We don't want people coming here to get easy money. Our main issue is we're still seen as a "make money online from home" scam and that's why we're not taken seriously.
The best thing about Hive isn't making a few bucks but having somewhere secure to store your content if you're a content creator and somewhere to build on if you are a developer. Most blockchain-based ecosystem aren't accessible to developers because opportunity is tightly controlled by a centralized group. And if they are, there is no way of knowing whether the opportunity will be unequal, whether a huge investment will be required, if they'd get screwed over by a founder, or if they wake up to an exit scam. Hive solves all of these through real decentralization.
We already have marketing but we are global and marketing platforms/solutions are not. If we get our press releases put out in the States they won't be picked up in Nigeria. What that directly translates to is all marketing efforts being subjectively viewed.
Other than that line about the monetization, everything looks good.
So let's get to the actual part of this where the barrier to actioning your plan lies: how are we supposed to get those 'credibility badges'?
Also, we're not responsible for 4 years of Ned manipulating and sabotaging. We are responsible for the 1 year we had to set things straight and start from ground zero.