Hi Scheede!
I'd like to thank you for taking the time and actually read the entire concept. I've collected all your questions in one reply, so here goes...
"I understand Viberate will be good for Sally, but saying this it seems the pub-and club-owners are your (paying) audience/clients you basically need to get on board. How will you bring into using your service?"Half of our 12M cap will be spent on raising awareness about the project, meaning we'll be launching a targeted global campaign to attract audience to our platform.
"Will most of these "one-man-companies" make the effort to search for artists actively?
(I don´t know any, so I wonder how engaged they are in searching, but I guess there are less pubs/clubs then artists, what means more offer than demand, so that the pub-and club-owners don´t usually make the effort to do the search!?)
Did you do something like a field-research to find out?"We've done extensive research in this field. For several years we ran our own successful event agency and experienced all the struggles and pitfalls that come with the business. Majority of venue owners don't have access to such comprehensive, discovery metrics, therefore they book often overpriced artists based mainly on word-of-mouth. We want to change that and offer venue owners and event organizers a smarter way to fill their events and make a profit doing so.
"And will the pub/club-owners be able to search artists from their town/region (your website says "Each entity profile is furnished with all available social media links and analytical insights" so I assume this will be mandatory in your plans?"You can already discover artists based on their country of origin. We go even further and offer you detailed analytics, which measure the popularity of a certain artist based on their social media fan base and engagement. Those metrics allow venue owners to discover artists that are on the rise and snag them on their way up before the major labels discover them. There's an additional incentive for artists to use those metrics as well. They can track, measure and make better decisions when launching their social media campaigns. You can read more about our analytics here ->
https://www.viberate.com/interesting-insights/how-do-you-use-stat-circles-on-viberate
"And if there are enough interested pub-and club-owners: how much do they know about crypto´s - e.g. how much will you `teach´ them how to credit the smart-contract with enough VIBE´s to pay the artist ?!"I think all modern crypto ventures will have to face the fact, that the larger audience doesn't yet understand the workings of the crypto-currencies as well as we'd like them to. A lot of time, effort and funds will be spent educating the people. With the recent uprise of the crypto-awareness around the world, we think that doing business this way will become mainstream.
"What are your plans for these ´clients´?"We want to create a global marketplace where fans, artists, venues, event organizers and ticketing services will be able to seamlessly communicate across the platform and do business. Our plan is to educate and offer all involved parties a better general understanding of the crypto-world, smart contracts, tokens and block-chain technology to ease the transition from the old to the new.
"Another thought on this: when the problem for the artists are pub-and club-owners the screw them up, will those pub-and club-owners join a smart-contract?"Of course. We have it explained in our whitepaper:
Bookings on Viberate will be made using Ether (ETH) and Vibes (VIB) along with following these
steps:
• Upon digitally signing the contract, the event organizer (buyer) pays the agreed
number of ETH or VIB plus a service fee to a specially created wallet that holds
the coins until the event is fully executed.
• The event organizer has 24 hours to file a complaint in case the artist has breached
the contract in any way (no-show, cutting the performance short for an unexplained
reason, excessive behavior, etc.) and after that period ends, the artist fee is released
to the artist’s wallet.
• In case of a breach, a dispute is triggered, which is handled by a trained tribunal
of music business experts who give the verdict based on provided evidence (photos,
exchanged e-mails, etc.). The members then vote to decide whether to return the
withheld fee to the organizer or clear the payment into the artist’s wallet.
"While reading I also though "what´s in for me?" and found your answers in Whitepaper 5.2.1.
for 2 of the possibilities I have a question:
• referring friends ---> will you hand out referral links (nowadays more and more don´t like to send and/or receive ref.links) or will you implement an more convenient solution?
• writing editorial content ---> may you give 2-3 ideas?"The referral mechanics are still being developed and we're taking into account all the pros and cons of existing types of referral services to create something users will want to use. As for editorial content. You can write about Viberate in general, offer weekly/monthly/yearly analysis and predicitions of the artist market, describe different sections, make user friendly tutorials,... The possibilities are endless.
"Last but not least:
Whitepaper 5.4.3.: "so that people, who won’t be able to attend the event...will be able to sell the ticket to other Viberate users via
DTX and charge the price in ETH or VIB."Did you already planned to make a cap, lets say max. 5% over the regular price, to solve one of the todays bigger problems with the secondary markets ("or an e-Bay ad to purchase the ticket for multiples of the actual price")?"Taken from our whitepaper:
With DTX fans will be able find peers who cannot go to the event but have bought the
ticket.
Fans will be able to set the maximum price they are willing to pay for the ticket or
buy the ticket right away from an existing member who is selling it.
many thanks for your fast and detailed answers to all my questions...
Finally: Are there any news regarding planning to make VIBEs accessible through FIAT-gateways?
