I'm Karl Perkin, a life-learned investor with an vast interest in start-up companies within the crypto-industry. So far I'm new to burst but I like the basic ideas very much and think they are possible to promote better. So far, I'm not a big holder, but I've bought some coins and now even started to mine.
First I need to state that I generally feel you guys have done a fine, fine job with developing tool, software, pool and cooperating with other coins as the main Dev's features been laid out. The coin should have a good potentional to grow substrantionally from the current levels.
Having said that, I'm also a critic. I will probably come with more comments in the coming weeks, but as I happened to look at the official homepage's blog, I noticed some things I think should be attended:
-- Great first blog by crowetic, no doubt, but on the interface used I miss a home-button, and I must say I would rather see the burst logo instead of the rabbit (?).
-- The links on the homepage directs to something else than the actual blog. This must be corrected. Luckily the links are a bit hidden as of now under "Resources" but if you use the blog as the great tool it can be, I believe it should have it's own button on the page.
-- Probably harder to code, but a very nice feature would be to have a small section on the front-page with "news", where for instance recent blog post's headlines and authors are shown (I will get back to this in a coming post, but the same goes for your Twitter account, if you improve the usage of it. Including a Twitter account on a webpage is very easy).
-- It's three days since the first blog entry. Everyone in the industry knows that key to a successful Twitter account is frequent updates. I know this is hard to do achieve, but that also depend on what you consider a proper topic for a blog. As the author Turn0ff suggested, the great news of a gui for linux is very newsworthy. I agree it should be written as a blog post, sent out as a newsletter and posted here and on your dedicated forum. The rule is: Rather more posts with a few a bad ones, than less posts where everyone is a masterpiece. Perhaps guest writers can be engaged, and suggestions of coming content for the blog can come from your the community? As I said, actively is, safely, everything.
-- I'm a member of the email list on the site, but I did not get an update of the existence of a blog nor the first content. Perhaps just a mistake, but I'd recommend to send out everything that can be considered 'news' on the email list, where I assume the major crypto sites are added. You must reach as many possible investors as possible, and if there are some cross-posting is not a problem.
That was some notes on the blog, but I also noted I could not find is the latest "press release" on ACCT? The one done together with your partner coin was, mildly, not that great. Here I suggest that you rewrite the text and include the standard form of previous press releases. And of course also publish it at the page, Twitter, email list and lastly send it to all the relevant news sites. There is professional companies helping with this. The best one are very expensive but you could easily find a suiting company charing 30-50 dollars. Considering what it would/can do to the price, this money should be very easy to collect from the community. After all, the thread is one of this forum's longest.
Lastly, I've a newly created Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/karl_perkin. My ambition is to use it to promote burstcoin in any way possible. If you got some ideas and want to help out, please send me a Private Message. More importingly, I'd be very pleased if your Twitter account,
https://twitter.com/real_burstcoin, would add me, as we together surely find synergy effects in marketing.
Till next time, warm regards,
Karl Perkin