I totally agree, dear friend. It's nice to see the number of followers that we have, but it seems just an illusion... I have more the 800 followers and just about 30, max 50 upvotes on my post, the same number of upvotes that I had in the "300 followers" time. "Don't worry" I say to myself "Stay positive and steem on!" ^_^
That's the right attitude... Just keep doing what you're doing!