We are bound by nothing except belief. - Ernest Holmes
Well I believe that any community or team needs to grow organically and at a healthy pace. Quantity and quality are mutually exclusive in this context.
We need to focus on quality!
That's why I'm completely against vote trading services on steemit. I'm totally convinced that excessive vote buying will considerably harm the eco-system of this network and impeed growth. These artificial accelerators won't lead to anything but an instable and not reliable system. They downgrade any existing quality standard on this platform.
Yet, being aware of the difficulties new users face in attracting attention, I decided to start a different initiative. A couple of months ago and under the account of @steemaniacs, I started to offer personal coachings to newbies aiming to help them to improve their blogging success on steemit. That was a lot of fun and also had a great impact!
Now this idea is reborn through the newly created account @talentfactory.
Why the new account? The name is supposed to clearly communicate the intentions - here: talent fostering. 'Steemaniacs' was too generic and could have meant a lot of things. The Talent Factory is undoubtedly created to bring new talents on the steemit street.
So the two big differences between mercenary vote trading services and the @talentfactory are the following ones:
- The Talent Factory offers support to newbies for free and
- The Talent Factory helps new users and their steemit accounts to grow organically through coachings, contests and tutorials - which will be much more efficient and contributive (for both the individual user AND the whole community) than vote buying in the long run.
While trade services exclusively focus on THEIR benefits, @talentfactory aims to support OTHERS and - like that - strengthen the whole network.
As the name implies, I'd love to cooperate with the #untalented project hosted by @steemgigs / @surpassinggoogle. It would be amazing to bundle forces here and strengthen the idea of 'We are genious!'
Now this 'organic growth model' needs an identity.
Get ready and unleash your creativity, steemians!
Picture kindly provided by pixabay.com.
Who wants to give The Talent Factory a face?
The account @talentfactory is as fresh as a hot cake, it was set up TODAY at 3pm UTC.
Thanks to https://anon.steem.network a new steemit account can be easily generated in only 1 minute. I exchanged some SBD for Steem at the internal market (which is generally a good deal being SBD prices high right now) and then bought the new account transferring 10 SBD to @anonsteem.
Here it is:
The account @talentfactory needs an identity!
It's time to really help small accounts to grow here instead of trying to make quick money pretending to boost them. The only ones that benefit from vote buying are the ones that sell these votes!
In the current environment where the most powerful tool we have - our voice (vote) - constantly looses its credibility, I feel the urgent need to set up the @talentfactory and provide new users with solid blogging tips and recommendations.
Before starting with the coachings again, I want to give this place a new, shiny, fresh and powerful look.
Besides a new logo, the account also needs a cool banner! As you can see on the screeshot above: currently there is none. It's all black.
Strong beliefs need a strong appearance!
The rules of the game
- The creation of the logo needs to include the name The Talent Factory.
- There are no specific rules regarding coloring, font style or design in general. EDIT: However, it would be cool to have the idea of a real factory (in sense of a building) included.
- A link to @surfermarly's logo should be rather avoided. This is a project that will be completely independent, so the logo should have its own personality.
- The logo needs to be provided as a vector graphic, enabling its scalability. The banner needs to be submitted in PNG format, having a size of 2,000 x 462 px and a solutioin of 72 dpi. You can download the example I copied at the end of this list and use it as template.
- The logo and the banner need to be a 100% original creation, NOT including any third party elements (and related copyrights).
- All proposals need to be submitted by publishing them in the comment section of THIS article. If you want to do a separated blog post to promote your entry, do it! But don't forget to drop the logo here anyways. We need them all present on one page!
- Of course, other users can upvote the submissions then. However the logo that receives the most upvotes doesn't need to be necessarily chosen as winning creation.
- If the most popular logo (most number of upvotes from other users, independently from the rewards) wasn't the winning logo, I would reward it with 50SBD. Then the winning logo would receive 150 SBD and the most popular logo 50 SBD. If the winning logo was the most popular, too, the creator would receive the full reward of 200 SBD. So go get your friends voting for you! ๐
- All proposals have to be submitted until Thursday 30th of November 2017.
- The winner(s) will be announced and paid on Friday 1st of December 2017.
- Once elected the winner, the creator assigns and transfers the full right of use to @surfermarly and @talentfactory.
- In the unexpected event of not receiving any proposals that mirror the idea of the project, I reserve my right to not reward any of the participants. Submissions need to meet a professional standard as well as ALL of the above mentioned general rules.
EDIT (23th of November): There must be at least 5 entries / submissions (from 5 different users) to make this a valid competition. Otherwise the contest will be cancelled.
Here's a plane template for your banner:
Are you ready to win these $200 SBD and support a real minnow project?!
I'm looking forward to your input!
Have a great day everybody.
Best,
Marly -
PS: If you are new to steemit and want to learn more about personal coachings that will help you to improve your doings as a blogger, sign up to @talentfactory and stay tuned for their announcements.
Thanks for your valuable time!
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Go Marly Go!!! <3
Haha, I will! Big hugs, Brandon!!! ๐
I totally agree that organic growth on Steemit is the best approach and don't support vote buying. This initiative will be very helpful to new Steemians and you have a new follower. Will be keeping an eye on this project and perhaps contribute or send people your way. Thanks for starting this.
Excellent! Your support is much appreciated, and I hope to not disappoint you :-)
Once the strategy is defined and the logo created, I'll publish and introduction of the new account, informing about the concrete plans.
What I can promise already is that everything will be focussed on talent research and making quality a priority on steemit again. To me, that's the only way to go.
Have a great day, @luzcypher! :-)
Great contest and you're always surprising me with new beneficial, creative ideas that help others. Thank you for all you do and as always I enjoyed.
Thanks for your lovely words, @stillwater!
When I joined steemit in July 2016 I was amazed by the community spirit. I've been giving so much during the past 1.5 years (experiences, knowledge, friendship) that it's always a good idea to me to give something back. Within the jungle of quick money makers to me that's the only way...
Great initiative @surfermarly to support the minnows by also keeping the quality! Good luck with this - fully support you no matter I have a different opinion on the vote buying as long as we have the behind the curtain circles buying a bigger problem here :-).
Go and get your logo and nail the community. Will that be a soon SMT as well? RESTEEMED
Thank you, Uwe!
As long as certain things don't change here, I won't invest anything in Steem (including SMT). I'm an oldschool content creator that believes in the power of quality. Vote buying shit is not what I'm supposed to finance.
Happy evening :-)
Hey Marly,
Best wishes with this new venture. :D
- @creatr
๐๐๐
Thanks my friend!!! :-*
You know waves are OK but I have a cold (first one in 4 years) so I need some new challenges ;-D
Oh, no!
You are no doubt burning the candle at both ends...
Also, dear, you need to keep some silver in your system! Take some colloidal silver every day. ;)
Hugs, and get better really soon, OK? <3
You mean I shouldn't give away so much money? :-)
Hahahahaha!
NO! Not at all.
I mean pure, fine silver ions in your body for your health... ;)
It's like the vitamin nobody knows they need... :D But we all need it!
LOL!!! ๐ ๐ ๐
That's been the best confusion ever, haha!
I thought you were talking about Steem (= silver), telling me to be more economical.
Silver ions... now that's interesting! Every time I chat with you I learn something great. Thank you :-*
You're very welcome, my dear.
If, after reading about colloidal silver, you should have any questions, now you know who to ask... ;)
here is my entry :)
Cool!!! I like it :-)
It would be even nicer if there were three smoke clouds - imitating the three lines of the Steem (old steemit) logo. Would you mind adding one more?
Did you do that as a vector graphic?
glad you like it :) .. no problem, I can add one more.. and maybe colored would be better.. I cant decide, what do you think?
yes, its made in Corel.
The banner doesn't have the correct size. Currently it would look like that:
Could you provide the banner with the necessary dimensions?
oh sorry, I used the size of displayed image.. here it is...
Thank you!
Hi @surfermarl, this is my entry. i hope have a time.. :)
LOGO
COVER
NICE!!! It's rather a ship than a factory, huh? :-) Cool shape, and I like that you used the steemit colours.
I'm happy you made it :-)
yeah... that u identity right. 3 in 1 . :)
here my entry.. https://steemit.com/steemgigs/@podanrj/my-participation-in-the-surfermarly-logo-contest
Nice initiative and hope it gets to the position to that !
You are indeed doing a GJ!
as for the Logo best of luck ,hope you get what you want :)
What is a GJ? Seems to be something positive...? :-))
Thanks for your encouragement! We'll start soon with he project.
Of course .It stands for GOOD JOB :)
Hi @surfermarly, here's my entry. I went with a colorful logo and design to highlight and celebrate the talents. The logo is a lightbulb which represents creativity and inspiration.
Oh, that's a very creative version! I'd actually never had the idea to put a factory into a bulb :-)
Thanks for your input, I like tht coloring of the banner!
Make your friends vote for your submission.
A lot of great submissions. Good luck with picking your favorite!
Holy smokes this is so dope. Love the colors and that bright yellow grabs the attention nicely. Love the concept
Thank you sir!
You're welcome buddy. Love the artistic skills
Hello, nice to meet you. I have decided to support your initiative and I have created some indeas for you. I think it's great and I want to see his evolution in this future, I'm a lover of the contests so I may have exaggerated a bit, I hope you like it. I also leave my post to give you a look, I think I'm one of those who need @talentfactory as support to be noticed within the community.
https://steemit.com/steemgigs/@edxserverus/logo-and-banner-proposal-for-talentfactory-contest-sponsored-by-surfermarly
Nice design.
Thanks, i see your design too, its very creative good luck.
Thanks for your dedicated time and creativity!!!
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This is my ticket!
It is all original m drawn and hand painted all in Adobe Illustrator.
Everything is vector ...
in a while I will upload the banner
Looking goooood!
I'd love to see a version with the text only - just "The Talent Factory Steemit" (black & white).
Could you upload that, too?
ok some variations ... could be applied with the logo ...
thankss so much & blessings
@surfermarly have a complaint about the contest, the user @ponjar in an unfair way came to participate in this contest with a last minute design and automatically gets 17 votes. it seems disloyal to me and irepect to the rest of the contestants who dedicate hours of work to our designs. Obviously he was not looking to win, only get the reward of the second place, my design was the most popular so far, I am already at a clear disadvantage but I do not want to win or participate because I feel disappointed about the practice of this type of tricks within the community.
Look here : https://steemit.com/steemgigs/@podanrj/my-participation-in-the-surfermarly-logo-contest
Iam made design in about the idea and concept. Not blingยฒ in my desing. And ia wan to win this competition with my design. About vote.? Iam take link in my community, si iam can get the vote. So, what wrong with you. Are you designer. ?
I give the reason to @edxserverus, I won the competition and it seems unfair that you get the second place. The blockchain says that you received the votes in a single hour. If it had been me, I would be furious. I think it's fair that I send part of my profit because its design is great. in your blog it says "Do What Is Right, Not What Is Easy". it was easy for you to do something wrong
This is what u can do in community, you can tell your frinds to upvote you. Cc @surfermarly. Tell them please
sorry but you are a great designer,
You should not do that kind of game, @edxserverus at this moment I'm sending you 30SBD, the rest I'll dedicate to doing a little charity, money is not everything in life.
Righ, working on any intructions. You can learn more about community. That can helps u. For this moment, iam can go to flag you are. Because you go in wrong place to get you reason to kill me. But, it is fine, because you newcomer in this community like me. Thank u blue . thank u fdx. This is not my wrong story
Wow, congratulations for winning, you sent me 50 sbd. I do not know if it was a mistake but I'm going to give it back to you as it is for charity, it's just another contest. I wish you many successes in the future, greetings.
I'll be looking for the winner and finalists after the 30th! It is cool to scroll down and see all the great ideas... Yay!
My entry for your contest dear.
My post, your support will be great ;)
https://steemit.com/art/@blueberryfoxy/my-first-contest-in-steemit-thanks-surfermarly-for-the-opportunity
I commented on your article :-)
@blueberryfox I have one more wish :-)
Do you think you could do this banner with a smaller "THE TALENT FACTORY" logo on the right hand side like I did it down here?
I think then it would be perfect! :-)
Something like that?
Yeah! If the text "the talent factory" had the very same height as the smaller chimneys to the left (like I did it in my example), it would be perfect.
Sorry for being so picky :-)
last minute design adjust for logo account idea
the original size, of the banner that you provided
It's perfect!
https://steemit.com/@talentfactory
Congratulations, you've just won the contest :-)
150 SBD have been transfered to your account.
Thanks a lot, you are fantastic. Tell me how i can send you the vectorized design.
i change the size an looks wrong, i adjust again up
Awesome! Now it's perfect.
Winners will be announced tomorrow. Stay tuned :-)
ok, I will check this out and see what I can come up with. I am their 1st follower :) Hang Loose
Cool! I've just seen that :-) Thanks for the follow!!
Looking forward to your submission.
I am making Steemit Bingo Cards to help get exposure for the various projects and people associated with Steemit (with benefits going to a Charity or deserving cause). I posted an example on my wall with the 1st Charity being Papillon Charity. Let me know if you would be interested in developing one for Talent Factory (we could feature the new users) or your Dreams of the Ocean Project. I have many ideas of how we can use these cards to involve many people on Steemit and help get exposure for quality Steemit members as well as help a cause along the way.
That sounds great! Where can I read more about it? In your own account?
@dreamsoftheocean is the charity account here. @talentfactory will be rather interested in delegated power (in order to upvote new users) than real donations.
here's the link for the initial "prototype" https://steemit.com/games/@steveconnor/steemit-bingo
So the idea is to have a set of bingo cards that represent different projects on steemit, right? How would the game be played then? Supposing there was a charity card representing my project @dreamsoftheocean, how could I get involved in the game?
also, I made a rap about Steemit as well as mention paying for votes ( I am with you on not paying for votes). Let me know what you think https://steemit.com/dtube/@steveconnor/8k8n35ig
The video doesn't load which is surely due to my lame internet connection. That's probably the only disadvantage of living on an island :-)
I will delegate 5 Steem Power to the cause, let me know how
Awesome! I have no idea how SP can be delegate (you defininitely can't do it on steemit but need another app), but I'll find that out.
Thanks for the links. I will read them today (after work) :-)
maybe our friends at Utopian can figure a way out
@steveconnor please notice that I've added some information regarding the style of the logo above in the description of 'the rules':
It'd be cool to have an outline of a fabric or something like that.
ok, got it
Are you going to participate in the end?
I have to admit that this slipped my mind. I only had a few drawings started and then I got sidetracked. I am sorry. perhaps I can still brainstorm with you on this as it develops. I am also interested in helping to animate some of the graphics as well. Vector Logos is not my best strength.
Just followed and upvoted I will give the logo design and banner a go ๐๐ผ
Cool! Looking forward :-)
@devosdevosi please notice that I've added some information regarding the style of the logo above in the description of 'the rules':
It'd be cool to have an outline of a fabric or something like that.
Ok cool!!!!!
Please me vote comment
How did you like the article?
Is that your submission?
Well dear when you needed an accountant and an auditor i am here for help, unfortunatlely about a Graphic Designer it is an diferent way for my knowledge.
I like your iniciative @talentfactory for promote the talent here in steemit,
By the way remember in agricultural topics it is my pasion and have a little knowledge too.
Best regard. @galberto
Thanks, @galberto! This time we need some graphic designers :-)
:)
Interesting post. I invite you to visit my blog.
I invite you to read content :-)
It is very just what you are raising the community, so that we are just beginning in this world can be taken into account by our talent and not by a simple business. Grateful to be able to read articles of this magnitude. Interesting post.
Up voted and resteemed. I'd like to see a fierce creative wave ๐. Much luck to everyone๐๐
Thanks! I'd like to see that, too :-)
my idea for the logo
This is a png file, but I have also the svg file (but I donยดt know how to uplod it)
Thanks for your submission :-)
I made this combinations so far
Thanks for your efforts!!!
That would be my favourite one:
Right now there are not enough participants in the contest. Let's see if some more decide on being creative.
Have a great day!
Hello, my entry:
https://steemit.com/steemgigs/@darlenys01/logo-of-talentfactory-for-the-surfermarly-contest
Design 1
Design 2
Design 3
Thanks for being creative and taking the time to participate in this contest!!!
when it ends?
I would like to participate..
blessings
thankss
Today.
ok thankss .. i will do it ...
Wowwow. interesting, no one mentions me. I lost my chance to contribute.
It ends tomorrow, you still have 24 hours to participate :-)
hopefully contribute. a short time that is hard to think.
Awesome project, and a good and reasonable reawdr for a well made logo!
.Wow ... it's amazing.
Hallo @surfermarly. Can have permission to this design. I wan put in my portofolio.
Great work UPVOTED, Help spread the steem take a look at my submission for todays challenge I thought you might enjoy!
https://steemit.com/colorchallenge/@adriansky/color-challenge-or-signs-of-winter-in-san-francisco