Thank you @papa-pepper, I do appreciate the insight provided by long-time members of the community. "Back in the day" talk is good for us new members to learn from. Aside from blind luck and posting over on discord, what other avenues are there for getting posts that are (not just good in our own eyes, the eyes of the author) for the benefit of the Steemit community as a whole noticed and in front of people who can use the content?
edit- i also do NOT want to hold a live scorpion unrestrained in my hand. :-)
You need to get the author noticed. This happens by building real relationships and friendships. The content should always be solid. Also, you may want to try linking a solid post of your at the end of your recent posts until it hits the end of the 6.5 day upvote period. I talk more about this idea in this post: https://steemit.com/steem-help/@papa-pepper/if-i-was-newer-on-steemit-i-would-be-ending-my-posts-with-links-how-to-utilize-post-links-to-draw-attention-to-your-previous
Yes, this is good advice. Thank you. I started doing that on Friday's with my color challenge post. I do the weekly rainbow montage image then put the links below to the posts that I feature in it.
Part of my issue is getting assets that others can use, like Steemit business cards I made, out there for people to see and use, something more important than one of my daily posts. It was part of sykochica's request to make promotional materials for members to use. I posted them, it's all free for people to download and print (and well past the payout date). I just want people to have have access to them and don't know where else on Steemit to get it out there besides the discord channels.