Use Gleam.io to distribute GRC & increase attention towards GRC social media

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Issue by grctest Thursday Jan 26, 2017 at 20:15 GMT Originally opened as https://github.com/Erkan-Yilmaz/Gridcoin-tasks/issues/75

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https://gleam.io/

Perhaps we can get away with the free version, unless only 100 users can participate? https://gleam.io/pricing#

Their pricing for PRO is on an individual site basis!

We could use this to drive up Twitter, SoundCloud, YouTube subscriber/follower quantities. This would be pretty good if steemit was supported.

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Social media accounts to promote: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0Z3uczcC2okYRrLLCZFrMQ (We can only get a custom URL once we reach 100 subscribers!) https://soundcloud.com/gridcoin-community-hangouts https://gridcoin.tumblr.com/ https://www.fb.com/gridcoins http://www.reddit.com/r/gridcoin https://twitter.com/GridcoinNetwork

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Comment by Erkan-Yilmaz Wednesday Feb 08, 2017 at 11:32 GMT

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mentioned in hangout 7: for doing contests, ...

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Comment by LokiToki Tuesday Mar 14, 2017 at 09:57 GMT

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I checked gleam.io and with free account you're not allowed to add a picture. Free account is very limited and close to useless for semi-pro use.

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Comment by grctest Tuesday Mar 14, 2017 at 13:04 GMT

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$39 for a test month isn't too bad, could be worth it if we get several hundred entries (subscriptions across multiple websites).

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Comment by LokiToki Wednesday Mar 15, 2017 at 07:29 GMT

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I could start some free stuff to familiarize myself with the system or is someone already into it? Do i have the "permission" to start gridcoin ads with gleam.io? ;) We could go for a paid month after some test...

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Comment by gustav1976 Wednesday Mar 15, 2017 at 11:20 GMT

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GRCnation is already working with gleam.io and they are the official Gridcoin marketing partner for Europe. But it would be cool to see additional concepts. Gridcoin could only benefit from more ideas.

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Comment by grctest Wednesday Mar 15, 2017 at 21:15 GMT

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@gustav1976 GRCnation is already working with gleam.io and they are the official Gridcoin marketing partner for Europe. But it would be cool to see additional concepts. Gridcoin could only benefit from more ideas.

How/where have you been utilizing gleam? There's nothing on grcnation's Twitter about it, nor is there anything on grcnation.com other than a couple old client install guides..

Is there a blog or a thread following what official marketing you've undertaken on behalf of Gridcoin (not for uscore/grcnation)? Is there actually an official partner program in Gridcoin? It seems more of an unofficial position.

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Comment by LokiToki Wednesday Mar 22, 2017 at 09:06 GMT

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I wrote a mail to gridcoins@gmail.com (official GRCnation mail address) 6 days ago (03-16) and got no answer. For me it's obvious that they are not longer active and i keep on investigating gleam.io system.

If anybody is interested i could set up an User-Account in my gleam Gridcoin-Site (like a project). I plan to to a test competition and spend some GRC or so as a reward for participants.

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Comment by LokiToki Thursday Mar 23, 2017 at 09:31 GMT

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I did a quick Competition. The major problem was to find easy entry points for absolutely inexperienced people. Something like "What is this shi*about? And why i'm here?". I found two acceptable youtube videos. To be honest: just going to soundcloud and listening to last hangout is confusing to new member. Reading latest post on twitter or facebook also.

So the first step before we start promoting GRC is to set up something like a twitter account "GridcoinStarter" or make a easy explaining one-pager and so on.

Sry, but it's hard to make a "Oh, look at this cool stuff!" without digestible material. Here now the test competition: https://gleam.io/hI3Aj/investigate-gridcoin-and-science-win-real-money

Greetings

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Comment by barton2526 Thursday Mar 23, 2017 at 11:30 GMT

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@LokiToki What exactly is the reward for this test competition? I cannot find anything on that page indicating what the prize is, or if it even exists. How is a winner selected? How are they notified they have won?

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Comment by LokiToki Thursday Mar 23, 2017 at 11:35 GMT

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@barton2526 Click "Terms & Conditions" i left i black because i just a test. As a free user u can only generate a winner randomly at the end of the competition afaik.