Forget what you know about the Steem blockchain. Forget what the white paper says. This is war. To win the war of the blockchains, we need solid marketing. This superior technology will lose out without employing superior marketing techniques.

You also don't have to purchase elite rigs to get the best megahash to MINE steem. In fact that doesn't work. You mine steem by actually participating and using the front end apps like steemit. You can do this even on a cell phone or very low end machine.

Unlike other currencies, the end result of mining can be accomplished via steemit/busy.org by anyone. You just vote, post, and comment. It may take a bit to build up and the payouts may seem small, but even the small payouts dwarf the payouts I was able to get if I dedicated some nice hardware to a lot of the other cryptos.

That is also a big selling point for steem. Mining doesn't really exist, but the end results of mining happen to anyone who simply uses the platform on a regular basis.

Thank you for this nice explanation. These are the sort of things that people outside of the Steem world should know.

"mining with minds" is simply a genius kind of model!

Yeah and we need some video content creators that use youtube and such to start marketing simply things like that to get people here. Focus on one simple thing at a time rather than trying to say everything about steem/it in a single video.

well use your steem and make it happen, rather than burning 80 SBD a day imagine if some were allocated or pooled by the people for just that, offer rewards. everybody will make you a awesome video for 50$ go to freelancer :D same principle could apply here. I'm just saying the model right now doesn't really support that. it's to risky to spend 1-2 days making a animation then seeing it sink, or making a small profit. Incentives are already here and we aren't using them neither the social nor the monetary, we need the SOCIAL-media to work.

Just some quick thought I will be back later.

Cheers
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I generally make about $50 per week on steemit. Sometimes less, sometimes more. I definitely don't get 80 SBD per day. I don't even get 80 SBD per week.

I do understand your sentiment though.

This is a very good point that I had not considered before. I've seen mining rigs advertised and wondered, "well, if we're going to run computers to mine coins, what's the point?"

A currency for social media encourages people to read and write. It encourages literacy in a way that few other systems I've seen can do.

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We have to find the right balance between publicity and hype. Great technologies have failed due to bad marketing. I don't know if the Steem team are waiting before they do a big push. They have the funds to do some publicity, but they may want it to be more finished first. Meanwhile we can make people more aware that it exists. I've been doing so across social media.

I wouldn't want to hype it, but just for there to be up-to-date information out there for when people search for it. A series of videos explaining the tech to promote it towards businesses, users, and developers as well as some handy infographs to spread around.
As a community working together to create media content to promote Steem I'm sure we could bypass the need for funding, or utilise our upvotes.

You mentioned the Wikipedia page was not up to date. I've made a few changes and posted about it. That page shows up high on Google a 'steemit' search, so we should try to improve it. I'm not great at making videos, but I know a lot of people here are very creative. I think we have the talents and just need to get organised for a proper campaign.

Nice work! ^_^

yes, videos will really help. Explainer videos, shareable infographics, killer posts etc

Hey, thanks for the Steem. I make comments anyway and sometimes it pays off financially as you can see the one you replied to will pay a few dollars! My best one recently made me almost $22! I love this community and I try to stay positive

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I'd like to see communities added and rebranding of the steemit site, to make it clear there is steem blockchain which steemit is built on, before we shift marketing to high gear.

Well said, it could certainly be, considering that steem is in beta etc but looking at the weight in this post about how powerful steem can be, it may not be hype, however you market it. steem technology is indeed one with strong potential.

I like your post and you have my follow. I think you're totally right, marketing is the key to success for this plattform, also changing things with the reward system but essentielly it is this. Yesterday I came across a site called https://futureadpro.com/ and I was wondering if steemit is doing marketing there. Could be one useful thing to do.

This is a great post and perspective. Shake the momentary concerns out of the head and look to the future! 😆 👍 I'm working on some projects too that will hopefully lend themselves to expanding the steemsphere 😉

Followed, nice posts. 🙂

really encouraging! Seeing this post and you and others working on creating something, really strengthens the conviction of many, even mine. Deep down, i don't know this power indepth and what exactly steem can do and not do. i dont know how to develop etc. Clarity on what can be done or not done and what is being done; in itself is power. Like @humanearl said obscurity poses some threat but seeing you and others are creating something helps. in my case, things even became clearer in a small meetup in Philippines, that things are actually doing something and this does really great help.

Thank you for the recognition!! One of the aims of @votu is to reach the masses as a cultural content producer that expands across the crypto world, reinforcing our anti censorship ideals and bringing people to steemit that way as more and more people learn who we are and where we came from.

I wouldn't worry too much about the lack of marketing in the first world for now though. What I find interesting is the explosion of steemit in Indonesia. I have a good feeling about this.

Look at it this way: If steem exploded in the US alone, it may never become a world currency, because people from less advantaged countries would always be less advantaged and they would turn to currencies where they can gain advantage. If steem can grow first in poorer countries before the price gets too high, then we could be looking at a huge advantage over cryptos like dash and bitcoin where the vast majority of exchanges come from one place.

It's not about targetting the first world, but about an up to date digital presence. I'm not suggesting a massive marketing blitz, but just covering the basics. Simple videos explaining the tech aimed towards businesses, users, and developers. As well as some easy to understand infographs.

We need to think of this like a chess game. The winner is whoever can take the least amount of moves to achieve their goal. Creating media to promote Steem will give us a bonus percentage of growth which over time will help us achieve our short term and long term goals quicker.

I agree with what you are saying, but this is war. Only so many of these blockchain technologies will survive. If there is no information out there about Steem, it won't be difficult for a competitor to spread false information or smear us. Many of these blockchain startups have little experience in marketing which gives us an advantage, but Dash has already begun escalating. It won't be long before other digital currencies follow suit, and we could get left behind.

Even if we are set to succeed without doing much other than relying on organic growth and zero marketing through digital content creation, that could leave us in a world with 15 digital currencies with Steem in the top 10.
Or if we lessen the time it takes to achieve our goals, it will reduce the time other digital currencies have to get established. We could end up with a world with only 5 digital currencies with Steem being number 1.

The global growth of Steem is just another aspect to be promoting to businesses, users, and developers.

One major underlying marketing being done really, is our posts, that rank in google everywhere and especially in the cryptocurrency niche, steemit posts are everywhere. This in itself, is really "some marketing". It is like 'cost per impression ads'! For a start, it; at the very least creates awareness and people may not adopt steem, the very first time they see steem. When eventually real marketing does start, this awareness will play its role and adoption will be much easier. Thus, in the meantime, crypto-gurus on steem can take advantage of our posts for now, exactly as you have done in this post, to fill the internet with killer posts about the beauty and power of steem!

I agree, but at the same time, that list of advantages that steem has as a cryptocurrency, that should be reinforced and emphasised more often because it's often forgotten or taken for granted what a great thing we have here.

I've screen shot the list as a reminder

I agree as well!

Does everything need to be made from scratch? Would it be possible to align if not merge with other companies?

Quora is a simple Q&A model, and its threads often rank very high in search results.

WELL SAID! That being said, add Philippines to the list. Real marketing is about to happen in the Philippines, to increase create mass adoption of steem, in the Philippines, sponsored by steem inc. i think things are taking place behind the scenes.

One of the most important points I have heard so far:

> I wouldn't worry too much about the lack of marketing in the first world for now though. What I find interesting is the explosion of Steemit in Indonesia. I have a good feeling about this.

Exactly. I think for various reasons people in developing countries are more amenable to the message and the potential here.

Most cryptocurrencies are trying to go after the people in developed countries who already have so many choices and frankly are often blind to the problems with the current system.

Developing countries are where the most growth is right now anyway - if we can make the most of that then it doesn't matter if we get the developed world right now.

Eventually Steemit and Steem will get so big that they will have to come on board.

The world is changing and we should use it to our advantage.

great post! Sadly it seems like the only one standing between steemit and success is steemit. I hope it will be fixed in time. Would be too sad to lose this community.

Steemit is undergoing rebranding as mentioned in roadmap 2017. Lots of things happening.
But the technology of the Steem blockchain needs promoted on media external to Steemit. Steemit is steems greatest strength and weakness. It acts as bubble and prevents us from getting information out there to the rest of the masses. Anyone who is in on Steem is on Steemit. This isolates our blockchain community to a certain degree. We need to export created content from Steemit.
We as a community have the power ^_^

Great post and great ideas. Steem promoted as a currency, bingo! We should have stealth transactions soon, perhaps even before Dash! I know that it is near completion.

Video Chanel bingo! Etc, etc..

Is it just a matter of time? Are these things being prepared as I write? I look forward to seeing how all of this unfolds as I continue to mine Steem as @dwinblood wrote "without expensive rigs"!

Great job!

@kus-knee (The Old Dog)

"mining crypto with minds", underheardof genius. i have shattered one PC since i got on steemit cos trying failed experiments to mine something at least. I always get on that black screen and i am lost. I never if i am mine currently or not. After shattering one PC, I can't say i have any other alt-coin. I have one shattered PC.

> We should have stealth transactions soon, perhaps even before Dash! I know that it is near completion.

@kus-knee can you give more info? are you a steem developer? thx

I'm not a developer but I know that Dan Larimar had completed a lot of the Stealth development before leaving Bitshares.

If you want to know the history it's here:

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,22956.msg297816.html#msg297816

The work is now being finished by the Bitshares Munich team @chris4210 @kencode I saw their team in Munich in October and the work was nearing completion then. Dash is not even in Alpha yet is it?

That will never happen and the introduction in the steem whitepaper exemplifies the reason why:

>Steem is the first cryptocurrency that attempts to accurately and transparently reward an unbounded number of individuals who make subjective contributions to its community.

Hard forks happen constantly and road maps change. I was involved in BitShares before it existed and that thing changed and evolved so much you'd never recognise it from its original white paper.

You may be right but let's see what happens.

I believe the blockchain is evolving and will continue to evolve ^_^

I don't see the benefits of stealth vs those of transparency. In fact I see people rightly steering away from secrecy and toward transparency.

Transparency in rewards is really important, but it's different from transparency of private property. Users need to have a way of hiding how much they own and what transactions they do with other users. I think this is one of the biggest challenges for SBD right now. There are a lot of people who don't want to show for the whole world what they are buying and selling so they don't even consider using SBD.

Thank You. Promoted by my SteemDollars too.

Thanks!

Steem has the potential of Reddit and Medium combined. In fact, I like it much more than Reddit. Everything is great right now except for the price. The roadmap in 2017 is full of updates and upgrades to make this more user friendly and accessible. People need to start powering up! Steem is a bargain here.

you post got me speechless. i am not like crypto-techy but in layman terms, i see these things and especially where steem can reach. i have written a similar post way back, when i first start , that steem should paint itself boldly in how it presents itself cos truly just as you have said, steem has too much potential and what's left is that people out there and here are fully told this!

Bitshares is better, Steem is better. Yet both languish.

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I completely disagree: Cryptocurrency means NOTHING compared with the social media aspect of steem. Saying we should not focus on that aspect and that alone but on the currency aspect is exactly counter to the spirit of almost every comment here.

>as a cultural content producer
>reinforcing our anti censorship ideals

>One major underlying marketing being done really, is our posts, that rank in google everywhere and especially in the cryptocurrency niche, steemit posts are everywhere

> You mine steem by actually participating and using the front end apps like steemit. You can do this even on a cell phone or very low end machine.

>Unlike other currencies, the end result of mining can be accomplished via steemit/busy.org by anyone. You just vote, post, and comment. It may take a bit to build up and the payouts may seem small, but even the small payouts dwarf the payouts I was able to get if I dedicated some nice hardware to a lot of the other cryptos.

>That is also a big selling point for steem. Mining doesn't really exist, but the end results of mining happen to anyone who simply uses the platform on a regular basis.

>"mining with minds" is simply a genius kind of model!

>Yeah and we need some video content creators that use youtube and such to start marketing simply things like that to get people here. Focus on one simple thing at a time rather than trying to say everything about steem/it in a single video.

>Meanwhile we can make people more aware that it exists. I've been doing so across social media.

>yes, videos will really help. Explainer videos, shareable infographics, killer posts etc

>I'd like to see communities added and rebranding of the steemit site, to make it clear there is steem blockchain which steemit is built on, before we shift marketing to high gear.

>Steem has the potential of Reddit and Medium combined. In fact, I like it much more than Reddit

To tie it in
Calling something a currency when it is in fact a commodity is not what the spirit of that speech was about

>Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.

Currency is a system of measure, a metric, it is not a commodity, it does not rely on the mechanisms of supply and demand, a commodity cannot be a tool for freedom and will only remain a commodity, a store of value. No cup is more intrinsically valuable than a standard of measure, no rope is more valuable than the standard of measure, a pound is invaluable as a standard, a pound of rice is only valuable as a pound of rice, a length of rope will never be more intrinsically valuable than a standard to measure length with.

Steem blockchain is entwined with a commodity which can be easily and transparently transferred and is unburdened by tariffs and fees, that is valuable intrinsically vs other commodities, but the freedom that Chaplin was inspiring with that speech was one of reason, of science and progress, and another commodity no matter how unburdened will not solve anything in that direction, but the freedom of the content creators on steem is like the freedom that a real currency is born out of, everyone is free to create units and everyone is free to create content.

Steemit is currently undergoing rebranding. So the logos and everything are going to change, which is why it is better to focus on Steem and the Steem blockchain for now, until Steemit has undergone its makeover.

Logos change yes, ui changes yes, the driving factor being content creation aspect of it won't change, and won't change the reason why people seek such a platform: No admins, no centralized arbiter. Incentives are great, trading steem is great, without content this place won't exist, without currency there will still be people here creating content, regardless of the difficulty of doing it or the incentivized aspect of it.

Steem Dollars (SBD) are Steem's gem that allows it to be used as a money platform. The advantages of Steem's speed and relative simplicity combined with the advantages of pegging a token to the US dollar can combine to create a successful network.

I believe Steem's permissionlessness and difficulty in censoring content are good features. However, in terms of growth, they are not primary growth drivers for the wide band of people that Steem is built to attract. Steem's rewards are a sort of carrot on a stick. The results are mixed, but I believe until there are UI options equal or superior to competing platforms, and a growing vibrant userbase to interact with, the post rewards are the best thing that Steem has going for it.

I don't agree and you can see the consensus that is almost unilateral in the expressed comments, people are here for content much more than to make an investment in commodities. I believe that SBD is driving certain individuals to steem but not necessarily to the platform, while the effect of such disparaging concentration of power/SP, coupled with the relative difficulty in providing even basic understanding of curration rewards, author rewards and unit creation (an oxymoron, as it should only be addressed as commodity mining/discovery and not unit creation because as a unit it has no value as the respective function is not to measure but to store, a unit of measure that fluctuates is constantly invalidating all previous measurements, so it offers no standard and thus making the term unit an oxymoron and just as much the concept of unit creation) and the ever changing nature of those things drives much more users away who came initially for those features.

Focusing on the very malleable aspects of SP and curration/post rewards and not on the veracity of the blockchain and the social media aspect/community content creation, is only going to dissolution those people that are driven by the cryptocommodity aspect of it when they are faced with the fact that it's still in beta so nothing is set in stone other the content and the curation, and to attract the user base that you are speaking of I therefore think that we will need to have a strong user base focused on content creation, curation and the respective interaction/engagement first and foremost. Without content steem is going nowhere fast. Steem is porpouted not as a cryptocommodity but as social media platform, first and foremost:
From the whitepaper:
># Steem
>An incentivized, blockchain-based social media platform.

>Steem is a blockchain database that supports community building and social interaction with cryptocurrency rewards. Steem combines concepts from social media with lessons learned from building cryptocurrencies and their communities.

>Steem is the first cryptocurrency that attempts to accurately and transparently reward an unbounded number of individuals who make subjective contributions to its community.

The content cannot be divorced from the incentives, and the cryptocommodity should be word of mouth, not the fallacious advertising/marketing hoopla that by the numbers doesn't work in driving anybody to products or services. I worked at a pizzaria in Cleveland Ohio, and the volume of costumers dwarfed every other pizzaria in the area and probably the state. It was called Donatos, and while I was just 16 yo I witnessed first hand the volume of costumers driven not by advertising as there were no billboards, no ads on tv or paper, but only, and I cannot stress that enough, only word of mouth advertising. That is just one point, looking at the advertising history and being interested by that aspect directly because of my experience with Donatos I realized that the advertising industry is simply self serving and relies on the fallacious logic that most everyone will adopt when faced with the facts that advertising costs don't return investement: if coca cola doesn't advertise everyone will buy pepsi because they will see pepsi on tv, regardless of the fact that costumers don't buy coca cola because of the ads, and in spite of that fact they keep on advertising because they have been sold the fallacious logic themselves:
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/081315/look-cocacolas-advertising-expenses.asp
http://www.businessinsider.com/coca-cola-online-buzz-doesnt-increase-sales-2013-3

http://articles.bplans.com/why-advertising-doesnt-work-for-most-small-businesses/
That offers another tactic to advertising, and it's not spending money on advertising, but investing time and effort in creating content that people will use, in an attempt to gain their trust and ultimately their interest and money in your services. Or in steem's case, offer the services which cannot be matched and let the people do their thing, Word of Mouth.

You and I agree more than you think.

>Without content steem is going nowhere fast. Steem is porpouted not as a cryptocommodity but as social media platform, first and foremost:

This is the point I'm making in a sense. The rewards of Steem incentivize people to bring themselves and their content here, despite a user experience that is behind in areas compared to the established competitors.

I also think that word of mouth is the most proven website growth strategy. Despite a website's global reach, I think there's enough evidence out there that websites primarily grow out of enclaves of local communities (in meatspace), driven by word of mouth.

On top of that, if enough of a network is created between people with Steem(it) as the medium, Steem Dollars can be potentially used as a means of transaction. I personally hope that this will catch on in places where the local currencies are much less stable, such as Venezuela. If a good amount of Venezuelans form a local, stable monetary network around Steem, it would make for a great proof-of-concept!

>On top of that, if enough of a network is created between people with Steem(it) as the medium, Steem Dollars can be potentially used as a means of transaction. I personally hope that this will catch on in places where the local currencies are much less stable, such as Venezuela. If a good amount of Venezuelans form a local, stable monetary network around Steem, it would make for a great proof-of-concept!

That is a great point and I am glad you brought it up.

What I was saying and what I wanted to explain is that the community will grow because of the unmatched opportunities that steem offers: decentralization, transparent accounts and really limitless power to create content. The fact that there is value in the relative stability of SBD, plus the added benefits of transparency in transactions and ease of transaction coupled with no fees and no tariffs for transactions is not something I am trying to downplay, but it's imperative that we don't separate the content creation and social media aspect from the cryptocommodity side of it, or we focus solely on promoting the tech aspect to a few specialized people, developers are aware of blockchain technology, and businesses are equally aware that transparency is the new norm in today's world, there are numerous articles outlining how transparency drives investments more than anything, and how business revolves mainly around more and more transparency, employees want more and more of this nectar that fights corruption and obsolescence, so what we can do is be mindful that we are on the right path but we have just started trotting, try to promote more diverse content as well as steem blockchain related tech and apps, and of course power up and bring the worthy content it's deserved views and votes.

All the marketing in the world won't make a lick of difference as long as the blogging platform is so paleolithic.

Steemit can't do 1/10th what an ordinary Wordpress blog can do. There is absolutely no way to compete in this space. For that matter, it can't even do 1/10th of what Facebook and Twitter do (I can't even find out how many people have resteemed my posts, and the site has been up for a year!).

Basic features such as CSS integration and user analytics should have been day-1 features. All the marketing in the world isn't going to remedy that.

Steemit has a long way to go before it's going to challenge any of the established players. And if updates keep coming at such a glacial pace, then the war is already lost.

We don't need to waste time and energy trying to tell the world how great Steemit is, because Steemit is not great---not yet. Not unless it gets its act together. And that means creating a blogging platform that can do EVERYTHING that other platforms already do, PLUS pay content creators. Until such time as you have that, any attempt at marketing is counterproductive.

wait...fb and twitter give you stake in their network for getting large followings to support and upvote you?...

And they also have something equivalent to the world class market pegged asset to give there users a safe bank account?

Ohhh wait...that is Steem. The first Scalable, Self-Governing Social Media blockchain...ever.

Oh wait...i almost forgot. The blockchain makes it unsensorable (unless you call flagging censorship...but flagging often just makes people want to see a post more(it does for me). Please dont b silly.. i'm cool with people putting it down but when they are wrong i'll tell them. You sir are overlooking so much and it is so obvious to everyone who pays attention.

Facebook and Twitter are also multi-billion dollar companies. Owning a stake in those platforms is actually worth something.

Being censorship-free is a wonderful thing. But it doesn't mean a thing unless the platform itself is user-friendly enough to draw in, you know, users. And tens of millions of them, at that.

you mean as user friendly as....hm.... reddit?

Well this is as user friendly as reddit (another multi-billion dollar---Censoring platform). And to be honest we don't need millions of people to blog here...we just need millions to use steem's IMMUTABLE database. If you would have stopped and read what I posted you would realize there is more than just censorship free (though yes...that IS enough for mass adoption).

I feel bad for you if you are not in when this launches for real. And it will..

Steemit is currently undergoing rebranding, and still growing. In the above post I am not talking about marketing Steemit, but marketing Steem as a currency, and the Steem blockchain.

You want to market the Steem currency? Which is currently competing with the 700+ altcoins in existence?

That's not Steemit's hedgehog concept.

The only thing that makes Steem unique, the only thing that gives it a market advantage (from a general consumer's perspective) is the fact that it is tied to a social media platform as a reward system. Outside of that, Steem is nothing. If it were better than other altcoins it would be beating other altcoins.

Now, if the quality of the Steemit platform were to increase, that would be a different story, because the only real way to evangelize Steem as a currency is to increase the value of the property that the token represents; namely, the Steemit platform. The currency is backed by the value of the platform. If the platform lacks value, the currency lacks a purpose.

So you will understand why I mistook "Steem Marketing" for "Steemit Marketing", since, after all, they are one and the same thing in every possible situation and every possible context.

You're going to object to that statement, of course. But you'll never disprove it.

In terms of alt-coins we already have more capability than Dash. Why are they doing so good? Marketing.

Which statement will I object to? I think that it is important for people to understand the currencies and the technology behind the Steem blockchain as well as the social media platform plugged into the blockchain.
As a digital currency we have more intrinsic value than other alt-coins (due to Steemit), plus we have the steem dollar which gives stability in trade.

I'm not suggesting to ignore the steem blockchain's social media platform, but to develop media showing the technology behind the blockchain, the superiority of its currency, and how this ties into the social media platform, and after the rebranding (new logos, more development etc) of Steemit is finished then create media for it. The Steem blockchain started out with the idea of being plugged into a social media platform to bootstrap the currency into wider use. It has evolved though, and will continue to do so. Blockchain technology is massive and has infinite potential. The direction of apps such as busy show that we are taking the all in one philosophy.

While I understand this point from the real and active blogger perspective, you need to remember that Steem is just a backend for a blogging platform. The most important thing is that the backend can actually support all the features and a huge userbase. That's why developers are still prioritizing it. There hasn't been anything like it before, so the devs are creating something totally unique and the problems they are facing are also completely new.

Steem is only valuable if people actually buy it. And people (by which I mean consumers, not backroom programmers) couldn't care less what is happening inside the black box. They only care about the thing they interface with.

All this insistence that the back end has to be perfected before the user experience can be worked on is frighteningly reminiscent of a Word Perfect mentality. The people around here are putting the cart light years in front of the horse. But no matter how many times I raise the warning cry, the lesson is not learned.

Others may be content to let Steemit become the Word Perfect of the 2010s, but I'm not going to stick my head in the sand on this issue.

When the Steemit community finally gets tired of failing, I'll be here for you. Until then, I'm going to keep being as blunt as possible. And yeah, I know it makes me look like the bad guy. But I wouldn't have it any other way.

>The people around here are putting the cart light years in front of the horse.

Isn't it the the other way around? The horse in this case is the blockchain. It's the engine that runs the whole system. If it sucks, it's impossible to build a great service on top of it. In the case of social media system, we need to have really scalable blockchain so it can actually serve all the millions of people who are our potential users. If the blockchain doesn't scale, we end up in a situation like Bitcoin is now. Blocks are full and people can't use it anymore. Then it doesn't matter how beautiful the website is: it's still unusable.

> And yeah, I know it makes me look like the bad guy.

You are not a bad guy, you just have a different perspective on this.

It might be an idea to have a way to add business on steemlocator.com
It was made by the use @oumar that has no activity on steem since 5 months ago.

That would be great ^_^ I was trying to work out how to do it.

are you a marketing expert or "professional"?

I have worked in the News and Media industry in various high level jobs, and worked on many campaigns.

Your post was a wonderful read!
The discussion you've ignited in your comment stream demonstrates the intellectual passion so many of our fellow Steemians share for the success of this platform.
I have upvoted and followed you, @riskdebonair and I hope you will follow me as well -- I have some ideas I'd like to post about next week for the grassroots promotion of Steemit.
After reading your post, any feedback from you would be received with a most heartfelt thank you.
Have an amazing weekend brother! 🤝

Thank you!
Followed! ^_^

If u want to win the war, first is first. Stop giving investors money to dumpers(writers).

It's nobodies money first and foremost, it gets created out of the function, the whitepaper chapter on unit creation. Next, investors don't give out money, they vote with their vested power. Finally, the dumpers as you call them, are just a reality of humanity, their motives are just as valid as anyone else who trades steem, they came here for all kinds of reasons, and lumping them together while adding that negative connotation on top is wrong. If you are easy to label and pigeonhole everyone that sells their steem as dumpers, as if they don't warrant that or are rooting for the platform to fail, why shouldn't I follow the golden rule and treat you how you like to treat others, because there is no higher law than do onto others as you would have others do onto you, and in this instance you believe yourself all too qualified to expound on things which obviously you have no clue about or care to consider past labels, I could reiterate those things but I will rather just call you ignorant/moron and stupid because if I was doing what you did, I'd expect others to do that to me.

Its nobodies money? created from function? NO! its money from investors. You don't understand anything about economics man.

O really? I don't know anything about economics? Keep making assertions without proof, you are clearly a moron, not only did you not address the fact that people don't lose money by voting and curating with their vested interest but you want to argue that the daily rewards pool is someone's money, and not created through the function inherent in the system?! MORON, STUPID, IGNORANT, DUMBASS, IGNORAMUS.

Money cannot be created from function. cannot be created from oop method. Please do think.

Page 36 of the whitepaper, section titled Impact of Token Creation, it's in the title you moron, it's telling you that it can you moron and it is you moron. Are you going to address your other logical fallacies moron, the pigeonholing/stereotyping fallacy, or you're just going to tell me to think, because that explains everything so well, you moron.

Page 36 is about how token(number) is created , NOT how wealth/value is created. you have no idea about economics and information technology. But good at insulting.

Killer marketing only works when you have a killer product AND a killer audience. Just ask Apple or Amazon. We have one, but not the other. We must refine our platform until we find our audience. Then we market like a maniac!!

I'm not suggesting a marketing blitz. Just having up to date information explaining the benefits of the Steem currencies and the superiority of the technology behind the steem blockchain, to attract potential businesses, users, and developers.
Steemit is undergoing many changes including rebranding so I am not suggesting to market it. Just to have information out there on the other aforementioned aspects of it to promote the growth and development of our blockchain.

Lets have both :) "ONWARDS! ...."

Love your pic/profile

Hello master commenter @baah. Welcome to my post. Yeah, I like the pic, but I'm still not sure about the profile yet!!

HAHAH you're hilarious, my wall of words don't make me a master, just outspoken ;P "well travelled philosopher & lover of damn fine coffee"

You cannot exclude the front end and focus on the concepts which the front end is a direct result of. So when you say:

>Forget what you know about the Steem blockchain. Forget what the white paper says. This is war. To win the war of the blockchains, we need solid marketing. This superior technology will lose out without employing superior marketing techniques.

To have information is paramount, agreed, but you can see why people are responding to the marketing aspect and rightly see it as motions without direction. I am in disagreement about disecting/fragmenting the function of steem into cryptocommodity, blockchain technology and front end/steemit because the blockchain means nothing without content creation, commodities means nothing without content creation and the epicenter has been and will always be social media, not cryptocommodity.

I believe the epicenter has always been the blockchain. The currencies and the social media platform are just extensions of this ever evolving blockchain.

How can you get more people interested into the blockchain but not into the platform which feeds the blockchain or exclusively of that?

Here is an outlined plan. The point is to synergistically increase the user base to the social media platform through promoting other aspects of the blockchain which would draw businesses, users, developers, and investors here.

If we can start creating content for these things, we will be ready to start rolling out community created content for promoting Steemit after its rebranding, and we will have the benefit of already having produced a plethora of content which explains the technologies and currencies tied into this social media platform.

-nesting limit-
It's a double edged sword: more blockchain tech content.

One side will drive people to adapt the steem blockchain for themselves, being developers and business
The other will fall back onto us and drive regular users away who look at the technology aspect of it and see it as foreign to them.

We could also sell Steemit as the cheapest and quickest way to set up a blog.

• No hosting costs or server setup.
• No need to buy a URL.
• No messing around with Wordpress.
• Steemit posts also seem to show up well in search engines.

If all you want to do is blog, you don't even need to understand how the Steemit system works.

Great article!!
Steemit/Steem blockchain/cryptocurrency
"Power to the People", Freedom of speech, free exchange of information and assets.
Great inventions, let's start a revolution!!!

I agree 100% with you. I asked some weeks ago for an easy way to be able to sell my thing using Steem - an official app, I mean. Sharing a currency and making it expendable is the best way to make it stronger, as far as I know. Many apps in the App Center are also very good projects, but need to be developed and updated.
My proposal in the first place is to let Steemit users become investors in the community development and in Steem, not only buying the currency but also funding projects to make Steem and Steemit stronger. I thought this before seeing the page to propose/vote projects that Dash has (http://dashvotetracker.com/). AmandaBJohnson has one of the funded project, for example.

great video!

Thanks! ^_^

It's not just that apps need to be more visible-- apps need to be much, much easier to make, too. Compared to other ways of doing things, steem's way is hard.

Can it be made easier to do so? Will "fabric" change anything?

I really couldn't say. I guess what I can say is that I think steem is deeply underutilized. There's a billion dollar insight here, but it needs to be better supported with code, code, code and more code.

ANd that stuff isn't easy, of course.

Fabric, and the other fabrics like it that are coming into being, can change EVERYTHING-- in the sense of the blockchain community. I would love to see graphene pair up with TM chains natively, for example.

Anyway, I don't think fabric will get at the root of the "it's difficult to make apps round here" issue. Seriously it's like 10x the time investment.