Steemit has a set of Guilds who look at newbies, but once your rep goes above 63, most of them are not helping anymore. I see whales voting on posts in the new channel, but you must pay attention to the time when sending in your post, ie these needs to be the times for these whales to be online and cast their votes. Some of the whales follow other lower SP holders with their vote bots, giving their votes based on the curation of the one they follow. I personally put really hard work into Steemit, spending most days hours on it, creating posts, commenting, curating, figuring out the topics for new posts, searching for them, researching the topics etc etc. This got me some of the bigger/big SP holder to follow me, some of them regularly upvoting my posts. I also have 1 or 2 smaller SP holder who regularly upvote my post and giving me with their upvotes also the upvotes of the Whale vote bot that are following them. I also have some minnows with a large follow base supporting me by ReSteeming quite a few of my posts. It gives me sometimes moderate success in post reward, from 10$ up to sometimes to 40$. But I can tell you, this I reached by hard work! With good commenting to Dolphin and Whale posts, I get regularly 100% upvotes, which can main between 1 and 3 to 4$ for a single comment and vote. But again, you do not get them that easy, you must put the effort in, create extra value, get in to interaction and discussion, sometimes ging deep into arguments and such. I also think it is possible to create interest in other topics, but you need to find the Steemians who also are in those other topics and start communicating with them and maybe come to some agreement how to handle and promote new categories. I really wanted to mention this on behalf of the Shark, Whales, Dolphins. They may seem a bit on their own island within the Steemit community, and some are probably not seeing any bridge to the rest of the community, but others have their ways to give something to the smaller SP holders. Keep in mind, we have only a few Dolphins and Whales, and we have many Minnows.
Your response made my week already @edje .i value it.
i Joined in March 2017 , but none of my questions gets answered in comments and on chats.Figuring out when this Whales and Dolphins come on steemit will be my Priority now
I'm active since early January, done more than 2200 post and comments, more than 150 original posts, read gazillion posts. Lot of comments like comments I gave you. Additionally, I researched Steemit, research cryptomarket and that gave me further information to form my opinions that I than use in some of my posts and in some of the discussion with others on those topics. With all that effort, I got around 260 followers, most of them newbies and small accounts; Nice for sure they follow me, but not really rewarding in terms of $ rewards. This morning I posted a post some of the Steemians on the platform would get 75-100$ for. I got 28ct. But I still continue! Trying to have FUN in the first place, and try to find ways to get noticed by the larger SP holder. But Steemit is not about $ rewards only, and I think should not be THE driver to be here, since then you will quickly burn out and leave... It is a long road to success, and really really hard work.
Will adhere strictly to having fun and not looking at the rewards,though they are motivational but i gotta stay focus.