Additionally in order to earn money or gain follwers you MUST get invovled in initiatives that benefit the steemit universe, or create your own initiative. for example, I am doing free 5 minute videos to explain crypto, I am involved in publicising steemit in the UK, I am putting on free webinars to explain how blockhain works... I am not making much money from it, but my following is growing slowly and I see more and more people are interested. I think this is more or less the way to go. another cool idea is get a steemit tshirt printed or 4 and go get selfies with celebrities whie you are wearing your tshirt. post that, and you will get many upvotes!! even better if you can get the celeb to wear the tshirt! ;)) another thing to do is to take the steemit account name of a famous you tuber or personality who is not on steemit yet, copy and paste all their content to the steemit site and when there is a nice amount of money in the account contact the popular you tuber and tell them you will give them the passcodes to this account if they promise to use steemit to blog on. this will help them see how much money they are missing out on by not being on steemit.