I must confess it hasn't been rosy with me here on steemit. Most time i post contents and the number of views alone is discouraging not to talk of the upvotes. So i keep myself going by posting and also curating, hoping to get some reward from curations.
Hopefully i will be consistent enough to start seeing positive results.
The key is to continue doing what you're doing. I've seem many people come and go. It can get discouraging especially when you put alot of time in to posts but remember that the future steem price could be worth hundreds of dollars per steem.