The N@N team is a great team to to introduce and explain new and existing projects being built on the Near Protocol. As I’ve said in the past, they break down valuable and vital information into digestible chunks even normies can understand.
Coming from founders/devs of the eco system gives a safe haven to members new and old. I attend as many spaces as possible to extend my knowledge in this space. I fully support this team for what they do at the price point they present.
Hi @TroveLabs thanks for the clear and well structured proposal – noting your responses to questions and feedback from others on the forum, as well as the support from community members.
In looking at the project, significant previous funding, growth over time/metrics, I do think your content is bringing value to the ecosystem, but I am conscious of the need to fund a diverse range of projects and spread MarketingDAO funding around to as many worthy projects as we can.
Would you consider funding for a reduced number of spaces so we can continue supporting the project and give it more time to demonstrate increased traction and audience reach? It may be that reducing the hours to produce spaces and working on the audience cultivation piece of the project may lead to more meaningful results and impact going forward. It’s also not clear to me that more spaces/higher volume of output is leading to increased impact. But want to get your thoughts on that.
I have similar questions/thoughts about a number of proposals we’re reviewing this month, so this is not limited to N@Night – we are in a moment in the ecosystem where I see a need to be careful about allocating funding, we can’t fund every project at the same level month after month and we have some choices we have to make in terms of allocation. All those things are front of mind for me.
Thank you for your input Lorraine! You and the rest of the council members have been instrumental in helping us shape N@N. I think that the impact of N@N comes not only from the consistent metrics we show each month, but from the amount of projects and teams we are able to highlight each week. We have also broken our goals this month for N@N twitter impressions with a total of 200,088 (13.6k impressions per space) from our posts via the N@N account and an average of 195 views per space. This breaks the 8000 average impressions set by ourselves and @so608 from our last proposal, showing that we are maintaining successful growth after 7 months of funding. With 4 spaces a week we are able to educate about important projects building on NEAR, and build a stronger community. For this proposal, we have planned weekly NDC spaces throughout August where we will educate and encourage the community to participate in the coming NDC elections.
We are open to your suggestions, including new methods for user cultivation, and would consider revising our # of spaces for our NEXT proposal, but would like to follow through with maximum NDC coverage for our august proposal leading up to elections if possible. The monthly funding for weekly spaces allows us to keep momentum resulting in a presence for N@N that has allowed some of our shows to go viral with over 1600 views (Few and Far Spaces)
Also, I think that if the marketing DAO would allow us to provide user incentives again like other shows do currently, it would allow us more opportunity for user cultivation. I would also like a confirmation on wether teams can include giveaways in MDAO funded initiatives like this one @marketingdao-council .
I think its very important that new proposals be judged on their merit, and that N@N is positively beneficial to NEAR with our influence and consistently high KPIs. Our continued funding would allow us to prove our traction and reach. We ask that you consider the above, along with funding this proposal for August before implementing changes suggested. Thank you again Lorraine!
Hello, @TroveLabs. Thanks for a great job! Could you please give more information about the Twitter spaces’ participants and topics? Due a specific KPIs for August and September, MDAO can allow only proposals focused on the following:
Of course!
For August and September we are planning on continuing our NDC Election spaces series every Thursday to breakdown the different houses, candidates and more for V1 of the NDC. We had a successful space last Thursday with Illuminft, Blaze, and Russ as guest speakers.
N@N and Trove Labs have always structured spaces, speakers, and content with topics are geared towards onboarding developers and users, as well as increasing transactions on NEAR. We regularly hosts spaces with new projects looking to onboard to NEAR, and have done so in the past with projects like Rogues Studio.
We already have upcoming guests, Satori (Alpha BOS Task App) and Mailchain (Web3 Mail App new to NEAR) planned for August as well. We believe N@N delivers on all 4 of the KPIs mentioned and will continue to focus on spaces and guests that educate our audience on new projects/teams in an effort to increase the amount of developers, users and transactions on NEAR!
Please let me know if you need more specifics @Dacha!
Thank you for your patience while reviewing your proposal.
As Dacha mentioned, our core KPIs for August-September are focused on the NDC election and voter education for proposals like yours that rely primarily on Twitter and podcasts.
I suggest you start doing fewer AMAs and focus more on better quality content, 2 AMAs per week are recommended that focus on NDC elections and why participation matters, as well as talk about project building on BOS.
We also want you to have a BOS page and encourage your followers and participants to actively participate on-chain, which will allow us to track future progress.
Please, could you edit the proposal and reduce the number of your activities?
Happy to support $2500 when edited.
Thank you for your suggestions @Bakaka . I get your reasoning but think that “better content” is somewhat vague seeing as how our content is educational, effective, and specific to all the KPIs you mentioned, I would recommend that you take some time to watch last weeks NDC space for an example.
Again, we would consider editing our proposal for reduced spaces, but considering our proposals offer the cheapest value per AMA/space with the highest KPIs compared to other simmilar content on the marketing DAO (with ~13.6k impressions and ~195 views per space on average), our value as a platform is evident.
The NEAR Foundation and Marketing DAO needs established platforms like ours to help market the BOS and NDC, but also needs our additional spaces to encourage new developers and users by having additional spaces highlighting things other than just the BOS and NDC.
I would like to hear feedback from the other @marketingdao-council members before considering cutting all other spaces that highlight other projects on NEAR, as we believe that is equally as important for the ecosystem.
My bad, if the word "better contents " sounds vague
i really enjoyed your space and reading your threads.
The suggestions are only for August, for now, after the NDC election, we are going to have a regular approach and focus more on general promotions and marketing.
Thanks for answering my questions and those of others commenting on the forum. I want to note that you have been very open to feedback and also willing to update focus to meet current focus for August, which is NDC election and BOS.
Here’s the reality as I see it:
I think we may need to reduce funding to a flat rate for this month across a number of projects in order to get funding to multiple projects and work together to amplify the ecosystem.
Given the current situation, there is a world in which the MDAO may have limit funding to a grant in a specified amount to produce content supporting NDC election and BOS.
Thank you for the breakdown @so608! As always we appreciate the hard work of the marketing DAO council and advisors.
I think we are more than willing to adjust our proposal to ~$2500 and reduce to ~2 spaces a week (~10 for the month of August) as @Bakaka suggested, with us completing the rest of the NDC election series and focusing on the KPIs suggested.
I will adjust the total ask of the proposal to the suggestions in the comments and tag the council when we have edited our funding request!
@so608 @marketingdao-council , we have edited our proposal to 10 space for the month of august and reduced funding ask to $2500 for the month according to above recommendations and suggestions. Please let us know if the amended proposal works and if you need anything further from us!
Hello! I am happy to support your proposal, and thank you for outstanding work.
NF continues to approve some grants, and you must get support (@MarcusNEAR, it would be great if you can help here). Unfortunately, KPIs, metrics, OKRs, budgets, limits, and scopes are changing not even monthly, sometimes hourly, and we’re trying to balance between them. We are at the edge between Government bodies (NF, now NDC Trust) and communities, trying to do our best to make all processes smooth, jumping through all obstacles. I agree with you about decentralization. Our contributors want uninterrupted support, to make at least midterm plans, and to understand where we are going. In my opinion, NDC is an excellent initiative if we can elect true Near believers there who care about the Ecosystem first and can separate the wheat from the chaff.
Hi @TroveLabs thanks for your good work, noted the comments from council and community.
Moved to Approved
Thank you so much! Looking forward to creating content for the BOS and NDC!
If possible can i get a clarification on giveaways for @marketingdao-council proposals? I know their has been some issue with giveaways on funded content in the past, especially for determining wether proposal metrics are achieved through incentives or the content itself. It would be nice to have a clear answer in the marketing DAO guidelines on this future proposals going forward.
Your application was approved by Marketing (Ecosystem) DAO at NDC. The approved proposal will be included in the following request to NDC Trust, and the trust should authorize it first and then transfer it to Marketing DAO treasure: the expected payment date is the last week of August.
So, during this time, please
@cryptocredit @marketingdao-council , I have recreated the astrodao poll to a “Transfer” according to the new procedure. Waiting for the transfer to be approved! Thank you!
https://app.astrodao.com/dao/marketing.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/marketing.sputnik-dao.near-798
Hello @TroveLabs ! Unfortunately, our transfer request still reviewing by NDC trustees and Near Foundation and has not been approved yet.
https://app.astrodao.com/dao/ndctrust.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/ndctrust.sputnik-dao.near-57
https://app.astrodao.com/dao/ndctrust.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/ndctrust.sputnik-dao.near-59
Hello @TroveLabs! Our request to NDC trust has been approved. So please, create transfer from Marketing DAO treasure to your wallet
Very Great News @Dacha. I made this transfer a few days ago, will it still work?
https://app.astrodao.com/dao/marketing.sputnik-dao.near/proposals/marketing.sputnik-dao.near-798
Yes! Thank you very much