After having an amazing 2.5 hour converstation with @dan-atstarlite about steemit we decided that it was time to do a summary video so you guys got to hear what we were talking about without having to listen to us for too long. We aimed for a 5 minute video, but it ended up at 15 minutes, however, all very interesting stuff!
Dan makes up half of the @steembirds duo who are amongst the most talented singer / songwriters on steemit. After having seen them live at steemfest doing their quirky catchy tunes about steemit, I am honored to have been approached by Dan regarding how he can get involved in promoting steemit.
Here is a great video to give you an idea of the talent behind the @steembirds:
https://steemit.com/openmic/@steembirds/steemit-open-mic-week-66-steem-dollars-are-flying-high-original-song
In our chat Dan discusses his ideas about how to promote steemit as follows:
1) Steemit @openmic tour
Dan wants to approach bars and universities who do open mics and live music nights to do his amazing performances in conjunction with promo-steem in order to promote steemit! This will give us lots of great content with wihich to make viral videos and hopefully lead to the world's first live stream live music event on a blockchain... :) Please support his Open-mic tour which he plans to do this 2018 summer!
2) Steemit Initiation Programme to Improve User Retention
How do we send new sign ups through an series of blogs that they can write themselves, where by doing so they can learn what the true potential of steem is. Learning by doing! Having completed the steem initiation blog series the new steemian will fully understand what steem is and have the foundations to become a model steemian! The hope is that this will improve retention rates!
3) Testing / Improving our On-Boarding Process at a University / Town
We need to find out what the best method is for onbaording - how can we hit a location with promo-steem and leave a lasting impression such that when we leave the steemit bug spreads on its own?
Great content, too good not to miss! Here is the video:
This is great guys and I'll get behind the @openmic tour any way I can to help.
NOTE: @open-mic is not an account on Steemit but @openmic is. You may want to edit that part of your post. Thanks
That is so awesome @luzcypher! mistake adjusted! thanks! really looking forward to what ever collaborations we get up to on this one!
You guys definitely got me thinking. We need to talk soon about this. I'm going to let it stew in my brain a couple days and then lets talk.
Really happy about this! certainly MORE than happy to discuss with our team and you. I am sure we can harness the promo steem community / ambassadors to attend such open mic events and help out / discuss steem with the audiences / answer the difficult questions, as they do this type of thing all the time any way with their promo work.
Ah! I'm so glad that this call finally occurred!
We've been discussing some of these ideas since before SteemFest2 & have been steadily working towards the fruition of a both a test run and a summer tour schedule.
It would be absolutely amazing to have other steemians joining us along the way whether they'd be meeting up with us in their respective cities, or tagging along somehow.
I firmly believe that there is a lot that can be accomplished by combining all the aspects of our super steemit powers!
Promo-Steem, SteemBirds & OpenMic would be an invaluable force for promo and retention IMO.
This is awesome friends!
I don't know you that well @starkerz and I guess I don't really know @dan-atsterlite that well either though I did meet him and sing with him at SteemFest!
He as well as his other half of the @steembirds is an awesome dude!
I love and appreciate anyone who is really promoting Steemit and the truly revolutionary potential of Steem!
With that being said I don't know anyone who is promoting Steem more than I with every post and making it look good!
Would love to work with you on promoting Steemit and the POWER of Steem even more so!
Keep up the great work and be in touch!
Full Steem Ahead!
You certainly make it look great @quinneaker! loving your work! I think we have the potential to form a small band of polite well mannered steemians to attend some of the steembirds open mic tour and go to "assist" ;)) PARTY PARTY!!!, but seriously, could be very effective and good fun!
hahahhahahahhahaha
YES!
I am all about "assisting" aka partying for the greater good!
I am happy to make things look good and promote the cause while doing it!
The more we come together like at SteemFest the better it is for all of us!
Love all the ideas for promoting Steem/Steemit! Can't wait to see these ideas come to fruition.
Has there been any talk about (or maybe it already exists) an interface that connects Steemit to your email contacts to easily invite all or selected friends to join
Steemit with a message that so-and-so has invited you to join Steemit...? Or is that kind of thing old-school?
This is a great suggestion! Have you spoken to @gold84 on this? He has lots of great suggestions for additional features to the steemit interface! He has managed to get the ears of a lot of top steemians, and I’m sure he could help u take this forwards!
Well, thanks! I have not talked to him about it, hopefully he has seen your comment and will move this idea forward.
@bbrewer , @starkerz sent a message about your comment on the Invite a Friend button. This was something I proposed a few months ago, and what I know is that @timcliff added this idea as an important change on the 2018 Steemit Roadmap. Here is the link of this quality contribution from Tim Cliff : https://steemit.com/roadmap2018/@timcliff/steemit-roadmap-2018-timcliff-s-top-picks-and-recommendations
Tim Cliff is one of the most renknowned people on steemit and he is been called as the voice of the community. He is doing massive efforts from the early beginnings of the platform to make Steemit a better place every day.
Regards, @gold84
@starkerz this is something simply amazing. Very interesting what @dan-atstarlite and you discussed on the video! His touring to make the open mic tour to play music and spread the word on Steemit. This will naturally bring lots of people to the platform. It can be something really huge to bring lots of people.
So, his tour is coming just on time with the promo-steem webiste, as to help capture new visitors, and help on sign up process for new users, and help increase the percentage of the amount of retaining for users, and also help in increasing the amount of new users that become active.
Also, I am convinced the 11 chapter full steemit guide will be of help in order to help many more people understand what is steemit and the steem blockchain, as well as know what people do here, and what they can do here, and start thinking of how they can add value to the platform.
Everything is consolidating to be on a point in time, were all this promotional efforts meet together, and one supports the other. In this sense: @dan-astarlite with the openmic tour spreading the word on Steemit hugely, the promo-steem website serving this new users, and the 11 chapter full steemit guide doing the help of clarifying ideas to new users.
Again, a big shout of appreciation for you on all your support for the 11 chapter series of the full steemit guide, and the most recent Chapter 4 about understanding how to keep our steem accounts and crypto as safe as possible:
https://steemit.com/steem/@gold84/chapter-4-of-11-understanding-how-to-keep-our-steemit-and-steem-cryptocurrency-account-safe-how-to-use-the-5-different-passwords
In addition to all this, the SMTs that will be launched soon I believe.
All this will bring an avalanche to steemit, an avalanche of new people, lots of new projects, new developments, and the price also going up.
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Its incredible how fast things move on Steemit. Just as the steem blockchain processed transfers, its a 3 sec speed of light transactions.
Regards, @gold84
did you see the comment on this thread made by @bbrewer? i think you will find it interesting.
@starkerz thanks for letting me know about it! I will send a message to him, and we'll see what can happen. What I know is that @timcliff added this idea as an important change on the 2018 Steemit Roadmap. Here is the link of this quality contribution from Tim Cliff : https://steemit.com/roadmap2018/@timcliff/steemit-roadmap-2018-timcliff-s-top-picks-and-recommendations
Regards, @gold84
Yes, these are my sentiments also! will be very interesting going forwards!
Wow i want to thank everybody that i is making STEEMIT enjoyable... @starkers thank you for the support you 've given to those of us promoting STEEMIT in Nigeria, @luzcypher thank you sir i really admire and appreciate your vision for this great community... tank you, and @steembirds you guys are awesomely amazing...
The love is much appreciated!
that is great. we also in uganda have started promoting campus all over the country. yes, we are few but with courage we can be able to reach to the whole world. i was recently introduced to steemit by @jaraumoses that i did join in his team. we do have a plan of promoting steemit to all universities in uganda and the whole east africa.
keep the fire burning as we do too in Africa
Awesome to here @jona12! good luck i look forward to hearing your promo stories!
Yeah and I appreciate @starkerz. I did write some articles about steemit in Africa and uganda. If you have time, you can check on my page and have a clue of how we are doing it.
Really appreciate what you guys are doing with the #promo-steem initiative @starkerz! It's great to see all of these different ideas being shared about sharing Steemit with the world! Keep up the great work with everything you are doing!
Thank you! great to see you are following this! i really look forward to spending a bit more time around you amazing radio show soon when we have released the beta of our promo-steem website in a week or two
This ideas you summarised are some of the things am planning on doing in Uganda.
I recently wrote a post,guess yesterday on ideas I have for promoting Steemit to universities here in Uganda like using music,fifa competition,chess etc.
On the idea of on-boarding,a series of blogs is a great idea.
I have realized for the 5 months I have promoted Steemit,what retains the people I bring is the small 1$ upvotes they get on their posts especially intro post..!!
I have a group of guys who joined around 3 weeks ago and they r making money and are excited coz they made money straight away and they are now helping me out in promoting.
Thanks for the work you are doing on the promo-steem website and the steem ambassador account.
Keep up the great work legend.
awesome ideas and energy from you @jaraumoses! keep it up! ill be following your progress!
That is really an awesome idea....Music will really play a positive role in promotion of Steemit marketing campaign... Keep it up!
Steemit it's itself a great tool for music makers for promotion distribution launch and even more
certainly will!!
Hey, @dan-atstarlite this is a great idea man. Maybe I'll go on the road with you or come to some of the meetups when you're in some cool places and join the party. We need to talk.
That would make it a party for sure 😎 Yes... let's talk.
:)
Ya baby, It'd be like Lisbon all over agin lol
Hey @starkerz great to hear whats going on with Promo Steem! Looks like your making some huge leaps and bounds, keep it up! In response to the suggestion with on a open mic-night, why not try and work with student/club promoters and set up weekly nights under the Promo Steem name? If successful, It would gan huge traction and you would be able to promote the work you do on a weekly basis to huge numbers. I personally feel 'open-mic' nights don't bring in the same numbers as club nights. The first event you would have to hold would require some investments - but if successful it can practically pay for itself.
Up-voted.
Anton
Nice suggestion!! Certainly something to think about going forwards. I’m happy support someone who wants to take this idea on if you know anyone.
You are one person that promotes steemit like no man's business. Am happy with the way you are going with this, letting people promote steemit through their passion. Shout out to @steembirds. Will be on the watchout.
Thank you!
You are most definitely welcome
Its really great promoting steemit through @openmic. I have discussed with @futurethinker about my plans to promote steemit through music in Nigeria.
OMG your idea is awesome @openmic! Support u guys and looking forward to hearing your successful story in soon!
Thank you!
Not gonna lie...you guys have pretty awesome voices! Thanks for sharing your gifts to promote this powerful network.
Well dan certainly does, I am capable of emptying Karaokes filled with drunk people!
Wow...... I really wish to meet you guys someday
Thank you
Music is a great tool to get and keep people's interest. It good to see steemian promoting this community in whatever way they best can.
Continue the good work guys. @starkerz and @steembirds
Thank U!
Wow, it's a great pleasure getting to experience steemit beyond writing @starkerz
Thanks @bait002 your work is amazing and am looking forward to it long continuing!!
It's been a pleasure sir. And more is to come from our hub. Kick on with the progress on the promo-steem site sir. It will be a great one @starkerz
Nice to see you over there about this!! I am planning as well to promote steemit and there lots of things we can do. I will write soon about it on my blog.
Great stuff, we will soon release our promo steem website which will give you all the resources you need to help you promote steemit!
Sounds great guys! Look forward to where and when to possibly join in on the fun sometime!
Thank U! stay tuned for more details over the coming weeks!
Welcome and look forward to it!
2.5 hours conversation is a lot. I'm sure you have lots of ideas in your mind.
its hard to know where to start ;)
This is really a good idea.keep it up
Thank U!
Well, music as a promotion can work too ;)
Good productive video)
@yaan, Thank U! very much!
Buenos videos, capta la atención para quien lo desee, también ríes un poco eso ayuda a crear esa atmósfera de agrado y es más fácil entender el mensaje que desean transmitir, sin duda lo visual como en este caso sus videos roba atención inmediata y si tienen buen Internet es mucho mejor así no se detiene la reproducción como en muchos casos.
Gracias por publicar sobre promo-steem
Who are these handsome men.
Especially the last one that looks the most badass.
Great great vid, really liked the prod value!
U must have been watching a different video ;)
Oh, you're too modest jajaja. You're handsome like a Greek god.
Even though you look a bit tired. Like "Wheeeeen is it going to eeeend, just let me sleeeep darn dangit".
Seems like you worked too hard these days.
Sir, have a good rest.
I look tired cus I am ill ;) will put my make up on for the next vid ;)
Use some purple eye-liner or some powder and few false eyelashes and it will be perfect lmao!
But yeah, get better.
this good idea, creative system promotion, awesome Song,
keep doing great job sir
Thank you!
wow vidio is a great friend, amazingly cool
Thanks @humaidi great to have your attention here!
you are welcome my friend, may @starkerz success always
This is more than lovely
Music will help in promoting steemit
hehe that quite awesome to see :) great talented person
you guys will lead the way forward all the best :)
Thanks @blazing!
INTERESTING .
KEEP POSTING AND PLEASE TAKE MY VOTE
THANK YOU
watched the video and it was really cool to check out thanks for sharing
Thank you
welcome dear :)
I love the ideas guys, if there is anyway I can help, I'm 100% with you. I'm going to put the thinking cap on, see what I come up with...
appreciate the support! stay tuned, the website will be a great place for us to pool our resources. to be realeased in beta for your review in a week or two
Very nice, just keep the good work rolling.
he follow and upvote I follow and upvote back
hello
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Good idea.i hope next time steemit will be a best platform for our and give more important.
Fantastic Idea
Just getting started on Steemit, this is really cool, informational, and encouraging to see. Excited to keep learning and engaging here, and helping other people learn about Steemit.
Wow..this will be a very wonderful initiative. I really wants to appreciate you for all the good work you have been doing through promosteem and i pray u go higher
Hello, i m new here plz encourage me :D
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