I can see more and more holders of great amounts of Steem Power are going to invest in projects to sustain and help the community growth. What I think it would be the key to success of the entire ecosystem, would be a little more advertising outside of the platform. Even though we have increasing user base growth, I guess that much more users are needed in order for Steemit to compete with popular sites like facebook or reddit. Also a great increase in the number of users would boost the price of Steem, as the demand for Steem will grow a lot higher which will improve even the experience of new users because they will see their votes having an impact fom the beginning.
Unfortunately I don't know what effort is required in order to promote Steem so much in order to have a visible effect. Right now even by searching Steem on google returns sad Steam results saying that you might mistyped the word which is discouraging for each person who wants to search for it.
Anyway, thank you for your great efforts that you are already making in order to create a better place here for everybody. I guess it is really appreciated!