Month 2 Update:
I posted some rolling updates as they came in this month.  These are the already announced updates originally posted on the previous pages of this thread:
 - Video from the 2nd meetup event in January:  BTC 2.0: Bitshares & Sidechains - Buenos Aires Meetup (2015-01-22)
- February meetup where 65 $1 bitUSD paper wallets given to different people at the event.  These are the event details and photos from the event.
- Got us a link from natural news and BeforeItsNews (article written in Janurary, but published in February).

Other achievements:
-  My main contribution this month is this animated explainer video script.  This is version 2 after a making edits based on feedback from my first draft.  I'm working on a third and hopefully final version now based on feedback.
 - Worked with rgcrypto + fran2k to have Spanish BitShares101 funnel set up.  It's now ready and viewable here. 
 - Started this thread about minebitshares at hashtalk.
 - Sponsored this small twitter marketing campaign by favdesu.
- General BitShares presence on article comments, bitcointalk, reddit and attendance of hangouts and providing opinions on various matters.
- I set up this reddit ad.  I spent $75 and recieved 63 clicks attaining a CPC of $1.19.  Despite getting a reasonable cost per click there was not a single sale of the book!   Due to this being a flop I will pay half the cost myself from my 200 BitUSD take home pay (deducting $37.5).

March Plan in brief:
- Continue funding for paper wallet giveaways at events (essential).
- Advertise events to make them larger - radio ads campaign for Buenos Aires being developed.
- Finish animated explainer video script.
- Use any 'spare' funds for bitshares101 funnel promotion on facebook.
- Be open to other opportunities.
- Pay myself back the delegate registration fee.

View the expenses spreadsheet.

Might I suggest the underscores on the trading pairs are replace by "/", that's how all the other exchanges do it.

Can you feel it???  We are tantalizingly close to biggest crypto home run since bitcoin itself.   

As most on this thread are already very astute too...  Messaging and positioning is critical.  I would brand it a whole new thing(Coinstamp for example) and it would be a "decentralized bitcoin exchange."  The experience would actually be just like going to bitfinex.

You would deposit bitcoin.  Your account would say you have bitcoin, just like bitfinex says even though what you really have is bitfinexbitcoin. The difference is Coinstamp coin is really bitbtc and it is real time cryptographically provably solvent.  You can use your imagination for the rest.   If bitfinex/bitstamp/btc-e make no distinction between their IOU's and the real thing why should we?  The catch is stealing their liquidity.  When bitfinex started, they used bitstamp liquidity to get themselves up and running.   Apart from some simple GUI stuff, that is the final piece.   And of course and USD/bitUSD gateway.

 

Quote from: cass on February 01, 2015, 03:13:27 pm

Are there any concerns about SEO due this!? Guess not, but maybe i'm wrong

I highly reommend using 301 redirection instead of assigning the site to the domain

the domain could be seen as it would use duplicated content from bitshares.org

  It's already appearing in Google, needs to be a redirect to bitshares.org.

Yes of course they should continue, but I have no problem with his appearance being shorter and where he has a pre-arranged plan of what to say and then just take a few questions.  There doesn't need to be a long drawn out consultation every week, but hearing an update from him is good. 

thinking about marketing, I'd like to put some bitUSD on cryptothrift for sale. Free advertisement.

Still don't know if there's a marketing fund I could contact.

How much do you need?  I have a small amount of available marketing funds you could use.  Presumably once you've sold it you could re-buy with the income and keep doing it?

Isn't it already called the BitShares decentralised exchange?

Bitcoiners know BitBTC isn't real BTC.  It doesn't have the same appeal as having a wallet that holds real BTC.  It just can't be sold as a bitcoin wallet without holding real BTC.

But still metaexchagne/shapeshift should be added into the wallet as a deposit method like you say, along with other deposit methods.   

So - both can be done!

You can access the whitepaper from bitshares.org