i salute you @stephenkendal been hearing a lot about you and retwettimg your post there and promo-steem updates. Advertisement is one of the best strategy to promote steemit. Here in cebu philippines, ive been promotjng steemit monthly by doing meetups we started from june 2017 with 7 person only , the last meet up happened last feb4, we reached over 100 people joining the event.
it feels great to passionately help the community ;)
looking forward for your next update.
cheers! ;)j