There are a no. of ways to grow on steemit. The most simple and productive way is to create a active community on social media and share your post link there and request the community members to comment upvote and follow you. And if someone did that your duty is to give the same back. In this manner with you each member of group will grow.
To help you guys i created a telegram group if you are interested please join this group it will help you and each member a lot.
BeloW is the link to the group
https://t.me/joinchat/HLfZhVMwvGT0pnjN5OG6TA