Some months ago, on May 2018, I started a personal challenge: try to book a band for Calella Rockfest 2018 with Steemit Upvotes. My first post was this:
In this post I tried to explain why I wanted to do this challenge and how I was going to do it.
Now I can say that I failed on the attempt. I'm far away from success but let me analyze some things that went wrong.
This was the initial point:
on the occasion of the 6th edition of the Calella Rockfest to be held on October 12 and 13, 2018 I have proposed myself a challenge: to raise $ 500 (in Steem and SBD) to cover the cost of one of the opening artists that will play at the festival. We still don’t know who it will be, we are working on hiring right now. Do you think that between now and October we will be able to raise that amount? I pose it as a challenge: can Steemit subsidize cultural events only with the votes of its members? I would like to prove that the answer is yes, in this way I am sure that if we succeed in this challenge, many other people will be encouraged to join the Steemit community to promote cultural events.
Some actions that I have thought to carry out:
To get curators voting on each post.
Put the logo of Steemit in the publicity of the festival in case of achieving the challenge.
Offer to Steemians the chance of putting a place inside the festival to promote Steemit.
Gifts of season tickets for the festival.
Festival merchandising gifts.
To demonstrate that all this has been carried out, during the festival we will ask the artist hired to promote Steemit either through a photo or a video.
First of all, when I read it again I see lot of grammar mistakes. During the first months in Steemit I didn't take care of grammar and vocabulary like I do now. I still have mistakes but have understood that it's very important being as accurate as you can be using english.
When I wrote the first post of the challenge, Steem price was at 3,27$
and Steem Dollars was at 2,60$
so it was easy to think in positive and have expectations around 7$ or 8$ per Steem/SBD. Actually SBD was at 7,55$ on June 6th. But with today's price (less than 1$) it's hard to arrive to my goal.
My purpose was to write at least one post per week. Since the first post they've passed 20 weeks. And I've written 13 posts for the challenge. Sincerely, I had lot of ideas but had no time to write them. I also ask my colleagues in the organization of the festival to also write some posts, but they only sent me a couple of them and in spanish so there was also a lot of work to translate it.
Some of the posts were curated by
(thanks guys!). I'm really proud of this one talking about how bands go to the concerts:
Also a couple of posts talking about Hospitality Riders:
https://steemit.com/music/@calisay/calella-rockfest-challenge-hiring-a-band-with-steemit-upvotes-post-1-hospitality-riders
https://steempeak.com/music/@calisay/calella-rockfest-challenge-hiring-a-band-with-steemit-upvotes-post-2-hospitality-riders-part-ii
Fresh Milk
Source: Pixabay
or even one called "for a bunch of eggs":
CONCLUSION:
I have failed miserably on my goal!!
What can I do from now on apart from flagellate me? I'm gonna use the SBD (20.46) and Steem (1.113) collected to Power Up. And when we start again with the preparation of Calella Rockfest 2019 I'll start from these earnings obtained from these posts. At this time I can't use 20.46 SBD and 1.113 Steem to do anything in the festival, so hope in one year it will be so different.
Anyway, thanks to all who have supported this challenge and remember, Calella Rockfest is going to be on October 12th and 13th. Rock on!
| Post number | SBD collected | Steem collected | USD $ value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Post#0 | 5.365 SBD | 0.00 STEEM | |
| Post#1 | 0.529 SBD | 0.00 STEEM | |
| Post#2 | 2.830 SBD | 0.00 STEEM | |
| Post#3 | 0.185 SBD | 0.00 STEEM | |
| Post#4 | 0.102 SBD | 0.00 STEEM | |
| Post#5 | 7.178 SBD | 0.00 STEEM | |
| Post#6 | 0.031 SBD | 0.00 STEEM | |
| Post#7 | 0.045 SBD | 0.023 STEEM | |
| Post#8 | 2.196 SBD | 1.090 STEEM | |
| Post#9 | 0.066 SBD | 0.000 STEEM | |
| Post#10 | 0.027 SBD | 0.000 STEEM | |
| Post#11 | 1.466 SBD | 0.000 STEEM | |
| Post#12 | 0.456 SBD | 0.000 STEEM | |
| Total | 20.476 SBD | 1.113 STEEM | 21.030 USD |
| $ until target | 478.970 USD |