*** Official grassroots marketing parent thread *** - community resources

[matt608]

If there is going to be a referral program/affiliate program (I really hope there is!) then this list of potential top selling affiliates is a good list of people to tell about it:
http://www.johnchow.com/top-25-affiliate-marketing-minds-of-2014/

One thing a referral program opens up is the power of the 'make money online' crowd.  I used to blog on that topic in the blogging boom several years ago.  John Cow was one of the most famous, it looks like his site is a bit less popular now (fewer comments) but still pretty big.  I had links in the past from his site send a flood of traffic that is interested in 'making money online', i.e. promoting the Bitshares referral program.  I would recommend buying a sponsored review of Bitshares referral program for $500 from his site and letting him use a referral link in the post. 

If a position in his ebook is available that worth going for too.

[xh3]

[xh3]

This is currently on the front page of r/bitcoin:      http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2grsrt/bitsharesx_impossible_to_understand/

Please comment.

That was a sincere critique.  This sort of thing is positive, it will pique the interest of intelligent talent/investors, and offers good feedback about what we look like to the uninitiated.  While it doesn't help with the mass-adoption aspect, I think it was a good post, well worth reading.

[gamey]

I added this http://www.reddit.com/r/Rad_Decentralization/

These guys may not have seen much love from us.  I can't see them hating us.  They should be friendly.  It has 4k vs ethereum's 3k subscribers. 

Please reply to this thread if you have any of your own additions !

[cusknee]

Yes thanks for this information.

[gamey]

Very positive coverage of bitUSD by coinreport here, please upvote on reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2hddo9/a_little_cryptoasset_sanity_maidsafecoin_supernet/

It is fine posting it here, but this thread https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=9174.0 would be preferred.

[matt608]

Very positive coverage of bitUSD by coinreport here, please upvote on reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2hddo9/a_little_cryptoasset_sanity_maidsafecoin_supernet/

[lovejoy]

 

Immensely helpful gamey, thanks for putting this together!

[gamey]

Well just please post in here any additions.  Added http://www.coin-ga.me/ and bitsapphire to the merchants accepts btsx/bitUSD.

Twitter accounts etc.  I must be missing some stuff.

[ripplexiaoshan]

Very impressive, I have added this post to my bookmark

[G1ng3rBr34dM4n]

 Nice work Gamey!

[MktDirector]

Dang Gamey. This was a LOT of work!  Thank you!   

[Riverhead]

On a more positive note: Great job Gamey!! It's great to see this all in one place and well organized.

[Riverhead]

Update: I read through more of their stuff. If they spent as much time trying to wrap their head around BitShares as they did putting together a huge long blog explaining why it's a scam they might have been able to produce some readable content. I am going to delete my replies as I believe it gives these people credibility. Anyone who read that tripe and agrees (Chinese pump and dump?? bitDelegates??) isn't really our target market. Let them lead their flock far far away from us.

Replied. This sort of thing is to be expected I guess. All we can do is try to clear up misinformation.

When the guy started talking about delegates as assets I realized he hadn't spent more than 20 seconds trying to figure out what BitSharesX is and stopped reading.

Anyone who reads his link will probably just move on.

[bitcoinba]

Another:  http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2gqt6t/bitshares_x_i_dont_get_it/

[bitcoinba]

This is currently on the front page of r/bitcoin:      http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2grsrt/bitsharesx_impossible_to_understand/

Please comment.

[CoinHoarder]

Good job Gamey, I am impressed. 

 

[cass]

You guys never stop to amaze me! Already added to DACZine.

[rysgc]

Haha, for even quicker content delivery please use our Submit form located here: http://daczine.com/submit . Cheers

[Geneko]

You guys never stop to amaze me! Already added to DACZine.

[cass]

done

[Gentso1]

REQUESTING STICKY!!!

[xeroc]

REQUESTING STICKY!!!

[serejandmyself]

good job. Also missing "market cap up to 6.5 billion" 

[Shentist]

http://www.bitshareshub.com/ - No content currently (delete?)

at the moment only twitter is used. i haven't decided yet if i will use the homepage as well. maybe delete it.

[eagleeye]

Under websites add http://www.beyondbitcoinx.net/

[toast]

This is good

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[gamey]

great job gamey
this is probably the best organization in the entire forum

thank you !  I've been working on it for a couple hours.  I might trim it up/reorganize it and keep it more on target.  We'll wait and see how feedback is.  I could see breaking it up though into things requesting direct action, and things that are like "RFCs" (request for comment), then lists of social media, etc.  Kinda burned out on reading forums at the moment.

[Gentso1]

great job gamey
this is probably the best organization in the entire forum

[Method-X]

  Excellent job!

[gamey]

Some of this has moved to the TASKFORCES section.  I will keep this as a list of resources that need to be updated.  If you are looking for something to do, please visit the Taskforces forum and pick something !

I will edit this at the request of the community.  This is a first edition.  Initially it was only going to be requests for grassroots and active grassroots campaigns but I decided to make a list of other Bitshares resources.  Post in this thread to have anything added (or removed?) from this list.  Also the "official" part in the title is a joke to grab eyes

Currently there are some things that need to be added.  A Bump list, list of trading forums to interact with, etc.  However I think we're waiting for BTSX to stabilize a bit before we reenter active marketing. 

Also a lot of the links are ancient but if they had a novel idea or whatever, I leave it in the list.  There are numerous threads out there I have missed so please point me to them.

List of Resources, Ideas, and Calls to action

Weekly Mumble meetup with Bytemaster
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=4203.0

Sources for graphics/infographics related to Bitshares.
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=8856.0


Current Requests for Direct Action - This is being replaced - see Task Force sub-forum



Pushing for exchange and coin processor adoption
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=8384.0
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=6868.0

Bytemasters request for SEO help
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=6506.0

Wikipedia issues that need correcting.
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=7773.msg102916#msg102916
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=6864.msg91674#msg91674

Current discussions of interest

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=9033.0 Reaching out to active traders for BTSX experiment

Proposals + Campaigns + Community Oriented Ideas

Marketing SWAT team.
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=6892.msg91556#msg91556

Attempt to brainstorm demographic categories to target
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=6682.15

Air drop BTSX on .edu emails?
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=8825.0

Utilizing Local Bitcoins to intercept interest in buying into Crypto ?
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=8811.msg114223#msg114223

Talk about trying to encourage more direct interaction between Chinese supporters and English side.
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=8908.0

Attempt to find a charity that takes BTSX that we can aim our charity at.
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=8404.0

Interested in SouthEast Asia/India ?
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=7329.0

Concept of a “reading list” thread to help Toast/Dan and other busy people
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=6901.msg91708#msg91708

Stan's list of orphaned ideas
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=4688.0

Toast's google doc of how to market
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uIwdeliEOK5EKWYKJh_tMr2aoiZHZDjBiNs0NZaotd0/edit

Bitcointalk/reddit contests
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=4313.0

The idea of geocaching PTS (BTSX?)
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=3882.msg48778#msg48778

[CLOSED] Previously successful "thunderclap" campaign.
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=7447.0

Social Media + Resource List

Great list of social media we could improve on
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=7257.msg96831#msg96831

Forum post of all DACS honoring PTS
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=1425.msg15467#msg15467

Websites

http://beyondbitcoinx.net/
http://nullstreet.com/
http://bitsharesmarket.com/
http://daczine.com


http://www.mybitshares.com  (Chinese site)

List of vendors accepting BTSX or BitUSD
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=9013.msg116762#msg116762

Twitter accounts
https://twitter.com/_bitshares (most official account)
https://twitter.com/bitshareshub

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/officialbitshares

Reddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/bitshares
http://www.reddit.com/r/Rad_Decentralization/   <--  Is like 30% larger than ethereum's forum.

TODO - Go through bounty forums and look for ideas.