Tapping This Think Tank Again - Converting Steemit Into A Multifaceted Creative Agency [Growth-Idea πŸ’‘]steemCreated with Sketch.

in growth-ideas β€’Β  7 years agoΒ 

Almost always the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Yes they do.

Before starting my first design contest on steemit last week I had absolutely no idea how many amazing creative talents are swimming around in this big think tank.

I mean I had seen incredibly skilled people and their outstanding creations already, but I didn't know that this was just the tip of the iceberg.

Now I do.

It's been quite a while that @zurvanic and @andrarchy asked the community to publish their marketing / growth ideas. However, I've just had a look at the #growth-ideas tag and it still seems to be constantly feeded.

Today I'd like to propose a new idea, too.

This platform is full of talented designers. By providing a stage for them, we'd be able to build a powerful creative agency on the blockchain!

@surfermarly doing what she loves most (logo designed by @sjennon)

Tapping the think tank

Why should we hire an agency for creative artwork when we can cooperate with a Graphic Designer on steemit instead?

To be honest it took me a certain time to fully comprehend the power of @steemgigs - and to start loving it.

The idea of Steemgigs (Terry @surpassinggoogle please correct me here if I'm wrong) is to provide a community within the community where people are invited to present, offer and share their skills with each other - like a blockchain based multifaced service provider.

With Steemgigs it's been with like with all these groundbreaking killer apps in the world: It was there all the time, it only needed somebody to think and uncover it!

Feeding the growth-idea and promoting another talent: Guess who designed this brand new cover for my steemit blog?

You can see it in full size when opening my blog: https://steemit.com/@surfermarly.

No it wasn't Ogilvy & Mather neither McCann Erickson. This is a Zane Bradshaw design.

For those who still don't know Zane: he's on steemit and here you can find him @enazwahsdarb.

I was already following him and his blog for a while. But then he over-performed during my logo design contest and his entry became the community winner.

We then did what everybody should do on steemit: we decided on bundling forces and build a team! Zane asked me if I was interested in having a banner for my blog like the one he has, and I loved the idea.

Then the creative process started. We brainstormed about the design, then I did a photoshooting. Finally Zane put all the pieces together. We finetuned, and here it is! Another great community output.

Zane's efforts were rewarded with a decent amount of SBD, so this Creative Steem Agency has even started to earn some money! πŸ€‘

That's exactly how this eco-system is going to work here.

So THINK OUT LOUD. Offer what you have, share your knowledge and skills with others, build teams, create value.

Uncover your talents and grow. The chance is now.

The strength of the team is each member. The strength of each member is the team. - Phil Jackson

Have a great one, steemians!

Marly -


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@surfermarly!! Thanks so much for this :D Yeah it took a while to get through all the constant trial-and-error phases, but here we are. Final product! :)

It was actually a lot of fun, if I say so myself! I didn't know that @surpassinggoogle was the one who started steemgigs.. Very interesting!

I never resteem posts, so for me to have resteemed this, you know it had to be awesome! :P Your banner suites your blog so much nicer than I even imagined! Talk soon my friend!

What an honor being the one and only RESTEEM in your blog! :-)
Thank you!!! It's been a HUGE pleasure teamworking with you.
Big hugs and talk to you soon (well right now, haha)

I think I have given one or two other resteems ever before.. And they were both shout-out posts dedicated to me haha! One was when @stackin posted about me, and another for when @saffisara posted about me :)

So yeah :D You have accomplished something lol

Talk soon :D

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YOU are SO right! Steemit is ful of awesome talent. I will ask some designers in the future to help me. :) I think the problem here is. One designer is no agency. If steemit as a platform were to hire the talents here for the platform at least one person would be needed to coordinate this. Whereas an agency outside steemit might bring the coordination skills also.

I think the community feature that was announced by Steemit Inc for Q3 to come will be the perfect environment for ideas like that. There we will be able to bundle like-minded people and groups of interest - thus also create also real service communties. I don't think that you need a coordinator then. You can handle it like I did, running a pitch asking people to publish their ideas and then select your favourite one and pay for it. It's like a market inside the eco-system.
And yes, you should definitely consider asking for help in this community whenever you need some :-)

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Do you know when the next hard fork is up?

Full 100% and resteemed :-)

Thank you so much!!! 😍😍😍

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You really make your posts worth reading, and you're hot, are there any downsides of you, we need to know? ;-)

LOL πŸ˜‚ You really made me laugh now - so thanks for that!!

Impatient, impulsive, loud. Do you need more? πŸ˜„

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Like most women! :-) no burping like a fisherman? Lol

Hahaha! After drinking a bottle of Coke it might work πŸ˜†
I could include that in my next video... Good idea! LOL

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I'll keep you to that! ;-)

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I was really thinking about this type of project for the artists like us. I am a 3D designer by profession and do freelancing for graphic designing. I will love to be the part of your team, so let me join it. You can check my amazing work in my posts for better ideas.

Resteemed.....upvote for me please and follow

steemit is a great platform your work make it a better community.

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Good post i would like to make friend with you

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Upvoted and resteemed , great post
Please visit my blog

Β  Β· Β 7 years agoΒ 

Good post ,worth reading

Thank you!

Β  Β· Β 7 years agoΒ 

wow ... dein logo ist richtig richtig gut!

Ich finde es auch total super, hihi πŸ˜‰

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So do you really think Steemit is not a waste of time?
Please see my post in this regard at
https://steemit.com/steemit/@csmit/steemitwaste-of-time-some-key-questions-you-need-to-be-honest-about

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To me it has never been. I haven't ever learned more than during the time on steemit. Besides, I have turned my hobby (surfing) into a second business (surf blog / videos). Last but not least, and this is probably the most important point: I've met amazing people from all over the world I wouldn't have known otherwise.
These are my personal arguments which don't have to necessarily match with your experience. But everybody has the same chances here :-)
Good luck!

hey @surfermarly i'd love for you to be in the first collaborative steemit video i've done, wanna do a line to video, we pay 2 steem, i know it's not much but it's an incentive. already done a little preview reel, check out my blog for the posts, you'll find them (did'nt want to post my links here, that's a bit rude!) - as for the idea of the agency, absolutely love that, the power of the tribe here is strong!

You can drop links whenever you want! I may not look at everything instantly, but I check out the things I consider worth reading πŸ˜‰ A "collaborative steemit video" definitely sounds interesting though! I will read it tonight, now heading back to work.

Amazing idea! I've already picked a line!!!
When is your deadline? Do I have time until tomorrow?

thank you! saw that! great, tomorrow is great. thank you!

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Perfect! Will do the shooting tomorrow in the afternoon and send it at night.

fantastic, that will be great!

Will need to do it tomorrow or on Saturday at latest. Yesterday and today there was too much wind at the beach, and the audio quality wouldn't have been appropriate. Will send it once I've got it. We keep in touch! :)

i did a little preview reel too!

I've seen it in your post! Amazing!!!
I'm happy to become part of it :-)
Tomorrow I'll shoot a nice sequence at the beach.

That is great, build your reputation by supporting others, upvoted and resteemed

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awesome lady, always innovative and full of ideas..keep it up

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Community is definitely the strength of the platform. And I like your logo by the way ;)

@surfermarly - There is no doubt that Steemit is a game changing concept. It already attracted so many talented people onboard. I'm sure that the future will be really bright here!

@cryptoqu33n

Steemit is like a house ofr the talented ones. The design is awesome

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We do have many talented designers here and I think it would be able to create some sort of creative freelance market maybe here on steemit where people would be able to buy services with steem or SBD.
I hope in the future we have more people who are confident in the blockchain will start putting services on steem for people to purchase creating this rich eco-system @surfermarly

to create some sort of creative freelance market

Yeah, that's what @steemgigs is about.

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It's wonderful how you can accidentally or on purpose find a group of talented people from a big group of people just by encouraging them to bring forth their ideas and thoughts.

Everybody can be surprised when you'll get to see and hear things you never could even have imagined and from people you wouldn't have otherwise ever seen.. or even if you had, you wouldn't had known of their talent.

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Im always inspired whenever i read your blog. I have managed to copy a few things and i have started to apply them

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All these quotes....
Wow
Clapping....
Thank you

So true, so many different talents in one community 😊 amazing.
I love your new banner and I know Zane and he is amazing, so humble and never hesitate to help others. He surprised me with my new awesome banner made by him @enazwahsdarb how amazing is that 😊 great thing. Upvoted and Resteemed
Have a great day

There can definitely be a micro-economy built-in to Steemit just by supporting each other's work. I have offered my book for sale on Steemit and will be offering my web design/WordPress services as well. There are talented people in many different disciplines here on Steemit. It gives us a ready made agency of people to call on.

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you are the best very nice job guy pleaze follow me and upvote