Very good post, I've learned some more! There's so much to learn about steemit/busy, I keep discovering new tricks every day.
I'm doing number 3 so I'd be more than happy to have interesting comments on my posts.
I also have an ongoing pledge based on the complex algorithm for curation rewards. I explain it in several posts such as this one.
The idea is that I promote my posts with bid bots after 1 - 2 days of publishing which leaves people time to read and upvote. And when one votes early (at 30') a post that then goes to "score big" the curation rewards for the early voter are multiplied. One can get 10 times one's voting power in curation like that.