rolling is the tricky part, with prob thousands of minnows posting the odds do seem to b stacked for being one of the fort ones..