I will probably never make it to the trending steemit page because I enjoy doing it the organic way. Can't say that it'll pay out short-term but long term? I think it's a sure bet. I think that sportic resteem service you use is a complete and utter scam (I've looked into it before).
Then again, it didn't take lon for me to understand that bot upvotes make up the trending page.
If I ever make it organically, I'll hit you up and we can laugh about this.