Sweet!

Afaik an affiliate suit is being is being created to provide affiliates with a set of tools to promote Bitshares.  It will be the first of its kind in the cryptospace.  Opportunities from local networking in Argentina are emerging.  We finally have a great website to promote.  I can't speak much about China but it sounds like things are happening there with dacx and more.  From my perspective things have reversed since I arrived in September.  Marketing is taking shape and I have confidence that we finally have a strong marketing team now.  Real marketing involves bringing the product to market rather than preaching to the choir here.  The success imo hinges on wallet usability.  The marketing is in good hands with Adam, rgcrypto, methodx's fund allocation, my progress in Argentina, bitscape and the Chinese side.  Plus we've finally got a biz-dev guy, Gentso1 and Rune's cryptohedge!  There's tons of stuff happening, it's just is all happening a few months later than we would have liked and wallet problems seem to have increased (hard to judge objectively as its working fine for some).

Market pegged asset use is starting to increase.  Look at gold, silver and btc marketcap, they are growing.  Account numbers are increasing slightly over the low in November.  That rate will only increase as marketing initiatives get into gear.  Marketing from the marketing delegates has only just begun.

Agree fully.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/31092995

Get your votes in, 1.5 Million BTS being offered upfront!  This should be voted in double time.

The network forked at Saturday and the main reason is still unknown.
If we keep ignoring the key problem that this project is facing , no matter how many blog posts , this project is not gonna survive the winter .
Our major competitors are having a field day every time the wallet fails .

Who's attention are you trying to attract , BM ?

It surely are not the existing investors and potential users who would really use the product .

At this point it doesn't matter if the blog is right or wrong  .

We don't even know the CEO of OKPAY ,  and yet millions of people use their product . Did you see his blog posts ?
They provide a sound product , people like to use it , period  . No one would use OKPAY just because of what their CEO think of .  Kindred spirit is hard to find .

Don't get me wrong , I like BM's vision . But as an investor and user , outsiders wouldn't want to invest in Bitshares further until it get some serious improvement . Just look at the account numbers , that doesn't lie . I only opens the wallet if I have too .

I agree, but it does also matter if blog content is any good, it makes a unbearably slow client even worse when one of the guys who's supposed to be fixing it instead writes badly researched blog posts, harming relations with potential allies.  Look at the complaints about the post (more towards the bottom).  The opinions of these guys matters. https://www.maidsafe.org/t/bytemater-bitshares-daniel-larimer-opinion-on-maidsafe/2902.  It could have so easily been a thread filled with positive replies, a strengthened BitShares brand and new interest from developers and investors.  Now those people are turned off forever.

I hold some maidsafecoin, and he's gone and soured that relationship.  Do I need to post in the forum that BM doesn't represent BitShares and is just some community member?  The problem could easily be solved by him stopping blogging.  Hate to bite the hand that feeds me, but someone's got to speak up about this.  It's like a deliberate attack on BitShares.  I'm sorry to say it but blogging is not BM's forte.  Why is he doing it?

There's a limited pool of crypto-people to appeal to, we finally have a great website, all we need to have good PR is for BM to stop blogging and to have occasional, professional announcements.  Except he'll have to now waste time writing more posts to push these maidsafe posts which are liabilities, instead of assets, down from the main page.

While it's easy to complain, sometimes complaints are justified.

From maidsafe forum:

"I really wish he would just come over to these forums and ask some questions first, rather than speculating on many points what MaidSafe plans to do. Because the result is that he often doesn't list the option that MaidSafe is going for, or he picks the right one and spends only one sentence on it."  - Seneca

"It doesn't look good that he's messed up on fairly well known (to many here) facts, and not come here to church his understanding first. I know next to nothing about bitshares but it doesn't inspire confidence." - happybeing

Could the sloppily researched blog posts please stop.  What happened to the 'screening' of blog posts by some of the marketing team before they are released?  Having to make corrections to posts is a complete facepalm, especially when the corrected version is still sloppy.  Openly pointing out that  'whatever is going to be said might be wrong and that is doesn't matter' is not seen anywhere else for a reason, because leaders and experts are supposed to get their facts straight before publicly saying anything.  You could have posted your post in the maidsafe forum to get their input first on all your uncertainties about their system and done some quality community building.  Instead it's another short cut, taped over mistakes and the weakness paraded around pubicly on stage.  Less is more.

All we need from the blog is a professional image that increases confidence in BitShares.  1 thoroughly fact-checked post per month would be enough, or 1 per week would be ok too, even if it took 5 times as long to write and was only twice as good.  You may get diminishing returns in traffic, but you get increasing returns in confidence! If it takes too long to research for it to time-efficient, then the answer is not to write anything at all.