Hello Newbie Steemians.
I am new too, and have been on here now for four days and can honestly say I am addicted.
Here are a few very brief things you need to know now and if you are doing any of these things STOP they will not work for you.
DO NOT
Follow for follow and upvote for upvote.
Short term it will work yes but you will quickly lose all your steem power and it takes 5 days to replenish see this post below which was made by 
This is not get rich quick the chance of a whale (someone with massive influence) liking an early post is probably 000000000000.001% and then you burn yourself out and give up.
DO
Read other newbies posts and follow them, support them and they will support you.
Today I found something incredible and its not a secret its called the minnow support project.
What is it?
Its a group for newbies to come and learn how all this stuff works, read the following post and do what it says, in the long term you will save yourself four days of research which is what I did. The group is still small but it is growing, you could start turning this ripple into a huge wave now. They are a cool bunch of people.
Follow @minnowsupportproject
And read this post. https://steemit.com/minnowsupportproject/@deveerei/minnow-support-project-voting-guide-infographic
Its all there for you to learn and grow your steem.
But if in the end you are like this.
Then maybe this is not for you, and you should carry on wasting your time to try and get rich in 30 minutes.
Have a splendid sunday.