I like your line of thinking, as money is primary motivator for new blood, and blogging versus videos is available to the masses. I am not sure what we can do to increase the price of Steem other then try to bring value, upvote others who bring value and hold our Steem. But willing to listen to other suggestions.
I think this will go a long way, then the SPS for application development and as many erasons to stake Seem as possible. If an SMT application gets traction and requires a million accounts, suddenly Resource credits become important.