It was a good read.
The thing is that you have to have that great post that will make a whale vote for you. I have started a month ago, and I was posting only crap. Seriously. Some domain names that I have, some brexit news, etc. CRAP:))
Then, luck started to come to me with the curation of Steemit 101- the Amazon book review and gained 200 STEEM.

Then, the strato initiative: https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@gabi-dumitriu/hello-steem-community
And I am a regular guy, no boobs, or makeup tutorial. I guess it depends of your luck....Or about how good you write:)
I guess, we will never know:))