I think just some marketing at all would do the trick.
If you are viewing coinmarket cap website and click on the Announcement, it brings you to a BitcoinTalk.org page where most people call it a scam over the years. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1466593.0
If you view their twitter, up until recently they never really tweeted, and when they did got almost no interactions/likes/retweets. Lately they are doing better but they aren't using hashtags correctly(mainly using #steem and #steemit as tags which they should be using #cryptocurrency #socialmedia or something else to get engagement).
I noticed on Eli Powell's post that they are earning somewhere around 40k usd to 50k usd a month with ads, but if they just curated with their 31 million Steempower(that isn't even delegated to anyone so why is it powered up) then they could earn about that much a month in curation rewards. Its an easy funding source they already have powered up and aren't using.
Ned has gone on some tv shows and old school MSM networks before, but most people would have no idea what he is talking about so its kinda pointless to advertise to MSM crowd. Ned or some others should go onto cryptocurrency podcasts/talkshows or do a podcast/livestream with big youtubers who are part of the anti-censorship movement. I'm sure many of them would be interested.
They should have ads on reddit/twitter/facebook promoting how Steem is censorship resistant and the abilities of the video/livestreaming/gaming dapps built on it, 3 second blocktime, free transactions if you hold some network power, etc. Most people hang out in those 3 places and that's where the ad dollars should be spent.
The most obvious thing they should start doing right now is using curation rewards to fund advertising. I don't see why anyone would have issues with that, its a great way to use their curation rewards.
There isnt a need for users to power up their accounts beyond what is necessary to interact. Thats the reality of it, so I think its important to highlight that fact. I'm not sure what type of barriers to account creation exist now, and it was a point of contention before, but perhaps it makes sense to allow a front end user account that does not interact with the blockchain yet, but allows views. Doing so would generate ad dollars from unique hits. In addition to that, the front end account would be queued on the list for full account creation status.
One strong point to this suggestion would be that a normal password can be used, which is more familiar to people.
I understand that you dont need an account to view anything, which is the counterpoint, but atleast a user can start seeing the interface and generally get a feel for what can be done.
Right, there isn't almost any need currently for users to have much power. For gaming and posting a lot of comments there is. For posting a few blogs a week and 10 to 20 comments a week you need probably less than 15 or 20 Steempower. To game and do lots of actions on the blockchain you need a lot more than that.
SteemitINC isn't doing almost anything to advertise why people should use the blockchain, or for projects, or dapps, or videos, etc. They could easily make the price of Steem go up if they were organized and have lots of users coming in(that creates buy pressure). When people are buying Steem because they need it to interact more, that's what we need to drive the price up. Nobody really knows about Steem in the crypto world and that's the fault of SteemitINC for not advertising/going on podcasts to get the word out/being a presence on social media/etc.
A ragtag bunch of random users on Steem are not going to organize and start a huge advertising campaign. Everyone talks about doing it but they never do. Sad to say, JerryBanfield was really the only one doing that.
People are willing to pay for digital items when it comes to video games, so it makes sense for people to want to buy more SP to have more RCs.
But aside from gaming why would one need more RCs? (I'm talking out loud here, but at this point, why not. We're in pure discovery mode!)
Its all about performing transactions but for the average poster, it's not gonna matter because you don't need alot of SP to perform 99% of functions. But there needs to be a driver, or a higher cost to transact.... The cog is still spinning.
Seems legit to me
Posted using Partiko Android
back when Ned was making the rounds on some TV shows we were still getting new users. Getting people like James Corbett and RT to talk about us was a win for a bit.
Now it is just radio silence about us out there.