The best marketing tool that we could have is token price. The higher that is, the more people that will look into the project. I've been talking for a long time about an ad buyback campaign using hive.blog as it is a community front end and run by your team as far as I know.
One successful thing that the steemit team managed before the mess was to create revenue using ads to halt selling. If we could do it to create buying pressure it would be a huge advertisement with monthly buys.
In the long term hive could be a success through its users, dapps, use case and investment opportunities but to get into that position there needs to by something to prop up the price now. Otherwise it will continue to drop slowly due to our smaller community since the fork and we will have a talent drain in users and Devs.
High price equals high activity. This brings in more people which in turns increases demand for the token. Which in turn increases the price. The frame work was already built once and I think it was andrarchy that was highly involved and no doubt would give some advise to male it an easier prospect.
Imo it would be great to see some discreet ads and use that to add value back to the token.
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