Funny you mention that, I just had a long conversation with someone trying to help me devise some ways to make our page more useful to keep people more engaged to stay here. Seems we have this influx of hopeful people to get those $100 articles fast, and you and I know this is not the easiest case to obtain without a little Steem Power backing. One guy I talked with is thinking about creating weekly meetings for new users to learn how to do rise faster like a workshop but unsure if that would be effective either.
Me though, I tend to think its mostly the fact there comes work in this and not everyone has the time to put that effort in. I worked in marketing for PIVX actually so I have a taste for how to get ahead faster, I literally hit over 300 followers today and just got in here last month. I regret not joining last summer when I was told about this so trying to catch up for lost time lol. But I have the free time and determination, new users are more into this for the pass time income so we all need to figure a way to encourage that. I was thinking of a slack like hub for Steemit users, I know we got steemchat but more or less a learning center maybe.
Anyways, your article does show a use case scenario to really educate in a way that I would suspect to be effective. I have also brought some people here too and seen the same thing...give up fast.