This is a very helpful article! You have described, very clearly, what worked for you here. This can be used as a starting point for others, and adapted for their unique personality. I will be sharing this one on Facebook and Twitter, etc.
I think I am starting to be fairly knowledgeable about Steem and Steemit, but I am always learning new things. In this article I learned why a person could not just make a ton of reddit accounts to spam the site:
if you don’t have Reddit karma, you cannot even use that to open a Steemit account.
One thing to fix though -- the link to Dan's blog does not work. I have heard you mention his blog and am heading there to read, as soon as I can get a link to it.
Thanks for another high quality article that helps the entire steemit community!
https://bytemaster.github.io/
Thank you!!!