Part of the idealistic vision is to have very compelling games that speak/advertise for themselves among users, news outlets and communities. It's also a reason we like the idea of having an investment bankroll; so that investors have a reason to want to help advertise and promote MintDice as well.
Maybe affiliate could work wonders as well? You talked about the "investment" part making the advertisement for itself since the people who invest actually has a reason to advertise the website because they want to make money as well, same goes for something like affiliate where people would make money.
I don't know the technical details of it like how much you pay and what percentage etc etc but there are websites that does affiliate networking and they do pay out and I would assume it would work for you as well. Just investment is good enough as well but adding affiliate so that people would make money from marketing the website would be a great addition to it. Or maybe it wouldn't, I am not really knowledgeable about these things but it sounded pretty decent.
We launched our
affiliate program back in August, anyone is welcome to use it to attract new users and help themselves to profits from gambling turnover that their recruits play. We also offer higher incentive packages for anyone that wants to use our affiliate links on their websites, depending on the quality of their domains.
So, yes, the ultimate goal for us will have some amount of advertising from:
100% provably fair/transparent games and play whenever possible
High quality games
100% unique first to market games
Skill gaming
Affiliate program
Investor bankroll incentives
.... And of course our marketing efforts ourselves through the signature campaign and other methods.
As I said earlier, if I could lower marketing spend to zero, I'd love to do that and instead spend that on the website development, if it is self-sustaining. For the time being, however, spreading awareness is the least we can do. And if it helps some BitcoinTalk members along the way with sig rewards, so be it
