RE: Steem Onboarding SPS | Proposal

[dmitrydao]

Hey guys. I think it's an awesome initiative to build educational content around Steem. It should definitely help.

With regards to a website, I'm not really sure you have to build everything from scratch. There are awesome tools that will allow you to have an online academy and sets of videos on 15 languages, including checkout, optin and landing pages. The tool is called Kajabi, it's super simply and super awesome. I think it can be a lot more scalable for your business needs because eventually we can create dedicated marketing campaigns to truly reach masses.

Of course not everybody will agreed to use an external tool but sometimes it's a smarter idea to use what already out there.

Actually, in the beginning I wouldn't even build a website, instead I would have a YouTube + 3Speak channels and spend all of the budget on influencers that can help you to teach the fresh and new audience.

In any case, this sounds like an awesome thing and I would like to see it happen.
Quick tips:

• Shorten the funding time for 3 months, usually people won't approve proposals that last more than 1 quarter.
• Can you add a hashtag sps-draft? I want to add drafts to Steemproposals.com in upcoming days so that people can view proposals and give feedback before a proposal goes live.
• Make sure to add some form of proof of work (weekly posts for instance) to let people know the progress you have.
• Also I would suggest to have milestones, small steps to achieve a big goal. This can also help to have a con Austen proof of work posts or something like that.

Comments

[jarvie]

Proposals haven't been around for long enough to know what people "will usually do" I think saying so right now is a lot of projecting ... that was the issue I had with the presentation by @howo and a bit of what @anyx mentioned. We dont have enough data to know what people will usually do. And I think maybe you guys are saying what the active whales will usually do. Personally we haven't seen them act enough to get a good analysis and they haven't written a post yet either. I get the sense they just vote for people they trust and tools they personally use.

But nonetheless some good suggestions

[dmitrydao]

Make total sense. My hope is that we all will learn how to utilize this tool in the right way to make Steem great again. The lack of communication is a big issue but it's our job to make sure it is improved to deliver the best results for Steem community.

[anomadsoul]

Hey Dimitry, thanks for the long comment, I'll adress each point in the same order:

The reason we have a website is to address the recurrent problem/issue/complain from users that there is not a single website that explains what is steem and that a newbie can just go and learn everything without having to jump from website to website and from dapp to dapp, so apart from our youtube channel which we will focus in spreading, the website serves as a "landing page" for anyone looking to learn everything there is to learn from the steem ecosystem.

Thanks for the tip about the online academy, we will look into that as it is definitely something we are looking for in the future (perhaps as a phase 2 or 3 of the project).

• Regarding the time, we're stretching it like that because even though the budget is 15k SBD, we have a team of almost 20 people, so that spread between them depending on their tasks, is not enough to have them working full time, but more of a side gig. That being mentioned, the budget allows us to set deadlined for the team but it doesn't allow us to put pressure on said deadlines. One video a week (writing the script, translations to ten languages, recording from ten different people with different shcedules, editing by one editor, and web update) sounds like something achievable considering the budget. That's the reason we're spreading that into 5 months, so we can have 22-24 more vids up and running by then and actually consider steemonboarding.com a working website and not a work in constant progress. But yes, we'll consider doing the funding in batches, perhaps the community will get behind funding that if it ends up being in phases.

Hashtag added :)

Regarding the proof of work, that's exactly why we are committing to make a weekly update post with what we achieved during the week.

Thanks about the milestone section, will definitely add that up.

Great comment, thanks for the feedback!

[fredrikaa]

Actually, in the beginning I wouldn't even build a website, instead I would have a YouTube + 3Speak channels and spend all of the budget on influencers that can help you to teach the fresh and new audience.

This. Do an mvp first.

[steemonboarding]

We already have a YouTube channel with over 100 videos and are working on the threespeak one. The website will eat no more than 10% of the total budget btw.