Good marketing is crucial for mainstream-facing projects. A bad-written marketing plan, caused by a ill-conceived strategy, is often the main reason for companies or projects to fail or under-perform. On the other hand, done right Monero can here achieve sustainable competitive advantages, over other coins (now and in future).

I am no team member, just a community member with a background in marketing & strategy consulting. I really want Monero to be successful. So I decided to help the people responsible, to ensure Monero get's all the strategic planing, methodology fundamentals, know-how and ressources needed, to be efficient and successful in marketing work.


This proceeding (research, creating a strategy, which will be the foundation of any well-written marketing plan, the marketing plan is needed to make reasonable decisions concrete marketing actions) is best known strategy and long-term proven, well-documented, absolute standard in marketing science and corporate practice. So it's pretty safe to say Monero will use this approach.
(Would be an error and huge waste of potential not to do.)

Marketing actions will start, after Monero has its fundamentals fully developed & tested (Database, GUI Wallet, stable RPC API, ...) and the coin/software is really ready to use.
Which will be in around 6 months, if no bigger development problems or delays come up.

Don't worry about marketing or things like corporate communication, public relations work, CRM-efforts and related tasks/functions.
They will be managed and operated as perfect as possible.
Moneros marketing will be managed with long-time proven & successfull marketing key concepts & techniques. There will be an (reviewed) marketing strategy [1] based on research and analysen, to serve as the fundamental underpinning of the to be created marketing plan and the instruments used in the marketing mix [3].

[1] = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_strategy
[2] = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_plan
[3] = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_mix

And as nobody is perfect, the marketing team will be open for feedback and suggestions from the community, the targeted audiences or extern experts.
If everybody works hard, we all collaborate and share as many ressources and informations possible: Monero will get best possible marketing and as experience has shown significant outperform all competing projects.

jehst:
I think you should do more, deeper and real research on cryptocurrency in general and the altcoin enviroment (incl. at least trying to understand technical backgrounds and how to rate the devs and community behind a coin) before trying predict chances of success of so many different coins and technologies, you talk about in your post.
You made alot very general statements, mostly without giving any reasons for your argument.

To me, it looks like you read some general altcoin news pages and some threads here and now repeated some standard arguments, you heard there. You didn't mentioned any kind of (simple) scientific instrument or methods of analysis you used during your research work (to create valid arguments and reasonings). Some stuff you wrote is ridiculous incorrect and shows you don't really know what you are talking about.

BTW, a currency lives through usage, no coin will just survive on being an "catastrophic hedge" against an BTC failure. There are other tools and ways to do that.
I think this catastrophic hedge-scenario isn't even worth discussing. (It was discussed in 100.000 threads before here on this board. Just research there.)

(No personal attack or hate, just a comment    to improve level of discussion.)

Your newsletters are very extensive and they contain floods of (unstructured) information, with (very) different degree of importance.
Some (or alot?) readers will have difficulties understanding the quintessences & central points of your messages, because of this Information Overload.

I suggest to offer a shorter variant or improve your newsletters texts, by stating more precisely, substantiating, excerpting, linking to additional infos (instead of including in Newsletter, ...) etc. To get better results with your project communication.

This coin is abandoned, see the OP. Dont waste your time here, support a CryptoNote coin (of your choice) that is alive and vivid.

Dont talk with him, he is mentally retared.

Yeah, obvious. Thank you very much for uncovering it.

Vorurteile in teh house.

e-coinomist: Because the total revenue/transaction volume on the Dark Net overall (all DN businesses, not only drug trade) is huge. Many people estimate its gonna be $1.000.000.000 this year with an rising trend upward.

Ok, tnx. I put them on ignore.

What is this? I never heard of Shojayxt and Bobsurplus before. Who are these people? Why talk about them?

jehst: Ok, now I understand.
If the public opinion at DeepDotWeb, /r/darknetmarkets and TheHub-forums changes towards Monero. Monero will be "required" and become kinda of an Dark Market-standard.

Unicorn: Some of the (older) admins/owners are still very, very stupid (SR2).

Great choice of music, bro. Das ist ein Klassiker. (Manche Rapper in dem Vid sind sogar gut, heheh. Andere sind Katastrophe.)

All major markets use Multi-Sig-Escrow today. Most require user PGP-key for communication.

Your infos are out of date. Get updates at http://www.deepdotweb.com/ or https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/

The scene made a major step towards security, they (all sane scene members) wont allow markets with at least Multi-Sig. They today prefer as much OpSec as possible.

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Mt. Gox: Kraken soll bei Suche nach verschwundenen Bitcoins helfen

26.11.2014 19:15

Noch immer ist nicht klar, wo die 850.000 Bitcoins der zusammengebrochenen Börse Mt. Gox geblieben sind. Nun soll das Team der Bitcoinbörse Kraken bei der Suche mithelfen, teilte der Insolvenzverwalter mit.

Die in San Francisco beheimatete Bitcoinbörse Kraken soll die Abwicklung der insolventen Börse Mt. Gox unterstützen. Das wurde bei einem Gläubigertreffen am Mittwoch in Tokio bekanntgegeben. Das Kraken-Team solle nun unter anderem bei der Untersuchung helfen, wo die unter bislang ungeklärten Umständen verschwundenen 850.000 Bitcoins von Mt. Gox denn nun geblieben sind.

Der Insolvenzverwalter teilte mit, dass das Unternehmen nach Prüfung geeigneter Kandidaten als das zuverlässigste und kompetenteste ausgewählt wurde. In einem Blogbeitrag erklärte Kraken-CEO Jesse Powell: "Wir stellen unsere Ressourcen und unsere Expertise zur Verfügung, um den Schaden für die Gläubiger zu minimieren und das Vertrauen in die Bitcoin-Community wieder herzustellen."

Das Rätsel um die verschwundenen Coins
Der ehemalige Mt-Gox-Chef Mark Karpeles hatte für den Bitcoinverlust unbekannte Täter verantwortlich gemacht, die sich über Ausnutzung der "Transaction Malleability“-Lücke der Guthaben bemächtigt haben sollen. Nicht wenige Beobachter sehen die Schuld aber bei der offenbar nachlässig geführten Börse selber. Laut Insolvenzverwalter haben die bisherigen Untersuchungen "bestimmte Probleme" ergeben – allerdings nennt die Mitteilung lediglich unvollständige Daten über Kundentransaktionen als Beispiel dafür.

Neben der Untersuchung solle das Kraken-Team auch bei der Prüfung und Auszahlung von Gläubigeransprüchen mithelfen. Falls der Insolvenzverwalter auf eine Auszahlung der Ansprüche in Bitcoin entscheidet, könnten Gläubiger zur Einrichtung eines Accounts bei Kraken aufgefordert werden. Bislang sind aber noch keine Entscheidungen darüber gefällt.

Release the Kraken
Die finanziellen Mittel in der Insolvenzmasse sollen sich laut Aufstellung auf derzeit 1,3 Milliarden Yen sowie rund 202.149 Bitcoins belaufen. Der Insolvenzverwalter betonte, dass Mt. Gox nicht unter Führung von Kraken wieder als Börse weitergeführt werde. Kraken habe lediglich für 30 Millionen Yen technisches Inventar des insolventen Unternehmens erworben.

Das nächste Gläubigertreffen solle im April 2015 stattfinden. Gläubiger sollen ihre Ansprüche bis Mai 2015 einreichen können. Ein bis zwei Monate vorher werde dann bekannt gegeben, welche Nachweise auf welche Weise vorzulegen sind. Die einstmals bedeutendste Bitcoin-Börse war Anfang 2014 nach anhaltenden Schwierigkeiten schließlich in die Insolvenz gegangen. (axk)
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Quelle: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Mt-Gox-Kraken-soll-bei-Suche-nach-verschwundenen-Bitcoins-helfen-2465894.html

Someone should/must compare the included Monero Windows binaries with the officlal ones.

The .au3-script in the archive doesnt get dectected, see:
https://www.virustotal.com/de/file/417833baff91b4ac5bc62a359a3b3075312e39929d14338f0fa5f0f5b98d1306/analysis/1417002805/
But still could include malware-function or misbehave.