What if we used our combined social media efforts all at once to create some buzz and build momentum?
As we all know, small efforts combined can make a huge difference.
Would we all benefit the more traffic our lovely platform gets, or would we suffer the more crowded it gets? For me, it’s a no-brainer, and judging by my past posts you’ve probably guessed my stance already, how I would love to watch this grow and grow…
With that in mind, here are some things that we can do that cost little effort but can be very effective if combined together in order to introduce more people to Steemit:
The Sound of Thunder
What do you guys think about launching a Thunderclap Campaign? This way, we could use a coordinated social media effort and have a single message to be shared in mass. Kind of like a flash mob effect, enabling our message to rise above the noise of our social networks.
Thunderclap is basically a crowdspeaking platform that enables people to create a campaign by creating a message, gathering “supporters” and rallying them together to share the message on a certain date, the message is then blasted out on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr…
So if we are able to sign up enough people here, we’ll be able to amplify the reach of Steemit even further, creating what Tim Ferris calls: “The Surround Sound Effect.”
Create a Facebook Event
Again, very little hassle, we could create an event and click “invite all”, either that or invite a selective group of friends based on interest or personal choice. Combine that with the number of you guys that want pull together on this one, and we have ourselves a nice party. And it’s absolutely free.
And for those who want to remain anonymous, it still doesn’t cost a thing, you don’t have to invite anyone at all if you don’t want to.
Furthermore, there are tools that allows you identify a target audience and create a database, that list can later be combined by your social media advertisement of choice depending on reach and conversion, but that's the subject of another day.
How do you guys feel about a contest?
Contests are highly popular to bring traffic and increase shareability. Harry’s grooming brand for example and many other companies (Dropbox included) owe their initial success to referral contests.
Would a referral contest for Steemit work in this situation? And by that I mean a sharing contest to bring new users who aren’t familiar with Steemit yet, where the winner gets whatever 
On that note, which contest idea would you suggest to bring traffic down here? If any of you have some cool ideas, please feel free to suggest.
Having a Strong Why
In the end, it all boils down to empowering the individual, people coming together to create buzz and build momentum, this could turn as easily into a community building adventure. Some of you creating the designs for the ads, others making creative videos, and others putting their marketing skills on display…
All contributing in something great while doing what they’re passionate about.
And who knows, maybe after that you’ll meet interesting people with skills that are complementary to yours and with whom you could work together to bring you own personal projects into fruition as well.
Here's another thought, maybe even have our own little contest? Best ad, best design, best tag line..etc.
And since we’re in the subject, you can introduce yourselves right here for that matter, what talents do you have or what expertise do you possess? What are your interests?
For Steem we Team
If we do this and we manage to successfully create an exceptional campaign, not only it would be substantially beneficial to the community as whole, but at an individual level as well, I suspect many collaborations will be emerge from this as a consequence.
As far as I see, it would be a win-win to all parties involved..
Should we come together and create a hell of a momentum this summer? What do you guys think?
Or even better, what other ideas do you have in mind?
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