yup it's a hard sell, but you can find friends and flock together, as with anything most people are lazy :| why vote when you can autovote :D at least they put up a button so they have to collect their returns :D I for one have thought about autovoting since there are times when reading 50 pages(200) per day is kind of annoying :D buuuuut I can just chill out for a week and that works too :D
g chat people up i discord trails/steem speak and the chat(rocket chat) for steemit where you can do post promotion and just show what you want to see and fight for it, want more people engaging, tell them it's good, show them it's better and stick to it :)
Good luck :)