Great advice.
I actually joined back in March but did not really login and use Steemit until August, a full 5 months later after joining before my first post, https://steemit.com/california/@libertyranger/who-will-democrats-run-in-2020-probably-califailure-senator-kamala-d-harris. Waitig that long was a HUGE mistake. I would already be a whale had I posted then.
It has actually been less than 30 days that I have gone from a 27 to my current rank of 45.47 according to http://steem.loadsup.net/upvoters/.
My STEEM Power was not all earned however from my post. I already owned a sizable amount of STEEM that I bought on the Poloniex exchange back in January and I gradually have moved small portions of it over to steemit.com . I continue to buy STEEM at Bittrex.com now and each purchase I move about a 10% portion over to my steemit.com account and the other to my wallet.
I may eventually move everything to steemit.com when it comes out of beta. But for now 10% at a time is a pretty good cut. I have also made more than just small comments like "Nice Post" or "Hey that was a good post, would you mind upvoting and following me?" I try to make compelling comments that show I am involved with the content of the author and truly want to participate in the steemit.com community of minnows dolphins and whales.
I believe in Steemit.com and the fact we have a Blockchain based social media platform that anybody can participate in, even the evil Jamie Dimon, makes this a long term survivable crypto currency based project that people can actually see and appreciate.
I do aspire to a player in the steemit.com sea eventually as I would love nothing more than to stop driving for Uber and Lyft on tight months. I won a website hosting company that has over the years has seen my clients applications move from ColdFusion API to .NET and into to the cloud. So this would be a great place to retire to.
I really appreciate content like this becuase it is helpful to others to have an idea of how the social hierarchy of steemit breaks down. We are a young community and these are the items that help us all see the bones that are our blockchain.
Thank you for giving me a bigger view! Three points for everyone to think about them firmly:
1-Cooperation between whales and minnows.
2-Conducting forums to introduce the platform
3-Try to draw the attention of artists to the platform to gain wider fame