One main problem behind bad networking is the assumption that more followers will get you more upvotes automatically. But this is fortunately not the case at all.

Just watch some resteem-services. I don't want to call out any names - but I guess most of the active users will know what accounts I am referring to. For a small SBD amount they resteem your post to 10,000+ followers. But guess what - thats 10,000$+ people who do not care about your posts. Maybe most of them are even bots (I don't have any proof for this).

I tried this service once. Even though my post got resteemed to dozens of thousands, it only got a few more upvotes than it already had. So the huge amount of followers doesn't mean anything. 

As nearly always in life --> Quality goes over quantity!

I once read a really good blog post about how 1000 good fans/customers can be everything you need in order to be successful. Maybe I will have time to summarize this text in the next days.

Greets from Austria ;)