I had a few whales that liked my posts back in December. That gave me a little steem and a little steem power. All the steem I make goes right back into promotion and increasing steem power. Most promoters guarantee 135 percent. If I make $10. I reinvest it and make $13.50. A portion goes to growing my steem and the rest goes back into promoting the next video.
With growth comes followers that help boost my profits. I try to interact with steem users that post quality content and I have been recruiting the FPV community when I can.
Are you promoting your own post, by tge use of the promote button? Or do you use a bot? Sry I'm still pretty new to this...
I use one of the bots from here I am relatively new as well. I am sure there are better ways, but I typically post videos often to Youtube. This way provides additional exposure and earns me some steem. It is a long term path. If steem goes up, I will have some minor investment.