We have no presence on socials like facebook, medium, reddit, instagram where we could actually convert users to our alternatives.
Thats part of what Im doing right now. Ill show the results on it soon. Ive spent about 500 HBD to set up social media managers for a few dapps and projects that dont receive DHF funding that wanted them. Travelfeed, CTT podcast, Waivio and Vibes. Basically to showcase activity on Hive.
So far for Vibes its working out well, ill have some numbers for others as well. Its a very low cost but increases output significantly and some dapps perform better than others. Vibes has seen the most results so far. But its being tried.
Weve been trying to shift focus of the spending but it will take time.
What is really needed is having people willing to volunteer their time otherwise its basically 3 people having to do everything themselves for no pay.
For example: It took 2 weeks to set up a strategy and find people to work for very little money that basically spent only 500 HBD for the social media part.
It took days to deal with the AMA on Reddit wer doing. ANd that was based on which of us might have time to do parts of a basically simple online event. You have 1 person dealing with all exchange listings and another person again having to deal with accounting, collect all the invoices, deal with payments that also deals with their own projects they approved. It took a month to set up the Bitbasel conference im going to. It took 4 months to set up Hivefest with hours each day. And VIbes is also just a marketing initiative basically that also takes a lot of my time to do every week to try and develop connection, get views, get new musicians in, get people to promote it.
So wer stretched very thin. Even responding to valid comments here and those from insane people takes time out of our day.
Then you have people requesting even more work from us.
We need more people willing to contribute.
If there was any pay for all this work, or even more contributors it would be much easier to structure VP and adjust to growing demands. It simply is not. This is being pulled along by sheer determination alone.