I find this is very true for almost any skill you strive to perfect , or a project you want to build, everything worth something takes an amount of time . There is even this ''10.000 hour'' theory that it actually takes that amount of time to become a master of anything. Music is such a strange ''job'' in the sense that we might put hundreds or even thousands of hours of work before someone else takes notice for it ... even worse when you actually start requesting for some profit , when ''are you good enough to ask for a reward'' is a blurry line, but if you just keep pushing eventually you'll have a following and reputation and people will start noticing you for ''that thing'' you know how to do. I think this translates to this platform in the same way, sharing and putting in your ''hours'' here and actually giving your best to bring nice content (not just musically speaking) to Steemit and being constant with it will actually earn you some reputation and people that share your interests will follow you ''for that thing that you do well'' . Just my opinion :) .