I'm Steem poor too, but honestly it's because I haven't been putting in the effort. If you put good content out daily you'll be a dolphin surprisingly quickly.

A good resource to get you started here would be the minnow support project. They have a discord with all sorts of helpful folks that can lead you through the beginning stages much better than I can.

Here's a link to the steemit blog, and here's one for their discord. Good luck out there.