Every bit of reward that goes into this post is going to help minnows. Please read for an intro to the project.
The other night I announced that Minnow Mentor was launching, and had a great response from a number of people who were all up for being mentored. I am pleased that I am getting through taking a good look at those who have already asked for support, and just wanted to give you the latest.
This account @minnowmentor has been set up by @anarcotech, and will be a central place which will host the @minnowmentor service. Please do have a good look at what this service is all about below.
IMPORTANT NOTE
@minnowmentor will start as a project in the week commencing 28th August 2017 and not before. Although I will be commenting on posts before then, it is not until after the 28th August that we will start properly.
@minnowmentor is a bit different from some other projects, mainly because it's not about making money for the people running it. This is a purely altruistic project. It will provide something which is:
Purely for the benefit of the community
Minnowmentor will be a central account for mentoring, so I can keep my own blog for my other projects. @minnowmentor will be a completely transparent project, designed solely for helping minnows develop. Neither myself, nor anyone else will make financial gain from @minnowmentor unless they either put their time in as an active mentor, or help the project by delegating Steem Power.
Free Service open to all minnows
This service will cost minnows absolutely nothing. We are doing this because we genuinely want to help, and because if we create more dolphins (and hopefully whales) it will only benefit the entire community, and improve the quality of posts.
@minnowmentor will be absolutely FREE for new members who have a reputation under 50 AND who have been steeming for under 4 months.
If your reputation is 50+, or you have been here for over 4 months, you are invited to join the programme too, but we ask for a Steem Donation which will be immediately powered up to provide bigger curation rewards. It will be up to the individual to decide how much they wish to donate, and there will be no minimum amount, but we would like people to value the service appropriately.
Earnings to benefit the community
100% of the Curation and Post Earnings from Minnowmentor will be shared with those who get involved for their time. This is NOT about trying to get one individual a load of earnings. It's purely to support the community. We will be asking for witnesses and whales to continue to look at us, and to be transparent about what we are doing.
50% of all earnings will be pumped into Steem Power to assist with the growth of @minnowmentor. The SP minnowmentor earns will purely be used to upvote our minnows posts.
25% of all earnings will be shared amongst the mentors as a thank you for their involvement.
25% of all earnings will be given to those who delegate SP to help the project develop.
Real mentors (not bots) looking at our minnows posts and giving advice.
Mentors will all be vetted, and will all have a reputation of at least 50+ and SP of over 1000. They should also have registered accounts over 3 months old and have been involved in at least one area of promotion/development/marketing/support or something else connected with growing Steemit.
A powerful learning environment
There's a lot to learn when it comes to Steemit. To go from newbie to advanced with some of the cool things you can do on Steemit takes time and effort. Minnowmentor will be publishing a full course of learning material which will support minnows, especially more non-technical ones. This will cover as far as possible every aspect of the Steemit community, including some of the more advanced stuff.
Rewarding promising minnows
We all know minnows are perfectly capable of producing great quality content. @minnowmentor intends to reward minnows who are showing promise, and acting upon the feedback of their mentor to improve even further. We want to be able to help our minnows smile.
Investment opportunity for supporters
This project will be really successful if we have supporters. This means we need great mentors to help curate and provide feedback on our minnows.
We also want to take in a large (and growing amount) of delegated SP which will earn interest over time from the curation and posting rewards that the @minnowmentor account makes.
Mentors will also share in the rewards that the @minnowmentor account earns through posts and curation.
How it will work - basic guide
Every few days (when there are mentors available) @minnowmentor will make a "CASTING THE NET" post. In this post, we will be clear about the number of minnows we can mentor right now. This will be based purely on how many mentors we have available, and the time they can commit.
Minnows will make a request in the comments using the tag mentorme
Once the minnow slots are filled for the next few days, the minnows will be assigned to their mentors.
The mentors will then look at multiple aspects of the minnows feeds, with the intention of providing the very best feedback possible to help the minnows grow.
A full guide will be released soon.
HOW TO ASSIST @minnowmentor
So, no man is an island, and I will need help with this. As I'm already involved with the promo-uk team, there may well be some natural support from this group of exceptional Steemers.
But ideally what we need now is mentors, and sponsors to kick us off.
If you want to be a mentor, or If you think you can help by delegating SP, or some other way then Please join the discord channel using the following link: https://discord.gg/KHnZNf9 and let me know you are interested in being a mentor. Let's talk.
IF YOU ARE LOOKING TO BE MENTORED
Mentoring will start proper the week commencing 28th August 2017. The first CAST THE NET post will be going out next weekend. I'm sorry about the delay, but it's needed to get new mentors in, and also I'm moving house this week!
AND FINALLY : Every bit of reward that goes into this post is going to help other minnows. Notice that it's set to 100% power-up. The goal is to have a great reward pool of earned and delegated SP that is there to support and reward minnows who are taking active steps to be great bloggers.
Initiative like this need supporting as it is creating valuable skills for people, and steemit needs more of that! I will support this initiative! congrats @minnowmentor
This is a nice initiative. Here are some of my suggestions:
5.Finally, best outputs (blogs/posts from minnows) should get maximum exposure through marketing or advertising (e.g. big count of whale or dolphin votes ) so that it show up in Trending. The benefit is that it will show the prowess of minnowmentor in creating great post, dolphins and whales of the future.
100% upvoted and resteemed, I have sent a @booster vote. I was commenting on the curation issues for last months and once, I was thinking of creating a similar project by myself. Thanks again for creating such a noble project and Good luck.
Thanks @riseofth. Noted your points, and they will be put to the people who start to get involved. I expect this will evolve as time goes by. I do really want some whales to get involved and delegate some SP, the challenge as always is hooking them, and I've been going to them directly to see if I can get an audience to put this to them. What I've wanted to do is make a system that gets great curators directly involved particularly with newbies and minnows who are struggling, but actually have some great content. And I really hear you about marketing of it, and will be talking to some great marketeers on here to see if they can support me with it. I also don't expect immediate results, and it will take time to be noticed. But it's going to get there I'm sure.
@anarchotech, since you are the minnow support and intro to steemit steembassador (do you think you could put together a blog that acts as a welcome blog for all new users who scan our business cards , flyers (certainly in promo-uk but hopefully to be used in other countries as well) that references your video series on how to use steemit and also reference minnow support? I think this will be highly useful as part of our upcoming uni tour... Maybe you have something already, but i looked at your blog and couldnt find. also, I am not sure what @stephenkendal is planning to use as the QR code to our university tour flyers and business cards, however, I am sure it is something along these lines. Stephen is this also in your line of thinking?
Additionally it should also mention link to the series on how to promote and pitch steemit that stephen and I put together...
Of course. Once I get settled in the batchelor pad I will be getting on with it.
Welcome to Steem @minnowmentor I have upvoted and sent you a tip
boom!
Projects like this are a great value to the SteemIt community. I commend any and all who are helping this become a reality.
Thanks @supremenyc. I'm already getting offers from great steemians. Its going dark for a few days whilst I move house, and I will be without internet until thursday. But hoping to get started next week.
i am minnow myself so interested in your program .
Hello @kazish. Please watch this space. The best thing we can do right now is to resteem it. Lets see who we can get to help support the project.
Welcome to Steemit! I wish you a good days and inspiration to create in our community! Please follow me :)
#promo-uk guys, wonder if you could possibly resteem this...? An initiative by me @anarcotech. Thanks
Welcome to Steemit @minnowmentor, I have upvoted and sent you a tip. Check my blogs if you are looking for tips on how to earn more Steem and SBD.
Interesting initiative! I definitely want to join!
@martinmusiol
Excellent. Well, please watch this space. The best thing you can do to help right now is resteem it. Lets see if we can catch some whales, dolphins and orcas to support the project.
Yay! Exactly what I need! Thank you!!
Brilliant. Please do watch this space. Lots going on, but we are right at the beginning now.
This post has received a 2.24 % upvote from @booster thanks to: @riseofth.
https://steemit.com/writing/@sinta/miss-frozen-2017820t233838551z
Great stuff @minnowmentor - I'm just out of reach to qualify, but this is awesome. Resteemed
You will be able to be mentored if you want, but over 50 reputation we ask for a donation of your choice to assist with growing the service
hi I am very new here, how can I join as a minnow?
mentorme
The idea is not bad, but first you say this is non profit and suddenly this: "25% of all earnings will be shared amongst the mentors as a thank you for their involvement.
25% of all earnings will be given to those who delegate SP to help the project develop."
That sounds shady to me sry, but that are 50% of the earnings that could go into SP instead to help the community as you said.
This is another step of making the rich richer and the poor fishes get what? One upvote a week with 30cents?
So @minnowmentor posts will in themselves earn, because they will be upvoted. Half of the amount they are upvoted will go into SP which will ONLY be used to upvote the minnows posts. We will also be looking for delegation of SP as well. This is easy because the posts are set 50/50.
So what happens to the 50% which will appear in SBD? Well half of this will go to the mentors who will give their time to appraise and critique the minnows.
The other half will go to pay for, and interest to, those who delegate SP to the project, which increases the payout for minnows.
What will I personally take from it? Nothing, unless I either (a) delegate SP or (b) spend my time mentoring.
So the payment to mentors encourages the mentors to provide quality mentoring.
The Payment to delegates encourages them to loan us their SP, which helps the minnows.
The service is FREE to minnows under 50 reputation. Over that, I ask for a donation (which is completely up to the individual what they give...there's no set amount, they can give 0.1SBD if thats what they think the service is worth).
All the earnings generated will go into making @minnowmentor a worthwhile thing to be involved in, either as a minnow wanting mentoring or as a mentor/delegate wanting to help it to deliver a service.
There are no "management fees" or anything like that. The entire wallet is transparent. Everyone knows the score. So I'm struggling to find anything shady about it. I have also asked for witnesses and whales to observe it, because I want @minnowmentor to be as clear as possible. If this is a scam it's a really weird one!
So you might ask what do I get out of it? Well, first of all I believe in the concept of givers gain. If I help someone, genuinely and freely without asking for reward, I karmically believe it will all come back to me.
I believe in Steemit, the ecosystem, the concept and think I have something to offer in terms of development in the future. I would like to be a witness, and the best witnesses aren't those with the most money, they are those who have proven that they have done a lot for the good of the community. In my businesses, my reputation is everything. I regularly give pro-bono hours to people who need help. So as offline so online to misquote a famous phrase.
Ok ok, you have me now, I think I just was not taking enough time to understand what your concept is!
I am trying to build something a little bit different from your idea, but still the end result would be the same, to make the community stronger and let more people earn faster money. I will present it next week.
Looking forward to it.