I strongly believe that only creating a great post is not enough due to the fact that steemit search is not available and that posts in new section are moving so fast. The last element missing in my opinion is promotion of your post.
- get as many followers as you can, interact with them
- use steemit.chat and discord for post promotion
- write quality comments in similar topics and people will be in intrigued about you
Once you have your audience build up, they will follow and if it's a good post resteem which can get you even more publicity and followers ... after all that's the way i found your posts. I would probably never stumbled upon you if one of your previous posts wasn't resteemed by someone i follow.
You are right. Also I highly recommend joining contests. You mix with many new people naturally creating content is even more fun and there is so much more creativity to discover.
That's true! But you need quality followers not quantity. People that really like your content will stay and will interact with you.
great tips, followed