It can definitely be frustrating, especially when you have spent the best part of a day putting a post together only to get 14 views! My last post being an example.

I've tried a few re-steem competitions with mixed results. I've also entered a competition to have a whale mentor for the month. Trial and error I guess. If I find anything that really works I'll pass it on.

The Steem Power to SBD thing won't work I don't think. Mainly because SP is committed to Steemit and takes 13 weeks to pull out.

Keep going man. Your post caught my attention as well as a few others. If we accept now that we're working for the end game then It takes the immediate pressure off. One post does badly, on to the next! Same for your comments. I wrote a massive, well thought out comment to someone's post a few days ago and have had no response at all. Annoying but move on and find a whales post to comment on. :)

Stick with it.

Cheers, Gaz.