There are various tutorials out there, but they need to be linked from peakd and hive.blog so anyone can find them. The community ought to be able to put something together. Can include videos and needs to be in other languages too.
The anti-plagiarism and other anti-abuse projects need to be responsive and not put good people off. That has been an issue. I have worked with the people around @steemflagrewards. People make us aware of abuse and we can individually choose to deal with it. It's important to have some sort of verification that your account is genuine such as a link from another site or a photo/video proving your ID.
Using HiveOnboard (with your own referral link) makes it fairly easy to create an account, but I can create them for people too as I have done many times. I will delegate to newbies to start them off.
Not having a central company means raising funds for ads is tricky. There is a marketing effort looking at options around @hivepeople.
Have a !BEER