The best answer other than to buy and hold is for the platform to continue to attract the best and brightest developers to create products and service like Steem Monsters as just one example that attract people to this platform and make people want to use it as part of their everyday lives to promote the platform and to promote the Steem cryptocurrency which is connected to this. Steemit needs to become one of the most popular sites out there and be constantly gaining new users and eventually you will see the prices rise.