We Need To Steal The Show ASAP
They said that this bull market fundamentals matter and that crypto projects with heavy fundamentals will thrive, leaving shitcoins in the gutter. The reality, now that we're probably half way into this bull market, is that fundamentals don't matter that much and DOGE is a pure example of that. It's Marketing, shilling and any type of exposure that drives prices up.
Hive is superior to Dogecoin from any perspective one might look at it and still DOGE is a top 5 crypto, surpassing USDT on marketcap while HIVE is spot 260 on coingecko. It's such a pity and quite painful to look at it that low on charts. We can't say that we don't have a working project in here, a matter of fact we have quite a hell of a project.
The only thing it misses right now imho, from an apps portfolio perspective, is a microblogging app that was promised by Khal(@khaleelkazi) for quite a while. Once that thing is out, there's not much you would want from Hive. You have blogging dedicated apps, video streaming ones, DeFi in the form of CUB Finance, fast and cost free transactions and so on.
Still, we're not in top 5 and we should be. DOGE doesn't deserve that spot at all. It has however probably bigger and more tied community and it has something that Hive and previously Steem have always lacked of, and that's marketing. It might be involuntarily as I don't think anyone paid Elon Musk to shill DOGE, but still has it. Even Torum gets in the news once in a while.
We have basically zero marketing going on for Hive. I have been sharing my posts on twitter before #posh was a thing, many of you are doing the same, we've been commenting all over twitter shilling our blockchain, but still... position 260 on coingecko. We've not become a Mecca for content creators and neither for investors.
We've probably had the wrong approach and we need to get more aggressive and steal the show rather than earn it. I haven't checked that DHF for a while, but I bet no marketing proposal has been voted. The way I see it, so far that fund has been used to sponsor some circle jerking groups and nothing more. I don't want to enter any polemics but that's how I see it.
I'm a simple minded man and the marketing that I'd like to see for Hive is quite basic, but highly efficient in my opinion. I'd start with paid adds on twitter, than I'll go and bribe some crypto outlets to dedicate a few articles once every two weeks or so to our blockchain. I would reach out to famous youtubers such as @cryptodaily and ask for an interview or a small presentation of the project.
We need influential entities with plenty of followers to talk about us and bring us under the spotlight. No matter how many projects and dapps are going to be created on Hive, if we're the only ones that know about them and use them, we can't say we're progressing, but rather living inside a tight circle. Once we get some exposure those apps will get it as well.
I consider marketing being vital for any business's success and Hive to some extent is a business to. I've seen that in the business that I've been part for about two years. The ones with the most recommendations and positive reviews on google would get the most clients from the online space. Marketing and any type of exposure is vital.
The bull market is in full swing and it's such a pity not to be in the spotlight when we have a project that good. I don't know about you, but I'd definitely pay out of my own pocket for proper marketing for Hive. I care about and I love this project too much not to do that. Hive should be at least a top 50 project, at least...
Thanks for attention,
Adrian
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Shall I summon @jerrybanfield ??
Why not...
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Sincerly it can be hurting, we have built a top notch quality blockchain and 260, Just doesn't replicate that at all, well we can say Elon Musk involved in shilling doge made it a top 5 coin, I think once in a while we these top finance figures talking about hive as well.
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We need to find ourselves a bunch of smaller elons if not the big guy.
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Exactly, truth is, we have the guys who are capable of doing this.
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....and yet they are not - which would suggest that we don't, in fact, have the people to do this..
Real talk. Marketing was always the problem of this platform,
already back in Steemit days...
We need influential entities with plenty of followers to talk about us and bring us under the spotlight
@dollervigilante mentioned Hive in his last 2 videos. 😉
It's coming slowly but surely, but in general...you are
absolutely right, Marketing!!!?
I remember he had a Steem account. Is he active on Hive?
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You are right Brother, the @dollervigilante account is kind of inactive,
yes he's promoting his videos here @tdvtv , that's his own "TV".
I repost his stuff regular & watch his videos.
He even got his TV linked to Hive, that's what he mentioned here:
https://odysee.com/@DollarVigilante:b/Ministry-Of-Truth-Video-720P-1:0
I see
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I remember how strong I was in the past regarding this aspect.
I reached the conclusion that our "owners" or Big stakeholders are not interested at all on Marketing and sometimes they go against the idea as well.
It is really frustrating but this is what we have now, 260th position in the middle of the biggest bull crypto bull market ever.
Are they afraid of losing the spotlight?
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No idea at all, I only know there is not so much interest and they prefer keep refining what is already working well IMO.
yup
....they'd prefer to be 'big' in a very tiny pond, than face the real world - where they would be tiny...fragile ego's are crushing this place
You have a point here.
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have you seen the massive downvotes i've had this last week (over $100)- all from questioning the narratives..tossers..
Sad...
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Don't be stupid. We have millions in dao fund.
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We have them, but none is used in this regard.
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There still is the marketing proposal from lordbutterly active, but not receiving funding. It was funded for a while, not sure if it produced anything. Still has over 13m HP voting for it.
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Nothing palpable yet and we don't even need much to get Hive under the spotlight. The world of crypto is not that vast to make it almost impossible for one project to gain exposure.
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You write well, find few others and write a proposal for the DAO Fund.
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I'm not good for that. I see this very simple: we need to pay some influential folks in the crypto space to talk and write about us. Nothing more.
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HIVE needs to market to developers, 2nd layer apps need to market to their target markets for which they solve problems. Unfortunately I don't ever see the first one happening.
There's gatekeepers who are not making it easy to onboard developers, why is this?
A sound strategy might be to have a dedicated onboarding portal that has committed resources dedicated to attracting and onboarding developers. I would also include an accelerator program that could identify high value startups on HIVE and accelerate their growth. Why don't these things happen, there's a reason..
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We first need to get exposure. We have enough apps and devs.
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I believe it is possible!
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Everything's possible after all.
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I wrote a post about this not too long ago. Marketing is key at this point and we are not doing enough. We've built enough. Let the world see the stuff we are made of.
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Exactly.
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Since 2017 when I started at steemit, I did only 2 marketing times, 1 in January 2018 where I managed to bring some more people to the community.
Another recently created the Pob outside Pob, where in the long run it will serve as a bridge between the PoB and people who are not connected with the community for various reasons (be it for not having a cell phone, not being able to read English and getting lost on the platform, or not even understand the world of crypts).
I will use this initiative to reward content creators (proof of brain) and disseminate Pob, consequently spreading Hive
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