This is EXACTLY why I recommended we try to recruit people with our LTB spots. Marketing is indirect. Get the high quality people on board the NXT team. How many more jean-luc's are out there who will go into the etherium or other projects because they didn't know enough about NXT.
My guess is that a lot of people only know the anti-NXT propaganda. So they wouldn't even consider researching NXT, let along joining the NXT team.
We need to market this community. That is what sold me on NXT's future.
I agree with this part. If we're going to market, our target audience should ideally be two types of people: 1) End users, of course, but more importantly 2) skilled developers and businessmen.
NXT's strength is decentralization, and if we market to these type of people, they will see that they have a golden opportunity in the NXT ecosystem to contribute and make a name for themselves. And when they do, NXT's community will grow. Eth's and MSC, etc. single group of devs can only do so much at a time. NXT's group of dev's will only grow in time and eventually outpace the best other coins can do with our sheer volume of talent.
So if we do marketing, I believe marketing right now to get skilled people on-board is a good idea. Price increases will simply be a side-effect of the productivity the new talent brings in.
OK, replace the word "recruiting" for all my usage of "marketing" in my recent posts.
We need to recruit as many people into the NXT community as possible.
I am not a marketing professional. I just know that marketing works. Let's spend NXT to recruit 100 highly capable people into the NXT community. Whatever you call that, that is a good thing.