To be honest ; i would like to start by building a dedicated reader / follower base - for instance, a power up and then a search for new users who would like to help with this project, i believe i have two people already looking forward to some future projects that i have talked about, so i can get them on the team asap and have them search for people who would like to join the project ; once we kick that up and running, i will be emailing people that email me looking for writers ; at which point i will point everyone that i have been looking for, towards the writing for said article / post - in which case the person i email, will of course need to open their own steem account, and i can then have each of those people in the project, upvote them ; including myself - this way they get paid to not only put the advertisement up, but they also join the community and tell their readers about the community itself ; gaining them a ton of followers as well .
That would be step one i think ; step two would be to set up a team for the facebook adds and pay them accordingly so that i would not have to be doing the transfers between steemit and facebook ; i can then just send that to the page managers so they can boost their facebook posts .
As for the rest of the project, i believe more can be discussed on the social management page, or even the steemit page, because i can set up a video call for that ; i am still kind of new to the platform, but i know how valuable this project can be if done correctly, although i am not 100% fully integrated into the community as i still need a discord channel and possibly a few other things - but i feel like im getting the hang of this very quick .
And while i understand the future employees and website are just end game goals ; the first thing to do is to build a team for this ; i will be giving this link to someone whom i know is ready to help for this, and i can set them up ; as well as you sir, as an admin in both of my facebook pages so it is easier to contact .
Basically once i build a team, im going to continue to use the #getpublished tag - and pump out any and all emails that i get that are looking for writers, at that point i should have a basic 10-20 person team, which i can then hand off to the person looking for a writer, paying both ; the writer, and the editor of the article, so that it can be posted - hopefully they accept steem if they are joining the platform so that it takes less time to transfer over .
As for the team ; i can make another post about building the team and list a few names and what their jobs would be - not only that i am fairly sure i can get a few people around my own community ; who are very popular musicians to join the community and try to get them on board with the project as well .
Just to give it that extra kick - maybe we can set up a little jingle / tune for steemit to put into a commercial for an online video lol !
Just thinking out loud on that one but i think its a good idea ;
i have also watched your recent video about the person to person transaction that you would like to see evolve into this platform - and i may have an idea, although it could take a little bit of explaining, and probably done better on video chat or something like that .
BUT - i digress, that is for a different project in itself .
So i guess ; the one smaller payment, would be a powerup to upvote people that i believe would bring a great deal to the community in ways of bringing attention to the platform, and get more users into the blockchain / crypto world .
This way, anyone that has joined due to the #getpublished tag, will get upvoted or anyone that uses the tag itself to promote steemit in any way to the public .
This way, people basically have a job to do, online, which they can get paid for in a few different ways - so if it makes me the FIRST person to offer an actual " Job " with a payment plan in place, then i would love to help the community that way .
perhaps once i start looking for a team, i will make the first team for social management on the first day of the new year ; set up a team of writers or people who produce content, and send them emails of clients looking for writers ; in hopes that the clients will join the community, bringing their readers with them, paying both the writers and clients, in the form of upvotes ; some of the clients may even pay us for the information in their own articles, which we will try to push for, of course, because it will help the project even further .
Thank you very much for taking the time to read @jerrybanfield ; if you have any ideas i would be happy to discuss things as well - maybe something to help kick it off the ground before it takes flight, or maybe even a video call, possibly in the next few days ?
*Edit ; i also feel like if you become an admin in the other two pages ; you would not even need to pay the facebook ad part of this project, you could just click the button to boost a post or two yourself, so that there would not be any need for the transfer of SBD - that may be a good idea to cut the cost just a little bit i think ?
@jerrybanfield - i have edited the step one - because i dont want to see the money you would be sending, if you accept - to leave the platform .
I feel like if you would admin the pages that i have, you can post your own adds on them so that you dont see any of the steem leave the platform, since everything is basically recorded on this platform ; facebook is a little tricky sometimes, and you would probably have a better time making sure you get what you want out of the facebook ads .
This may be a little bit more helpful in the way of keeping transparency as well .
Andrew given the first step is building an audience and the main use of the proposal payment would be powered up to assist with upvotes, I think collaborating with more of the curation groups at this point and building a following on Steem would be appropriate prior to receiving funding from the budget proposals!
It is more in a sense to give some of the minnows a chance to get noticed as well ; like using the upvote bots as well, and basically explain how they work - i have been asking a few people to collaborate, i basically just need to gather what team i have been building together, and seeing what they can do together ; ontop of that, if you have a few places to spread your ads you wont get caught up in the censorship of facebook - i would be willing to set you up as an admin before any of these projects come to light, just so that you can work on your own thing much easier ; and you can use the pages i have as another source for your own ads .
I will even get a few people on the facebook pages as well so that we can start up our own messages between each other and assign people different things .
Things with me are a little bit scattered right now, due to the holidays and still being a little bit new on this platform, but i believe that my vision will bring in a number of bigger fish into this platform, which in itself will bring all of their own readers / followers .
I will assemble my team together, and further develop this and let you know, however, if you still would like that admin status on the pages, you are more then welcome to use them just in case facebook decides to give you any censorship issues ; i will be using them to gather my team as well .
It will be much easier to keep in touch this way as well ; and i have a discord channel i will probably be using it to further develop some other projects .
I will keep my eye out for the curation groups ; but i feel like it may not be right for what i have in mind .
Thank you for taking the time and reading .