Hello and welcome to steemit Beam, i am from New Zealand and its nice to meet you.

If you post real life stuff you are more likely to more engagement, to get started you should follow @steemitblog as they have competitions that may interest you.

also @steemingcurators are running competitions as well - check them out

With the help of the steemit community i am running #spud4steem - feel free to check this out as well

if you need a hand with anything let me know

peace