Thank you for the very helpful post! I've been trying to stay very active since I started almost 2 weeks ago, and have been trying to make as many original posts as I can and also to upvote and comment on any quality content that I've come across along the way. Unfortunately it does seem to be going along very slowly so far, and I also managed to lose half of the little STEEM I've earned so far because I sent to the wrong wallet like a dummy :(
I'm going to stick with Steem/Steemit for sure regardless though, because I think that there is huge potential here and I really enjoy it as well! I'll be sure to checkout the suggestions that you've included above, and hopefully I'll get a bit more momentum going after a while!
Thanks again!
That's the spirit !