Quote from: no-ice-please on October 07, 2015, 02:17:31 PM

Quote from: bigdoge on October 06, 2015, 06:36:52 PM

I have tried to get this idea off the ground but didn't find any partners. But don't be discouraged cause maybe I didn't try very hard lol.

Anyways the idea is to find handcrafted stuff/art/one of a kind things. Then, create a site where there is an auction in MZC. This could help generally anyone who is holding mazacoin cause there is actually something cool to buy with it. Most importantly it would help native tradespeople find some new customers from a pool of people that kinda already showed interest in their culture (by being interested in MZC!)

When I tried to get it going a really hard part was just explaining mzc to artists lol... but I am sure some are also computer nerds and think it was a cool way to sell art!

My opinion...

1) Create a high quality auction or sale site: easy.

2) Find artists / tradespeople who will make use of the site even before it gets any publicity: a little difficult
Where do you find them?

3) Popularize the site: extremely difficult
New auction or sale sites are a dime a dozen. Almost none of them last a year.
Effectively marketing art sites is very difficult.

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Some examples of Native art sites

http://www.rivertradingpost.com/

http://www.artnatam.com/

https://www.nativeartsofamerica.com/

http://www.nativeart.net/

All of these sites rank very low on any measure of traffic. Some have some pretty severe technical flaws.

Maybe a more practical idea would be for somebody to make one high quality site then contact all of the Native art sites they can find and arrange a partnership. e.g. "We will post all of your art for sale on our site using our shopping cart system and will pay the artists with Mazacoin".

excellent post! I think it really shows me where I went wrong trying to implement this idea. It would probably be much easier to find partners that are art dealers, rather than individual artists. The downside is it may be tricky to convince them not to convert it all to fait since they are probably already running an operation based on that.

For point 3, I think that MZC really does alot of the promoting in itself. Basically all mzc holders have answered a product survey with "yes I am interested in native cultural items." Really just with the activity in these forums we would have a good group of qualified prospects. The next step would be growing it from an active "club" to a business with constant new customers. I think we might be able to leverage some success just having something at all going, and get talked about on crypto news sites. (just one example of how to make it grow)

Another idea I had from an above post was about digital assets. If we are selling unique pieces of art we could add a cool touch by creating a blockchain based ownership token and give it to the buyer. This is as simple as saying 1 particular MZC=ownership rights of this artwork.