Maybe dm some folks outside of steemit who are steemit whales or whatever and try to get them to post. Surely one of them would help. Unfortunately I can't really help with my 15 sbd starter steemit money. Maybe dm a group letter on to some whales? The only whale I know from the general internet is jerrybanfield and given his usual activities he might throw a vote if he notices..
Failing that if you have some selfish goals(not in a bad way) cross post these to Twitter or Instagram and try to pull some people over to steemit.
Thanks. I've reached out to some people for advice and feedback, got some, but apparently didn't do a good enough job of making a lasting impression. Time will tell, although 135 days of posting here is quite a bit of time already.
Jerry is a pay-for-vote-for-profit guy. He's not the right person to approach for upvotes unless he gets a monetary gain from it.