for starters, welcome to the real world.
Why do i say that? steemit is powered by steem blockchain which is decentralized as such, everyone on their own. learn the system and know that you work your way up. When i joined steemit, i read and comment to some days hundreds of posts as such, build up my followers gradually and get upvotes from those i commented in their posts and made contacts with. in steemit, you work your ass out if you don't have the fiat to come in and stack up enough steem to have good power.
More so, since there are bid based bots, and delegation of steem power, most folks now sell their steem power as such for any post to gain traction, folks here now use bots.
I have been writing against such but you cannot advice people how to use their money can you?

best get acquainted to bots and use some, join some minnowsupport groups, link on their discord channels, make friends and have some good following. Know this, steemit is like a great ocean, not all the small fishes will survive the whales and big sharks, only the strong who persever and takes time to learn how to surf the tide will survive.
just keep your head up mate and lets keep in touch...