[Closed] - Marketing Budget for Naksh - an NFT Marketplace , to participate in San Diego NFT Con

Hi Team,

We are extremely excited to announce that we had launched our NFT Marketplace Naksh on the 15th of feb. We had a good response in the beginning of the launch, now we are looking into reaching out to a wider audience and spreading our marketplace awareness to more and more people through events.

Name: Naksh
Website: https://naksh.org/
Founders: @Srilakshmi @nidhi

Funding Scheme : One-time
Type of Marketing: Event - Travel scholarship and to setup a booth at the San Diego NFT Con for Naksh.

San Diego NFT Convention is happening on the 9th and 10th of April 2022.
We believe it would be a great opportunity for Naksh to showcase our Artwork and spread the word about the platform in the NFT Community.

The event is expected to have more than 500 IRL Attendees and multiple panelists from the NFT community. The event will host artists, collector and Investors from the NFT space that could potentially be beneficial for Naksh.

Our idea is to attend the convention IRL and set up a booth at the convention that will help us market our marketplace and showcase our platform to the attendees. Our booth will not just showcase artwork but will also aim to get people onboarded to NEAR by offering them instant wallet creation and opportunity to buy the NFT’s at instant.

This convention would not just be a great opportunity to onboard users onto NEAR but also Artists and collectors who are well versed in the NFT community.

Metrics of success : To get at-least 100 NEAR Wallets created and get 5 artists/collectors onboard.

Estimated Timeline : The San Diego NFT Con will happen on April 9th and 10th.

Funding Details : Travel Scholarship for 2 Founders from India to San Diego - $ 1500 each.
Funds to participate in the convention and set up the booth is $2500.

Total Requested amount : $5500 (USD) 515 N (10.7 Conversion)

Near Wallet ID: naksh.near
Name: Naksh

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Good morning, could you please provide

  • expected impact and value you foresee for the NEAR ecosystem/community;
  • looks like your project got a grand from NF, would be great to see information about achievements :muscle: , road map, statistics, etc.

Thank You

Ps: do you have a link on last version of your web-site? I have found only beta-version.

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Hi @Dacha ,
Good morning - here is the report for our previous proposal - [Report] In Progress - Marketing proposal for Naksh from Mid Nov till December .

Regarding the Expected impact, this is the First event post the launch of Naksh that we would be sponsoring, the expected attendees are about 500+ IRL, we are expecting to onboard at-least 100 users onto Near, and spread the word around the convention.

Hey as for the grant from NF, here is the roadmap of our project - NAKSH ROADMAP AND TIMELINE - Google Sheets , also as the founders are not Technical, our majority of the grant money was spent on building the product and we have also spent a relative amount on registering the company.
Our milestone with invoices have been submitted to the foundation.
Our outcome of the grant was the launch of the Beta version, which we did on the 15th of February.
We have about 20 artist currently on the platform and about 10 more onboarded.
As of now we have sold about 5 artworks since the launch.
We are still working on getting more collectors onboard.

Also, we are still working on the getting general feedback and Artwork feedback for the site, hence it’s still Beta.

Thanks,
Let me know if you have any more queries.

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Ok thanks. Marketing DAO paid 400N (~ $6000 - 7000)

As I see your discord channel is not active , only couple posts from @sanket .

Did you make decision stop working with the channel ?

Probably and with tg channel.

Thanks. Are the milestones from 2021?

Overall, I couldn’t find active work with the project in social media , website still in beta version ~ 100 NFT’s.

To NF grant board members (@Grace ) I propose revise milestones and list of projects for promotion for Flying Rhino LCC which recently got a grant (Naksh project is one of their client).

Have a great day.

Hi Dacha,

Ok thanks. Marketing DAO paid 400N (~ $6000 - 7000)

When we received the Marketing Dao grant 400N translated to (~ $3400 - $3600).

As we had mentioned in our report, that we initially thought there would be a lot of interaction in the channels, since there wasn’t we had reduced the payout for the moderator and are currently looking for community managers who can actively manage and engage the community in both telegram and discord.

Thanks. Are the milestones from 2021?

Yes, these are the milestones that we followed for our initial grant by NF until the beta version.

The website is still in Beta version, because we just launched at ETH Denver, and are still testing it out.
Our marketing team, from The Flying Rhino guild has been posting content everyday on our platforms and have been really helpful in getting our impressions up on all the social media platforms.

And to market our platform further we are looking forward in engaging with global events such as NFT San Diego, and believe that it would be an amazing opportunity for a New platform like us to showcase our work and presence in the NFT Community.

Hence, it would be great if we could be considered for a fast grant for this particular proposal. @David_NEAR @jcatnear @marketingdao-council .

Thanks.

Flying Rhino is a private company which got a grant from NF to work with social media.

Proposal was

Actually, looks like your social media are abandoned (tg and discord channel);

Would be great to see information about incentive test distribution to community members and briefly results of focus groups.

Thanks

Hi Dacha,
Please look at the Report for our previous proposal, please direct your comments regarding the same in the below post.

Flying Rhino is a private company which got a grant from NF to work with social media.

We are well aware, since we have been working with them for the past few months. We have had great response on twitter, Instagram and Linkedin, which are managed by them.

Actually, looks like your social media are abounded (tg and discord channel);

Not sure what you mean by this, please elaborate.

Would be great to see information about incentive test distribution to community members and briefly results of focus groups.

We are working on our user testing, once done, will add it in the report.

Would love to know what your final thoughts are about our proposal for SDNFT Con.

Thanks.

Good morning, on my opinion - No. The last time Marketing dAo approved 300N for social media work (tg and discord), but the channels are abandoned .

Would be great to see comments from your mod @sanket who recently got another one payment from you.




Hi @Dacha ,

Nivedita here, I am the co-founder of Naksh.

We don’t entirely agree with this statement. I feel like community building should’ve definitely been our main focus prior to the launch. Unfortunately, there was a lack of communication between us and the moderator for which we are partially at blame.

Having said that, we have had a steady inflow of members into our discord channel through word of mouth as well as the multiple community events and Global meet ups that Lakshmi and I make sure to attend. The team at Flying Rhino Guild has made sure to market our TG and discord channels through the Social Media Posts that we put out.

As for this, this is the total of two payouts in one, Jan - Feb and Feb - March. We initially paid the moderator around 40N and ever since we realised the inactivity of the group we reduced the payouts to 20N (which was to be continued until there was improvement in terms of community activities.)

We had made the decision to stop working with sanket since the current month and had been on the lookout for a community manager that understood the deliverables of the project and was equally enthusiastic about building a community for Naksh. We are currently working with a new community manager @Albhion to see how we can build Naksh’s community better.

Our focus has always been on building the product first, while we simultaneously got people interested in the idea and then directed them to the discord/TG groups, as this way we ensured organic, interested and supportive individuals in our community.

Hi @David_NEAR @jcatnear @satojandro @marketingdao-council!

Just wanted to let you all know that we will be updating this proposal with a revised budget, as we are

  1. Not travelling in-person to the event.
  2. Are speaking to the members at NEARxPublish @Samtoshi_F_Baby who have partnered with SDNFT Con and will be collaborating with them for the same.
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Ok, thanks. Let’s see on improvements.

Yes, it’s great be focused on product, I definitely can help you reach your milestones.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1rQ4g4VPEAjFkTAMad6efLdOAsGDrWLAEPQOpc9wAXFo/htmlview

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Thank you! Would love your support and encouragement @Dacha.
Please feel free to ask us any questions you have regarding the project, team and progress.

Going to ramp up efforts to market Naksh a lot more + Focus on building our community (If you have any specific suggestions, please let me know :slight_smile:

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Good evening. Thank You :blush:. Going to close the proposal and Marketing DAO waiting for a new one. Have a good one :blush:

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