Building the Steemit Team: Marketing

I watched the video by @happymoneyman's "3 Ways You Can Help Steemit Now!" on Dtube (uses steem database). It had the great (and should be obvious) point that it's up to US and not some "Steemit, Inc." to direct the future of this platform. We need to market this. We need to help steemit grow, to a major extent, instead of the founders or the developers or etc.

So let's all step up our game on the marketing aspect of this. Everyone with a twitter, or if you know someone more famous than you with that platform try to engage them into learning about steemit.

Now what better marketing than to encourage others with the largest followings to market to their audiences, so I thought of some examples of big people that came to steemit and more people I recommend we market to that would take the baton of marketing themselves after we convince them to learn, join and promote steemit too!

Here's 3 Big Names that Came to Steemit and Delivered Big Audiences to the Platform:

• Dollar Vigilante / Jeff Berwick - Joined July 2016, 12,422 followers (+4,680)
  Founder of Stockhouse in the internet boom era, Jeff is also a famous anarcho-capitalist.

• SGTReport.com - Joined May 2017, 2,663 followers
  Big in the alternative economics and conspiracy realm, Sean of SGT started on YouTube in early 2010 and still has over 200,000 subscribers. Making micro-documentaries on the economy, philosophy and conspiracies, he then channeled his fast growing following into his website in 2011.

• Luke Rudkowski / WeAreChange @lukewearechange - Joined Aug 2016, 2,839 followers
  Though his steemit looks less active than it could be compared on how big his organizion is, he's still a big name out there in the freedom movement. Perhaps he just needs to promote steemit more to his near half a million YouTube Subs?

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Here's 7 New Names that I think We Have a Chance to get to Come to Steemit and Grow Us:

• Lauren Southern / Rebel Media
  Lauren Southern apparently made a steemit account but her introduction post was voted down and hidden. Why I do not know. That said I wish she'd come back and bring her passionate conservative audience and high intellect and debating skills as well as marketing and contagious image to this platform.

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• Alex Jones / InfoWars
  Though someone has already taken the user @infowars and @alexjones (possibly the real organization though), it would be an incredible boon to steemit if his massive (think millions) following was recommended to read his articles or blog on a decentralized censorship resistant platform like steemit.

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• Kanye West
  Kanye is trendy, innovative, loud mouthed and very entrepreneurial. I could see him being the first huge musician or artist to come on the Steemit platform.

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• B.o.B.
  B.o.B. very much believes in alternative thinking and is not afraid to voice even more controversial opinions than even Kanye west.

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• Daniel Tosh
  I could definitely see Daniel Tosh joining steemit before any of his celebrity peers. Yes, he's a BIG celebrity as he's the 47th most followed person on twitter with 27 Million+ Followers.. I believe he hides many controversial and progressive (I don't mean left-wing political) opinions on matters through his comedy.

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• Rhett & Link / Good Mythical Morning
  Not only do they have a massive 12 million youtube subscriber army, they are very much community driven and steemit would blend great with their high audience interaction and enthusiasm, bringing not only their creative prowess but a passionate and dedicated fanbase who supports them with more than just views.

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• Patrick Byrne
  This one is just obvious as heck I even wonder why it took me until the end of my list to think of him. Very passionate cryptocurrency advocate as well as CEO of a billion dollar company.

BONUS

• CoinDesk
  This would just make too much sense. Though I don't know if they can negotiate to get their name @coindesk if they didn't secure that username, they definitely NEED to be on here ASAP since they're the biggest bitcoin & cryptocurrency news organization (209,000 twitter followers)