This is how we should be marketing, and I for one would support the shit out of this being the uniform strategy and landing page for HIVE.
Fact is, most average-Joe's don't give a fuck about censorship, blockchains, or any of the other shit we circle-jerk and pat ourselves on the back over.
And make no mistake, it's the adoption of average Joe's that will make this a long-term success. There's only so much market share we can gain humping the dead horse that is the usual shit we are out there with.
This is the way, and we should do it.
so true it hurts.
Sad but definitely the truth
I 1000% agree with every word of this comment! ❤️
Thank you so much @oblivioncubed , it's so refreshing to talk to someone who 'gets it.'
Truth.
I appreciate you taking the time to show some support. Wishing you a great day! 🙏
You're speaking words that have been on my mind for a long time, and I know when to throw my chips in behind someone who knows more about a topic than I do.
I truly hope this gets the traction it deserves.
Much appreciated, bro, truly. And hopefully others are able to see what we see, and we all amp up the growth of this beautiful platform substantially. 🙏
Advertise the platform with the money earning opportunity? A good way to doom it.
It's survived it twice before, and it's one of the bigger differences setting us apart.
Blogs are a dime a dozen, decentralization is something only folks who are saying shit that could get them deplatformed care about, being a blockchain is a super niche interest... What else do we have to reach out to the general masses?
If you have something better, by all means... If you don't though, I seriously doubt this would "doom us".
If earning wasn't at least a consideration half or more of us wouldn't be here. For damn sure we would have a lot fewer whales. So let's stop pretending we are all just super jazzed to be part of a decentralized community of bloggers and face the truth that this gives us a chance to earn from what we would otherwise be doing for free or not doing at all.
Community is fantastic, don't get me wrong, and I'm personally a big fan of the technology and the innovative ways we are using and improving the chain, but those aren't going to be great selling points for adoption.
Fact is we are too hard to get into and get started for those kinds of easy wins. We need to provide people a tangible REAL reason to learn enough about hive to make it worth joining, and I don't see a better suggestion than this.
Many more than just the blogging side actually. And we could have even more. There are already many dApps and games on the Hive blockchain. For example Splinterlands. Splinterlands even has an Android app, and it is also playable in a browser. The marketing should focus on content consumers, and the money earning opportunity should be secondary.
Splinterlands is a singular success story. Not one of our other games have had anywhere near the success of that one, and hoping we can hit that magic again isnt a marketing strategy.
I do 100% get what you're saying and I'm on side with the theory of it, but most of what is currently out there or is in known development isn't going to be an onboarding success story, which means that we are relying on a passive drip of people joining, and that's a war of attrition that sooner or later we lose, imo.
I appreciate your perspective, I just see it differently. Maybe there's some way we can leverage both sides.
We need more good projects before marketing.
Advertising the platform with the money earning opportunity may backfire, because most people will be disappointed by the low earnings, if any. A lot of people do not earn anything with their posts, because their posts do not even reach the payout threshold ($0.02).
@oblivioncubed has addressed things nicely I believe, but I'll add this:
We have the 'good project' already.
A project that blows FB, Twitter, and Instagram out of the water.
Hive.Blog, a social platform where you literally earn crypto for swiping and liking.
It's a marketer's dream. How could you NOT market this?
From my other comment:
But I'm happy to agree to disagree, no skin off my back either way. Thanks again for all your input, wishing you a great day. 🙏
Hive.blog is anything, but definitely not social. The average number of comments per post is 2-3, and most of those comments are bot comments. This place is a ghost town. Just look around.
Rather a bad dream. Nightmare. At least in its current state.
Rather how would you? The number of users is slowly increasing, but the number of active users is not. In fact it is decreasing. Nowadays I have more than 1200 followers, but most of them are inactive. They left the platform long months/years ago.
How would you market this? Continue the ruining and dooming what Steemit started?
Exactly! It’s been done elsewhere and proven a epic failure option
It failed due to the execution and skill of the pilots, not the message or marketing approach.
But it's all good, you're welcome to your opinion, and I to mine, and I'm happy to agree to disagree. Wishing you a great day. 🙏
That comment was from before we talked.
But I agree👍
Ur good people 🤟
lol, oops, apologies, thanks for clarifying. :)
And so are you! Wishing you a wonderful day! 😀🙏
Good points 👍
👍😀🙏