Welcome to Steemit Matt!
This is a great community of content creators. Steemit has a bit of a learning curve. So try to have patience to understand the platform, how to format your posts, and optimize your payouts.
Here are a few good resources for new users:
- https://steemdb.com/ will give you data about your account so that you can see the activity on your posts.
- https://steem.makerwannabe.com/ will let you see your progress of gaining followers.
- https://steembottracker.com/ is a upvote bidding bot that will help you advertise yoour posts for more visibility.
- @steembasicincome is a service for getting small, lifetime upvotes on your posts.
- https://steem.io/steem-bluepaper.pdf is the steem bluepaper, which gives information about the platform.
Let me know if you have any questions as a new user on Steemit, I am happy to help! You can follow me at @ngans. I post a lot about neuroscience, psychology, health, and philosophy. Wish you the best of luck!