It's not easy but don't give up. You'll start to see some techniques that will up both your profile and your earnings. Comments in posts on topics you are very interested in will help a lot with this.
Another thing is this: Google for the highest earning steemit posts and look at what they all have in common. Which of those things can you do? Start doing that. Tutorials in a skill, any skill. Cool photographs of wherever you live; if some 500-bucks-a-post travel blogger came to your town, where would they go? What would they do? Go there and do that 👍
Wow. Thanks for the valuable suggestions @edumurphy. I will do such.