I think, looking at the community, anything that is called "official" will backfire.

However, having said that, anyone who has proven they are capable of pulling things off, will get trust.
So I would opt for someone trusted in charge of funds, who can disburse as needed within an open group, which can be added and subtracted to.
I would not opt for a closed group. That will only lead to accusations of elitism.

I am for a measured approach to marketing.

I've seen lots of plans and that is great. Only a few of those demand quick action.

I think any marketing aimed at mainstream would backfire, because we need much more development on that score.
So I would prioritise marketing aimed at the cryptocommunity and getting a larger userbase there.
This will probably mostly mean getting published on good cryptosites and getting some scientific backing, especially from known names.

Those are covered under (in my order of priority) :
Articles
Review
Press
Scientific paper
PhD

Second comes secondary reachout to the online community and creating a welcoming image.
Tournaments
Video
Wiki
Grammar
Infographics

Some of these are already being done and are aimed at lowering the barrier of joining and getting less (but not totally) tech savvy people involved.

Last priority (to me) would be actual RL activities, unless they directly affect online presence.

During the first two campaigns, development should be top priority so we have mainstream usuability. Only then can we start doing PR (but we can prepare this behind the scenes of course!) for more mainstream users.

So for now, getting known via trusted third parties seems the best option to me. We should churn out progress reports, articles, get reviews from trusted reviewers and keep reaching out, while the devs keep working on perfecting the applications. All this is low cost. Let's save the money for later for the most part. We'll need it.

My 2 Nxt.

Signing in, if I can still join.
I'm at work right now, but will be here this evening again

I've also put it on both forums. It's rising enormously!

Nxt would be great!

I don't believe that's on the marketing list yet, but it should be!

Salsacz! 

This may be a good marketing strategy for women  

Edit: enjoy your bounty guys!

This article is great. Much food for thought.
It fits in with the discussions on voting and fees we've been having the last few days.
Giving it a more thorough read tomorrow.

Thanks for posting this!

Also fun to do, if you can believe that

I think today someone broke a wall at 0.0000400.
There is still a huge 2000000 wall at 0.0000300

I'll try to explain once, in case you truly do not understand.

"Bought" likes means "likes" that have not chosen to see the messages.
It's basically a kind of "facebook spam"

People dislike spam and when they see Nxt on their timeline they will be much more likely to think that Nxt is a spamming coin and not join.

Even if you thought you were really helping, you were not. The thought is appreciated, the way you did it was, well, just not good.

As to the vote: only sites that have been around for a while (before 3 january) were put in.

I'm sorry if you feel that is unfair, but those are the reasons that I see.

Can this be made into a banner?

New Bitcointalk Summary for those who want an overview of the last two days.

The Dutch Guy was at a sales meeting in Germany for two days and is at this moment collecting all data from over 80 pages 

I'll post a summary in an hour or so

Hang in there!

My post is exactly an argument FOR such a visionary or at least someone to bite the bullet.

Edit: It definitely cannot be me, as the simple fact is I'm just a member of the community that participates, but is no leader.

Could we agree that if we want to market finished apps developers and PR people for that app should do fundraisers and invest own Nxt?
That's basically normal market.

Just pondered the whole voting discussion a bit, too.

There is one thing about democracy that is frequently forgotten.
Democracy in all it's known forms always has rested on a foundation that is inherently nót democratic: the first constitution (as written by founders).

This circumscribes the boundaries that democracy has. Some things cannot be voted into law, because they are against the constitution.
This is a failsafe to protect the democracy itself.

Having a totally "fair" voting system is impossible, but one thing that any constitution tries to do is protect minorities against the rule of the majority.

I feel a lot of debate that has been had over the last days revolves around this fear.

Of course this starting point is centralised (or at least oligarchic) in nature, but the aim of the centralised limits that have been put in place should be to protect the decentralisation that comes after it. One way of making sure of this is that the rules should limit the power of the initial rule-makers.

My 2 Nxt

Been away for a while and just spent some time reading the thread again.

On marketing.

Definition: what are we talking about when talking about marketing?

It seems we have two objects are being discussed and confused: Nxt (system/framework) and applications of Nxt.

Both need a different approach. When confused, we get the non/mis-communication in the team.

My idea would be to do what we can now, which is two things at least:

- Market Nxt as the system. Target group at first would be people who are interested in new cryptos, and pushing the message that it's a system, not a coin. We get people to join in on that basis and make it appealing to be part of a new movement in cryptocurrency. Client development is in this group at first. The client is a must have condition for any mainstream marketing anyway.

- make a list of coming applications. We know what is coming and we know what people are working on (apps, messaging, torrenting programs etc etc etc.)

These applications cán be treated as products, whereas Nxt itself can't. It's hard to sell "the internet" for instance. It's "easy" to sell uses of the internet.

- We choose the applications that we think will get most attention. This will take analysis, but also a good working knowledge of what is coming. We focus on maximum of 3 things to push as hard as we can with all marketing tools available. We have people who can coordinate this and we create teams on a volunteer basis. Maybe we can offer perks to the team. Volunteers should be treasured.

This seems to give a framework where we can distinguish whát we are marketing and avoid confusion between Nxt (system) and the applications.

Makes sense?

Edit: a given here is that the applications are aimed at mainstream, so devs need to aim for userfriendliness and the products need to look good.

When?

Berzerk = Passion_ltc and he is DEFINITELY not the one who made a weibo

He's NxtArea

People should know that the proposal of fee lowering is because we expect the transaction volume to go UP.
If that doesn't happen, there is no reason to lower it, with that I agree. It's not a giveaway, it's a way to make features accessible and affordable for the most people.
The idea is to let everyone be able (also the small faucet accounts) to test and enjoy some of the more common features.
There is no problem with more advanced features to be more expensive. You pay for what you get.