I would tell a new user that networking here is more important than quality content. That spending hours and hours working on a post to have it go out and only get a few upvotes can break your spirit and make you think steemit is a waste of time. So instead make sure you have a discord account set up with your steemit name. Do your intro post and join a few groups. Look around for contest and fun games going on here and take part in them. Get into a few groups you like. Pay it Forward, ASAPERS, CCC, NEWBIEGAMES, ect. FInd a crowd to read your post. Then start to work on that great content. That way when it comes out you will have some eyes to look at it right away. Also that after a few weeks if you think you are going to stay the course buy some steem. It will speed up your growth by a lot if you just put yourself to at least 50 SP.