To make it in steemit,
“You just have to be posting and you will be earning”
“You have to be consistence, try to be posting at least one post a day”
You see those two sentences are the biggest lies I’ve ever come across on steemit. The first sentence is a common lie that convinced most of us to join steemit,
We all came to get rich quick, well its crystal clear even to a blindman on steemit that it is a big lie.
So, I will focus on the second sentence, do you really need to post everyday to make it on steemit?
Hell No, as a matter of fact most of the successful people I know here on steemit hardly make a post (except those that always host weekly contest or blog news). Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t say that they hardly log in. They are always online, but not always writing a post. They maybe be online for day, just replying and resteeming quality posts.
The difference between you that make post everyday and them is that they hardly strike but whenever they do, they leave a great mark.

They take time to observe, make a lot of research, gather information and ideas before making a single post. They don’t just come around (like you always do) to drop a meme, write two sentences, then sit back and expect 1k upvotes and resteems.
Cool down to gather your contents and put them in order before making a post. One relevant post can fetch you a lot of followers and upvotes than thousands of irrelevant posts. If you observe the profile of people with high steem power, you will notice that amount of “Following” is always way lesser than the “Followers”. The very little ones they are following are mainly people with higher steempower and others are people that are productive, people that pass sensible information across with their posts. You can’t be posting rubbish or half cooked stuffs everyday and expect a whale to find your blog attractive then follow you and upvote them.
Although I post almost everyday, that because I’m an artist and I have many artwork in my pc before I joined steemit. So, if you a writer and you have many write ups or you blog news, you good to go. If you can write something sensible everyday, good and fine. In summary, stop posting rubbish all in the name of being consistence or in quest of getting more followers coz you will even loose the little you have.

Always try to connect with different people but while connecting be very careful the kind of people you connect with. There are three different kinds of community I’ve seen on discord. The good ones that helps their members grow, the useless ones without mission and vision that can help them grow and the fraudster ones that steal their members' upvote.

Make enquirers well before joining a curation trail. Some of the trails out there help the leaders more than the members. The leader always make posts everyday then use the curation trail to upvote himself first when the vote power of the trail is still at the peak before voting some of the members. In summary, I will encourage everybody to use steemworld.org/username to make some enquirers before joining a trail.
If you would ask me to recommend you a good curation trail for minniows to join, that will be Newbieresteemday.

As you can see, there is no special set of people that always get upvoted and resteemed.

As you can see, I also got upvoted and resteemed along the line... The blessing keeps going around to posts with good content. Don't forget to FOLLOW @newbieresteemday and TAG them.
Finally, always be observant and know when to change strategy. From the few days I've spent here, I noticed that people dont like reading topics like religion, politics and newbie tips(Yeah, you read it right)... So this will be the last Tips I will be posting, Gotta try something new and see how it goes...
Enjoy steemit, Stop working hard and start working smart.