Quote from: Määänsch on March 19, 2014, 12:07:52 PM

Hi guys,

I've been mining this coin for about a week now and find the whole idea behind it very promising. I've been dealing with BTC for quite some time now (about 1,5 years I'd say) but never mined or had the feeling to really join the community up to this point. So you really got me with this

First of all thank you to all the devs for the great work you are doing here. Keep it comming!

Next I'd like to share some thoughts about marketing. Every time I start talking about BTC or cryptos in general 90 % of the people haven't even heard of it (and I'm studying at a university which has it's focus on life sciences - informatics/biotech/engineering). The other 10 % pretty much only know the bad press. I only know two!!! people who really know whats going on. One of them only because I didn't stop bothering him with the topic. Last night I also made the experience that things posted on Facebook only catch attention when people already know what kind of info they will get. Not even my girlfriend opened the link to Thunderclap. Digital currency and a foundation? No offense but who is gonna click and read that? It's a bit like those people downtown trying to get you to sign some paper to rescue whales, penguins...etc. Very most people just pass by without even looking at them and only some few old ladies and shy people don't dare to say no and give their signature in the end. On the internet it's even easier to not even look at it. You don't even have to say no. I guess you know what I mean.
So how can we get lots of peoples attention in a more trustworthy environment than facebook or the internet in general? I think a good start would be to hang out flyers/posters at public places like universities. I could for instance start doing that in Hamburg/Germany. It's cheap and reaches lots of rather interested people. A short but meaningful text, a link to the homepage/facebook and maybe even a giveaway of small amounts of coins to people who register. Maybe it's also smart not to even mention BTC. Most of the people don't know them and the ones who know them associate rather dark/bad things with them. Such text should be really well thought about and discussed. It has to catch the attention of interested but absolutely clueless people. We could use eyecatching stuff in headlines like the recent proof of the big bang. Everybody loves topics like this at universities.

Another thing would be stickers without any explanation at all. Just something like "Einsteinium, the scientific currency. Google it!" would catch at least my attention. People are bored with their smart phones while waiting at the subway or bus or whatever and they would welcome such an opportunity to kill some time.

What do you think? I'd like to discuss the ideas, maybe get some nice words together and then spread them whereever we can. Everybody has some high school or university around with a black board (thats how we call it in Germany^^) that can be used for free for pretty much anything. And what's on this black boards has (thats at least what I believe) much more value than any post on facebook.
I apologize if somebody already came up with this. I didn't read the complete thread Tongue

Määänsch

Good Morning Määänsch,

Thank you for taking time out of your day to come here to post your opinions. You mention some ideas that I think would only help, no possibility to hinder.

That's some good stuff. But everything you mentioned is really time consuming. All of the members of the dev team work full time jobs all day long and then were on the net making sure all is running smoothly. Working with webdevs, talking with our community and just in general working till the weee hours of the morning. I know that for the last 7 days I slept less then 20 hours. That's not good.

If you would like to join our team and head up a "real life, in your face" marketing campaign I'm all for it and would love to help you in any way I can. If this is of interest to you please send me a PM and we'll take it from there.

Thanks again for all your ideas and suggestions and I look forward to hearing back from you soon.

Einsteinium