Content
First of all, the content you post have to be interesting for the crowds.
Social media
There are small tips for linking more to the post. You can make an post on your facebook profile, that link to the steemit post. Here is an example of this:
Example post on facebook of steemit-post
If you have an twitter, instagram or other social media accounts, put the link also on these pages. Its all about getting your link out to as many people as possible.
Call friends, family and business partners
This one is slow, but meight help you.
call your friends, family and business partners, ask for an "upvote" on a specific post. Or ask to share-votes, so that you give them a vote on their post and they gives you a vote, on your post, in return.
Submit post to others
When you reply to others posts and upvote for them, you receive more attention and that could be converted into more votes on your posts, as least at one later point in time. Here the link to your posts, on your name, is very important.
Thats it for now.
Happy steeming and hope your posts will get alot more upvotes after applying the above tips.
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