I wish you more success Red.
The journey here as I have observed is quite interesting. There are many factors for a success but what is the most important thing is enjoying steemiting and doing what we love and sharing it here or it wouldn't be much an enjoyable blog job but a bland and boring kind of work.
But as soon as we see some progress, it would result like that of working up a snowball going downhill for that snowball effect that in time will make us big as a fat whale soon.
Remember me when you and @dandalion get rich. ;)