So are you using your earnings to power up and get more SP and increase your returns over time?
I've been using SmartSteem to sell my votes since well I don't always use them all the time. I mean I do, do manual curation when I have time but there's voting power wasted when im not online so I give them a little bit of room to do it for me.
I think I have powered it all up yeah and this is what I want to keep doing whenever possible. (Note that there have been times when some extra fiat money has also came in handy, so Steemit has been a huge help in those situations).
I am not familiar with SmartSteem, but I haven't heard anything bad about it. : )