[bisq-network/roles] Ambassador (#35)

[Harry MacFinned]

## 2018.08 Report (Reddit)

I started the reddit animation on july 22th (see previous report)

Our own r/bisq subreddit is not very active, but this is slightly changing.
As of today, r/bisq has 749 subscribers.
To give a comparison, r/localbitcoins has 2.100 subscribers.
Exchanges subreddits seems a bit different from altcoins subreddits.

I post the Bisq offer book + the bisq F2F offer book from monday to saturday.
The offer book is then cross-posted (+customized) to ~4 other subreddits (average this month), which I try to rotate on a 5 days basis (monday-friday).
Apart from exposing daily Bisq's currencies/altcoins, this is an opportunity to post links and to show how Bisq is well alive.
Views for the offer book are in the [100, 200] range. Sometimes more. (Maybe also bots here ?)

In fact, r/bisq is (imo) necessary (one cannot not have a (living) subreddit), but a great part of the effective advertising is done :
- by advertising on other subreddits,
- not by direct posting, but by searching and answering posts and comments.

You have to promote on the place(s) and in the pertinent threads the customer reads. (This needs searching).

On 2018/8/30, the account I use is subscribed to 56 subreddits (a bit too much).
Roughly one half are subreddits from altcoins offered/traded on Bisq.
The other half are more general subreddits (crypto, btc, etc).

Navigation is a bit delicate (you post on others groups). I take great care of not being classified as a spammer.
Negative returns for posting/comenting are < 1%.
Much more thanks and upvotes than negative returns.
Several people wrote that they will try Bisq (and some did) <!-- kwukduck -->

For august :
- 200 posts/crossposts
- 70 comments
- details here : https://www.reddit.com/user/Dieter_von_Bisq

It's the comments that bring users. But the posts are also needed to generate comments, and then answer to comments.

Since 14/8, I follow also the news in the DEX/crypto/privacy/etc domains in order :
- to crosspost some general news which may concern/interest Bisq users in r/bisq. This in order to have r/bisq not strictly centered 100% on Bisq.
- to search for opportunities to advertise Bisq

August 2018 was a bit of a special month for Bisq.
Bisq had very good (at least its best) numbers with XMR (and in general).
I considered this as an opportunity to promote Bisq with numbers not being too small (even there were some naysayers answering "pathetic").

I profit to mention also this post from MK : https://github.com/bisq-network/growth/issues/10
I falled on this post only recently (by chance), but this post describes exactly a part of what I did on reddit this month.

This month report is a bit long, because it's the 1st month for this activity and I wanted to write things to not forget them.
Next report(s) should be shorter.

I'll probably increase the daily xposts in september (5).

Very certainly, there is still room to exploit reddit.
I'm worried that Bisq has not another good altcoin performer like XMR.
- I think reddit is a good place to push for altcoins, but some strategy is needed. All ideas are welcome.
- I would like also to push on some pertinent national currencies (Venezuela, Turkey, Brazil, etc) but I haven't find a proper angle yet. (I see eg that DASH pushes on Venezuela). There's still to dig.


Annex
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- atm, the offer book post is mainly handmade. But I'm coding a python script which will allow to post it in markdown format (as for the F2F offer book). If it's possible to automate things, I'll do it.
- To post on reddit, you have to wait 10 minutes between posts, which makes the process a bit tedious.
- reddit's search engine unfortunately returns only results for the titles.
- I suspect that the number of subscribers for some subreddits is fake (bots subscription).
(subreddit r/pivx with 8K subscribers has eg 300 views for a post, while r/LitecoinMarkets with 30K subscribers has 9 views for the same post.)


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