what a bummer! My biggest reward pool by far came from my 'introduce yourself' post. All downhill after that lol.

What I've learned about getting attention is that it's not about being a whale, it's about having whale friends who upvote and resteem your posts. You should also start working on getting curation rewards to increase your steem power (voting power), and if you have the money, buy STEEM to hold as steem power so that you can help others get bigger rewards for their posts.

https://steemit.com/steemit/@vapekings14/the-truth-about-upvotes-curation-rewards-and-author-rewards

Nice writing though, you have a new follower.