Whenever I invite people to Steemit I really take the time to teach them not only how to write a great introduceyourself post but also the etiquettes like do not ask for follow but make followers organically by leaving great comments on other posts, building relationships and follow people that you are genuinely interested.
It is easier to follow and gain followers when you are true to yourself and not just following the trend of whatever is hot and trending now.
Building niches and communities is the way to go.
Congratulations on your 1500 followers and more success on your red fish community.
success in redfish means, the redfish tag users learned how to post, and not just pos post!
learned to upvoted and support fellow redfish
and learned more about steemit and be amazed with it,
and then decide to level up their own reputation by engaging and caring everyone else!
teaching then will take times, little by little, til they learn