MedgeFTL
New member
Hi! This is my first post. I would like some feedback on my proposal, if you would be so kind. It is in italics. It is for 3 months for 50 DASH total (This number will change depending on the value of DASH on the day I enter the proposal, but the package is $11,830 for the quarter).
Continuation funding – Dash Radio Advertising, 170+ stations.
For those that have been on here a while you may remember my failed attempt (but not by much) at getting funding for radio advertising. The failure was due to my ignorance around the history of long term commitments on this board, but the kind folks at on the Core Development Team, specifically Daniel Diaz, expedited things by signing a deal with Free Talk Live and saving us all the trouble of watching me flounder in here
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I spoke with Ryan Taylor of the Core Team yesterday and he informed me that they are sorry but the Core Team is hiring a big advertising agency and they didn’t want to continue the advertising agreement because of the complication of bringing existing agreements to the table with the new agency, but that I should come to you fine folks and that you would likely fund me directly. Ryan committed to fund us until the next funding cycle begins here.
Free Talk Live is a nationally syndicated libertarian radio program on 170+ radio stations across the US. These are real FCC licensed radio stations. We also have more than 15 million downloads on our podcast. We are credited by Roger Ver, Gavin Andresen and Charlie Schrem as helping to give Bitcoin the initial boost it needed to get widespread adoption. We love Dash and since we are in New Hampshire, we actually get to use it. I understand that Dash is a superior tech to Bitcoin and prefer to use it over Bitcoin because of the lower fees. The Activist community here in New Hampshire has really embraced Dash.
Currently, we have are airing 3 :30 second recorded radio ads and doing one Live Read per evening. My strategy with the campaign was to use the scripts that were approved by the Core team, but to create a bunch of the same ads with different voices. This, I feel, will help function as a sort of “Word of Mouth” campaign. Listeners hear the same message repeated by many different people. We use the Live Read as an opportunity to talk about new developments in Dash; Dashforcenews.com has been invaluable for this. We also have several banners up on freetalklive.com and speak positively about Dash when the opportunity arises on air.
The price of this campaign in USDs is $11830 and that is 45 Dash at the time that I enter this, plus the 5 Dash for the fee. If the value of Dash plummets, I will bear that risk. If the value of Dash goes up against the USD sufficiently to cover an extra month, I will bonus the month of ads. If it sky rockets, yeah me, but you will still see me in 4 months.
Ads that contain audio are generally considered to be branding ads. Branding is different that direct response, but arguably more powerful. If I ask you the name of the best brand of tires, you likely have an opinion, not because you are an expert in rubber, but because someone has branded that in your mind. Free Talk Live can help Dash become branded as Digital Cash in people's minds too. This won't be a short, easy or fast project, but Dash is better tech than Bitcoin, even if BTC has first mover advantage and name recognition. I have said this many times on the air. Other than one Monero guy trolling Joel Valenzuela when we had him as a co-host, the audience seems as happy with Dash as we are.
We love Dash and we don’t just take any advertiser on Free Talk Live. We have to believe in the product to do a Live Read. I hope you will vote to continue the ads and any comments you have are welcome. I am putting this in for 3 months of funding, but I must advise you that branding advertising is a long term endeavor. We will continue to support Dash, whatever your vote, but this will give us the opportunity to continue to discuss it nightly.
If you wish to research the previous campaign proposal, prior to the Core Team picking up the proposal, here it is: https://www.dash.org/forum/members/medgeftl.11200/#postings
https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/let-the-show-that-launched-bitcoin-work-for-dash.13549/
[I will link to the audio of both Live Read ads and recorded ads when I do this for real]
Continuation funding – Dash Radio Advertising, 170+ stations.
For those that have been on here a while you may remember my failed attempt (but not by much) at getting funding for radio advertising. The failure was due to my ignorance around the history of long term commitments on this board, but the kind folks at on the Core Development Team, specifically Daniel Diaz, expedited things by signing a deal with Free Talk Live and saving us all the trouble of watching me flounder in here
.I spoke with Ryan Taylor of the Core Team yesterday and he informed me that they are sorry but the Core Team is hiring a big advertising agency and they didn’t want to continue the advertising agreement because of the complication of bringing existing agreements to the table with the new agency, but that I should come to you fine folks and that you would likely fund me directly. Ryan committed to fund us until the next funding cycle begins here.
Free Talk Live is a nationally syndicated libertarian radio program on 170+ radio stations across the US. These are real FCC licensed radio stations. We also have more than 15 million downloads on our podcast. We are credited by Roger Ver, Gavin Andresen and Charlie Schrem as helping to give Bitcoin the initial boost it needed to get widespread adoption. We love Dash and since we are in New Hampshire, we actually get to use it. I understand that Dash is a superior tech to Bitcoin and prefer to use it over Bitcoin because of the lower fees. The Activist community here in New Hampshire has really embraced Dash.
Currently, we have are airing 3 :30 second recorded radio ads and doing one Live Read per evening. My strategy with the campaign was to use the scripts that were approved by the Core team, but to create a bunch of the same ads with different voices. This, I feel, will help function as a sort of “Word of Mouth” campaign. Listeners hear the same message repeated by many different people. We use the Live Read as an opportunity to talk about new developments in Dash; Dashforcenews.com has been invaluable for this. We also have several banners up on freetalklive.com and speak positively about Dash when the opportunity arises on air.
The price of this campaign in USDs is $11830 and that is 45 Dash at the time that I enter this, plus the 5 Dash for the fee. If the value of Dash plummets, I will bear that risk. If the value of Dash goes up against the USD sufficiently to cover an extra month, I will bonus the month of ads. If it sky rockets, yeah me, but you will still see me in 4 months
. Ads that contain audio are generally considered to be branding ads. Branding is different that direct response, but arguably more powerful. If I ask you the name of the best brand of tires, you likely have an opinion, not because you are an expert in rubber, but because someone has branded that in your mind. Free Talk Live can help Dash become branded as Digital Cash in people's minds too. This won't be a short, easy or fast project, but Dash is better tech than Bitcoin, even if BTC has first mover advantage and name recognition. I have said this many times on the air. Other than one Monero guy trolling Joel Valenzuela when we had him as a co-host, the audience seems as happy with Dash as we are.
We love Dash and we don’t just take any advertiser on Free Talk Live. We have to believe in the product to do a Live Read. I hope you will vote to continue the ads and any comments you have are welcome. I am putting this in for 3 months of funding, but I must advise you that branding advertising is a long term endeavor. We will continue to support Dash, whatever your vote, but this will give us the opportunity to continue to discuss it nightly.
If you wish to research the previous campaign proposal, prior to the Core Team picking up the proposal, here it is: https://www.dash.org/forum/members/medgeftl.11200/#postings
https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/let-the-show-that-launched-bitcoin-work-for-dash.13549/
[I will link to the audio of both Live Read ads and recorded ads when I do this for real]
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