Congratulations @sportsprediction on your 1000th followership.

What I understand with steemit is that first, you need to be dishing out quality post to the information-hungry steemit population.

Secondly, you need quality associations.

Have seen quality posters earn huge rewards without knowing the curators.

Have also seen not so much of quality posters earn huge rewards because of their relationships.

If one can dish out quality posts with two, three, four whales visiting regularly, I tell you; he is game though the goal should be much larger.