How can grow my website (customer base) at a faster rate?

My website is growing each day; however, it just isn't growing fast enough. I know I can make a living off of my website, however, the growth is very slow paced. By the time I get enough revenue to sustain my cost of living I'll be retired by then. I'm a big fan of Shark Tank, and it just kills me how these businesses go on the show with $50K in sales, and as soon as the show airs and they do an update on previous businesses they all have huge jumps in sales and some are even doing $1M+ in sales. Or other businesses on Shark Tank that have approached businesses like Costco to feature their product but have been turned down over and over. However, as soon as one of the sharks makes a call to Costco they take in the product and not only that sell out of the product. It's so frustrating that you can have a very good product, but if you don't have the network connections, media attention, or be at the right place at the right time your product never makes any real impact in growth and then slowly just ends up in the dead pool! How can I trigger some real rapid growth to my website? Do I just have to hope and wish I come across an opportunity to get some media attention by being in the right place at the right time? So frustrating...................