I can see the idea behind it meant well. It is actually a fun one, one that would potentially create some curiosity about #steem to the outside world and they might want to come knocking at our doors. At the same time, it can be kinda confusing as to what they end goal is. Is it to show people we are a fun having, united platform? Is it to encourage people to join STEEM or to Simply check Out @actifit? Or to encourage a healthy lifestyle by working out?
The tag #seven77 doesn't make much sense from an outsiders perspective, I'd have gone with sth like #The7SteemPushUpchallenge or something in that line.
Other than that, did you consider some people may not be able to do push ups? I would in all honesty like to take part, but I seriously cannot lift myself. What about those who have health issues or back pains? What can they do to participate? I only watch and engage when I can.
I like how you're always trying to do better. Looking forward to how you'll adjust after this post.
Check out what I've been doing on twitter for the last 3 days @elsiekjay as I literally slipped a disc 4 days ago and couldn't get out of bed for 2 days until I got prescription pain killers delivered. I had to change from doing push ups to creative alternatives. There are many people with health issues who are doing 7 alternatives to push ups each day like @snook & @prettynicevideo 🙂
I do agree that the tag Seven77 is most probably a little confusing to people from outside steem though.
I’ve already started raising angel funds for my unknown project Seven77
And I honestly think that the biggest problem in attracting investment is this unknown factor. Some investors may be looking to invest in the person; looking at how they operate and what they've achieved etc. But a huge percentage of angel investors and venture capitalists won't consider putting money into something without a solid idea as the foundation for the risk/reward on their capital. This is what I see as the next step for you to secure meaningful funding to bring substantial investment into steem. A defined idea with a structured time frame for development.
I remember chatting to you on WhatsApp a while ago and offering to help put together a professional written proposal or infographic, and the offer is still there m8ty. I used to work in marketing and would be happy to spend time talking over 'trashmango' or any other complete idea you may have so that we can build a defined written pitch for investors. I think the time is right to pull things together like this and have a proposal to put forward as the Seven77 movement has momentum and the push-up challenge has even attracted steem influencers like @andrarchy and @theycallmedan. We can show that we have a movement, momentum and a dedicated community behind us willing to market a product/project... but can we show an investor exactly what their money will be helping to build? What they will have equity in?
Seven77 has the momentum, now is the time to pitch something solid. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure you have an idea of the project you want to build and strategy to achieve it. I'm just offering to help clearly defined it in writing. I know you've said in the past that verbal communication is your strong suit rather than written documents etc. Even if the pitch is simply the steem Blockchain (to get investors to buy Steem to build there own businesses/projects), I have a number of thoughts about how we could sell the potential of steem for business or altruistic investment. In my honest opinion it is a clearly defined idea, with a professional pitch, that will catapult this to the next stage, hopefully win investment and maybe build that kilker dapp that creates mainstream awareness/adoption.
Let me know what you think Nathan. I hope this constructive criticism is of help and I'm here if you need me 🙂 DM or video call me on WhatsApp if you want to take this further.
Let take this thing to the next level 😎
P.s. thanks for all you do in promoting our amazing Blockchain
That's a really interesting interview thanks for sharing it with me. But... Masayoshi San talks about 2 investments in that interview. The first is in Jack Ma who created Ali Baba, Masayoshi San says it was because of his spirit and leadership etc that he invested in Jack. So I see what you mean, he invested in the person in that case. But the second investment he talks about is in Amazon when it was really small. Now in that second case there must have been some defined business model because there was a small company running already. In that case maybe it was the concept that attracted the investment. What I'm saying is that it's limiting to only pitch yourself and the Seven77 movement as the reason to invest in steem if a concept can be shown. If we can put together some type of proof of concept then you double the chances of investment 😉
Lol, why not 300 liquid steem for people supporting the project. That's my criticism lol.
Rather than have random people talk about a project they may not care about. I would rather have a team that reviews this movement and brainstorms on different ways to move it forward. It's basically a new project, it cannot be perfect. We should manage our expectation. I think we are doing good--but it can be better. Personally, I think most steemians are all talked and no action and I don't want random people jinxing this project. Everyone has their own opinion on what to do best, but no one does anything but pokes those who take action. As they say, it is easier said than done. There is a lot in play that we might not be aware of. So that is why there is a need for constant review. Having a team of people with bright minds who can actively contribute to this project is what this project needs. If anyone needs any reward it does who are actually contributing to this project.
Actually, ideas also deserve respect. One doesn't have to agree with them. It's how one engages with them without descending into petty and often snide personal attacks.
I am not born a critic. Even a decomposed pumpkin is a good thing to me. Means there is life out there. I will fail this. Lol.
To me, any movement is not a movement if there is no movement. Whether #Seven77 at Twitter will work or not, we will only find out when time comes. But what I know is it does bring movement. If people are skeptical, but at least they know about #Steem. Means the river of Steem is moving, not stale. So it is good.
We try. We evolve. We get better.
Why #Seven77? Some asked. Simple. Seven pushups for 77 days lah dude.
I am for this - let's try. No harm trying. We are not doing sth illegal here. Nor are we robbing the banks. Haha. Just saying.
Let us see who get the 300 steem.
I know we need constructive feedback in order to be better too. Let the good negative feedback win this time!
P/s: you don't need to reward ppl everytime. Try next round to mobilise ppl to get together do sth together or answer you sth like this, no delegation, no prize. Some are for the money. Some are for you. Some are for Steem. Some are for you and steem. Some are for all.
P/s/s: I admire your long-haul commitment and dedication.
I think you should stop rewarding people with money. The reward should the growth of the awareness about Steem and the subsequent appreciation of the price of Steem.
Then you can be sure you will have people doing things not for the money directly, but instead for real passion for this blockchain.
Giving away money for people's tasks it's too much a tactic of populist governments.
What's to criticize? I can't find my own entry point but that's because of me being a slow adopter of apps and techs and I can't spread thinner than I already have.
But I think creating such activity is good and Not Revealing All There Is To Reveal Immediately... that's also good strategy. Who can tell? Are there results? Is there curiosity? Do people do stuff because of your initiative? Then those are steps in the right direction. Cannot criticize people for not stepping even quicker than that. It's just not an initiative for every mindset. Some of us will be slow to join or will skip altogether. Can't help that.
I don't need 300sp that bad to criticize your journey. I wish I had your diligence to bringing #steem to these uninformed tweeters. Thank you Nathan. 🙏 I will pray for your continued journey. 💕
Hey @nathanmars
Who exactly are we trying to engage, with the #SEVEN77 Twitter movement?
It’s a strong and inspiring effort from you but currently it’s users who are already on STEEM that are taking part - which is fun to see. But to the outside world it must be very confusing.
And I’m not sure I feel comfortable with my non-crypto followers on Twitter seeing me do random press-ups without a good enough reason for them to understand why and how get involved themselves.
Crypto is still alien to a lot of people, perhaps were over complicating it with the ‘7’ stuff?
I’d suggest making a sentence like “Keep fit, build your community and earn crypto” or something as part of the opening gambit to the videos. Or something to give context to what’s going on for outsiders to understand.
Perhaps challenge non-STEEM people to it and then once they complete a small task they are rewarded with a complementary account?
Perhaps challenge non-STEEM people to it and then once they complete a small task they are rewarded with a complementary account?
I like this. Am new to Twitter, I dont know who to follow, so I cant tag strangers 😅 But I did mention that maaaayyybbeee, just maybe, we should start tagging celebrities (or friendly politicians) to do the challenge, and in a way or two perhaps they would be attracted to Steem world 😁
Hmm I guess it is hard to keep track of people who do join because of the twitter movement and know whether it’s working and also those who do come into steemit do they stay and are they being guided if they’re lost? We have no idea.. but maybe you do? :)
I think the initiative is great but there isn't much guidelines for participants to follow and be effective.
for instance,
many people are posting their videos to dtube which doesn't make much sense to me, I don't see many of these videos on twitter natively but shared in dtube link. They have a better chance getting upvotes if they use share2steem to psot their push ups to steem as people will start ignoring all the push ups on dtube as its not our target.
The push up challenge participants need to state why they are doing it and link to their steem blog, even better if we can use share2steem and state that this tweet is being monetized, go check my blog in the link below. ( I too do not do this all the time.)
Tagging people outside the blockchain can be a real spammy experience we have to be tactical and classy with it.
Along with these efforts their needs to be paid advertisements on twitter, facebook, instgram, those sixty second videos can get far more reach than we can. But better if its a collective effort.
The hashtag could be more plain and to the point for outsiders as many have mentioned.
More people need to start posting there dtube videso on twitter, even the first 30 secs to grab attention. ( not for the challenge but regular vlogs.
Someone mentioned a plan for VC and that is correct, how much, for what , RIO, etc a set plan ( but that will come)
All these thoughts just came up as I saw this post. The important thing is we are doing and having the conversation to make to make things better. I honestly enjoy the challenge and have met many steemians through it an formed bonds , my health is up. How effect are we, IDK but we will get thos right. The hashtag has beef meat around the bone now, unlike before.
Now I have to criticize my friends hustle because of 300 steem ok. #SEVEN77 has not added a cent to steem value since you started it, people who re taking part re only doing it because at the end they will get delegation or some upvotes to help themselves the main purpose of #SEVEN77 is defeated.
I think you have a little flaw in your thinking there. Of course, if people who get a delegation only upvote themselves - it will not give value to the blockchain and its community. but I think that most people who have followed the call have already shown that they are community leaders and concerned about the community. With the added voting power - which is what a delegation gives you - people can encourage a lot of undervalued Steemians with a nice upvote and encourage them to stay on Steem. It is creating a large group of people who can help many.
Not everyone doing it for delegations. When I started, didn't even know about the delegation. And even after learning, not really hoping for it, because lefts face it, hundreds doing the challenge, 77k SP divide by those hundreds, would not be SO big in the end.
And have you seen the people who participated? @theycallmedan, @andrarchy, @lindseybowes, these people are power player of Steem with massive SP, just to name a few. They certainly dont care for delegation but to promote Steem, dapps, and health.
Most doing it just for the sake of promoting Steem.
Well you're here commenting right? Isn't it because you came for the 300 steem? So if you win, will the 300 steem given to you add value to steem? Truth is it adds value to only you, so the man is only rewarding hardwork just like you got rewarded for working with @dimimp
And the twitter hustle is preaching steem the man is selfless, he has flaws because he's human but I've not seen anyone do anything done anything selfless for this blockchain
This life is full of up and down, of every action whether reasonable or unreasonable there is opposite reaction which could also be good or bad. 7days push up for 77days has done more good than harm as many may think of. Beside the fact that exercise if maintain keep us in good shape and healthy, it also promote our future which is steemit. Many people have asked me series of questions, those that follow me outside steemit, why I'm uploading my push on internet which I was able to convince them with reasonable answers, some of them, perniciously those closer to me have agreed to come on bound on steemit in order for them to add their own quota. On steemit, the seven day push up has increased the activities of user as we all know that not all people could stand to write epistle like professional writer. Many even upload their push up on dtube. A lot of curation has come in through those powerful user that are supporting this task, I saw one evidence on twitter. It also helped me getting to know a lot of steemain Who on a neutral ground I could meet in years. To me, seven push up for 77days day is more successful than the harm people might calm it does. The only thing I can say it that not many, I meant powerful steemian are doing it, had it been that also are observing it, 7push for 77days day would receive more support and attract the attention of others off steem blockchain. I'm suggesting if we can create a tag for the task then see it achieve more than the initial success. God bless you for us.
Your effort for the steem is good mate. Really good.
The negative stuff i think that most of the steemians dont do it for steem. They do it for the votes or to find a way to have a support from a bigger account.
Second. When i join example the FB. Why am a i joined it?
Because my friends all had. And i felt that if i dont join i will be not cool. So it was kind a trending stuff. Same with twitter. So what we need is to make the people feel that if they dont join steem they will miss a amazing oportunity.
Also when we wanna atract people we talk about investors always as i saw in many posts and comments.
No this is wrong. Steemit is free. If i saw that somebody talk about steem as a investment for sure i dont wanna join.
I dont know example this push up stuff how it is work but i dont think so that that is a good way. I see more potential with a clean planet project example.
Or to show that yes it is possible to earn here while you are useing steemit as a social media site. But as we all know it is also lil bit fake. Because how much a plankton or minnow will earn if all the votes are going to be sold to promo and bid services?
For us it will be good even they just join and start to use it. So there will be more SP holders and the price will grow.
So these complains are not for your movement it is mostly about all the steem ecosystem.😊
A few forewords before constructive criticism from me.
No matter what, I see every initiative to market Steem outside the Steem world is a great initiative. It doesn't matter what movement, as long as we promote Steem.
Perhaps I may be wrong, but at the moment I don't see any past movement success or failure at this point of time because I know what matters now is we keep trying.
Those that are trying to promote Steem outside is basically still trying to find the right formulae to market Steem. We are still trying to find the right initiative to get many people on board.
Now, the comment.
The seven77 link is neither failure or success because we are still trying to find that right method to get them in. But, are we on the right path to promote Steem? Yes, because we are reaching out to them.
The awareness is already there with the Steem Twitter campaign, perhaps the next question is, What to do next now that people are aware of it?
Personally, I see the Pushup Challenge as a pilot test to see how well the Steem community help each other promoting Steem outside the platform. Now, I've seen it proven to be successful with various level of Steem individual jumping in helping out and even tagging in non-Steemian.
We must leverage this success to initiate other movement. Perhaps drawing their attention with some catch?
I think you need to participate more with #steemit and use it as we do. Understand it. Feel it. Do the things it takes to understand. Time, tenure and real engagement. Once you've done that, I think your purpose will be clearer. You cant sell a dish you've havent Experienced fully. Make #steemit and #dtube your social media. Do vlogs about yourself. A hobby, talent. Write a blog about your struggles to put pieces together but the picture is together in your head. I think once you #justbe #beU Then you will have the what it is you need to push it forward. Understanding the entity the #steem blockchain is.
Alright.
First, compliment sandwich: I think trying is better than not trying.
Buuuut.
The vast majority of what's going on with steem promotion on Twitter is unattractive to the average Twitter user.
Folks are wary of being advertised AT, and that's what the #steem posts seem to be.
Firstly, most of the posts are generically about steem, which is both something folks are and should be skeptical of. Not many people are making money from this thing.
Slightly better, but still problematic are the ones that say we have the BEST community. There's lots of communities out there in the internet. It doesn't make us special, though I'm glad they're here.
All the posts are ABOUT steem rather than about cool things that just happen to be on Steem.
To that end, I think the push-up challenge is good.
That's what I'm trying to do on Twitter when I participate I'm this promotion. It shouldn't feel like I'm trying to get you to do something. folks will I hope be interested in my Punday contest Bec that's a thing they want to do. I do wish I could point them to an easy sign up for the contest.
I think our posts shouldn't be about how Steem is cool (and really, we're not going to benefit nearly as much as the whales), but rather just talk about the things we're doing (that folks might need a steem account for.)
Talk about the daily freewrite. If folks want to sign up and join in, we should have an easy onboarding, too.
Communities are what make us great, but not just the idea of them, the actual things that are happening.
I understand that the Seven77 movement on Twitter is aimed to promote Steem and encourage more to join the platform, specially investors. What I do not fully understand is how we can measure and realize the effect of the movement in the future. Steem may rise to the moon but how can we say that it was because of Seven77 movement and not because of anything else?
As many leaders would say, any goal should be SMART. Specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time-bound. I guess I can somehow relate to SAR but again, I am still figuring few things and those are for the M and T. Maybe I am not just seeing these as I should so any clarification to that will greatly help. I am sure that will also help others to better understand what we are doing in Twitter and hopefully encourage them to join.
I think it comes across as just a general fitness challenge rather than anything directly relatable to steem. It's a great idea to get people active but the trick is getting them to see what steem is about.
Maybe in these videos everyone is sharing, there could be an animation about steem with a powerful message about steem? "Engagement that pays" or something like that (someone with copywrite experience can probably help).
At the moment, it's just people doing push ups for 77 days and a steem hashtag so maybe a requirement of the challenge can be to mention steem in the video in a nutshell (no more than 10 seconds talking about it). I think that would be more powerful.
But really some great feedback and comments from everyone here already.
I really don't know a great deal about your movement, but I've heard of it. That makes me qualified to offer the outsider's perspective on why it's not as effective as it could be.
First, the name doesn't catch my interest at all, although it is a memorable name. Seven77? I have no clue what it's about, and absolutely Zero00 desire to find out. I'd suggest that you revise the name to give at least a reference as to what it's about - and one that people outside of STEEM will understand as well.
Second, while I've heard people mention something about doing 7 push-ups, I don't immediately connect that to your movement. 7 is a pretty common number after all, so I figured this was just the latest iteration of planking, or the ice bucket challenge, or some other silly Internet fad that I have no interest in. Why 7? I checked out one of your posts about it and you mention that STEEM should be worth more than $7.77... That seems to be a rather arbitrary figure. Again, by revising the name the entire thing could make more sense and be appealing to a wider audience
Third, how do pushups relate to STEEM anyway? So many of us are keyboard warriors. I applaud your effort to encourage movement, but I simply can't see the average Twitter fan saying, "Man, I really want to join STEEM so I can do pushups for 77 days!
And finally, the length of your challenge is simply unrealistic for most people. Even Lent is only 40 days. Asking people to commit to an unknown platform for 77 days is setting folks up for failure. You'll have a few that make it, but the majority will likely fall off within the first 2 weeks. Perhaps consider a series of weekly challenges designed to bring the Twitterverse in closer contact with the Steemosphere.
Just my two cents.
And thanks for hosting a contest asking only for criticism. That's refreshing.
I have made my feedbacks audible directly to you through twitter and periscope, including to unify steemians and make them understand what are we working for, understanding what we are pitching, finding investors, understandng what they want, staying vigilant and ready to tackle the questions they put forward, learning how to approach each investor since everyone is different, realising the different strengths our blockchain is and showcasing them as selling points, using the existing working models as examples. and I am open to civil, understanding discussion on periscope and twitter
Also, one point I havent brought up yet: Unlike the popular opinion on this comment section, I STRONGLY STAND BY #seven77 push up challenge. It is a great way to find exposure, much needed exposure.
I would love it if you had continued trashmango, irrelevant if you found support from anywhere else or not, becaue recently #trashtag went super viral...imagine the exposure you could get from there resulting to exposure to steem.
Finding a usual spot, (like pushups we have now) and sticking to it, while making any other things fickle or temporary wont hurt, but will benefit the movement. WE NEED MOBILITY.
Like I said I am open to civil, understanding discussion on periscope and twitter so that we can be productive.
Like I said, Nathan I do not care about your delegatiion, I will stick by your side no matter what. We will find the best ways to do this. Its a matter of time and trial n error.
Maybe, I will come back to this comment to add more if I remember something or I will reach to you directly on twitter/periscope. Because I describe myself as "evolving". So my ideas will evolve and so will my feedback
I agree with @prettynicevideo. Hard to get people to participate in a social media platform many of us have already turned our backs on when we're here on the STEEM chain and lovin it. I get that you're trying to attract non-steempeeps, but I believe more time should be put in over here.
You also have no clear goals. I was just talking to @snook about this too. The motivation is high, the ambition is fabulous, but you have gone from one thing to another like a little kiddo supposed to be planting apple seeds and instead, chases the butterflies in the field😋 Hard to keep track of what we are supposed to be doing and supporting.
Perhaps saying nothing about STEEM on Twitter might be a good tactic. People already see your profile and will be organically curious what not selling steem means, those are the people that are ready. The ones that ask. The ones willing to find out more about you and why you're not selling steem.
Open the challenge to anyone and everyone. Start tagging random people like maybe president trump or vladimir putin. See just how viral you can get it. Maybe some world renowned athletes like tom brady or leo messi. Actors like jason statham or megan fox. Singers, teachers, artists, heck maybe some news talk show hosts like bill o reilly.
You want people to get involved and stay involved then you've got to stay involved with the people you decide to get involved with. Sure, they may love what you're doing, but if you take no interest in what they're doing, it gets real impersonal and the friendship then just becomes an association. I'd much rather say "My friend Nathan", than "ya I know who @nathanmars is."
your #seven77 project making question on peoples mind? Why are you doing this? They don't have any clear thought about your project but still they are completing your task with believe that may be you are going to do something big.
I understand you are trying to promote steem on traditional mainstream platforms but have you thought if somehow large amount of people decide to join steem and they get stuck at account creation process. You already know how new account creation can sometimes take 2 weeks to create and sometimes it does take more.
I do see some groups like @steempassport. @steemonboarding, SteemTerminal or even recent campagin from Surfermarly, none of them really offers any good solution for new accounts.
I personally find this initiative by @nathanmars to be very strong one and the way he is leading is quite remarkable, all being done for the Steem community.
We do have this issue for new accounts but I can personally help in creating those new accounts via claimed discounted accounts.
Regarding your mention of other initiatives, they all serve different and very good purpose. @steemonboarding - To help new users gain knowledge of Steem via video tutorials in different languages. @steempassport - Decentralising User Account Creation for The Steem Eco-System SteemTerminal - A discord community where certain individuals can personally answer your all queries related to Steem. @Surfermarly - I think she has done a great job for successfully running the campagin on Dtube for '60 Seconds of Steem'.
Your Twitter movement called Seven77 should be criticised because the name of the movement itself is not appropriate. And I don’t how giving push ups support the blockchain. Here in steemit people create content to get upvotes. So people like me also joined in the movement but there was no reward for the contribution. Of course the idea is great because sound body and sound mind creates good things. Even though you shared your movement in Twitter and many of the user doesn’t even know how to give push ups. They were doing only to get a nice upvotes. By doing things in improper way they were increasing risk of injury.
My first impression of #SEVEN77 was that you wanted to promote steem via steemians to non-crypto world.
Reality is all those active steemians who are most active on steem are just tagging other fellow steemians (especially whales to get attention for themselves) instead of not tagging and spreading the message out to non-steem users from their followers.
Unfortunately, I can name more than 10 who are doing this even from your Zweet40 list who are just trying to gain short-term fame.
I've tagged 3 none steemians so far in the 15 days I've been doing the Seven77 challenge. Not to say you don't have a point that many are only tagging other steemians I'm just letting you know it's not everyone who is doing that. I can name three others off the top of my head who have brought none steemians into the challenge.
I will not for a second criticise you because it is fun to me and it promote the eye steem in the social media but my only criticism is to use this 300 steem you want to give out free to add up for our daily rewards. Thanks you @adeyemola, olaexcel
@nathanmars Thanks for the wonderful update. Your work is very good Nobody really like you I wish i am also involved in There are just some compulsions .You have succeeded in your work
Have a great day
🤔Ideas should always be with an answer. If I respect somebody and he do sometimes bad I am quiet..
The one who does not want to look for reasons, the one who wants to look for ways.
Without trying to compete for a reward I just want to comment with some of my own thoughts on this. I'll be the first to say I do not have the experience or time in here to come across like I have some vast knowledge to share but I do have the common sense and respect for the common goal that the people participating are working towards. As far as a criticism goes, I would say as raj mentioned above I would prefer you not use the term :unknown project" although it may be a honest term on your behalf it can be taken by "some" as a negative. I think I get what you are saying because I have paid attention to your actions throughout which is to adjust as you go till you find the methods that create the results you are working for. When you basically deployed the "delegated" and other 777 members to start this you made it a point to tell us to promote ourselves, our talents and our projects. I have seen this in the Twitter campaign and projects are being developed and brought about it seems to me in a high number. I would think this is a positive for everyone. The #steem tag itself refers outsiders to our projects, talents and community quality as a whole. We have people participating that have full lives and jobs and still are committed to this initiative because they want to see the value of steem itself and growth in the steem platform overall. That is what I thought was the point to this whole thing.
I truly respect the fact that you look for negative feedback in order to improve upon this initiative. There are going to be people that do not see your method as the "right" way, and you are not going to be able to make everyone happy as I am sure you know already.
I see nothing wrong with the push-up challenge in the aspect that it keeps people involved and held accountable to participating daily in something that has positive results in many forms by doing so. You left it open to creativity which can be done with a variety of methods with different physical exercise methods being acceptable, to comedy or whatever a person can creatively contribute to keep things interesting, while also keeping with the #7 theme.
If there are ideas to improve upon your method, those should be stated by those that are critical and not just comments without some kind of contribution for improvement purposes.
I see constructive things being offered here to draw from and people that are very knowledgeable in advertising methods offering assistance that are doing so with a great attitude. I applaud that.
I find it hard to be critical because the effort being put forward is immense and the goal is very worthy. We are trying to cover a lot of ground in our twitter post with the push-ups and sharing of content/dapps/projects and so forth. It may be unrealistic to think each and every thing posted is going to be what everyone feels to be an ideal marketing approach. We are trying to attract people of all walks of life to our decentralized platform. As I recall, if not mistaken you said you would reach out to the angel investors yourself and we were to focus on our own projects and talents to promote. As far as I know this is what has went on. We've even promoted each other and other fellow steemians.
For the first so to speak, "trial run" I think it has went quite well. Everything has rough edges when being created. I wouldn't scrap what has been built, I would just improve upon it because there is a momentum and a desire existing with those participating. IMO this is not an "unknown" project it is a steem community project with a theme built around the #7, brand it and push it because people believe in it and are giving their heart to it... delegation or not... it's a benefit to us all. Delegation is a tool and an incentive and it benefits the ecosystem if it is flowing back into the community, which I believe it is.
Thank-you for all you do and to all those contributing in their own way. I leave this comment with the greatest respect intended.
I can see the idea behind it meant well. It is actually a fun one, one that would potentially create some curiosity about #steem to the outside world and they might want to come knocking at our doors. At the same time, it can be kinda confusing as to what they end goal is. Is it to show people we are a fun having, united platform? Is it to encourage people to join STEEM or to Simply check Out @actifit? Or to encourage a healthy lifestyle by working out?
The tag #seven77 doesn't make much sense from an outsiders perspective, I'd have gone with sth like #The7SteemPushUpchallenge or something in that line.
Other than that, did you consider some people may not be able to do push ups? I would in all honesty like to take part, but I seriously cannot lift myself. What about those who have health issues or back pains? What can they do to participate? I only watch and engage when I can.
I like how you're always trying to do better. Looking forward to how you'll adjust after this post.
Check out what I've been doing on twitter for the last 3 days @elsiekjay as I literally slipped a disc 4 days ago and couldn't get out of bed for 2 days until I got prescription pain killers delivered. I had to change from doing push ups to creative alternatives. There are many people with health issues who are doing 7 alternatives to push ups each day like @snook & @prettynicevideo 🙂
I do agree that the tag Seven77 is most probably a little confusing to people from outside steem though.
I will be sure to check it out. What is your twitter handle?
Sorry about your back, quick recovery 😁❤
No worries hun. These things happen in life :(
My twitter handle is: @ rowanj808
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Oh! okay!!!! I know who you are! haha
Lol, I'm not sure I do😄
I had been seeing rowanj808 in twitter and just put that name and raj808 together! Sorry.
I also recognize your name. You do nice work on your posts. I really enjoy them.
Ren
I think it’s a fun way to grow a community and an easy way to promote #steem and #actifit.
I had no idea that you were being criticized for the #seven77 challenge.
Haters always hate my brother. #SteemOnDude!
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I was feeling lost here, Glad to found you😊
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This is completely meant in a constructive way but I've think the biggest negative criticism I have is the fact that you state the project as unknown.
In a recent tweet:
https://twitter.com/NathanMars7/status/1105729116865589248?s=19
You say:
And I honestly think that the biggest problem in attracting investment is this unknown factor. Some investors may be looking to invest in the person; looking at how they operate and what they've achieved etc. But a huge percentage of angel investors and venture capitalists won't consider putting money into something without a solid idea as the foundation for the risk/reward on their capital. This is what I see as the next step for you to secure meaningful funding to bring substantial investment into steem. A defined idea with a structured time frame for development.
I remember chatting to you on WhatsApp a while ago and offering to help put together a professional written proposal or infographic, and the offer is still there m8ty. I used to work in marketing and would be happy to spend time talking over 'trashmango' or any other complete idea you may have so that we can build a defined written pitch for investors. I think the time is right to pull things together like this and have a proposal to put forward as the Seven77 movement has momentum and the push-up challenge has even attracted steem influencers like @andrarchy and @theycallmedan. We can show that we have a movement, momentum and a dedicated community behind us willing to market a product/project... but can we show an investor exactly what their money will be helping to build? What they will have equity in?
Seven77 has the momentum, now is the time to pitch something solid. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure you have an idea of the project you want to build and strategy to achieve it. I'm just offering to help clearly defined it in writing. I know you've said in the past that verbal communication is your strong suit rather than written documents etc. Even if the pitch is simply the steem Blockchain (to get investors to buy Steem to build there own businesses/projects), I have a number of thoughts about how we could sell the potential of steem for business or altruistic investment. In my honest opinion it is a clearly defined idea, with a professional pitch, that will catapult this to the next stage, hopefully win investment and maybe build that kilker dapp that creates mainstream awareness/adoption.
Let me know what you think Nathan. I hope this constructive criticism is of help and I'm here if you need me 🙂 DM or video call me on WhatsApp if you want to take this further.
Let take this thing to the next level 😎
P.s. thanks for all you do in promoting our amazing Blockchain
I read your feedback fully and please listen to Masayoshi Son
We’ll talk soon mate :)
I'm reading your comments buddy, I think @raj808 is making sense, I think you both can come up with something very solid @nathanmars
That's a really interesting interview thanks for sharing it with me. But... Masayoshi San talks about 2 investments in that interview. The first is in Jack Ma who created Ali Baba, Masayoshi San says it was because of his spirit and leadership etc that he invested in Jack. So I see what you mean, he invested in the person in that case. But the second investment he talks about is in Amazon when it was really small. Now in that second case there must have been some defined business model because there was a small company running already. In that case maybe it was the concept that attracted the investment. What I'm saying is that it's limiting to only pitch yourself and the Seven77 movement as the reason to invest in steem if a concept can be shown. If we can put together some type of proof of concept then you double the chances of investment 😉
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Lol, why not 300 liquid steem for people supporting the project. That's my criticism lol.
Rather than have random people talk about a project they may not care about. I would rather have a team that reviews this movement and brainstorms on different ways to move it forward. It's basically a new project, it cannot be perfect. We should manage our expectation. I think we are doing good--but it can be better. Personally, I think most steemians are all talked and no action and I don't want random people jinxing this project. Everyone has their own opinion on what to do best, but no one does anything but pokes those who take action. As they say, it is easier said than done. There is a lot in play that we might not be aware of. So that is why there is a need for constant review. Having a team of people with bright minds who can actively contribute to this project is what this project needs. If anyone needs any reward it does who are actually contributing to this project.
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Actually, ideas also deserve respect. One doesn't have to agree with them. It's how one engages with them without descending into petty and often snide personal attacks.
Constructive criticism?
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I am not born a critic. Even a decomposed pumpkin is a good thing to me. Means there is life out there. I will fail this. Lol.
To me, any movement is not a movement if there is no movement. Whether #Seven77 at Twitter will work or not, we will only find out when time comes. But what I know is it does bring movement. If people are skeptical, but at least they know about #Steem. Means the river of Steem is moving, not stale. So it is good.
We try. We evolve. We get better.
Why #Seven77? Some asked. Simple. Seven pushups for 77 days lah dude.
I am for this - let's try. No harm trying. We are not doing sth illegal here. Nor are we robbing the banks. Haha. Just saying.
Let us see who get the 300 steem.
I know we need constructive feedback in order to be better too. Let the good negative feedback win this time!
P/s: you don't need to reward ppl everytime. Try next round to mobilise ppl to get together do sth together or answer you sth like this, no delegation, no prize. Some are for the money. Some are for you. Some are for Steem. Some are for you and steem. Some are for all.
P/s/s: I admire your long-haul commitment and dedication.
I think you should stop rewarding people with money. The reward should the growth of the awareness about Steem and the subsequent appreciation of the price of Steem.
Then you can be sure you will have people doing things not for the money directly, but instead for real passion for this blockchain.
Giving away money for people's tasks it's too much a tactic of populist governments.
Let's find the true lovers of steem
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This one here.
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What's to criticize? I can't find my own entry point but that's because of me being a slow adopter of apps and techs and I can't spread thinner than I already have.
But I think creating such activity is good and Not Revealing All There Is To Reveal Immediately... that's also good strategy. Who can tell? Are there results? Is there curiosity? Do people do stuff because of your initiative? Then those are steps in the right direction. Cannot criticize people for not stepping even quicker than that. It's just not an initiative for every mindset. Some of us will be slow to join or will skip altogether. Can't help that.
No links to anything in 90%+ of the videos.
Complete waste of a tweet, and damages the twitter rep of the tweeter at the same time.
Lose, lose.
Meaningless hashtag.
I don't need 300sp that bad to criticize your journey. I wish I had your diligence to bringing #steem to these uninformed tweeters. Thank you Nathan. 🙏 I will pray for your continued journey. 💕
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Hey @nathanmars
Who exactly are we trying to engage, with the #SEVEN77 Twitter movement?
It’s a strong and inspiring effort from you but currently it’s users who are already on STEEM that are taking part - which is fun to see. But to the outside world it must be very confusing.
And I’m not sure I feel comfortable with my non-crypto followers on Twitter seeing me do random press-ups without a good enough reason for them to understand why and how get involved themselves.
Crypto is still alien to a lot of people, perhaps were over complicating it with the ‘7’ stuff?
I’d suggest making a sentence like “Keep fit, build your community and earn crypto” or something as part of the opening gambit to the videos. Or something to give context to what’s going on for outsiders to understand.
Perhaps challenge non-STEEM people to it and then once they complete a small task they are rewarded with a complementary account?
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I like this. Am new to Twitter, I dont know who to follow, so I cant tag strangers 😅 But I did mention that maaaayyybbeee, just maybe, we should start tagging celebrities (or friendly politicians) to do the challenge, and in a way or two perhaps they would be attracted to Steem world 😁
Hmm I guess it is hard to keep track of people who do join because of the twitter movement and know whether it’s working and also those who do come into steemit do they stay and are they being guided if they’re lost? We have no idea.. but maybe you do? :)
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Just seeing this. Let me share my thoughts
I think the initiative is great but there isn't much guidelines for participants to follow and be effective.
for instance,
All these thoughts just came up as I saw this post. The important thing is we are doing and having the conversation to make to make things better. I honestly enjoy the challenge and have met many steemians through it an formed bonds , my health is up. How effect are we, IDK but we will get thos right. The hashtag has beef meat around the bone now, unlike before.
Now I have to criticize my friends hustle because of 300 steem ok. #SEVEN77 has not added a cent to steem value since you started it, people who re taking part re only doing it because at the end they will get delegation or some upvotes to help themselves the main purpose of #SEVEN77 is defeated.
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I think you have a little flaw in your thinking there. Of course, if people who get a delegation only upvote themselves - it will not give value to the blockchain and its community. but I think that most people who have followed the call have already shown that they are community leaders and concerned about the community. With the added voting power - which is what a delegation gives you - people can encourage a lot of undervalued Steemians with a nice upvote and encourage them to stay on Steem. It is creating a large group of people who can help many.
You are kidding, am sure.
Not everyone doing it for delegations. When I started, didn't even know about the delegation. And even after learning, not really hoping for it, because lefts face it, hundreds doing the challenge, 77k SP divide by those hundreds, would not be SO big in the end.
And have you seen the people who participated? @theycallmedan, @andrarchy, @lindseybowes, these people are power player of Steem with massive SP, just to name a few. They certainly dont care for delegation but to promote Steem, dapps, and health.
Most doing it just for the sake of promoting Steem.
Well you're here commenting right? Isn't it because you came for the 300 steem? So if you win, will the 300 steem given to you add value to steem? Truth is it adds value to only you, so the man is only rewarding hardwork just like you got rewarded for working with @dimimp
And the twitter hustle is preaching steem the man is selfless, he has flaws because he's human but I've not seen anyone do anything done anything selfless for this blockchain
I Love this reply 💯 A perfect one brother, it could not have been any better.
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This life is full of up and down, of every action whether reasonable or unreasonable there is opposite reaction which could also be good or bad. 7days push up for 77days has done more good than harm as many may think of. Beside the fact that exercise if maintain keep us in good shape and healthy, it also promote our future which is steemit. Many people have asked me series of questions, those that follow me outside steemit, why I'm uploading my push on internet which I was able to convince them with reasonable answers, some of them, perniciously those closer to me have agreed to come on bound on steemit in order for them to add their own quota. On steemit, the seven day push up has increased the activities of user as we all know that not all people could stand to write epistle like professional writer. Many even upload their push up on dtube. A lot of curation has come in through those powerful user that are supporting this task, I saw one evidence on twitter. It also helped me getting to know a lot of steemain Who on a neutral ground I could meet in years. To me, seven push up for 77days day is more successful than the harm people might calm it does. The only thing I can say it that not many, I meant powerful steemian are doing it, had it been that also are observing it, 7push for 77days day would receive more support and attract the attention of others off steem blockchain. I'm suggesting if we can create a tag for the task then see it achieve more than the initial success. God bless you for us.
Your effort for the steem is good mate. Really good.
The negative stuff i think that most of the steemians dont do it for steem. They do it for the votes or to find a way to have a support from a bigger account.
Second. When i join example the FB. Why am a i joined it?
Because my friends all had. And i felt that if i dont join i will be not cool. So it was kind a trending stuff. Same with twitter. So what we need is to make the people feel that if they dont join steem they will miss a amazing oportunity.
Also when we wanna atract people we talk about investors always as i saw in many posts and comments.
No this is wrong. Steemit is free. If i saw that somebody talk about steem as a investment for sure i dont wanna join.
I dont know example this push up stuff how it is work but i dont think so that that is a good way. I see more potential with a clean planet project example.
Or to show that yes it is possible to earn here while you are useing steemit as a social media site. But as we all know it is also lil bit fake. Because how much a plankton or minnow will earn if all the votes are going to be sold to promo and bid services?
For us it will be good even they just join and start to use it. So there will be more SP holders and the price will grow.
So these complains are not for your movement it is mostly about all the steem ecosystem.😊
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A few forewords before constructive criticism from me.
No matter what, I see every initiative to market Steem outside the Steem world is a great initiative. It doesn't matter what movement, as long as we promote Steem.
Perhaps I may be wrong, but at the moment I don't see any past movement success or failure at this point of time because I know what matters now is we keep trying.
Those that are trying to promote Steem outside is basically still trying to find the right formulae to market Steem. We are still trying to find the right initiative to get many people on board.
Now, the comment.
The seven77 link is neither failure or success because we are still trying to find that right method to get them in. But, are we on the right path to promote Steem? Yes, because we are reaching out to them.
The awareness is already there with the Steem Twitter campaign, perhaps the next question is, What to do next now that people are aware of it?
Personally, I see the Pushup Challenge as a pilot test to see how well the Steem community help each other promoting Steem outside the platform. Now, I've seen it proven to be successful with various level of Steem individual jumping in helping out and even tagging in non-Steemian.
We must leverage this success to initiate other movement. Perhaps drawing their attention with some catch?
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I think you need to participate more with #steemit and use it as we do. Understand it. Feel it. Do the things it takes to understand. Time, tenure and real engagement. Once you've done that, I think your purpose will be clearer. You cant sell a dish you've havent Experienced fully. Make #steemit and #dtube your social media. Do vlogs about yourself. A hobby, talent. Write a blog about your struggles to put pieces together but the picture is together in your head. I think once you #justbe #beU Then you will have the what it is you need to push it forward. Understanding the entity the #steem blockchain is.
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Alright.
First, compliment sandwich: I think trying is better than not trying.
Buuuut.
The vast majority of what's going on with steem promotion on Twitter is unattractive to the average Twitter user.
Folks are wary of being advertised AT, and that's what the #steem posts seem to be.
Firstly, most of the posts are generically about steem, which is both something folks are and should be skeptical of. Not many people are making money from this thing.
Slightly better, but still problematic are the ones that say we have the BEST community. There's lots of communities out there in the internet. It doesn't make us special, though I'm glad they're here.
All the posts are ABOUT steem rather than about cool things that just happen to be on Steem.
To that end, I think the push-up challenge is good.
That's what I'm trying to do on Twitter when I participate I'm this promotion. It shouldn't feel like I'm trying to get you to do something. folks will I hope be interested in my Punday contest Bec that's a thing they want to do. I do wish I could point them to an easy sign up for the contest.
I think our posts shouldn't be about how Steem is cool (and really, we're not going to benefit nearly as much as the whales), but rather just talk about the things we're doing (that folks might need a steem account for.)
Talk about the daily freewrite. If folks want to sign up and join in, we should have an easy onboarding, too.
Communities are what make us great, but not just the idea of them, the actual things that are happening.
I understand that the Seven77 movement on Twitter is aimed to promote Steem and encourage more to join the platform, specially investors. What I do not fully understand is how we can measure and realize the effect of the movement in the future. Steem may rise to the moon but how can we say that it was because of Seven77 movement and not because of anything else?
As many leaders would say, any goal should be SMART. Specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time-bound. I guess I can somehow relate to SAR but again, I am still figuring few things and those are for the M and T. Maybe I am not just seeing these as I should so any clarification to that will greatly help. I am sure that will also help others to better understand what we are doing in Twitter and hopefully encourage them to join.
I think it comes across as just a general fitness challenge rather than anything directly relatable to steem. It's a great idea to get people active but the trick is getting them to see what steem is about.
Maybe in these videos everyone is sharing, there could be an animation about steem with a powerful message about steem? "Engagement that pays" or something like that (someone with copywrite experience can probably help).
At the moment, it's just people doing push ups for 77 days and a steem hashtag so maybe a requirement of the challenge can be to mention steem in the video in a nutshell (no more than 10 seconds talking about it). I think that would be more powerful.
But really some great feedback and comments from everyone here already.
I really don't know a great deal about your movement, but I've heard of it. That makes me qualified to offer the outsider's perspective on why it's not as effective as it could be.
First, the name doesn't catch my interest at all, although it is a memorable name. Seven77? I have no clue what it's about, and absolutely Zero00 desire to find out. I'd suggest that you revise the name to give at least a reference as to what it's about - and one that people outside of STEEM will understand as well.
Second, while I've heard people mention something about doing 7 push-ups, I don't immediately connect that to your movement. 7 is a pretty common number after all, so I figured this was just the latest iteration of planking, or the ice bucket challenge, or some other silly Internet fad that I have no interest in. Why 7? I checked out one of your posts about it and you mention that STEEM should be worth more than $7.77... That seems to be a rather arbitrary figure. Again, by revising the name the entire thing could make more sense and be appealing to a wider audience
Third, how do pushups relate to STEEM anyway? So many of us are keyboard warriors. I applaud your effort to encourage movement, but I simply can't see the average Twitter fan saying, "Man, I really want to join STEEM so I can do pushups for 77 days!
And finally, the length of your challenge is simply unrealistic for most people. Even Lent is only 40 days. Asking people to commit to an unknown platform for 77 days is setting folks up for failure. You'll have a few that make it, but the majority will likely fall off within the first 2 weeks. Perhaps consider a series of weekly challenges designed to bring the Twitterverse in closer contact with the Steemosphere.
Just my two cents.
And thanks for hosting a contest asking only for criticism. That's refreshing.
#powerhousecreatives
I have made my feedbacks audible directly to you through twitter and periscope, including to unify steemians and make them understand what are we working for, understanding what we are pitching, finding investors, understandng what they want, staying vigilant and ready to tackle the questions they put forward, learning how to approach each investor since everyone is different, realising the different strengths our blockchain is and showcasing them as selling points, using the existing working models as examples.
and I am open to civil, understanding discussion on periscope and twitter
Also, one point I havent brought up yet: Unlike the popular opinion on this comment section, I STRONGLY STAND BY #seven77 push up challenge. It is a great way to find exposure, much needed exposure.
I would love it if you had continued trashmango, irrelevant if you found support from anywhere else or not, becaue recently #trashtag went super viral...imagine the exposure you could get from there resulting to exposure to steem.
Finding a usual spot, (like pushups we have now) and sticking to it, while making any other things fickle or temporary wont hurt, but will benefit the movement. WE NEED MOBILITY.
Like I said I am open to civil, understanding discussion on periscope and twitter so that we can be productive.
Like I said, Nathan I do not care about your delegatiion, I will stick by your side no matter what. We will find the best ways to do this. Its a matter of time and trial n error.
Maybe, I will come back to this comment to add more if I remember something or I will reach to you directly on twitter/periscope. Because I describe myself as "evolving". So my ideas will evolve and so will my feedback
I agree with @prettynicevideo. Hard to get people to participate in a social media platform many of us have already turned our backs on when we're here on the STEEM chain and lovin it. I get that you're trying to attract non-steempeeps, but I believe more time should be put in over here.
You also have no clear goals. I was just talking to @snook about this too. The motivation is high, the ambition is fabulous, but you have gone from one thing to another like a little kiddo supposed to be planting apple seeds and instead, chases the butterflies in the field😋 Hard to keep track of what we are supposed to be doing and supporting.
Perhaps saying nothing about STEEM on Twitter might be a good tactic. People already see your profile and will be organically curious what not selling steem means, those are the people that are ready. The ones that ask. The ones willing to find out more about you and why you're not selling steem.
Open the challenge to anyone and everyone. Start tagging random people like maybe president trump or vladimir putin. See just how viral you can get it. Maybe some world renowned athletes like tom brady or leo messi. Actors like jason statham or megan fox. Singers, teachers, artists, heck maybe some news talk show hosts like bill o reilly.
You want people to get involved and stay involved then you've got to stay involved with the people you decide to get involved with. Sure, they may love what you're doing, but if you take no interest in what they're doing, it gets real impersonal and the friendship then just becomes an association. I'd much rather say "My friend Nathan", than "ya I know who @nathanmars is."
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your #seven77 project making question on peoples mind? Why are you doing this? They don't have any clear thought about your project but still they are completing your task with believe that may be you are going to do something big.
I understand you are trying to promote steem on traditional mainstream platforms but have you thought if somehow large amount of people decide to join steem and they get stuck at account creation process. You already know how new account creation can sometimes take 2 weeks to create and sometimes it does take more.
I do see some groups like @steempassport. @steemonboarding, SteemTerminal or even recent campagin from Surfermarly, none of them really offers any good solution for new accounts.
I personally find this initiative by @nathanmars to be very strong one and the way he is leading is quite remarkable, all being done for the Steem community.
We do have this issue for new accounts but I can personally help in creating those new accounts via claimed discounted accounts.
Regarding your mention of other initiatives, they all serve different and very good purpose.
@steemonboarding - To help new users gain knowledge of Steem via video tutorials in different languages.
@steempassport - Decentralising User Account Creation for The Steem Eco-System
SteemTerminal - A discord community where certain individuals can personally answer your all queries related to Steem.
@Surfermarly - I think she has done a great job for successfully running the campagin on Dtube for '60 Seconds of Steem'.
the only One Negative Aspect is
No Negative Aspect ! ♥♩♬
Hope All Angel Investors Plunge time and invest into #seven77 movements !
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Ouups! Tough one this is. I wish I can come up with something but in truth, I can't! 😏
Your Twitter movement called Seven77 should be criticised because the name of the movement itself is not appropriate. And I don’t how giving push ups support the blockchain. Here in steemit people create content to get upvotes. So people like me also joined in the movement but there was no reward for the contribution. Of course the idea is great because sound body and sound mind creates good things. Even though you shared your movement in Twitter and many of the user doesn’t even know how to give push ups. They were doing only to get a nice upvotes. By doing things in improper way they were increasing risk of injury.
My first impression of #SEVEN77 was that you wanted to promote steem via steemians to non-crypto world.
Reality is all those active steemians who are most active on steem are just tagging other fellow steemians (especially whales to get attention for themselves) instead of not tagging and spreading the message out to non-steem users from their followers.
Unfortunately, I can name more than 10 who are doing this even from your Zweet40 list who are just trying to gain short-term fame.
I've tagged 3 none steemians so far in the 15 days I've been doing the Seven77 challenge. Not to say you don't have a point that many are only tagging other steemians I'm just letting you know it's not everyone who is doing that. I can name three others off the top of my head who have brought none steemians into the challenge.
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I will not for a second criticise you because it is fun to me and it promote the eye steem in the social media but my only criticism is to use this 300 steem you want to give out free to add up for our daily rewards. Thanks you @adeyemola, olaexcel
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To little steamy woman 😉 liquids please to @HHYM for the steemterminal onboarding votes to give out by dear Ren,
ThAnx Nathan
Britt
@nathanmars Thanks for the wonderful update. Your work is very good Nobody really like you I wish i am also involved in There are just some compulsions .You have succeeded in your work
Have a great day
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I think a policy should be added to the #Seven77 twitter movement that Steemit users should also like steemians tweets and follow their handles.
Why? What if I don't like what so and so is tweeting about and it clogs up my feed? Forcing anyone to do anything is communistic.
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I think you should have picked an easier exercise so more people would agree to commit until the end!😁
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🤔Ideas should always be with an answer. If I respect somebody and he do sometimes bad I am quiet..
The one who does not want to look for reasons, the one who wants to look for ways.
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hola amigos saludos desde Venezuela excelente iniciativa
amo steemit pero no es facil requiere de mucho esfuerzo y dedicacion gracias a Dios..
Without trying to compete for a reward I just want to comment with some of my own thoughts on this. I'll be the first to say I do not have the experience or time in here to come across like I have some vast knowledge to share but I do have the common sense and respect for the common goal that the people participating are working towards. As far as a criticism goes, I would say as raj mentioned above I would prefer you not use the term :unknown project" although it may be a honest term on your behalf it can be taken by "some" as a negative. I think I get what you are saying because I have paid attention to your actions throughout which is to adjust as you go till you find the methods that create the results you are working for. When you basically deployed the "delegated" and other 777 members to start this you made it a point to tell us to promote ourselves, our talents and our projects. I have seen this in the Twitter campaign and projects are being developed and brought about it seems to me in a high number. I would think this is a positive for everyone. The #steem tag itself refers outsiders to our projects, talents and community quality as a whole. We have people participating that have full lives and jobs and still are committed to this initiative because they want to see the value of steem itself and growth in the steem platform overall. That is what I thought was the point to this whole thing.
I truly respect the fact that you look for negative feedback in order to improve upon this initiative. There are going to be people that do not see your method as the "right" way, and you are not going to be able to make everyone happy as I am sure you know already.
I see nothing wrong with the push-up challenge in the aspect that it keeps people involved and held accountable to participating daily in something that has positive results in many forms by doing so. You left it open to creativity which can be done with a variety of methods with different physical exercise methods being acceptable, to comedy or whatever a person can creatively contribute to keep things interesting, while also keeping with the #7 theme.
If there are ideas to improve upon your method, those should be stated by those that are critical and not just comments without some kind of contribution for improvement purposes.
I see constructive things being offered here to draw from and people that are very knowledgeable in advertising methods offering assistance that are doing so with a great attitude. I applaud that.
I find it hard to be critical because the effort being put forward is immense and the goal is very worthy. We are trying to cover a lot of ground in our twitter post with the push-ups and sharing of content/dapps/projects and so forth. It may be unrealistic to think each and every thing posted is going to be what everyone feels to be an ideal marketing approach. We are trying to attract people of all walks of life to our decentralized platform. As I recall, if not mistaken you said you would reach out to the angel investors yourself and we were to focus on our own projects and talents to promote. As far as I know this is what has went on. We've even promoted each other and other fellow steemians.
For the first so to speak, "trial run" I think it has went quite well. Everything has rough edges when being created. I wouldn't scrap what has been built, I would just improve upon it because there is a momentum and a desire existing with those participating. IMO this is not an "unknown" project it is a steem community project with a theme built around the #7, brand it and push it because people believe in it and are giving their heart to it... delegation or not... it's a benefit to us all. Delegation is a tool and an incentive and it benefits the ecosystem if it is flowing back into the community, which I believe it is.
Thank-you for all you do and to all those contributing in their own way. I leave this comment with the greatest respect intended.
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I decided to make a video so I could better explain my ideas and criticism. I hope it is helpful.