first rule... Never beg for an Upvote, Once you posted something good for the platform, original and good quality contents, people will recognize you. How long have you been here on Steemit? have you enter the eSteem University discord channel? You can join any other channel and promote your posts through the channels.

I spent 3 months without gaining any recognisition from anyone, even though I use eSteemapp since the day I joined Steemit, check on your posts and your friends posts? what's the different and what are they doing that you haven't tried yet?

learn from my story dear Hive account@youst, I created good post and many people love it, but the name you mentioned above never voted for me at that time, but I keep posting and join many other community who appreciate my post with their small votes until one day, I won the third place of commenter leaderboard run by eSteemapp and I got upvoted at least 1 post a week, while other friend of mine who create crappy post.. got bigger upvotes value from the team, why? he showed them that he's consistently power up from the payouts he got once or twice a week.

enter the eSteem University and then try to create your own good quality post and don't mind other achievement, there's not instant result.. keep Steeming!