Not everybody knows the ropes and steemd is really the only way to keep your account under control, so I think I've done well pointing people into this direction after all... somehow I knew this could be something that has slipped from people's sight :)
Yeah it's all about SP, the more you have it, the easier it's to get the following, multiply your assets an catch visibility. Just invest as much as you can in steem, which is cheap now, and power up it if you want to have a better position in the food chain. This is also how you raise your upvote power!
Steem and SBD are going down ATM, cause Poloniex froze the trading and the wallets while they're tweaking the code after the buyout, and it's a big one for steem. But once they give the green light again, price most likely will go up.