RE: Hello Steemit Users! Anyone new in here?

Yes, indeed. It's very hard to get noticed. My first month, I spent lots of time making posts of good, relevant content, and since I'm an editor, I made sure the writing was perfect. Most of those early posts got very little response, and were soon lost in the ever-flowing Streeeeeeeeeeeem.

So, I started curating, reading lots of other posts, finding posts that interest me, upvoting them, commenting on them, reading the replies, replying to the replies. Then, slowly but surely, my number of followers started to increase, and my reputation score also started to increase.

Clearly, only posting is not enough. You must also engage in curating, reading, commenting, upvoting. Every day, if possible.

You may not see results immediately; it's a long-term process to build the Steemit community and to build your own community on Steemit.

But eventually, you will notice that your reputation, your followers, and your rewards are all increasing, slowly but surely. Then, you keep plugging away, towards further success.

If you are interested in blogging, etc, Steemit's the finest platform for that. I've been on other platforms and even started my own blog, but self-promotion is not my forte, so I found it impossible to succeed on those sites.

This platform is entirely different. With consistent effort, I've already achieved more "success" than I did on any other platform.

So, I'm simply going to keep posting more and better content, as well as curating. I know I won't be earning a lot of income for the next 6–8 months or more. But it will be very interesting to see how much is in my Steemit Wallet in one year's time.