I May Be The Only One Who Finds This Interesting
But here goes. Three months ago I offered to take CTP Tokens in payment for advertising credits and placed a value of 10 cents USD per CTP token in value, regardless of what the Steem market price was at the time, even if it was trading as low as .01 Steem. I also explained how it could be an arbitrage opportunity. The only condition was that it must be at least 50 CTP per transaction. Here is the original post
These credits could have been used to promote your affiliate links, lead capture pages, your coming Black Friday Specials, you name it.
I have a viral mailer in the CTP Mastery program and some people complained that as a free member they were having difficulty accumulating enough mailing credits to use. Yet, not one person asked about trading CTP tokens for mailing credits.
On several CTP webinars I mentioned that I was willing to accept CTP tokens as payment for credits on any of my sites. On one such occasion Jon said that gave him an idea and thus began the build an ipn project so owners could accept CTP tokens as payments on their sites.
But I was willing to take the CTP tokens without waiting for the ipn build.
Not one person inquired about using or trading their CTP tokens for advertising credits to , even those who felt they were being restricted from promoting their offers due to lack of cash.
There may have been other sellers who made the same or similar offers to accept CTP tokens as payment for their products or services, I didn't see them if there were.
However, that brings me to the question, how else are you going to establish a use value for the CTP token if those people who are earning them don't use them?
Sorry to read that this didn't work Mick. Alas as I learnt most people who use TE's and Mailers in this day and age want it all for free and believe you owe them. When people have that sort of attitude it is hard and the worse part they all plead poor but somehow can afford a internet connection and just on that alone they believe the worse line I have ever seen online Make a million online for FREE.
Ahhhh glad you bring this up...Here's what my thinking is.
Most people, within the CTP community....Aren't even creating on this platform. Which is the constant battle we face with teaching them the power of content creation.
That industry is notorious for not adopting new tech. Like, legendary at ignoring trends.
So it'll happen...Just slower than we'd like. And i think once crypto is much more adopted, people will 'get it' but fiat is still king in the business.
That all being said....I need to do a better job of showing real use case and getting more people talking about CTP token.
It's not that people missed the post, its that even on a conference if I mention I would be willing to take CTP not one person inquired. It was more of an experiment on my part to gauge the mindset of CTP members. Very few are interested in building a business, most just want to play at business. It has very little to do with the acceptance of crypto or not, until the general mindset of the group changes from playing at business to building and doing business. This is where the emphasis needs to be in all of our efforts interacting with the Members as a whole.
I missed it! I did not know you were at it.
It's not that I'm trying to find an excuse for this one, but just like @bradleyarrow I really missed it... I mean, I somehow didn't notice that post... :(
If you run similar promotion/event, please create at least 2-3 posts here.. plus Telegram group and Discord... This was AWESOME offer, I really regret that I have missed it :(
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That was a great offer @trafficinsider, and as other comments are saying I missed that too, so your legacy with this will be that you kicked Jon in the butt and got him to create an IPN, I hope it will be out soon, keep up your great work and stay awesome.
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I'm not sure I should say this but I'd rather collect the CTP than spend it.