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-We’ve figured out a way to make our back end cheap, fast and transparent. So much that it could change the crypto and tech worlds in general. BitShares Music might grow up to be much MUCH more.
. Keep the updates coming !!
BM has given up coding and now composing songs while walking up mountain trails.
We are all doomed!! Sell everything!!
I had an idea for a way to keep the emotional selling propositions, but also have some real details on the introductory pages. How about with every scroll, in addition to the buzzword text there's also a "fact box" with some technical information pertaining to that selling point? It will create more clutter, but it might help customers feel like they're dealing with a real product. Perhaps it is worth a try. This is my ideas for how the frontpage could be done, keeping the current style and pictures. I'm not satisfied with the text I've come up with, but I still think it's better than the current text (which also feels unfinished). Perhaps someone could improve on this further?
A global revolution in online banking.
Bitshares allows everyone to manage their money on the internet using the worlds most secure software.
FLEXIBLE
Save and send any currency or asset you want. USD, CNY, Gold and everything else.
LOW COST
Eliminating the middlemen allows Bitshares to give you the cheapest global transfer the world has ever seen.
Fact: Sending money to anyone, anywhere with bitshares costs less than 10 cents.
INSTANT
Finally there's something that actually feels like cash on the internet. Try it once and you'll never want to send your money any other way.
Fact: A Bitshares transaction takes at most 10 seconds to arrive.
PROFITABLE
Earn interest on your savings. Using Bitshares pays off!
Fact: Estimated USD yield per year: x% / estimated CNY yield per year: x% / estimated Gold yield per year: x%.
SECURE
Bitshares is the worlds most secure place to store your hard earned money. Your funds can never be seized or frozen, and no one other than you can control them.
Fact: Bitshares is secured with unbeatable cryptography, and every asset is backed by 300% of its value in collatoral.
LIMITLESS
Send any amount, any time, anywhere.
Save in any asset knowing your money will always be safe.
Download Bitshares and get started instantly!
I think targeting mainstream users in the broadest sense is too premature, especially for downloading the full node, so I guess that's a point where we disagree on the general marketing direction, and thus my opinion may be of limited use. But especially if mainstream is the target, I think it would be so much better if there were just two simple sentences explaining 1) what the product is 2) how the reader can use the product. Right now the website expects readers to scroll down through a lot of large pictures, then asks people to get started by downloading a program, but it doesn't seem like it properly explains what downloading that program accomplishes. We should at least also explain that they need to go to an exchange and buy BTS or bitUSD to begin earning interest.
However, if I had to design the marketing strategy I think I would use bitshares.org as the place for technical users and bitcoin veterans to get a quick rundown of the specs and as a place to download the client and find exchanges in their country.
Mainstream targeting could be done directly by a bitAsset on-ramp such as getbitusd.com that focused on selling bitassets and letting users download a lightweight client or sign up for a hosted wallet, all in one simple funnel done on a single website.
Yes, yes, yes to everything here.
The design is very nice, but I don't know who it is for.
@svk
Come one man...you should have read quite a few other posts from the adored by all of us ABL, since May 16th...
Any of those ring any bells:
-I3 has 40% of BTS?
-I3 is donating money to themselves (instead to ABL).
-All US agencies are coming after I3, about now. Why ABL? - Cause I said so.
I apologize for the grave-digging but here's the conversation you must be referring to:I am the most controversial member of this forum (if you say so) because this forum is very hostile to users who do not think you know absolutely what you're doing. Look through old posts, you'll find them and note that they all left. Most people pick a project, maybe two and stick with it. I pick all the projects, invest in them all and try to help them all when they are doing the wrong thing. Look at NXT or Counterparty's forums and you'll see the same thing. I don't currently comment on Ethereum because they're doing just fine.
I'm sorry I don't think you're doing a great job with Invictus, I really really don't. This project is by far in last place when compared against the serious players in the space and impugning my motives just further pushes away one of your biggest supporters.
That was back in May, and I'm sorry to say that in terms of global recognition Bitshares is still the little brother in the 2.0 space, despite our product being live and functioning and our market cap being bigger than all the others bar Ripple. Even Mastercoin that's been behind terrible stuff like the Maidsafe IPO somehow gets more recognition and press space than Bitshares.
Adam was making valid points about the lack of marketing and the difficulty in getting people to understand our product, and provided a critical voice. I see he hasn't posted for over a month now, and I for one am sorry to see him go. He could've been a valuable partner but instead we scared him away..
@gamey I'm not sure you'll appreciate any of this but I think our community's reaction to both Adam B. Levine and alphaBar are examples of a tribal, cheerleading mentality that doesn't reflect well on us.
ABL once ridiculed our community for not being aware of how far behind we are. Since then we've launched and killed a chain that had a market cap greater than the large majority of crypto 2.0 projects.
Alphabar is a completely different situation than ABL. I have mixed feelings on Alphabar. I would not have been so harsh on him if not for our previous arguments, but I do feel that his requests were genuine.
A lot of the time you get out of the forum what you put in. I can pick apart these exchanges and will admit some level of culpability, but I don't think these are very good examples. I don't feel we're any more tribal than elsewhere. We're usually pretty open to legitimate criticism, but perhaps I am wrong. I like BTC and other altcoins
even if I am reminded how sucky the confirmation times are whenever I am forced to use it. A lot of BTC people just despise anything that isn't on *the* official blockchain. but anyway I digress...
We are right in the middle of an 8 day dev meetup.
This project has been narrowed down and prioritized. All I can say right now in a few sentences before we get back to work is that: THIS WILL BE HUGE.
We have stumbled upon many problems in the music industry that can be solved thru blockchain technology. This means the project could be HUGE. We are coming up with a logical step by step, prioritized MVP.
We still have a couple of days to work everything out.
Expect a massive update near the end of the pre-sale.
This will affect the timing or the DAC vs proto-DAC dates and all.
arhag can you code? You have lots of ideas but your posts are often so long that I don't think anybody reads them. It would be useful if you could express these ideas in a more succinct way and/or possibly actually develop them.
Thank you bytemaster, I3, and everyone involved for doing this. I just can't commend you enough for this. Hopefully these words of praise from a very skeptical and somewhat ornery guy are enough to convey the point.
I'm not saying that every I3 decision was genius, but common what the heck is wrong with giving PTS back ? You do whatever you want with your money. I3 they do whatever they want with their PTS. There is a killer app for these people but no one has thought of it yet, they will but will it be bitcoin bitshares etherium maidsafe or somthing else? Let's put our brains together and make it bitshares.
The course of the wallet has changed some after the recent bitshares project merger announcement.
Furthermore the peertracks feedback has helped us a lot to pick a better financing model.
Whats going on, are Bitshares-PTS worthless now? I havent been able to keep up much and this stuff is confusing enough for me o_O. I've read up a little and I see that PTS holders wont recieve 10% of future DACS anymore, is there a new one that will replace PTS or what?
