Hello and welcome to steemit Beam, i am from New Zealand and its nice to meet you.
If you post real life stuff you are more likely to more engagement, to get started you should follow @steemitblog as they have competitions that may interest you.
also @steemingcurators are running competitions as well - check them out
With the help of the steemit community i am running #spud4steem - feel free to check this out as well
if you need a hand with anything let me know
peace