Thanks for this. Great advice! I can tell your really trying to help the community.
I'm definitely feeling the pain of not being noticed, between the flood of new users, taking a couple breaks, and @minnowpond not resteeming, I kind of feel like I'm back to square one after all my progress.
Here's a warning about dmania though. It looked interesting and I love memes, so I tried it once and lost three followers almost immediately. I actually asked one of the people why he stopped following me and he said he's weeding out anyone who primarily uses dmania, he said he was overzealous with me and followed me back, but I decided then not to use it. It may cause you or anyone else reading this to lose followers. By the way, hi! I'm @snowpea, upvoted, followed, and resteemed! 😊
Meh, I've been in the social media game way too long to cry over losing followers. They come and go. Very, very few of your followers visit every post, let alone upvote every post. Go to the top right corner of your dashboard, open the menu there and go to Steem Apps. Find Upvoter, put in your account name and see who your real fans are. I've gained followers every single day I was active on the platform, since I started 18 mos ago. When I'm dormant, they drop off, but if I'm posting , on the whole, that number always goes up. If you stick around, I'm going to start a ten post boot camp in a day or so. Also, look for my giveaway post on my blog, follow the instructions there and I'll see if I can't get you free promotion! Come back any time.