Iniciatives like #craigrant hastag are betters forms for attract followers (and rewards in Steem) than tradicional's forms. Can will be applies by independents artists for finance events and theirs followers even would earn money buying the tickets before anyone.
Accepts bitcoins!
If Steem's blockchain will can be integrated in the many people's everyday like a form of micropayments we can discover a new world more descentralized and fairer. Everyone would can life working for themselves and the artists are the most interested in these depelopments.
Imagine that you're walking down the street and see a painter exhibiting his paintings and you find a picture that you like. You can upvote it with your phone and rewards the painter. And this with the steemit's system. If the picture would ends sell at a great amount of money, you'ud receive a part, and more if you arrive first, like the same example with the events.
The tag's power
In this point are important the groups and categories. Build comunnities means bring toghether peoples with the same interests and will be easier with a great interface which is underway. That's the power that users like @craig-grant are using and the less Steemit's power exploited.
We hope that, with a beutiful actualization, we will connect a lot of people with ours interests with the purpose of share it great more especialized content, beyond of the general trending tags. Until then, try to use the steemit tools and to take advantage of those.