You can follow the whales for example, musing is a whale account or like a whale account which helps other to get more account value and increase our reputation. You should follow account which has higher reputation and higher vote value and if you continuously write comments on any whales for 1-2 months there are chances the whale can target you and can give upvotes like 10-20$ even if you are in contact with him.
You should follow musing as well if you are working here to gets better upvotes and best following accounts. Steemit was made for blogging platform and today it is famous like many news concept are incoming same like steemit where users can get benefit from cryptocurrency.
You should follow some bots which are giving you some steem like 0.05$ or something on a regularly basis.