Topic: Got the skills but no idea? Look here! (Read 921 times)

Just to chip in here I'm thinking that IRC is a good enough medium for communication. Skypes and others can be exchanged later among those who would prefer it.

Nice thread mate, even I have some ideas and a little bit of skill. But struggling to get anything solid out.

Having worked in marketing for many years, I have to disagree. Sure, it "looks" easy, enabling anyone to say they can do it, it's almost like poker in a sense... Put up an average amateur against a professional, and, while it'll be impossible to predict the outcome of any given hand, as the number of hands played goes by, you'll see the player with the most skill pull ahead.

Same for marketing. Anyone can make a crappy flyer. Anyone can select the most obvious adwords. Anyone can rent a mailing list. But not everyone will have the insight to figure out which list is most optimal, or will have the wherewithal to buy advertising on keywords that maximizes not just views, but potential actions by customers.

Case in point:

A company recently reached out to me to help with their PPC advertising. They had a relatively small budget, which was being exhausted every day, and generating no results. No sales. Not even people clicking more than one link deep into their website.

Why? Let's say they sold honda (actually a different make/brand) aftermarket parts. They were bidding on "Honda parts", "honda parts dealer", "honda replacement parts", and each click was costing a couple dollars.

I went through their site, looked up competitors, and then told him "forget advertising your brand, and forget advertising your site to the public at large, lets sell your PARTS". And that's what we did - dropped the current keyword advertising and instead started buying up keywords for as many of the manufacturers part numbers as we could get. End result - MUCH lower cost per click (as only one of his competitors was doing that, with a very small subset of their parts), more actual clicks (as his ads were typically at the top of the list), and actual product sales (as people who are searching for specific part numbers are far more motivated to make a purchase than someone searching for "honda parts" or "honda wheels").

Sure, seems obvious in hindsight. But in my experience, working with countless entrepreneurs who have launched their own websites and opted to be their own marketing teams (as, they explain, they know their products better than anyone else), I haven't had a single client say that the results they were achieving from their own efforts were at all comparable to what I was able to achieve. Not one. Because marketing is more than just putting up a link, more than renting an entire mailing list, rather than examining and evaluating each selector available.

So yeah. It's not a skill. You can do it just as well as anyone else, I'm sure.

I still don't agree bro. There's tons of amazing ideas, but none have been done. I have like 20+ ideas for Bitcoin websites, I just can't code, etc.

Not true.

I need to ask if you accually have anything you want to contribute with here..
Or just trash the thread.

Incorrect. You can be an ass yet know how to manage projects.


That's easy.


Being professional is also not a challenge.

I think you are incorrect.

Depends on how you do it.
If you act like an ass and think you are better than everyone else..
Then you dont know how to manage projects.

You need to be able to make a plan (white paper).
Make sure that everyone within the project is able to work together.

And keep it professional to avoid mistakes that I possible to prevent.
But still not kill the fun of creating something with others.

Bruhh, anyone can promote and manage. Even I can, it's not rlly a skill...

Sure, I would love to participate and will provide whatever I can at the table. But we're going to have to figure out some other way to communicate because I don't use skype and I am not planning to start now.

Can you share any additional info? I am always looking for new projects and people to work with, and right now, specifically, I would love to become involved in something that has a future...

i would like to participate, if it is available in public discussion.

Got 2 people already.
Will talk to them on skype a little later.

I hope to get more people onboard!

This is a great idea i would love to help out. Take a look at some of my threads so you can see if any of my services will be of any help to you:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/jsmit332s-video-editing-thread-669400
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/jsmit332s-graphic-design-service-970345
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/jsmit332s-ann-thread-design-service-871628
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/jsmit332s-animated-gifs-ad-banners-more-828422

The thing is not to offer a service for money.
But to colaporate to create something and share the profits and be able to start even more ventures.

This is a good initiative. In the near future I should be able to offer my programming service too.

Hey Everyone.

So.. Everyone has a skill, if its promoter, programmer or manager..
A lot of people just dont know what to do with their skills.

I personally enjoy to promote and manage things.
And I get ideas all the time.

Sadly I am not able to program websites but I have plenty of ideas..
And I have realized that most people here just want one thing.. Money.

They want fast easy cash and its something that does not last.
I want to form a network of people who can work together as a group and maybe a company at some point on the furture.

I got ideas.. But I need people to work with.

If you are looking for a quick cash solution, then dont contact me.
If you are looking for something that can grow and because a stable business then please contact me.

PM me for my skype and we can have a talk.
I am working on a white paper at the moment for something that could be big, but no one to work with.

~Hamuki