Strategic program of the Free TON Brand Masters
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This program was written by Dmitry bitjudge. You may know me as one of the Initial Members of Free TON Wiki and Wiki team lead. |
NB: The reference to “we” in the context of this document implies an initiative group consisting of the following persons: Dmitry bitjudge (Telegram), Michael Shapkin (Telegram), Daria Artanovskaya (Telegram). The initiative group has the ability and interest to implement this program in order to achieve the stated goals. However, the final choice must be made by the community.
Brand Masters program description
Program objectives
- Building strong local Free TON communities led by BMs and their invited followers. Communities can be formed according to linguistic, national, geo, thematic, or professional characteristics.
- Involvement in Free TON of new enthusiasts, followers, public figures who will become an active part of the community and, possibly, new BMs to help achieve the goals of Free TON.
- Encouraging BMs to leadership, personal active position, constant communication with the community, participation in various initiatives, contests (both as a participant and as an initiator), AMA sessions, and any Free TON events.
Program promotion
Obviously, the program needs to be promoted outward to attract BMs from social media, crypto and tech communities, and any other source where the target audience is concentrated. We will be looking for people who can and want to become BMs in Free TON.
The promotion plan includes:
- Announcement of the BM Program on popular crypto forums and communication with the community there;
- Collaborate with cryptocurrency and other media to announce the BM Program;
- Placing a program announcement on media platforms with free publication (for example, in Russia it is vc.ru, tjournal.ru, roem.ru) and communication with the community there;
- Program announcement through video broadcasts, conferences, AMA sessions. Speaking at Free TON events, as well as other online and offline events with a presentation of the program;
- Help existing Free TON BMs to announce the program by using their resources and opportunities to publicly promote the program;
- Using personal contacts and some of our own know-how to find new BMs among founders, CEO, CTO, and other top people in IT, cryptocurrency, and other areas.
Program results
The BM Program has a long way to go and the question arises of how to evaluate the results of the BM Program “on the road”, at any stage. The following criteria will confirm that the program runs successfully:
- Transparency of all processes that make up the work of the BM Program;
- The ability to participate and influence the community on any aspect of the program;
- Public statistics of the program, regular reporting of BMs;
- Community growth, an obvious influx of new enthusiasts and supporters;
- Growth in the number of contests, AMA sessions, created addresses (wallets);
- Growth in the number of Free TON partners and independent projects on the blockchain.
Brand Masters roles distribution
The performance of any BM should be judged by his/her performance.
Based on the goals of the program, only the quality of the invited followers is important, their real activity in Free TON, and the benefits that these people bring to the community. Only this criterion of the quality of the invited followers will be applied in assessing the effectiveness of the BM’s work.
Therefore, it does not matter whether the BM is an ordinary enthusiast, popular blogger, opinion leader, public figure, celebrity, etc. Any of them should get an equal chance because it is fair and meets the idea of Decentralization. Further, it does not matter the size of the BM’s own audience on social networks or media, it is only important how the BM will use this resource and whether it will bring results.
Here’s an example: We believe that a small blogger who attracts 100 active and interested followers will bring much more value to Free TON than free advertising from a media person (declaring himself a BM) with his own audience of several million people, after which thousands of useless and non-initiative people will come only out of curiosity.
Based on the above, we believe that referral programs and other similar methods based on quantitative audience recruitment will be of much less benefit than performance measurement.
Determining the number of Brand Masters needed
The program has no exact limit on the number of BMs. However, recruitment of new BMs to the program may be terminated if the program reaches the limit of rewards, or if it becomes clear that the objectives of the program have been achieved.
A system for monitoring the fulfilment of Brand Masters’ duties
Brand Masters Support Team
To help BMs achieve program objectives, monitor the program, and oversee BMs’ work, a support team should be formed of members of the initiative group and/or other members chosen by the community.
The support team will be rewarded for their work in the amount of 20% of the expenses of the BM Program.
Brand Masters Program Jury and Brand Masters Subgovernance
In the event that this BM Program is deemed strategically important to Free TON, the community may consider establishing Free TON Brand Masters Subgovernance. This also involves the election of a separate Brand Masters Program Jury, whose responsibilities will include voting for the work of BMs.
An authorized jury will have the right to exclude any BM from the program if he/she regularly fails to fulfill his duties or discredits the ideas and principles of Free TON.
Thus, the elected authorized jury will vote for:
- Rewarding BMs;
- Removing BMs from the program;
- Change Score to Tons Ratio (see the Rewards structure section).
Monitoring system
All these programs will be publicly available to the community at any time, including:
- A report on the work of each BM, allowing to assess his/her current progress in the program;
- Information about how many and what people the BM invited to Free TON (see the Terms of token rewards section);
- Support Team Performance Report;
- Any other public statistics of the program that will help make it transparent and open to the community.
This publicly available data will enable the community to monitor program implementation, participate in decision-making, and assess the current progress of the BM Program.
Identification of regional communities and language groups for community leadership by Brand Masters
There is no need to thoroughly evaluate the BM’s existing social profiles and check the quality of the audience there. Because (as mentioned above), we will evaluate the work of the BM based on his/her results.
As for the creation by the BM of new local communities Free TON, they can be formed according to linguistic, national, geo, thematic or professional characteristics.
Although the creation of local language communities seems to be the most obvious thing, why should we forbid a BM to create, for example, a chat for his favorite Free TON game (thematic chat), or a chat for Free TON applications developers for some narrow niche (developers chat)? In the end, it is only important that the BM is a local leader and involves new people in Free TON, as stated in the program’s goals.
The main tasks that Brand Masters can perform on a common basis and each in their language group
We initially believe that a BM acts in good faith, honestly, openly, responsibly, communicatively, and demonstrates leadership qualities. It is certain that the BM signed the Declaration on Decentralization, believes in the idea and future of Free TON, otherwise he/she is not worthy of the honorary title of BM.
Each BM can act according to his own plan if the objectives of the program are achieved.
However, to help BMs get started quickly, the Support Team will prepare a detailed guide for them. Here are the approximate titles of the sections that will be included (this list is provided as an example and will definitely be expanded):
- Create your own Telegram chat or group on any local or global social network, and start inviting people there;
- Provide more info for each newbie, tell everyone why they are here and what they can get;
- Tell your followers about the opportunity to participate in Free TON contests and the rewards for winning them;
- Help your followers install Surf and create an address (wallet);
- Ask your followers to fill out a Free TON Fan Application Form (this will establish that you have invited a person and will give you the right to claim your rewards in the future);
- Tell your followers about the current Free TON contests and help fill out the contest application for those who want to participate;
- Find out what your followers are good at, what professional skills they have, how they want to apply their knowledge for Free TON;
- Help your followers integrate into other Free TON communities so they can fulfill their potential;
- [… many other points …]
- Reach out to the best of your followers and see if any of them wants to become the new BM of Free TON. If the answer is yes, then help them do it!
Essentially, this step-by-step list is a coherent funnel of engaging new people in Free TON. These steps will also help the BM himself get used to the Free TON ecosystem to learn many things that will later need to be taught to his followers.
Terms of token rewards for tasks performed
KPI unit
The basic unit of KPIs is Verified Follower (VF).
A Verified Follower is a BM-invited follower who has proven to be a real person in the community and/or has completed the Free TON Fan Application Form (FAF). FAF is recommended but not required.
In addition, any person can become a Verified Follower automatically without filling out a form if they have been extremely active in the community for at least 2 months and no one has any doubts that the corresponding profile belongs to a real person.
When creating the FAF template, we will be guided by the principles of Free TON decentralization and guarantee that we will NOT request any personal data specified in any ID cards issued by any government agency. Providing information about yourself is voluntary and is only necessary as evidence that an applicant is a real person.
The list of questions and technical implementation of the FAF will be made in such a way as to make it as difficult as possible for bots to use and send fake data. This will mean that almost all applications are from real people.
Each BM will have an individual form for their followers (based on a uniform parental template) so that it is possible to determine the people that each BM invited to Free TON.
Form responses (i.e. information submitted) will be transparent and instantly available to the entire community. This will achieve the following goals:
- See how many and what people the BM invited to Free TON;
- Show the community the progress of the BM Program;
- See if a BM followers fake data to fill out the FAF.
Rewards structure
The BM’s reward structure is based on the performance of his Verified Followers. VF’ results are evaluated in specific Scores.
VF Trust Level |
FAF sent |
VF Scores |
VF actions (exactly the VF, but not the BM himself) |
0 |
Yes |
0 |
Hasn’t shown himself in the community in any way |
1 |
Yes |
5 |
• Regularly active in the local chat of the BM for 2+ weeks |
2 |
Yes |
25 |
• Regularly active in multiple Free TON chats for 2+ weeks • Wrote at least 10 meaningful comments (posts) on the forum*, which received 5+ likes |
3 |
Yes |
50 |
• Regularly active in multiple Free TON chats for 2+ weeks • Created a new topic on the forum*, which received 5+ replies and 5+ likes |
4 |
Yes |
75 |
• Became the author of Free TON Wiki and wrote the first article(s) of 5000+ characters in any language that are used on the Wiki |
5 |
Yes |
100 |
• Sent a correctly completed application for any Free TON contest • The application was not rejected by the judges when voting and received an average score of 5+ after the end of the contest |
6 |
No |
100 |
• Extremely active in the community for 2+ months and no one doubts that the relevant profile belongs to a real person** |
7 |
Yes |
250 |
• Created a new Contest Proposal for Governance or any Subgovernance • This contest was approved and received Active status |
8 |
Yes |
500 |
Any of these (each action is a separate reward): • Elected to the Free TON Jury or one of the Subgovernance Juries • Performed at any AMA Free TON as an invited guest or co-host |
9 |
Yes |
750 |
Any of these (each action is a separate reward): • Gave interviews to popular online or offline media. The interview must be completely devoted to Free TON • Has spoken at a major offline conference or major public event. The performance must be completely devoted to Free TON |
10 |
Yes |
1000 |
• Headed his own project or Free TON initiative • The project/initiative has been actively developing for 2+ months and has proven results |
11 |
Yes |
1000 |
• Became an Initial Members in one of the Free TON Initiatives that claims to be Subgovernance • The corresponding Subgovernance Proposal has been received Active status |
12 |
Yes |
5000 |
• Permanent leader of his own project or Free TON initiative • The project/initiative became part of the Free TON ecosystem, has been operating for 6+ months, has proven results and continues to actively develop |
13 |
Yes |
10000 |
• Became the new elected BM (or Ambassador) of Free TON • Demonstrates active development for 2+ months and has proven results |
Everywhere in this table, Free TON chats and the Free TON official forum are assumed.
* User should NOT be blocked or banned from the forum for any reason.
** In the future, this person is considered “Automatically confirmed as VF” and his subsequent activity is assessed in the same way as if he filled out and submitted the FAF.
The BM will be rewarded multiple times for each Verified Follower, as that VF becomes even more involved in the Free TON community and ecosystem and earns the next Trust Level, according to the table above.
It follows from this that the BM will be interested in constantly helping as many of his followers as possible to integrate more strongly into the Free TON community and processes. This is one of the goals of the BM Program, and this goal will be maximized.
Score to Ton Ratio
Initially, the Score to Ton Ratio is set at 1:1. That is, at the time of writing this program, the actual rewards in the table above are equal to the same amount in Tons tokens.
However, the BM Program is long-term and no one knows the real value of Tons in the future, which can change many times. Score to Ton Ratio will allow you to correlate the reward of BMs with the value of Ton at any given time, so that BMs can continue to receive a reward adequate to their efforts.
The Score to Ton Ratio can only be changed by a vote of the jury authorized to vote in the BM Program.
Optional note
This program can also be viewed as a Free TON Ambassador Program, or both BM and ambassador programs can be combined, if it’s acceptable.