As explained in the topics which I created before:
our aim is to reach out to more developers from Turkey. For that we are going to start a Blockchain Academy
more details here: [PROPOSAL] Near Turkey Blockchain Academy
To continue further with our marketing + education and development program we need a total budget of 5000$ for the next month.
The program includes:
NEAR Telegram growth to 3-5000 members
Near Turkey Twitter growth to 3-5000 followers
more Youtube videos with youtube influencers
Get in contact with more developers from Turkey (currently 2 with us), idea → Blockchain Academy (check link above)
@cizi31 we don’t target for now on turksih speaking audithory but still can give attention to Blockchain Acadamy if it has english content, now https://www.etkinkampus.com/ whole event is even in turkish described
How many followers you started with vs the 3-5000 goal?
Started from 0, currently we have about 1800 telegram members. Our goal is to have about 3-5k till EOY.
how many youtube videos you’ll create?
2 youtube videos are in planning
how many admins you have currently and how many you wish to add?
Currently we are 5 admins, I would like to add 2 more admins till EOY
how many articles you will publish?
5 articles / month - we can increase the amount if there is an important announcement / news etc…
how many influencers you will work with CC @Zhunda if you need support from stars guild? @Zhunda the event is planned in turkish language, but we will sum up the event and publish an article in english language also. About influencers: our aim would be to get in contact with 3 Twitter influencers / month and let them share Tweets about NEAR Protocol.
Expand how you’ll educate more folks about NEAR?
Please check about the blockchain academy here:
In the next days we will prepare a meeting and talk about it in details with @amgando[PROPOSAL] Near Turkey Blockchain Academy
how much or which news are you hoping to share?
All news which are shared in the official Telegram + announcement channel will be translated and shared in our turkish group
approximately 7-12 announcements / month
Do you know exact youtubers you would like to reach out?
Could help you at last with describing the workflow.
Contact like 10 of youtubers, check the price rate per sebscruber that they want to get for promo and choose the ones that you feel the most comfortable with. If in general.
Otherwise pass me an idea how we can help you reach out turkish influencers.
Hi @cizi31 your Near Turkey Blockchain Academy looks great project. When do you expect this to be launched?
i would suggest that you separate the education and development - which is part of the Academy project, and focus this proposal on the social media tasks.
It looks like you have lined up some good influencers… but maybe you need to take another look at the funding amount requested.
It is best to start with a small team and show that you can perform.
@cryptocredit
Thank you for your feedback!
We are planning to do the Blockchain Academy in the next 2 months. We are expecting about 500-1000 students from Turkey to participate in our event. Today evening, I have a meeting with Sherif from Education Team and our Devs/Educators from Turkey about next steps, will let you updated about that.
If we come back to the social media tasks, I sent a report about what we did in Sept/Oct here Near Turkey September / October 2021 report
We started small and didn’t only focus on the Telegram group / Twitter / Website articles. We are also continuesly looking for Developers and Educators from Turkey that also takes a lot time to let them join us. In the next weeks we are aiming to have more influencers onboard.
We can start with the small ones as you said, they are asking about 500$ each YT video and 100-300$ for Twitter flood with 3 tweets. I am checking their analytics and references also if it’s worth or not. Aiming only to prepare good and cheap ones with high value.
If we come back to the Telegram group, as our aim is to have 3-5K members there, we have to increase admins as well, for the Twitter account Near Turkey we need to do promotions / contests to increase the activity there.
I understand it looks like a huge amount but we are expecting a lot in the next weeks and with the Blockchain Academy, we are aiming to have more developers and educators in our community also, this will help us to participate in NEAR grant projects next year.
I hope I could shortly explain about our next steps and targets.
We can also prepare a meeting in the next time to get to know each other.
Thank you in advance!
with admins I meant also editors for the website articles and community admins who are also active in other +10k community groups like Telegram: Contact @tegantr and redirecting members to Near Turkey if they have questions regarding NEAR.
Hi @cryptocredit ok I understand.
so with which amount do you think we can work? Unfortunately Influencers asking for each Tweet xxx $ that’s why we had to increase the amount for this month. Everything is going to be expensive.
Anyway, so what about 3800$ in NEAR ?
With the promise to increase the community *2 from here as stated aboth ?
Please let me know how we can proceed if needed I can also create a new proposal but this all really takes much time would be great to start asap to achieve our targets before EOY.
Btw. we got approval for the blockchain academy Aiming to have +1000 students with us next month. During the academy we will invite them to a developer Telegram group also.
I Know thats something for education department but just FYI as you asked about it yesterday
Thank you again for your feedback much appreciated.
Congratulations on getting approval for Blockchain Academy! Glad to see community members step up to help out Sherif with Education efforts, that area is exploding with activity across the ecosystem.
I’m curious: is the Turkish Guild receiving funding from any other sources?
It’s a little bit harder to assess the proposal as it has a mix of Education and Marketing; social media alone is indeed higher than the average we tend to fund, but as a guild with education initiatives, etc. the amount seems more reasonable. We just need to find the best way to structure and get these initiatives funded.
Finally, I would also suggest hosting in-person Meetups (where safe and appropriate to do so due to Covid restrictions). Now seems like a great time to get local communities back together.
