I see BitReserve are going to be in attendance at the Beunos Aries meet up.
I've been talking with Juan Llanos from BitReserve and it seems he is attending tomorrow, lets see what it turns out
Meanwhile our official marketing team never even acknowledged that market.
BitReserve do really do get to be a fox in the BitShares henhouse.
Challenging the BitAsset brand (which we've had a year to cement), key markets and there's worse they can do too, but I won't mention it, they've already potentially taken the BitOil idea from this thread.
While I doubt they got the idea from the thread, you bring up a valid point about BitAsset branding. You don't need a polished wallet to start introducing the brand into the market. Oh well, that window is gone. Now we need to take a different approach to an awareness campaign.
Yes even before 1.0 there's no reason not to do a strong crypto-advertising campaign that should have been done anyway and would have flooded the crypto-market with and thereby cementing that BitAssets belong to BitShares. I'm really glad BitUSD is on the front of CMC again that helps a lot.
A coinmarketcap, coindesk and even ZH front page (good market would understand how BitAssets are created) advert as well as a slew of sponsored articles would have cost less than 10-20k. Which is a drop compared to marketing salaries and now their budget.
However it takes 10 100% delegates to do it ourselves.
I suppose it's unlikely that BitReserve are getting their marketing ideas from this thread but if I see them advertising BitOil or BitGold on the front of any of the sites I mentioned in the next week I'll think otherwise. (Edit: That's not 'the worst they can do' I referred to earlier.)