Every one see's steemit as a blogging platform which is not , we have dtube , dsound and other steem powered platforms in which we share and contribute information

Thus implying that steemit is a platform where one shares their ideologies and thoughts and get paid for that

followers

its not easy to get more curation on a post that has no upvotes its like searching a video on youtube as a watcher you wont watch a video with less views over a video that has a lot of views with that said building a list of followers will help you get more curation rewards

steembottracker

Steem bots are bots that vote on your posts when you pay a certain amount of steem or sbd ( steembottracker.com)

Using steembots i was able to grow my fan base by 9 % last weekend
https://steemit.com/steem/@nabstertsr/how-to-get-more-rewards-from-steemit-my-thoughts

see them in action

https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@nabstertsr/life-after-finding-steemit