Congratulations on reaching the 500SP goal, i am sure you'll be at 50 in no time, i am a newbie and to be honest sometimes i find it difficult to impose myself on steemit, partly because of hoew far i feel a lotta people have come. But seeing how far you have come in such a short time is really encouraging.
Spent a lot of time on this. You'll do fine if just find a couple communities and join. Use a couple odd but accurate tags gets you more real views than the generic ones I have on this post. A friend of mine blogged about making moonshine and got a few large upvotes, it's unique. Another good way is to convert some of your less favorite crypto currency holdings into Steem, transfer them here and power up. Good luck and I followed you)
Thanks a lot crypticat i'll definitely be doing all you said, followed you too