Yep - power up as much SP as possible - wish I had of learnt this earlier. And yea engagement is key here - creating quality content is only half of the puzzle - you have to have people that want to read it!
At this point I have largely turned to just doing what I feel is right: engaging with quality folks and upvoting quality.Seems like a solid strategy to me!
Any advice on whether it is better to use minnowbooster to ramp up Steem and SP from SBD, or just trade SBD for Steem on the internal market? When I started I immediately sold SBD on the market then powered up, but recently I've been using Minnowbooster. However, minnowbooster looks like an immediate win, but after a few days the vote value drops, so it may end up being a negative ROI.
Im not a huge fan of using bots in general so my answer might be a bit bias. I just tarde on the internal market but there can be an argument for using minnowbooster to increase your posts visibility while also 'powering up'.