I really don’t know how much the Twitter game is helping. I think it all gets filtered out of peoples feeds and only other Hivesters end up seeing it. Don't mean to be a downer. Hope it reaches someone
I think we need to do some paid advertising, as much as it sucks giving money to the bad guys. I have an idea for a decentralized paid advertising campaign that encourages people to power up while finding new readers/followers for their work from outside the hive ecosystem. Let me know if you wanna get involved
We can do both. I believe the twitter hustle is helping in a huge way, it really helped us when we first started. I say control what we can control, IE this is cheap/free grass roots marketing. But also have a pro marketing plan also.
I basically agree, I just see a whole lot of effort being put in there and often think it could be spent better in other ways. I tried pushing for youtube comments because that's how I found Hive (or, you know...steem) and so did a bunch of people I know.... Just gotta be careful to put a space in links cause links are blocked (hive . blog) is fine.
My new idea is for people to make their own small scale paid facebook ads for their own profiles at hive through a template which is not spammy (promote themselves as artists and musicians and bloggers and whatever else) and have a proposal to compensate them (with powered up hive), then give them bonuses through upvotes, delegations etc.
I don't know if I'll have time to do this but I'd like to design the template and help steer it...looking for someone who can manage it, keep tabs and help with upvotes.... Feel free to steal this idea too
BTW, I posted my tweet above :-P I still want to do everything I can to help grow this place.
You'll always see me doing everything grassroots first. Grassroots = effort. The effort is given by those who can't give money. Lucky for Hive, we are made of effort. We will have marketing plans soon; I'm going to do something myself there in the end. But I leave no stone unturned, and if I didn't think this grassroots was a good strategy, I wouldn't be spending my time on it. Some may disagree; I say to them, do your own thing and help in how you see fit, and I'll do the same. Cheers.
No criticism. You are a powerhouse of good vibes good ideas and good effort for hive. It’s good to know everyone is doing what they think is best for the place