These are great recommendations here and I think Steemit Inc should consider adopting most of the recommendations. We must deliberately drive steem price up and these are sure ways to achieve it.

As a community builder who involve in promoting steemit through @credo community and has recorded a huge success with 100s of account registered, I think the point in number 4 should be considered;

Community delegations - Steemit Inc has been investing in delegations, though this is currently too biased towards developers. Never forget that the content creators and curators are whom Steem is built for, and even developers are ultimately a means to that end. I hope to see delegations go out far and wide to the best communities on Steem. Mind you, however, there should be a limit to total Steemit Inc delegations - too many delegations from Steemit Inc will mean less demand for Steem Power as other users will be squeezed out of the reward pool. Currently, far too much is being delegated to too few people / initiatives.

To keep these newbies going, community account like @credo needs some reasonable delegations to support these new users. I hope Steemit Inc considers this soon as this will help improve retainership on the platform.