waves is a very bad example. they're lying and misleading their idiot investors at every possible chance.
if that's your understanding of professional marketing, I must refuse the idea.
That is true in my opinion (I researched Waves, I don't like them either, and something is fishy about them. I could elaborate more.. but let's stick on topic.)
...but the only reason Waves is afloat is because of marketing.
Look at what Waves offers its employees for benefits:
— Full-time work in the office next to Kropotkinskaya metro station
— Flexible schedule
— Competitive salary higher than average on market
— Free English and Chinese classes — Free coffee and cookies
Why English and Chinese? So their developers can talk to investors and show up at tradeshows "for marketing".
Now imagine Bitshares, with solid technology + professional marketing via a professional agency. Having both benefit us, we'd skyrocket in growth and adoption.
One of the hardest things in this industry is for developers and crypto users to realize their limits. Crypto-technically adept people in general have too much ego and can't spot their own faults. This is human nature (otherwise we'd be flawless with our thinking).
Refusing my idea of marketing because you don't like waves isn't an appropriate reason to not consider the issue.My comment to that person on steemit was this:
To be really fair though... Bitshares has plenty of marketing, but it could use more.
..and when I said that, I was thinking of
@Stan at the time.