I stay out of politics as much as possible but I'm making an exception today. I'm interrupting my series on SMTs to talk about Jerry Banfield's witness campaign.
If you want to vote for his witness but haven't yet, go to https://steemit.com/~witnesses and upvote @jerrybanfield
Jerry Banfield's Promise
My job from Monday to Friday is as an advertiser and maybe that's the reason why I feel compelled to vote for his witness. Even thou he looks like he is on amphetamine when he does his videos, the guy know what he is doing to drive clicks and signups into steemit. He is a genuine and honest guy.
His promise, as a witness, is to dedicate 80% of his witness rewards towards Facebook and Adwords advertising to drive clicks and signups.
At current market price, that's about $200/day or $6000/month in advertising.
Note: You Can Follow His Ad Campaigns Live Here: https://airtable.com/shrXuoYTnODWA0QG1/tblUbJd2lY1XH5rmx
We have 20 witness slots. Some people work hard to develop tools for steem but from some...we haven't heard a cricket sound from them in a long while. Witnesses are suppose to work for us and add value to the network...not $7000+ a month for running a server
But I Don't Like His "Style"
Whether or not you like his "style" of advertising, is beside the point in my opinion. If it works and drive signups, it's a thousand time better than an ad that look slick yet doesn't convert.
We see it all the time when business owners want their dog in their ads. It sure make him feel good about his ads but generally those ads have horrific performance.
It's a personal pet peeve of mine. People having opinions about advertising when they:
- Don't account for results
- When they never ran a successful ad campaign themselves
Why His Ads Are Performing Well
What sets his ads apart from most ads is that they are content and personality driven. He is not "representing" steemit in an official capacity. He is in fact a "third party" sharing his opinion and experience. And THAT is very powerful and that's why his ads are performing well.
The Result I'm Looking For
Unfortunately, Jerry didn't know about the referral tracking until recently. But now that he does, he will track campaign for signup results. For now, I'm looking for a cost of $1 per signups. When the next hardfork comes in, I hope for a $0.20 per signup.
As the price of steem grows, we can capitalize by having someone running ads to capitalize on the attention that is already directed towards us. Without that, we are at the mercy of people willing to write about us on website like coindesk and cointelegraph.
Conclusion
Go ahead and vote for him here: https://steemit.com/~witnesses . From now on, I'll be campaigning for him to make it to one of the top slots because we need a dedicated witness to advertise STEEM to the whole world.
@cryptoctopus thank you very much for dedicating a post explaining my witness campaign and asking me questions on Steemit.chat to make this possible! I am going to resteem this as soon as this comment posts!
@jerrybanfield This man is a Facebook whale: @thedonfreeman. He has millions of followers. He states in the LFN (Looking for a Niche) Discord trail that he is open to partnering with people. Your FB followers and the Don's combined might generate a tidal wave of interest. I spotted his message a few weeks back so things might have changed - apologies if I've got anything wrong here but that could be a mega boost for steemit......check it out.
I agree with your view on this. I also voted for him as witness due to the strong community he is building up and bringing to the platform with his marketing efforts and his activity surpasses that of many!
Using the witness rewards for marketing efforts is also awesome and in the future I can see more witnesses promising a share of their rewards for other stuff, especially with a price increase.
I also remember when Lisk started up - reward sharing of "delegators" back then was very common from the beginning.
@acidyo thank you for being one of the first to vote for me as a witness and sharing your support here!
@jerrybanfield I would like to have a word with you for a steem marketing related idea, how can I find you?
P.S. Sorry for coming into this comment in such a way but it was my best shot as soon as I was inspired =D
Good job, he got me in too.
Wholeheartedly agree! The promotion of Steemit.com is equally, if not more valuable, than just running a BP server!
I voted for Jerry with one of the first witness votes I had ever cast. He’s an excellent promoter and promotion is going to be vital to the success of this platform in the future. He’s truly engaged with the community and it’s amazing how he’s replied to so many of my comments on his posts even though he literally get hundreds of replies every day.
It’s a full time job for him and it’s nice seeing people with that level of dedication to this platform. I wish I had more time to contribute here but that’s not a luxury I currently have so I’ll do what I can by using my witness votes wisely.
I also have a few of my witnesses on auto vote (Jerry is one of them). I don’t use this function for many people but I think it’s a good use of my vote to reward their hard and tireless work here.
Hello mate! If I am on Steemit today it is thanks to @jerrybanfield! I found his ad on facebook in mid june and that's how I came here.
I will always be grateful to him for that, but in the beginning i was supporting him everyday but you know he was never replying back to any message on his posts. But I noticed this has changed now which is great. For sure he will get my vote.
@progressivechef thank you for telling us how you joined Steemit and for your patience with my failure to reply to any of your comments! We appreciate all that you have given in your posts and I am grateful you took the time to comment here!
Woo-hoo! You made my day mate...especially after this Black Friday for Steemit! I still can't access my acc on steemit.com and i am using busy.org to reply your message.
If only you knew how much happy i am right now, well thank you again man. Really appreciate all the great work you are doing, keep rocking as usual.
3 votes your way my friend..mine + @steemit-ironchef + my wife @creativewoman
Wish you lots of success ahead and good health always.
Cheers
@progressivechef
That's really interesting. I'm glad he got you here :-)
I totally agree, @jerrybanfield knows marketing. He was my first witness vote and helping bring the masses to steemit. Also he was the reason why I can to steemit :)
Jerry got me into steemit too
A rare and valuable Resteem from Jerry!
Agreed, and I have voted already. Signups are critical to Steemit's adoption, and Jerry has made the most unselfish pledge of any witness, regarding the rewards, that I am aware of. He's also the reason I know about Steemit, purely by happenstance on Youtube.
Awesome @cryptoctopus I will be voting for @jerrybanfield as well!
Wow nice post
voted for @jerrybanfield. Thanks for the post @cryptoctopus
You are right, I also thought for a long time why need such a function as voting for a witness and when reading and understanding a few messages from @jerrybanfield, I realized that this person lives for Steemit and us. My choice to vote for him was immediately understandable and I did it. Successful work for @jerrybanfield and thank you @cryptoctopus
I've chosen to proxy @jerrybanfield cause he da man.
Yup. He got me into this, I am so thankful. I already voted for him.
A very useful post. Thank you for sharing @cryptoctopus
These are the type of Witness I like having on this platform, not selfish and willing to go out of their way to increase the platform
nice post friend, well i know jerrybanfield i see alot of his videos and his is really active person and have a lot of knowledge, jerry is spending almost 80% of his witness earning in steemit promotion well that's something amazing so indirectly he helps whole steemit community to bring in more investors and users, i vote for him as witness now i hope other steemians also do the same, his efforts on steemit are great and he deserves to be in the top witnesses. thanks for sharing my friend.
I agree with you wholeheartedly
Hi @cryptoctopus, nice informational post,I fully agreed and follow your advices as well, thanks,,, UPVOTE.,,,,, Hope for positive response,,..
Since he is such a useful witness, I also voted for him :)
Good point. I like him and his videos. He's a great ambassador for Steemit so he should be a top 20 witness in my option.
He has his own unique talent.. I like his tutorials.. I totally agreed with you @cryptoctopus and would like to witness vote for him..
I am not a particular fan of jerrybanfield, but the fact that he is using 80% of his witness money into advertising Steemit is a honorable thing to do. Something I can definitly respect!
Thanks for giving the chance to enjoy this beautiful news!!
I voted for @jerrybanfield after reading your post and having researched Jerry's work. I really believe in it and in the way it works, Jerry has added a lot of value to the steemit platform and can do even more in the future. Resteemed
I too didn't like Jerry's methods, especially when he started witnessing, with his controversial way of doing it, many witnesses lifted an eyebrow when they saw what he was doing. Nevertheless, he apologized (late) and kept going. He talks too much, that's what marketers do. He's willing to learn new things and is not afraid to take risks. If he can be a beacon of advertisement for Steemit (although it's THEIR job to do that), then so be it. It's a good initiative and it benefits everyone. He has my vote for a while now.
@cryptoctopus,
I will not! As you said here "I don't like his style either"! So, I will add you as a witness of mine rather than adding him!
Cheers~
I invite you to read the comments of this post and how many active members joined because of him. You liking his style is beside the point. The point is that it works.
@cryptoctopus,
Yeah he do mass promotions! I noticed in FB and few other social media platforms! But I noticed your style also! Respect your way of think and the style as well!
Cheers~
@cryptoctopus,
Done! Added you as my witness!
I added you coz, you are adding a true value to the community via your articles and thoughts!
Cheers~
@cryptoctopus - After your article I think I wish to follow him Sir. I saw him at trending post list, if you say this, I think definitely his contents are useful Sir <3 Thank you for this incredible review <3
+W+ [ReSteemed & UpVoted]
amigo #resteemia at your service
nice thought & explanation why we need to select jerry as a witness. i'm going to add him. nice post @cryptoctopus
ReSteemia
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Any info about next hardfork? I will be glad to get link.
t is good to know that we have people engaged in the dissemination of the "STEEM" community. A hug.
Wow, after reading this I'd definitely vote for @jerrybanfield too. I stumbled upon steemit through his video in youtube, probably my life saver. Voted @jerrybanfield as witness! Thanks man!
You know Laura Shin from Forbes?
Someone should approach her regarding steem, she's misinformed
Nice Job !
I will follow and vote him , @jerrybanfield.
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hello, @cryptoctopus
good post jerry
I also agree with your view on this. I also voted for him as witness due to the strong community he is building up and bringing to the platform with his marketing efforts and his activity surpasses that of many!
Good . that's really interesting
I have forgot a bit about the referral tracking thing. I'd love it if you refresh my memory as how it works?
Thanks for this post. I was on the fence about voting for Jerry, but I have to agree, his dedication to promoting Steemit is fantastic. I'm voting for him now.
I'm still on the fence about voting for Gerry and he annoys me so much but I agree there is few more dedicated to promoting Steemit than but then he does have a huge vested interest.
Thankyou for support of @jerrybanfield, i am already supporting his witness.. i think he is exceptional, and his energy level is parallel to none.
I would also like dev team to reconsider expanding the 20 member cartel and / or edit 90% reward pool. This can discouraging for new and aspiring witness members..
Otherwise, this becomes like any other economy where Rich is getting richer :)
It is the money that drives people at steemit and not sumguy advertising for it. As we can see, a starting minnow or red fish, Krill, or whatever gets discouraged by miniscule earnings while they see others earning like a killer whale in a seal party.
I vote for @jerrybanfield now.. Thank you
Seems like he is a good person and i have heard many people were on steemit as because of him and he is simply doing a great job :)
nice
good job ..i m in too