You can meet a lot of great people on the "introduceyourself" tagged pages, I haven't joined any groups that work those pages but I have spent plenty of hours in there greeting folks and passing along what little information I know about this platform.
All the advice you have given is real good advice, much the same as I have learned and share as well. It is what makes this place special in my mind, people truly wanting to help others succeed here.
Now that I am aware of magical Monday's I'll keep a closer eye out for it. A very good example of how to help give back to the community, well done young lady.
I am so happy to hear this @sultnpapper. Yes you can, it sure beats looking at trending, lol! I would have quit Steemit already had I not had people there to give me advice and keep me motivated. By helping the new users we hope to keep them motivated with quality content after we give them the knowledge and advice they need. So many people come on here expecting it to be easy and it's not, I don't want to see others get discouraged and if they do I want to help them succeed. I don't make much at all on my post but I don't want to leave Steemit, so why not spend time helping others? Thanks a lot for checking out my Magical Monday, I hope to see you tomorrow 😊