I have gotten 2 people to join(a photographer, and a "coder") but both used the platform experienced a bit of success but neither stayed. I think the problem is neither of them found the community here and I believe to do so you have to do allot of digging and following whales in each sub. Its the hardest part to explain really. I wish Steemit would behave more like Reddit where you could follow specific tags and then have a home feed based on
that. Its the only logical step forward because the Token Curated voting is totally of when it comes to gathering good content for most users