Introduction
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Free TON and Stack Overflow collaboration options
The Free TON community is faced with the fact that very few teams participate in technical contests. This collaboration should help solve this problem. Let’s make Free TON more recognizable among
This collaboration offers to promote Free TON contests among developers and as part of the collaboration, Stack Overflow proposes to become an information and advertising platform of the Free TON about technical contests, as well as to become the main distributor among technical specialists about the Free TON project.
- Banner ads to distribute developers contests
- Promotion via ads among partner network
To deeply immerse developers in the Free TON project, it is proposed to conduct an annual marketing plan that will help to maximize the benefits of the project, as well as attract external specialists to develop the ecosystem as a whole.
Websites for promotion (with active utm link):
Or other dev websites if needed by request. + Hackathons/Events promo (if we have)
Estimated views for 1 year > Over 10mln views among developers.
For 1-year campaign:
680,000 TONs equal quarterly.
Address if digital promotion will be accepted:
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If the digital promotion fully satisfies the Free TON community impression, this proposal extends the digital promotion for 1 - year with a similar collaboration proposal (quarterly).
As to the sites I want to support - I just pay them, surprise! So, no, it does not make sense to advertise on any dev-facing website. Especially SO, since it’s sooooo easy to brigade there!