Come upvote our bitGOLD giveaway threads on reddit please!

[iHashFury]

Up voted

[clayop]

upvoted

[islandking]

Hey I just saw someone post this on the bitGOLD giveaway thread.

http://www.reddit.com/r/austrian_economics/comments/2o9e6v/what_if_you_had_all_the_benefits_of_bitcoin_with/cmle25e

[valzav]

Could i be possible for each account to have their own affiliate link. So, let's say you bring in a new user. You get paid by the system once that user registers. Could this work?

Yes, this can be implemented using referral codes/coupons, find more details here https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=11356

[House]

Excellent work MethodX. Upvoted. exciting times ahead 8)

[pgbit]

Impressive campaign. Good discussions emerging on reddit. Upvoted...

[pseudoscops]

Anyone know anyone on this list who they can ask for an invite from or who is already a member:

https://bit.ink/u/

Would be good to post one of MethodX's Reddit links from today there whilst bit.ink is in the top 10 over at hacker news.

MethodX. Glad you liked my earlier ideas.  Are you considering changing the link from Github to the .org download page on your reddit posts?

[CLains]

Can we change the download URL in the reddit posts to point to:

http://bitshares.org/downloads/?citizen=marketing.methodx

We can simply use an innocent looking (encryped ID) link http://bitshares.org/downloads/?number=3423595208

Just use some bytes from their public key.

My thoughts on this:
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=11801.msg155329#msg155329

Powerful!  +5%

[matt608]

Could i be possible for each account to have their own affiliate link. So, let's say you bring in a new user. You get paid by the system once that user registers. Could this work?

My thoughts on this:
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=11801.msg155329#msg155329

[toast]

Can we change the download URL in the reddit posts to point to:

http://bitshares.org/downloads/?citizen=marketing.methodx

Love metrics, but it does look spammy, and there no need to have "citizen" or "name" or whatever else in there.

We can simply use an innocent looking (encryped ID) link http://bitshares.org/downloads/?number=3423595208

Yep well spotted, I was wondering about that. I think my original post was around the time when there was a lot of talk about the C in DAC meaning community and so that's probably why I came up with citizen. Luckily it seems that everyone is happy to use that C interchangeably now, which is great because I think gives us more marketing flexibility.

I agree that your URL scheme looks more innocuous and less spammy. We should go with something like that, now I think about it I reckon ?uid=xxxx  would be better than ?number=xxxx to keep things short. I guess it will require something off chain that would allow budding marketers to generate the UIDs. This I think is fine.  If the UID is derived from the BTS account name this could be pretty bullet proof I think.

Xeroc: looks like there might be another field to add to ident (https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=11898.msg158190#msg158190). The only thing is, I think non-delgates should be able to have traffic counted too and I think the ident JSON proposed lives inside of delegate. Can you clarify?

Just use some bytes from their public key.

[bluebit]

Could i be possible for each account to have their own affiliate link. So, let's say you bring in a new user. You get paid by the system once that user registers. Could this work?

[pseudoscops]

Can we change the download URL in the reddit posts to point to:

http://bitshares.org/downloads/?citizen=marketing.methodx

Love metrics, but it does look spammy, and there no need to have "citizen" or "name" or whatever else in there.

We can simply use an innocent looking (encryped ID) link http://bitshares.org/downloads/?number=3423595208

Yep well spotted, I was wondering about that. I think my original post was around the time when there was a lot of talk about the C in DAC meaning community and so that's probably why I came up with citizen. Luckily it seems that everyone is happy to use that C interchangeably now, which is great because I think gives us more marketing flexibility.

I agree that your URL scheme looks more innocuous and less spammy. We should go with something like that, now I think about it I reckon ?uid=xxxx  would be better than ?number=xxxx to keep things short. I guess it will require something off chain that would allow budding marketers to generate the UIDs. This I think is fine.  If the UID is derived from the BTS account name this could be pretty bullet proof I think.

Xeroc: looks like there might be another field to add to ident (https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=11898.msg158190#msg158190). The only thing is, I think non-delgates should be able to have traffic counted too and I think the ident JSON proposed lives inside of delegate. Can you clarify?

[bytemaster]

Great marketing effort!   

[CLains]

Can we change the download URL in the reddit posts to point to:

http://bitshares.org/downloads/?citizen=marketing.methodx

Love metrics, but it does look spammy, and there no need to have "citizen" or "name" or whatever else in there.

We can simply use an innocent looking (encryped ID) link http://bitshares.org/downloads/?number=3423595208

[vladvlad]

upvoted

[oldman]

Upvoted.

[pseudoscops]

@pseudoscops Exactly like an affiliate ID. I love it!  +5% +5% +5%

That's it  ;D

[Method-X]

@pseudoscops Exactly like an affiliate ID. I love it!  +5% +5% +5%

[fuzzy]

bump  +5%

[matt608]

@pseudoscops excellent proposal.

[donkeypong]

They need upvotes! Keep 'em going!

[pseudoscops]

Urget Request:

Great initiative MethodX. Upvoted all 4 threads and negative sounding comments.

I have one urgent request which I think you'll be happy to accommodate so that we can measure the effectiveness of this marketing effort. Can we change the download URL in the reddit posts to point to:

http://bitshares.org/downloads/?citizen=marketing.methodx

I've been working with cass and Brian to bring public facing stats for the http://bitshares.org site that we can all have access to. I've also proposed some basic foolproof ways of tracking who is referring traffic to the http://bitshares.org hub site. See my original post on the subject here (How to measure marketing effort effectiveness and public facing traffic stats...):

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=11023.0

Feel free to just use http://bitshares.org/downloads/ or give reddit readers a choice of both. I know some will be uncomfortable with referral links looking a bit spammy in certain situations/posts. You might feel this is one time when the querystring referral code would look out of place. Either way both links with and without would currently get tracked and we'll all be able to see the referral URLs in the traffic reprots. This means that whichever is used it'll be clear that the traffic is from a MethodX inspired marketing initiative.

The benefit of using the querystring referral code is that if it is consistently used then it's going to be easier to aggregate traffic sent by one marketing delegate, or indeed non-delegate - see my post above for more details on this, over time and across campaigns/initiatives. This aggregated traffic can then be associated with a BitShares id via the querystring that will show up in the traffic logs and we'll then be able to have a league table of sorts to show who is generating the most traffic to the main site. I intend to build this league table too.

For this reason, and others, I think it's really important for any marketing effort going forward, community or otherwise, to send traffic to the main http://bitshares.org site where we can capture and measure it. As mentioned in my post, this does not exclude marketers setting up sites like MethodX's great http://whatisbitusd.com higher up their funnels as long as they end directing traffic to http://bitshares.org for the trackable conversion goals that we'll work together to set up.

In order to have an effective marketing strategy we need to be paying more attention to measurement. Metrics will allow us to measure success and also where we have gaps and are failing. Public facing stats is the first step on the road to allowing those with the desire and the skills to help shape our marketing effort so that it is hugely successful. Again more thoughts and details on this in my post - plug plug - please read it if you haven't already   :D  https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=11023.0

I'd love for the current reddit marketing efforts to have it's traffic show up in the stats that are being collected as I write this. They won't do that if the link directs people to Github where we don't have, and never will have, any insight in to traffic.

In addition to the public stats, soon I'll be posting up a small one page site where you can subscribe to a weekly email report that top lines the traffic to http://www.bitshares.org.

All of this will feed in to some other work that I'm planning that I hope will help with the marketing effort. Stay tuned.

Metrics, metrics, metrics people. Say it loud now!

[infovortice2013]

upvoted! good text explaining such important details.

+5%

[eagleeye]

Upvoted +5%

[bitmont]

Very interesting  +5%

[kisa]

awesome and patient job!

upvoted...  8)

[cusknee]

Up voted as requested.

[GaltReport]

good work.  upvoted.

[Method-X]

Upvote this, I put it in the wrong sub: http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/2o9s1d/what_if_you_had_all_the_benefits_of_bitcoin_with/

[islandking]

Upvoted

[Fanya]

upvote done

[hpenvy]

Great Job Methodx, your marketing skills are genius, seems to be already attracting lots of attention on reddit.

+5%

[bluebit]

Great Job Methodx, your marketing skills are genius, seems to be already attracting lots of attention on reddit.

[Method-X]

Reminder: Upvote the skeptical questions!

[hpenvy]

If you're reading this thread, take the time to visit the Reddit threads.  Community effort is required to make it a success.

[nomoreheroes7]

Great, apparently BitReserve tried to push their "Bitgold" on reddit yesterday and people are already confusing the two...what a joke.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2o8e8k/introducing_bitgold/

[Method-X]

Please upvote legit questions from skeptical people. The answers to them are our best marketing tool here.

[islandking]

I posted my public key and account name. Hopefully this starts to gain traction on reddit.  +5%

[Rune]

Upboat upboat upboat

[Method-X]

Nothing wrong with a few people here posting the public key. I will send you the $1 worth of gold just to kick things off.

http://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/2o9bom/what_if_you_had_all_the_benefits_of_bitcoin_with/
http://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/2o9ce5/what_if_you_had_all_the_benefits_of_bitcoin_with/
http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurism/comments/2o9d8g/what_if_you_had_all_the_benefits_of_bitcoin_with/
http://www.reddit.com/r/austrian_economics/comments/2o9e6v/what_if_you_had_all_the_benefits_of_bitcoin_with/

[CLains]

Fun times!  +5%

[Rune]

Yay, will be awesome! Will try to upvote from the lab. Have you considered allowing them to post bitcoin addresses and then use the conversion script to turn it into a BTS address? As far as I understand it later when they want to redeem their bitasset they just need to import their bitcoin private key into the client, so it would make it a lot easier for a bitcoiner to just jump in and get some assets.

edit: nvm that would require bitcoin public keys.

[Ander]

Which subreddit(s) will this be in?

[xeroc]

8 a.m.? Which timezone? +5% +5% +5%

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[lzr1900]

8 a.m.? Which timezone? +5% +5% +5%

[Method-X]

UPVOTE PLEASE!

http://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/2o9bom/what_if_you_had_all_the_benefits_of_bitcoin_with/
http://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/2o9ce5/what_if_you_had_all_the_benefits_of_bitcoin_with/
http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/2o9s1d/what_if_you_had_all_the_benefits_of_bitcoin_with/
http://www.reddit.com/r/austrian_economics/comments/2o9e6v/what_if_you_had_all_the_benefits_of_bitcoin_with/

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