Hi
EverGreenCoin community,
It has been a very busy week, please do not misinterpret the lack of posts here. Sorry for the delay for last weekend's report, things have been very, very busy. Please allow this to suffice, though even days late. Let's see, where to begin... let me just jump into it. Allow me to apologize in advance for the length of the post.
A community member raised to attention at a community meeting
energybin.com.
The community member thought it might be of value to EGC. After close inspection, I agree. It is a business-to-business energy component marketplace similar to the more-popular brokerbin.com. This will greatly benefit the EGC/IEO partnership with access to discounted components, but also could easily help the Solar Staker input costs and any other projects we may endeavor on in 2018. Another benefit I find very alluring is the ability for broadcast messages to be sent to other members (600+ companies, 1100+ users, 5 energybin staff). It does cost to join and we were quoted $959 for a year's membership. Because of our non profit status, Bill the representative I spoke with, said they would give EGC 3 free months of a footer banner ad. Only members can advertise on energybin.com and we think this would be a very good audience to advertise to. Footer banner ads would normally cost $150 per month. The side ads are $250 per month.
One catch, they would like us to pay by the end of the year. I do have another meeting with Bill scheduled for today. I want to ask questions about warranties. Bill and I did discuss EGC and our relevant projects already. He did seem very eager to work with EGC but, that said, he is a sales person. I would greatly appreciate input from the component-wise community members.
The community has expressed interest in advertising via
Google AdWords, which I find as very good news. I have been wanting to advertise more mainstream and did save, and will now be happily using, coupons for adwords. $150 worth after the first $100. Both Bow and Frosty have already committed $500 each! Many, many thanks to them both and I of course can't go un-matching myself. $1650 reserved for adwords is going to bring many new eyes. This originally started as an idea to celebrate our 2nd anniversary, December 25th, 2017. Because that is only days away, this had to move quick. Approval takes 24 hours and could easily soon be slowed by the holidays. The below responsive ad is already
under review now live with 42 clicks and 52,274 impressions as of the time of this writting
with hopes of being live soon for the holidays and anniversary.
We also have an expanded text ad which will appear in
search results under review was approved while I wrote this, 14 clicks and 773 impressions. Here are samples of that:
Currently we have this budgeted at $25 per day for the responsive ad and $15 per day for the search ad, but we can adjust that in the coming days and weeks.
Please do consider contributing to our current
advertising crowdfund. Especially Bcash holders.
I joke. On a much more serious note:
Another recent event I am pleased, but mostly honored, to announce is EverGreenCoin is now coordinating efforts to help a
refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya build a
learning center. We have been working particularly hard to communicate with furniture stores and hardware stores this week, but I fear the holidays may already be a speed bump on gathering information. Regular attendees of the community meetings will know, I myself was very skeptical at first as I am sure some of you are. After 2 months of communication with Lyama Amadi I do feel confident of the validity and urgent needs. Lyama has also demonstrated great determination. I will get some of the pictures and videos he has shared uploaded to
this page in the very near future. I apologize more information is not yet posted and I apologize if my original skepticism delayed what could be amazing promotional pictures for EverGreenCoin's anniversary. I almost feel guilty for doing this but, EGC and IEO shirts are being shipped to the refugee camp. As gifts, yes. But with the hopes of good pictures for promotion. I think all of us will agree, we take a lot for granted, when you see some of their conditions.
During last Saturday's meeting we also discussed many 'Buzz Initiatives' for
Honey Bees. While this is roadmaped for Q3, action is needed in Q1 to realize those. As of now we have plans for 6 bee hives and the queen bees do need placed in the Spring. But we are working on plans to make many more hives and sell those on the marketplace, though those plans are not concrete as of now. Community members with expertise in bee-keeping or bee hive building are invited, rather asked, to join us. As of now we have 2 bee-keepers committed to help us and I plan to install a bee hive, at least one, at EGC HQ. These initiatives are aimed to: help our great pollinators, create demand with products and produce purchased with EGC (honey, hives, ultimately supplies), expand into this area, and join forces with and gain exposure with and from well-known bee activists. Many of which are active in permaculture and other fields that community members have expressed interest in. Honey Bee initiatives will fall under the Gardens branch, and like all branches, work under the coordination of the foundation. Fully utilizing both the
incorporation status and
tax-exempt status.
As members' of the community on
Discord and
Telegram know, things have been very busy thus far this week. Most of the community-wide discussions occur on those two and if you have not joined,
please do. Many thanks to the community members that field questions and comments in my absence. Our community is growing fast!
Things are shaping up to be a happy anniversary and holidays! The next community meeting will be December 23rd at 17:00 GMT. Sorry for the slow status report from the prior. Things have been that hectic for me and I did want to have some of the discussions materialized before reporting. Til then, well, you know where to find me! Thanks for the continued support!
p.s. I almost forget, we have two raffles ongoing. Entries have already been purchased for both, winners will be drawn as planned this Saturday. But the odds are still worth an EGC or 2 (~50 cents or ~$1
, looking forward to 2018! )
