This is a quality blog post. Keep writing like this and you'll gain traction. I'm still new here too, and I came to your page because you upvoted my post. I think a lot of times, that's how it works. Unless you get noticed by one of the people with enormous amounts of steem power, it'll take steady progress.
The single most effective way, in my limited experience with steemit, was putting a decent amount of money into the platform and converting it to Steem Power. It gives your votes more power, and people will be more apt to follow you if your voting power is higher . . . and the token has the potential to be worth a lot more than it is currently.
But . . I understand that this "jump start" isn't in everyone's budget. So I would start following the highest paid authors. I was looking for a great steemit article and now i can't find it :( . . see what they are doing, comment and upvote other people's content . . . but I think most importantly, is to keep writing blog posts like this!
I'm also an avid crypto-currency investor. And there are a lot of people here who share the same interests. Find them, Follow them, Upvote, curate, and begin relationships with them. It'll take some time. I'm trying to do the same thing right now.
Following you and looking forward to your content.
Thank you for the comment. I'm glad to hear that you liked it. I believe that by keeping consistent I will be able to gather a larger audience. However, as I wrote in the post, starting out is tough and this is what I believe a lot of new people struggle with. I also hope this post of mine will act as somewhat of an encouragement to new people in the community, if I can keep up a posting quality and gaining a larger audience in the future.