Help Me Understand And Earn Hive

It is more than a year that I register an account with hive blog and since then I tried to create some articles but my earnings was low. The highest I earned was around $4 on an article and automatically, $2 will be mine. The rest of my article only earned below $1 and most of them, I don't earn at all. With these I got tired and paused from posting and look for other means to make money online.

So recently like 3 days ago I saw some posts and I saw what they earned, so I got interested in wanting to post and also earn like they do. I know that I am still new and I don't know much, but I am determined to earn in a gradual process.

Yesterday I tried to search on Google to look for ways to make more money here with hive, and I see many people's opinions. But I don't really understand them. So I came back to ecency, because this website is what I use to access the hive blog as I like the interface. I do notice from my wallet that I have earned some ecency points and they can be used to promote or boost a post. I don't really know about these two but I have little idea on promote, so I promote one of my post for 2 days using 350 points. And since then I have seen some changes but not enough.

Because I don't understand how to use ecency to earn more, so I had to Google search on how it work and I see many post. But I still want to understand this. One of the tip I read is that delegating 1000 HP to @ecency will increase my curation reward leaving me to claim 100% reward. And also that if I boost my post with $1 ecency points that I will be able to earn back $1. I am starting to think that if this is possible then with investment I can start to earn from hive blog even if I don't have followers. I have seen some users that has few followers like 20 and earn more than $20 on each of there post.

Please users that are already earning big here on hive blog or understand how it work. I would like you to teach me on how to grow my earnings and explain better how ecency points work and how I can use them to increase my earnings.

Thank you all for taking time to read my post and I am expecting your advise to help me also grow.