One thing I do is consider if feeding my old, leveled up Rs into new SRs is a good idea, same color same character, of course. This usually gives me a good head start on leveling.
There is a method I go by during events and a method for inter-event periods.
During events, since we get a ton of Beats, I go Live almost non-stop (it takes less than a minute to pick a location and tap go, so why not). I can get about 5000 of each type of tickets everyday, so that translates to 150 cards. Then I pick one or two cards I want to focus on, depends how much inventory space I have left. Right now I have very few left, so I’m focusing on one Kanade card only. During leveling, save all cards that have the same color or character as the target card and all R cards, and feed everything else without bonus into it. After pulling 10 N cards, first thing to do is to limit break what I can. My goal is to limit break as many same color or character cards as I can for one big load of exp. So it goes like 8 or 9 times of 1K exp, then 1 time of around 8K exp. If I’m lucky, I get a x1.5 bonus on the 8K load.
No event periods are my power leveling time and getting 20% stat bonus time. I do these by repeating beginner stages over and over. I’ll link to the wikia section I wrote, so I don’t have to write stuff twice.