think long term at the moment we have 50 whales and thousands of posts going p everyday, there is no way they an see them all.
Keep doing what your doing build that following add pictures to your posts it makes them more noticeable.
pick a niche if you can (especially if you can find one no one else or very few people are doing it helps a lot)
use steemit chat to promote your posts and talk to other people.
and comment on other peoples posts to I know quite a few people here who make more commenting on posts than they do writing.