Keep grinding and putting effort into the platform.
You can clearly see just from all the effort you put into this comment you have managed to accumulate $2.39
I joined about 1 month ago and I've been tirelessly working on the platform: commenting and posting and it is all slowly starting to add up.
Growing on steem isn't easy but you are lucky you got in now rather than 1 or 2 years later when steem will be really saturated.
Start off by going over to great people like @exyle who are genuinely nice people and if you make a good, meaningful comment they will tend to check out your profile to reward you for being such a great follower.
I wish you the best of luck @cryptokas