So say myself and a couple of the Irish Hive guys and girls put in for 25,000 HBD to do the Dublin Crypto Currency Event. Not beyond the realms of possibility. We are caked here in Ireland at the moment. There is gold dripping from the ceilings. We have companies like Coinbase and Binance based here in the city. Actually Ireland is becoming a really good crypto capital right now.
I'm up for it. I might not know the details but i can give it a good bluff. I do however respect the like so crim or other who are part of the working team on hive attending as we need to become know to outside sources as a place to build or to connect with others.
The big issue as you say is the massive sink of funds into a rally car that doesn't bring any users or business to the chain. Money that could be far better spent. For 100K a year i will spend 40 hours a week promoting hive. Making deals and partnerships and attending functions online and in person to bring in users and build business. And i will bring in a lot more users than the rally car.
We need to build apps, good apps that people want to use and that bring in revenue. That is all. Thy will market and bring in their own users. Users mean income and higher hive price. It's that simple and always been that simple we just haven't seen it happen. Splinterlands did it right one and leo are trying to do it now. Other than that very little.
I had you and @ablaze in mind actually and I have no doubt if we gave you 100k a year, you would be great at it. I would be in favour of this kind of model rather than throwing money down a black hole. Or I would use the 100k to attract web3 games to the platform. Here's a 100K . Come to Hive. That's what the likes blockchains such as Ronin and Sol are doing. I'm sure Splinterlands were approached like this.
Christ even with a quarter of it, we could put on something serious and attract plenty of interest to Hive.
Beforehand you sit down and have a good debrief with some Devs to help cover off likely questions, then you dress the part and engage with as many people as possible.
Then you show what you've achieved. Tangible results. X number of new users. Y number of engagement.
Then you run a contest of some sort to bring people to Hive. €3K for the first user to attract 100/200 new gunuine users or something along those lines.
As for merch, christ with a budget of €25K you could get some decent stuff.
As for the rally car for 1/4 million, Christ, don't get me started! You wouldn't mind if Hive had kicked on and grown after this initiative, but it seems to have done precisely the opposite.
Conferences are kind of a waste imo. Thats why im changing how wer approaching them a bit so we dont go there with just hopes of someone seeing us.
Im going to the upcoming one with arranged talks with every single major investor present at the conference.
So if done in Ireland, arrange the talks beforehand and have something to sell.
Wouldnt we all. :)
It depends on if we are looking for devs or trying to get users. We obviously need both but while i could talk to users it takes a dev to talk to a dev as we have no idea what they need or how to sell it to them.
Hive is for devs. Apps are for users so if i went to promote hive it would need to have nothing to do with hive. I would need to be selling splinterlands, peakd or inleo. They are the only two apps we have here that are user ready right now.
Hopefully your new approach pays off as we need more user ready apps to promote to the wider world.
Its very hard to develop precise funnels for each of these targets, i know.
But say we decide, ok, "we need devs".
What do you do? Well you can find a dev and talk to him. Will that achieve anything? 99% it wont do anything because you have nothing to offer him. Do you have a job for him? How about some grant money? Will we tell him: Oh, come build here its great. Hive is great but if you have nothing to offer him its a waste of time.
Ill try this new approach, ill be selling VSC and HBD through it. It has a very specific path for investors to complete and answers all questions of what, how and why.
Maybe I fail (we get some of our money back if i do fail) but I find it a better fit than just showing up and waving Hive flags.
It's good that you think conferences are a waste by the way as your voice might travel further in the position you are in.
Im changing the approach right now. Maybe this wont work either but im not a big fan of waving our Hive flags and thinking that because we showed up people will buy Hive.
Ill know in a month if it did work. If it does, it will set the precedent for further conferences.
Well this approach does sound much better than the current system. Best of luck Butterfly Lord.
Don't forget to show proof of purchase for everything. Since you haven't done so at all and act like child when asked about it.