We know that feeling. You can take comfort in the fact that you are not alone. Currently there are issues related to content discovery in Steem. Let us say you just wrote a good detailed post about Bitcoin, then visit https://steempeak.com/trending/bitcoin and try to find some posts which are related to your post. Ready the posts, upvote it, leave a meaningful comment and then ask them to review your post. Make sure not to overdo this as it mighty appear spammy :)
In the initial stages it is always better to engage with the community either on your posts or on popular posts. We follow a lot of accounts based on the comments they post. So build your loyalty and audience this way and then start publishing your own posts.
Powering up buying Steem Power is another way of getting some quick influence ;)