All of the tips that you have given are really good except the bid bots. I am not a fan of them. I lost atleast 10 SBD's using them. This happened even after carefully bidding. Even if we say we are paying for promotion, then there should be some returns. In reality the case is not so. I never got any upvote beyond the first day. Even after paying for bots there was no success at all. No single upvote came even after that.

I think one good way to earn on steemit is to post with regularly and building a community with some steemians. I also think one should drop the idea of earning instant money on steemit. This platform requires patience. It will always be better to have patience on this site to achieve success. I think i would prefer to make a target of 2 years to be succesfull on steemit.