Exactly. Promoting/marketing is the key towards a future price rise in the future. Ethereum being one of the most popular cryptocurrencies in the world, has stalled in development. The upcoming PoS upgrade might take a long time, leaving many ETH holders in suspense. As a result, prices have not increased any further, leaving Ethereum worth between the $200 - $250 range.
Still though, there's a high probability that ETH will rise again in the future because of Bitcoin's growth in value over time. Every time Bitcoin grows in price, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies follow. But I believe that the main trigger in prices, will be Ethereum's next big upgrade. Once it becomes a reality, then hype will rise again (along with price) awakening the people's sense of FOMO.
In the meantime, it's best to keep accumulating Ethereum as much as you can before exciting events happen in the future. No one can predict the exact price of each ETH over the long term, but certain indicators on the market and the cryptocurrency's technical aspects, shows us that Ethereum will rise in price at exponential levels just like Bitcoin.
Nonetheless, with constant development, innovation, and marketing, Ethereum will be able to stay in the game. It could experience constant demand by people in the mainstream world. Just my thoughts
Ethereum serves to be a strong competence to the bitcoin which can never seen with rest of the altcoins available for trading needs. Previous year was predicted to be the year of ethereum, and to the expectation we experienced direct opposite scenario over the market.
Maybe by the falling month the market gets triggered for a bigger level of growth, and without any doubt it is the right time to accumulate as much possible as in the above quote. Hope the growth will support ethereum reaching close to $1000 on bitcoin reaching $15000+ value.