Honestly it doesn't help anyone (it really doesn't help you) to try to scam the system to try to make money. The best recommendations anyone can give you are the following:
- Make high quality posts with good presentation/formatting and content
- Comment on other posts to get more exposure to your account.
- Power up most of your steem.
- Maybe check out @randowhale?...I've found it to be very worth it.
Good luck and Steem On!
ALSO post a detailed post introducing yourself with a tag of "introduceyourself". If you do this, you'll get some free followers and upvotes.