The tendency in many business is as you have described. It only pays if you reach a very large critical mass and you still need to get growing because at any moment competition may ramp-up their investment and catch up with your clients. They key here is to make this viral in so much as possible, that is, to use your clients to get new people joining - that allows cheap exponential growth.
Advertising and marketing is a different domain while gambling and money dealing is a different thing.
Those who are in finance are well aware marketing is not their cup of tea. So better have a professional who can take care of it. Hiring a marketing manager and guiding them a bit would be a great help.
If he is going to promote it here in the forum I think it is just a waste of resources to hire a marketing manager where he can ask a reputable manager to handle the promotion he can do here in the forum or are you referring to the manager here are the marketing manager? If you are referring to the managers here I think that's a good idea since they are more expert and more experience in marketing here.
Marketing manager could be the bounty manager in the forum, as long as the member is reputable as has already run lots of successful projects in the past, I think it's good to hire that kind of manager. Advertising or marketing is always a big part of the business, a casino owner has to spend but expect a good return because they hire a reputable manager.
As it should be on which they should consider out on having some exposure into this forum considering that it has the most or biggest traffic in terms of crypto which it would be understandable
that you would really be considering on having some marketing on this place.As a business owner then you would really be taking priorities but you should really bare that on mind that
even hiring the most reputable manager doesnt really mean that it would be a success of your project or platform because we know that there are several factors which are really needed
overall for you to consider also.