I might be wrong but if you want to sell steemit, you need to change the community.
I told more than 5009 people about steemit because I believed it would be changing the ignorant and cold hearted mentality which is dominating bitshares and steemit. The reason why nobody wants to use it. People don't like to hang out with assholes, only assholes. The problem is that there are more nice and empathic people on the planet. Steemit is, right now, dominated by steemers without vision and love.