OK, time to organise my semi-random thoughts and inflict them on the Nxt community.
First off: +100 to
Comes-on-Beyonce for financing salsacz in his marketing efforts out of his own pocket. Nice move.
On the marketing vs devs front:
stop bitching each other up.Devs need marketing, marketeers need product. Nxt needs both sides of the coin to be a success.
Nxt has come a long way on the strength of grass-roots marketing and community activism. This is (as I've said 10
6 times) Nxts greatest strength; the community support. We need to continue this effort, and help finance the guys who are making this happen.
I need to throw down a definition here: I'm going to define
marketing as pretty much any action that helps to bring Nxt into the public eye, while I see
advertising as being the use of (semi-) traditional media (TV, radio, print, web) to throw a message in the face of a mass audience of Joe Public (ie non-techie people).
I'm totally in favour of marketing right now to the more tech-savvy community (crypto-freaks, nerds/web users in general) but I feel that mass market advertising will be a complete waste of time and money and maybe even counter-productive.
If we get Joe Public to sign up to NXT and his/her first experience is a tricky set-up process (or losing funds) they will get the hell out of Nxt very quickly and warn other people to avoid us.
tl:dr: Marketing good, mass market advertising bad. (right now)
Marketing dudes should carry on with the current grass-roots activism, devs should make sure that we have a better and improved Nxt experience, for example one-click clients + account locking/security.
On the marketing front: I've just checked out FrictionlessCoins NEX bollocks, and the one overwhelming impression I get is that people will go mad for it if they can maybe get something for free.
I propose that we use some of the unclaimed coins for a big give-away action. Hand out big fistfuls of NXT to the people who have been supporting NXT over the last couple of months (maybe by weighting this thread contribution, to include me, of course) and then carry on with random give-aways to new Nxt'ers.
And one big give-away to a public figure/charity. All give aways will bring people in, rewarding the established community will give us a warm fuzzy feeling, and a big public figure/charity give away will get lots of coverage in mainstream news media without Nxt having to pay for advertising.
This brings me to voting: we need to get the voting system sorted out.
Which brings me to the complete f**king nightmare that this thread is becoming. We need to hive off debate threads to one of the other 2 forums, so that we can concentrate on one topic at hand, not all the topics all of the time.
Having said that, I'm off to the Nextcoin.org forum:
https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,2277.0.htmlto see what we can do about the Amsterdam BTC conferences.
