Great post, @tojukaka! You nailed by saying that people don't put in the necessary steps to find their audience. Then gets people disappointed in Steemit or the whales or themselves. It is an endurance game for now because the platform doesn't help us much to get found. But there are many tools to speed things up.

I also like the fact that you say that people need to give value which they would like to have for themselves. That is what I do. After grinding through Steemit and researchiong so much I decided to do tutorials and help people who are new. Their upvotes might be small today but they will grow and they will remember who has helped them. :)