Making the social connections is such a key! We aren't posting in a vacuum! Engagement is mandatory to success.
Your point here is very well made. There are many minnows out here in the pond who are determined to rise above and become something larger. Many are working together, with projects like MSP, having figured out that, to quote a famous vulcan "The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few, or the one".
Much continued success to you! Maybe there should be a US meetup in Kansas City? ;-)
I've launched STEEM SCHOOL KC, and the first class is Oct. 14 in KC...I'll do a separate post about it.