A strategy for newbies could also be to share their first steem posts in other social media environments to entice their friends.

When they spice them up with some great posts about what is so great about steem and keep sharing to their familiar environments their respective social tribe will eventually end up upvoting their great steem posts after they've created their own accounts and start engaging.

Then those tribes can upvote each others posts within Steem and attract more steem upvote power after having had that kickstart.

I'll test that strategy myself and report back how I'm doing ;-)