Nice the efforts you have out into giving minnows and new users knowledge of how the platform works.

The advice I have for minnows and newbies is that they should focus on building friendships not support. It is only from friendships can one get lasting support.

Do not go for those follow for follow, upvote for upvote systems but rather interact with people who will love you then love your blog.

You can only do this by taking out time to be involved in a community on either discord or steemit.chat.

Stop pursuing whales with spam comments or tagging them on your posts. They will come or not but if you spend time on formatting your posts and pay attention to your community, you will attract the kind of upvotes a whale would give to you with time.

Be patient, good things do not come easy. The upvotes may be low but they will rise and when they do, do not forget to powerup. You have to be your first support.