My ideas for marketing.
1. First and most important - a marketing video. Just for the amount of 2 BTC an amazing video can be created with huge influence on the reputation, price, and popularity of the coin. You can check earthcoin and mincoin for references. But it's not only when it comes to coins, in modern business you just need to have one if you want to suceed further.
2. Opening a special thread for announcing bounties to users for marketing as well:
* bounties for including a link to the thread in their siganture
* bounties for translating the OP in different languages subforums
3. Doing an aggressive campaign on Litecointalk - an official thread is a MUST there. At the end, this is the smaller but official forum when it comes to mining scrypt with GPUs. Also applying point 2 steps there!
4. Changing the name of the thread! GPUC says NOTHING! This is very important point!
5. An aggressive Twitter and Facebook updates. Would be nice if the PR guy(s) get access to them from the CEO and update them as often as possible, even if there are not hot news, just to keep the interest live.
6. Something really interesting, an idea actually risen bu another guy in the community - organise a kind of loterry contest with a prize of GPU. For example, the PR guy(s) announce on Twitter, Litecointalk, Facebook, etc. all possible places, the following:
* Announcment for a contest
* All guys involved must do the following:
- include in their signature in both forums link the the OP thread with promotional text
- create posts about settings of vertminer for different card models
- create translations of the OP
- make at least 150 posts in each forum (so the signature can be seen), during the next 2 weeks (this is just above 10 posts per day), however, in at least X different subforums and Ydifferent threads (to avoid concentration in just one thread )
- or make a new logo
- or make iconographics, or any nice Photoshop promotional stuff (Note! When it comes to video I stil believe we need to find high professionals and pay them the 2 BTC. If you do not know some, please, refer to me, I may find some nice. Video is most important part of everrythihg!)
* At the end of these 2 weeks there will be a lotterry and one of all these guys will be chosen as in the begining on a random principe to win a free GPU!
Now, just think about how much marketing is all that and how much costs one GPU! I think that even 2 or 3 can be prepared to be won. At the end, these money should be taken from the 75 milions for further development. For these costs, if let's say 100 guys take part of the contest (which is really some minimum), we will get 150 x 100 = 15 tousand posts with signature linking to the OP in different threads just per forum or 30 K in total! And each of the guys will do small effeort for a real chance to get a GPU! Additionally, we will get all the Photoshop work of the contest and obtain lots of marketing materials!
7. Frequent update of the official threads on both forums.
8. Now, some very important point - exchange! As I wrote, if we do not get on an exchange with a decent liquitidty, once after the CEO dumps all the coins he recevies from the first batch order, this will kill the coin. Someone raised the idea of trying to get on BTC-e. Well, I know this is hard. However, its not impossible and it all depends on how much money they will request for that. At the end, this coin has an inovative model in it and this also changes the whole story. In my country people say: problems which can not be solved with money, can be solved with lots of money, so just ask them straight ahead, at least we need an answer to know where we are in the whole picture.
Mintpal is the required next step as there liquidity is at least a bit better than nxt-e. Atomic trade I believe is annoying folks just like me which do not want to send verifiction papers. Cryptsy is the king of liquidity so far, but lately I am not sure if they are not startign to go down. They added too much crappy coins, have too much markets and bugs. Their reputation is going down and I can see that coins which get there just get dumped and killed very fast. Maybe we might consider them, however, the first choise must be btc-e, at least we need to try!
9. Maybe a new logo is also not a bad idea.
These just few of my inital ideas, please, let's someone (as far as I remmeber waltsmith was already chosen), get access to the 75M bounties and needed access to twitter, facebook, etc and start right away! If the CEO does not have the time to update them he need to hire guys as he promised and give them the power for this!
Gotta agree with this guy, I see a whole list of team members in the original post and you are missing the most important person. Someone to keep marketing on a day by day, hour by hour basis. GPUC Facebook and Twitter seem to be lacking since launch.
