Your network is your net-worth.
The best way to improvise networking is to comment, interact with people, I've found this very effective in my growth. Have a growth mindset, i have seen a lot of people blaming the whales for not supporting the minnows, this is so wrong, you cannot expect someone to push you up. They have their own lives and interests, so you cannot wait for them to push you up, so playing the blame game is a waste of time.
just keep doing your best, steemit is the community where people WILL get rewarded, sooner or later, but people gotta work for it.