There are several good ways to promote

I am probably too old to really make any kind of local promotion worthwhile, but some ideas I had were...

• Post fliers in the lockers at universities or high schools
• Post fliers in the dowtown areas of major cities
• Pay for a billboard or two along major highways for a month or so

The first two don't cost much but the last one does.

Another thing I thought might be a good idea is encouraging people to post outside of steemit.

It's great that people post on here but if you want people to come here from other sites you need to go out and post on other sites.

Perhaps rewarding people with upvotes etc to do just that is a good way of getting the word out.

My 2 cents @steemitblog and @steemcurator01