Go vote it here: https://peakd.com/me/proposals/brofund
It's no secret that the hive blockchain has a user problem. One that many of us have worked hard to overcome in the last 5 years. But even now we are a relatively small blockchain with only a couple of thousand users. Of course this will change as people come here bit by bit, trickle by trickle. But one thing that's becoming very apparent is time is ticking. Whilst once upon a time we were revolutionary in this space, we are becoming behind the curve in certain areas. That's why it's nice to see projects like the @vsc.network work hard to bring us into 2024.
Hive's greatest success is also it's greatest failure. We are an in house marketing tool. People who want to start up a new project can so and have an immediate audience to review their product. This is something no other blockchain has. There is no need to spend thousands and thousands on a marketing budget when we already have an amazing audience ready to go. This is quite different from other chains. Some of the marketing I've been proposed in the past when we've wanted to branch out into other ventures has been five figures.
But with all this amazingness it has made us quite insular in our marketing. Who needs to go out and find people for new and amazing projects when we already have an in house audience ready and waiting. That's why hive engine projects are being stretched quite thin. People are invested in several projects and it's just the same money being regurgitated around. We need fresh capital from new sources. ALL of us do.
Wouldn't this be more amazing if Hive had the audience to match the requirements? Suddenly you would make the hard uphill struggle to lift a project off the ground into the millions of dollars relatively simple. But we'll never do that without lots and lots of people buying and selling Hive. Right now we are way below where we should be.
That's why I'm proposing we fund a marketing adventure into YouTube. This is where the marketing is, and this is where our audience resides / will be. Crypto marketing will be all the rage on YouTube in the next year. The numbers are rising rapidly and because there is quite a skills gap between the audience and presenter I feel this is where I'm adequately positioned to make a move on this market.
That's why I'm putting in a funding bid for $3000 to get us some good equipment to hit the ground running. I don't need paid for my work, I'm hoping that will speak for itself and pay its own way eventually. But what I'd like to do is hit the ground running:
Here's what I need:
- Decent dslr camera that can record wide angle views - $1000
- Proper professional green screen - $200
- Proper lighting - $200
- Professional data tracking tools, software (for the year) (i/e keywords, competitors, etc) - $600
- $1000 float should anything arise that I may need (I like to plan for the unplannable) - $1000
Total: $3000
I already have semi professional sound system, a good computer system, and quite decent software to handle my needs.
What you'll get from me:
You will get a:
- Weekly update on my progress, and the videos will be shared from the @brofund account.
- At the very least 3 videos per week
- Detailed analytics of my progress - how many people are clicking through to hive, what the general consensus is.
- A funding feedback group on the BRO Discord. People can come in at any time and comment, ask questions, submit ideas for videos.
- Free promotions for the hive community. The more substantial our audience gets, the better placed you will be for a promotion. This is something that will work well for all of us. I want to promote hive and all that we offer, you want to promote your project (providing it's decent), a marriage of convenience lets say.
- Anything I make from this venture personally I will be buying substantial amounts of hive with. I want power and influence over consensus is our goal.
- A detailed analysis of how much hive I buy weekly through earning through this venture (which will eventually come maybe in 6 months or so)
But who are you? And what can you do? Aren't you just a nobody outside of hive?
Well, I guess that's dependent on who you ask. I came here as an influential blogger in the mental health space. I used to write on prominent magazines such as the Huffington post before they started to disagree with my morals and ethics and I refused to write another word for them.
My blog, before I let it go used to get over 30,000 hits per month to it before I had to leave the space. That's why I went full time hive, because the mental health space was changing and a new way of thinking was coming which works against everything I believe to the core.
So I have a lot of experience handling a large audience and balancing the trade off between what people want to hear versus what they need to hear, and that also includes mean people saying mean things don't phase me. I also understand how to manage analytics and how to create content that people want to watch, versus what they don't. I've a good 10 years experience on that one. I am able to subtly plant seeds of thought into audiences without them realising it. My forte is mental health.
The transition between YouTube and writing has been a difficult one. I've had to learn how to not only get my audience to watch, but to also feel and hear. There is a different level to making videos that I had not understood prior to me taking up the idea of doing YouTube. But I go with the idea that if I improve something every day, then my 100th video will be a lot different from my first.
I've already started the YouTube journey and with the limited equipment that I have I am already doing not bad. I haven't posted all week because I've been down with Covid. This would have been a lot higher with many more views had I not taken unwell.
With new equipment I'm very very confident I can take this to the next level. And hive.
Our channel if you would like to review the content. See how I subtly mention hive in every one of them? hah. Anyway: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbcXGmm5SKpgNbbk7bIhwAQ
How will hive benefit?
Okay, well, there's a lot of money to be made in YouTube. My main aim is to work with new and old tokens and build an active and respondent community so that I can charge good amounts of crypto for seeking an audience. By doing this I can:
- Pull more eyes onto our projects
- As a biproduct of people buying our tokens they will need to buy hive
- Content is king so I will be talking lots about the benefits of decentralization and the hive blockchain.
- Pull people into the idea of double posting onto places like 3speak
- Show people how having an auto audience is so much easier than needing $100,000 up front for a proper marketing budget.
- Money that I make from this venture, portions will go to buying up hive. I want hive too!
And that's it.
I feel hive will get a lot more out of this proposal than it puts into it.
Thank you for your consideration!
A great idea and proposal. Jolly good luck my friend.
!ALIVE
!COFFEE
!PIZZA
!LOLZ
Thank you sir! :)
Keep up the good work 👏
lolztoken.com
When it's a jar
Credit: reddit
@brofund, I sent you an $LOLZ on behalf of davidthompson57
(1/10)
NEW: Join LOLZ's Daily Earn and Burn Contest and win $LOLZ
I've already watched your YouTube videos, so you get my vote here. 😃
Glad you like them. Thank you :)
Welcome. :)
You have my vote
Thank you sir! :)
#metoo
All right, you've got my vote. It's better than a rally car.
Thank you sir! :)
You're welcome 🙂
Fantastic, away to vote I go....
Many thanks :)
aha, this is interesting and this is going to help a lot. hip hip hooray. Hive to the moon. I voted on the proposal.
!giphy voted
!PIZZA
Thank you sir :)
!giphy welcome
!PIZZA
Via Tenor
Via Tenor
You have my support.
Cheers bala my man :)
312 supported
@clove71
You brought me and many others to hive. For me, you are making waves on web2. What are your thoughts about this proposal? Shouldn't you also start a proposal? Bulldog was talking about getting paid for promoting splinterlands too or rework of referral commission model. I wonder what all web2 OGs of splinterlands think about this proposal.
Splinterlands web2 creators also play a major role to bring people to hive.
Honestly, clove71 probably should. She could used $2000 camera & way better equipment with top of the line data tracking tools and aesthetic studio room.
I didn't knew about hive in start. I didn't knew about anything. Still I bought spell book with shaky hands just cause I saw her making money from renting shiny cards similar to Pokémon cards. My mind was blown with the endless possibilities.
When I joined, she gifted me 25$ worth of SPS if I remember correctly as a welcome gift. I made up my mind that I wanna be a part of whatever this welcoming community is. She started the first spark. I wonder how many more OGs are out there who also deserve all the love we can give them back for what they do for hive everyday.
To be honest, a lot. But I really mean it with clove, she probably should make similar proposal and upgrade her equipment to make a better video and upgrade her thumbnail. If this one ever funded, why the hell won't clove's?
You are too kind! :-)
Thanks so much! :-)
The BRO Community YouTube expansion proposal #312 supported
My vote too.
Thank you! Also, I see you creeping back up the bro richlist, keeping true to your words last year! Good man.
Yep, will get the desired 1000 BRO again.
Cheers!
And already got my 1000 legion 😉
Nice, very nice :)
This is a great idea and I agree with you that YouTube is about to blow up with crypto content by next year. We are already seeing how new projects like hamsters and Blum are getting millions of views and subscribers in a matter of weeks.
Would love to see more people leverage this too for Hive as we have a lot to offer people than many of these projects that are being shilled on the mainstream media. I don't have much weight but I'll drop my two cent vote.
Thank you sir :)
$PIZZA slices delivered:
@bhattg(2/10) tipped @brofund
davidthompson57 tipped brofund
It's a usable proposal, I just feel like sometimes, the audience is out there waiting to be explored. Already thousands are being spent on proposals and in-chain projects, so I'll vote this one
Thank you sir :)
$1000 for a 'camera that can shoot wide angle' is genuine madness, I won't lie.
You can buy used cameras that shoot 1080/30 for $300 these days, and even new cameras that shoot 4k30 for $700 (used is about $500).
Sony ZV-1 and 2 are good examples of this.
Yet we waste 30x that on a rally car hardly anybody watches or even knows exists
Yeah that's utter shit, there's no doubt about it, haha.
I'm not against this, I just think sometimes the research into the funds needed for these proposals tends to be way out of what's necessary. If @brofund wants a bit of advice on what they may need or want, I'd be happy to throw out some suggestions and reduce those costs while also ensuring they're getting what they actually need.
And if this passes I might even consider throwing out my own proposal for some gear given I've got plenty of filmmaking ideas for Hive that never went into fruition out of gear limitations. :^)
I am planning to put back anything I don't use. Even with the $1000 float. So if it happens that within 6 months I'm getting offers and have a decent community and making a good sum - then anything I didn't spend will go straight back to the DAO.
It's just wasteful to spunk hive. I like it, I want to do things with it.
And you should absolutely put your own proposal in. This is a creators community, it doesn't make sense that only technical projects get funded.
That's more reasonable. Something to consider for a camera by the way: APS-C cameras are considered crops, so 35mm on an APS-C sensor is more akin to 50mm on a full frame. So if you want something wide and you don't have a particularly spacious room, you may want to go below 35mm and into 24/28mm. Also avoid getting a zoom lens unless it has a lowest aperture of F2.8, because you'll need a lot of light if your lens has a lowest aperture of something like F4, and you also won't get a nice depth in the background from it.
Agreed.
You have my vote
I appreciate that :)
Voted
Thank you! I appreciate that :)
You have my vote!
Thank you!!
Extremely small request, with potential for ongoing continuous advantage for the chain - this is a no-brainer. Absolutely you have my support.
I appreciate this. I wanted to be realistic in my ask. I don't need to be funded for something that I was doing already. But I'd definitely like new equipment to take it to the next level.
I appreciate that 👍
Thank you :)
Nice work!
Thanks :)
Of course, we vote for it. Maybe if it is not passing, donate some from the community.
You can donate some HBD if you wish, but it's absolutely not required. If this doesn't pass I'll continue to grow on YouTube regardless - and then maybe in 5 or 6 months or a little bit longer I'll upgrade my equipment.
I just thought this would be a good idea so that I could hit the ground running.
Absolutely! You've got my tiny dust vote.
This could be particularly useful with a focus on not just "Hive is great" but an continuing and ever-expanding series of "Things you can do on Hive, Part 325," etc. Everybody resonates with their own trigger. I ended up here because someone said "It's a fair bit like early 2000's social blogging used to be."
Thank you Mr/Ms Cat! One thing I have to be careful of is not ostracising my audience - so I need a good hook.
Think of it like this: If you didn't know what hive was, would you click on a thumbnail that tells you "things to do on hive?" probably not. The aim is to attract the unaware.
What I could do well though is, "Why decentralization is going to take over traditional finance - get in now!" then spend a long segment on why the hive blockchain is one of the most decentralized places out there.
See where I'm coming from? :)
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you :)
Small price for an exciting venture with lots of potential imo, voted!
Thank you! Much appreciated :)
Excellent! Perhaps we are too comfortable with what we have going on here and rarely see the need to stretch out. It's about time we did something like this. Knowing how much goes into content creation - like gear, and all the nuances involved - I understand what's important to be done and fully support this! I wonder if there'll be features in the future. #pununintended Not a fully-fledged thought, but perhaps something like collabarations with already-active Hivers that have (or want to have) something going on YouTube. Again, not fully-fledged, but I am eager to see this approved and flourish.
I would like to collaborate with you one day if you ever get that YouTube of yours going. I know you're good. I dare say way far ahead of me too!!
this is a nice one.. you have my support
Thank you! I appreciate this :)
you welcome
Thank you sir! :)
Hey about buying hive with youtube rewards, why not like power these hive on an account that will vote on the newcommer that came through the youtubes video
I like it. I might consider doing something like this.
🫶
You got my vote, anything that increased the exposure to Hive is very important to all of us here. I haven't personally interacted with you, but your reputation is solid. If I can help in any way let me know!
Thank you sir! I appreciate those words :)
My vote!
Thank you Ma'am :)
Interesting Ideas, you have my support, looking forward to your insights on YouTube.
I know I am a little late and I see that the proposal has already reached the threshold.
But I'll drop by anyway to give you my vote and wish you the best of luck and motivation. Thanks for your efforts to make Hive better!
Nice one