Hi buddy, you mind telling me what's your name? Im Piotr (which is easy to guess haha)

I really love reading your posts. Very easy and informative. Keep up with great content. Steemit needs people like you.

You just wrote:
"Frankly speaking, there is nothing wrong in wanting to be noticed or upvoted"

I agree. We all want to benefit one way or the other on Steemit and to do so - we need to be noticed first. To build follower base, to attract people to engage etc.
The problem is that most people have no idea how to do it right.

Take me for example. I'm a social media marketer. What I do is simple.
I look for some topic that I like to read about. I would find 30-50 posts about the same issue on steemit. I would look briefly at all of them and read the ones that I attract most of my attention.
And then I would think of some questions that I like to ask. I would write those questions down, create "general" comment related to topic filled in with my questin.
And only then post it to each of those 30-50 people as a comment.

Does it look like spam? A little bit. But Im reaching those who are interested with topic. Im asking genuine questions and if someone reply - then Im gonna do my best to keep in touch.
I may not read fully each post that Im starting to comment, but once I get reply ... then I read it again. From A to Z. Fair enough?

So at the end of the day I may have little followers but my engagement rate is very high.

Most people think that following 10k people and leaving simple comments will help them. But it's just not good enough.

Cheers,
Piotr