Congratulations, Sir Lutpin. It is true, he is a great manager and was reputed member of Bitcointalk family from the time I joined.
Thanks
I have a question in mind
There's a lot of potential for discussion in the two short questions you've posted.
Let me try to give a brief (
or not so brief, upon rereading my draft) answer to each, without getting too far into details and examples (
I still got a little, sorry),
but still one that should give you sufficient information (not trying to textwall this thread).
some of the coins, where you worked hard as a campaign manager, are dead or forgotten. Was your effort useless for them?
When a project fails, there are several possible reasons for it. In the rarest cases, one thing is solely responsible.
I always try to set up the best possible campaign, or what I (based on my experience) think to be the best possible campaign.
In many cases, that works out pretty good, for example with
CryptoGames, we're running since June 2015 now and when we ran into problems, we found a way to adjust the campaign. If the effort would have been useless, that campaign would have been cancled a long time ago.
A few other examples would be
OneHash and
HeatLedger, both terminated campaigns of mine, but also both successful projects (
last I checked).
HeatLedger simply had served it's time, the ICO was over and there were little resons to continue a big budget campaign for the coin. We had created
a lot of awareness for the ICO though (still doing alright:
http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/heat-ledger/).
OneHash was from the beginning designed to be a short, introductory campaign, and when we completed that time, the campaign had been "completed". Today, the site is doing a lot better than before they ran the campaign.
But I guess the campaigns you're after are none of those, you speak of failed coins, so it probably is either
Opair or
SocialKapital (no offense to the guys involved with those projects).
Both campaigns went alright, at least from my pov, however, with both projects there have been some unrelated problems, things I couldn't influence, besides the task of advertising which I was a part of.
I'm not really keen on discussing those problems in this thread (it's not directly related to the campaigns), but there were certainly other reasons for the projects standing where they are today.
Maybe I'm partly to blame aswell, can't rule it out, but be sure I did the best I could, as I always try to do.
Even though those projects might be considered "failed" by some, I wouldn't call my efforts useless. I ran a nice campaign with each of them and the participants were quite happy about that. In the end, I can't guarantee a projects success via an advertising campaign alone, but if we're talking about the right project, I can certainly help it being successful by running a campaign with them.
Again, what do you do if a campaign manager refuses to pay you the fees for the members every week?
A decent amount of my campaigns are escrowed by myself (currently, 3 of 6 are). I usually prefer to run campaigns in this way, as it not only ensures payments, it also eases up the process for both me and the advertiser. Hence my initial suggestion is always to escrow funds with me (or another escrow of their choise).
Some advertisers don't want to do this or can't. The campaigns I run without escrowed funds currently are CryptoGames/CryptoNews and BetKing.
For CG/
CN, I've been working together with them for over a year now, I have no doubt they take the campaigns as serious as I am and they will make payments to the point, as they have done in the last 18 months.
BetKing currently is in control of over 6000
BTC of users funds invested in their bankroll, I'm not worrying about them misjudging their responsibility for payments either.
That being said, in the end, users know the risk of joining an unescrowed campaign. In case of any payment disputes (/missing funds/missing advertisers/...), I'm going to do my best to make sure everyone gets what they are owed (
like I did with opair, if you want to catch up on that), but I can't guarantee it. I would love to, but I can not. There stays a little risk.
So far, I never had to face this situation. I'm pretty sure I won't have to in the future, but never say never (right?).
I hope that answers your questions sufficiently.