If steem forum focusses on growing steemit.com then first of all the startegy should based on a fragmented model where area specific teams cater specific area and spread word about basic understanding of it. I am from India and i discovered it accidently. The lack of a proper app is biggest hurdle to keep up with it. I searched google play store and found random app not sure which one is genuine.
Secondly at the heart of it lies curation and content and alot of stress should be given to it. Many minnow write awesome original content but it get burried under the weight of daily flood of blogs. The forum should have teams which hunt this content and promote it irrespective of reputation score and upvotes. Most of the time content does not get attention as it is been burried.
The desperation to seek attention will ultimately take a toll on creative intellect.
Steemit is based on curation which is rewarded, so plagarism check is necessary. a natural software should be there which does that check before posting. Steemit should build into a community with awesome content based on crypto.
It needs alot of marketing in India and the forum should focus on that. I hope my feedback helps us all.