Great post mate - On the topic of promotion I just wanted to remind everyone to post your new stories to the Steemit subreddit !
We've just had a revamp (still ongoing), I've setup automoderator so new redditors don't have their links automatically spam-binned and @acidyo and myself will be making a focussed efforts to build traffic and make it great again :)
Awesome, thanks for the tip and for your efforts to support this community!