It's time to grow your garden. Start trying to delegate 20%-50% of your votes away from popular topics and authors. Start exploring your favorite niches. As for me, I'm always searching for great visuals, fiction, music, topics about sustainability, and anything to do with cyberpunk (not getting enough of that around here).
My first votes are currently going at the rate of 0.50 USD and that's pretty damn awesome! It's not much but it's still a cup of cheap coffee! It gets people going, and if persistence matters they'll get noticed by the bigger whales down the line. Vote, interact, and form cross-disciplinary collaborations.
With about 350 users currently with more than 10,000 Steem Power, a rough estimate of 20% active participation per day is equivalent to giving out 1400 cups of coffee per day. That's 500,000 cups of coffee per year and that's fantastic!
Start taking the time to tend to your own garden. Water it well, and let it thrive!
