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Hello,
What is your marketing scheme to get merchants on board or will the details be revealed after ICO? Are you targeting local shops in India before further expansion? Also, are you planning to develop an APP?
Thank You

Hi btcdee,

These are wonderful questions, we have not mentioned any details in the concept paper regarding attracting merchants as yet as the onboarding plan gets evolved after every brainstorming session.

Our product person will answer these questions for you, ill ask her to draft what we have so far with inputs from our tech lead also regarding App development. Since its a long weekend she can do this only on Monday.

Thanks

The project is very interesting, with a concept that is not complicated and almost liked by everyone, with photos alone can earn money, this is really a simple basic concept and interesting, and yes, I'm interested in crowdsale on 1 september later, well
Anyway, a lot of projects are starting their token sales on 1 september, hopefully runs well

a unique idea, I've found a project with the same concept, but this project looks more complicated, the more we are famous, the more money earned, I'm very interested if this project has a plan to make the application, it will greatly support the development of this project ,
Pre-sale and crowdsale less than a month, a short time, hopefully run well with good sales

Thanks for appreciating our project.

You do not have to wait till Sept 1st. We have a pre-sale right now till the 31st Aug where you will receive 25% bonus TRENDS if you contribute during the presale duration.

Thanks

Hi, I agree trending.me will attract certain demographic who are already into photography, fashion, style and nightlife. We consider those users the trendsetters of the platform, apart from trendsetters we have 4 other types of users who will participate in the community
1. Merchants who set up Trend Stores
2. Service providers who on board merchants and can act as mediators for advertisers
3. Advertisers who advertise on Trending.me (You do not need a Trend Store to advertise)
4. Investors who hold on to TRENDS and lend to other users

The concept is cyclical and requires circulation of TRENDS for the community to work, TRENDS will circulate between these 5 types of users and we would encounter more types as we go ahead.

Hope this clarifies the complication in the project as its not only a platform for people who are already famous or who can become famous, you can also be a Merchant, Service Provider, Advertiser or Investor, now the crowd sale helps in being one of these 4 if not all.

It seems like many women will love this project ;D
Presale is in progress, is it 25% bonus still given?
why your ICO have a little time? I think this is less effective

Hi,

This project will be loved by anyone in the fashion and style niche. :)

Yes, the presale currently gives you 25% bonus TRENDS, presale will go on till 31st August. The crowdsale after presale is 22 days till 22nd Sept 2017. In total that's almost a month.

Thank you! looking forward for more details about app development.

this project is an interesting project because it can make money in a way that is so easy, only with capitalize photos alone can make money, maybe when crowdsale will be crowded to invest

Our Crowd Sale is currently on hold

Our campaign manger has been fired and the following are the reasons for the termination,
1. With crowd sale 2 days away the Bounty Thread is not complete and there is no sign of manager doing quality work over last 2 days, the following is pending
- Signature and Avatar campaign is not started as yet and there is no plan as to when he will go about it
- The translation bounty has no proper instructions and several people have taken up translations but there is no "management" to move this forward
- In every form for bounty, there is still no waves address collection field to receive TRENDS after me asking for this 3 times and a member commenting about it in the bounty thread also

2. We provided feedback to the manager
- He should not be rude to the people in the thread as Trending.me is a fun, happy project, he was rude to a FIL translator
- He should be more engaging and reply to peoples queries about bounty, The job he signed up for, so far he has replied to only 1 person and that too has been rude to the FIL translator, this attitude would not inspire more people to join the bounty

3. Campaign manager just recently lost money as two other ICOs did not work out for him and he did not get paid, that negative energy and momentum is brought into our project and before doing proper work he has expected crowd sale to take off on this forum during presale itself

@hashforce101
We can deal with incompetence and make people better at getting things done, but a bad attitude is something that needs correction elsewhere.

4. Manager had agreed to accept payment in TRENDS and we would pay him BTC as soon as we start raising funds. On the day of making the post, manager used his Legendary status(Valuable for posting of ANN and Bounty threads as my account does not support images and links) and tried to hold us hostage and asked us for BTC instead of the initially agreed upon TRENDS.
When he could not get it from us he hushed up the matter like he was "kidding". He also used the fact that he is paid currently in TRENDS and not BTC as an indirect reason for being lax and not really putting effort into this project.

5. After asking manager to do the work mentioned in point 1. and giving him feedback in point 2. he has stopped replying to my messages and considers me rude and a spammer for telling him what we require to make this project work and guiding him on how we could do a better job. Manager is not open for constructive criticism and cannot handle the stresses of these projects. The original presentation of bounty was also not up to the mark.

I leave you with the chats in the last 3 days with manager, you can see the attitude and work ethic displayed upfront.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9Z7PpAYzavVWW1IUXhCRDZOcGs?usp=sharing

In Summary, We tried to work with it but cannot anymore as our project will be dead if we continue with this manager. Regardless of the legendary status I see no solution in working together.

For those who need to know our deal with him, We could not afford to pay BTC right now to the manager, but manager was interested in the project, infact he contacted us at the start of August via PM, we were approach by other managers also, but hashforce101 decide to work with us in a pay structure where we pay him in TRENDS before the crowdsale and with the initial amount we raise in crowdsale we would pay him that amount in BTC, almost like a buyback of the TRENDS. A Gentleman's agreement was struct between us.

Due to result of the other two ICOs he's manged, hes brought on failure perception to our project. Now our legendary manager expects the crowdsale to kickoff with massive funding withing the first few hours of posting the threads, without putting any value upfront in the form of managing a proper bounty thread or getting translations DONE or guiding twitter and Facebook campaigns he expects things to roll smoothly. This is not how it works, anyone in Marketing knows that.

He's not replying to my messages so I assume he has given up on this project just as much as we have given up on him.

I know this revelation might look unprofessional on our part but with being held hostage by our legendary manager we had no other choice, I apologize to anyone who supported us and is disappointed by us closing the crowdsale before it even begins. As you can see above we cannot go ahead with the attitude and work ethic of the current manager. If we do so our project will die before it even begins, it's better to admit our mistake, regroup and take on a different strategy in the coming weeks. We made a mistake with our hiring and we will learn from this one.

Also TRENDS as an asset on the Waves Platform is compromised as manager has half a million TRENDS in his wallet, what we paid him for his services for 3 weeks. After posting this I do not think he will give us the TRENDS back, we do not worry as my dev lead says we can move to ethereum as we will achieve our goals faster rather than with Waves.

Thank you to everyone who has appreciated our project, efforts and we will be back soon. Stronger!


To any one who wants to get in touch can PM me here directly or use the social media links on our website. My team is active across all networks.

Thank You

It has literally been 2 days, where I was unable to do work for this campaign, for personal reasons. I told William from trending.me that I would do the work as soon as I had the time, but he continuously spammed me, as though I have nothing else to do in life. This unprofessional behaviour left me without motivation to continue this campaign and to be honest, I am quite glad our relationship is now over. The spreadsheet will soon be updated with everyone who has done work, as I am not one to leave people hanging. Except for trending.me. Hopefully they pay you guys out.

The thread will soon be locked.