You may have heard that Homesteaders Co-op is in the running to win 20k delegation in a contest put on by Hive account@theycallmedan. We teamed up with Hive account@naturalmedicine to make it this far and both communities will receive 1k delegation for 1 year. Now Hive account@riverflows and Hive account@sagescrub have decided to pool our communities and join forces to vote for Homesteaders Co-op in the 20k contest.

We realize that if one of our communities receives good fortune, both of our communities will benefit! That's how we roll!

Challenge Rules

Vote for Homesteaders Co-op in the dPoll. Here is the link to the poll
Create a steem post encouraging folks to vote for Hive account@homesteaderscoop in the dPoll, including the above link
Include what qualities you appreciate the most about the Homesteaders Co-op community and marketplace
Re-steem this post
Challenge ends February 27, 2019 at 3pm PST

I reserve the right to disqualify any entry if I feel that they put little to no effort into #3 above.

Prizes

20 steem will be divided up between participants equally
Participants will receive an upvote from Hive account@homesteaderscoop community account

That's it! What? No really... actually keep reading and I will reveal the real secret to winning this challenge for yourself and for our community:

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This challenge is not about winning 20,000 delegations for our community account.

If we did win the 20k delegation it would be really nice. It would add over $0.40 to our vote power which is pretty significant. But that's not the real reason for this challenge!

This competition for 20k delegation is the perfect medium for getting Homesteaders Co-op in front of steemians that haven't heard about it before.

Because we are a new marketplace, we need all the help we can get to spread the word! We are already getting out there in front of new people. We are getting new followers. More people are interested in what we are doing!

That's great! Let's keep that ball rolling!

Despite being a brand new community and a new marketplace we are making a great first impression. We are capturing attention. Our vendors are making sales and they are keeping 100% of the proceeds.

Here are some of the comments that we received from people that voted from us in the dPoll:

Business on the blockchain. Nuff said.

Hive account@enginewitty

Love how these guys are giving us a means to trade/barter steem for real-world products with an ethical outlook.

Hive account@digitaldan

Amazing “real life” group of people that are in particular offering hand made and home grown products for crypto, and trading amongst themselves for crypto. Groups that promote crypto exchange deserve all the help they can get as their work strengthens the blockchain popularity. Their encouragement amongst #steemians to use crypto instead of $ to purchase products is very important for the success of #steem.

Hive account@enjoycompany

Hive account@homesteaderscoop will be supporting those whom are producing quality sustainable products for others to purchase in Steem and represents a better path toward an ethical future and connecting/supporting folks taking the actions to create a new reality.

Hive account@makinstuff

So you see...

People that know about Homesteaders Co-op love what we stand for... if you are reading this you are one of them. And so I call on you for your help.

This challenge is all about reaching a wider audience for our Homesteaders Co-op. The growth and success of our co-op will benefit our sustainability minded communities here on steem.

This challenge is an opportunity for our community to learn how to engage in grassroots marketing... which is exactly what Homesteaders Co-op needs. We don't need big marketing budgets if we can market our Co-op as a community.