This was just a quick idea that might help bring in new users. What if we could send steem or an account with steem in it to a friend via email. They can open the link, be directed to the site, sign up and get their steem. We could even have the option to make an account and put steem in it and then gift that to someone via email. It can be a new way to get users in the site as they would only have to follow the link and instructions to get started. And the steem can sit in an account that can be retrieved by the users if the person does not accept the email.
It can say something like so and so sent you 5 steem ($8), click the link to claim it. It might have to be more personal with a message that people can type themselves so that it does not look like spam. If we can get the steem back that people do not claim then maybe we can start email campaigns that will only cost something when people actually sign in. We can even make something like you need to post five times before you can claim it.
Just a thought, what do you think?
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