I find commenting to be the one, sure-fire, way to meet the interesting people on steemit. Sure, it's important to blog, but you may as well have just pasted your blog on wordpress instead of steemit, because nobody will read it if you have no audience.
Reading thru others' posts leads to finding recommended steemians with interesting blogs. That's how I ended up here, at this very moment. Keep teaching, guiding, mentoring and someday you will have that cottage industry!
Thanks for your input. There is an amazing amount of content being produced here!