Proposal description
UPDATE : Dashlancer will work with Venezuelan Projects to help citizens Earn Dash through skills online. Creating opportunities to earn Dash is the best way to increase self-reliance, regain financial freedom and a way to keep procuring more Dash without giving it away.
Dashlancer : Building a Remittance Use Case for Dash in the Cross Border Freelancing Industry.
PREVIOUS PROPOSAL UPDATES I FREELANCING COURSE I FORUM DISCUSSION ON VIDEOS I RESEARCH REPORT ON FREELANCING
SUMMARY
Talented professionals across the globe are on the lookout for opportunities to earn crypto for a living while employers require talent across roles that will accept payments in crypto.
Platforms like Freelancer and Upwork do not accept crypto since they can't accept it without losing a large revenue stream from remittances.(REPORT). With Dash, we can reduce money transfer costs by a factor of 100 and offer instant, private, micro and irreversible transactions.
This project aims to build and strongly market a platform to help match businesses and professionals for work paid with Dash, filling a vital gap for crypto-work and creating a new path to spend and earn Dash for the community.
So many people want to participate in Dash but have no way to do so. Giving new users the opportunity to earn Dash is one of the best ways we can facilitate this, and not only that, it puts Dash in the hands of the people so that they can spend Dash at all the merchants and service providers being onboarded to accept Dash.
Dashlancer aims to help Dash gain acceptance as both a currency and remittance system in the large freelancing industry and create a closed ecosystem of Dash Transactions. We aim to give special attention to users in countries in Venezuela by allying with organisations like Dash Venezuela. By creating a path to earn Dash, we want to help new users become self reliant and gain true financial freedom.
This video is a part of the educational course we made for Freelancers!
Dashlancer also aims to become a self funding platform by charging nominal fees. This is not to make a profit but rather to ensure that we can become independent. We recognize that the treasury cannot keep supporting projects continuously.
THE NEED FOR A NEW CRYPTO-LANCING PLATFORM
Our previous project with the Dash community focused on researching the freelancing industry and creating an educational course.
As part of that project we
Download Our Research Report on Freelancing
Dashlancer Proposal Objectives:
Platform Features
The platform aims to offer the following features with a clean and modern interface :
Platform Pricing and Self Sufficiency :
We will charge a Transaction Fee of 1% to both Freelancers and Employers after an initial free run.
These nominal fees are to not to make a profit, but to fund ongoing development and ensuring that we do not have to depend on treasury funds for times to come.
Marketing Plan
The marketing plan for the project is divided into 3 major segments.
a) Scaling Job Listings
A multichannel advertising and content campaign promoting select jobs will be run on the following platforms.
c) Public Relations Campaign
A genuine use case for crypto-currency is a subject matter of great public interest. A public relations campaign will be run to promote crypto-freelancing on Dashlancer. We will look to target influential technology blogs to cover our platform and get us users organically.
*Dashlancer remains unaffected by the crypto-ad ban.
**A more detailed marketing plan can be viewed here.
Budget
About Us
Gaurav Gupta is a Marketing Technologist, specialising in making marketing more effective through Lean acquisition at Scale, Simplifying On-Boarding processes, Funnel Optimisation, and Marketing automation. He has led marketing for consumer internet businesses like Labster (VR Education) and Bridallive.Com (SAAS for Bridalshops).
He has a background in the online freelancing industry and has led marketing for the Netherlands based Squads.Com, a popular online platform to match teams of top talent freelancers with employers.
Main Benefits of Dashlancer to the Dash Community
Dashlancer : Building a Remittance Use Case for Dash in the Cross Border Freelancing Industry.
PREVIOUS PROPOSAL UPDATES I FREELANCING COURSE I FORUM DISCUSSION ON VIDEOS I RESEARCH REPORT ON FREELANCING
SUMMARY
Talented professionals across the globe are on the lookout for opportunities to earn crypto for a living while employers require talent across roles that will accept payments in crypto.
Platforms like Freelancer and Upwork do not accept crypto since they can't accept it without losing a large revenue stream from remittances.(REPORT). With Dash, we can reduce money transfer costs by a factor of 100 and offer instant, private, micro and irreversible transactions.
This project aims to build and strongly market a platform to help match businesses and professionals for work paid with Dash, filling a vital gap for crypto-work and creating a new path to spend and earn Dash for the community.
So many people want to participate in Dash but have no way to do so. Giving new users the opportunity to earn Dash is one of the best ways we can facilitate this, and not only that, it puts Dash in the hands of the people so that they can spend Dash at all the merchants and service providers being onboarded to accept Dash.
Dashlancer aims to help Dash gain acceptance as both a currency and remittance system in the large freelancing industry and create a closed ecosystem of Dash Transactions. We aim to give special attention to users in countries in Venezuela by allying with organisations like Dash Venezuela. By creating a path to earn Dash, we want to help new users become self reliant and gain true financial freedom.
This video is a part of the educational course we made for Freelancers!
Dashlancer also aims to become a self funding platform by charging nominal fees. This is not to make a profit but rather to ensure that we can become independent. We recognize that the treasury cannot keep supporting projects continuously.
THE NEED FOR A NEW CRYPTO-LANCING PLATFORM
- Platforms like Fiverr and Upwork make large revenues from inward and outward remittances.
- Freelancers make less than $.0.75 for every $1 that goes into their payment systems.
- They cannot integrate crypto-currencies without without a losing a major revenue stream(and have not).
- Dash offers instant, private, irreversible, micro and global transactions.
- With Dash, Freelancers gain financial Freedom; save on remittance fees and avoid chargebacks / frozen funds.
- A Dash Specific platform can find help us find strong traction in the payments industry for digital work.
Our previous project with the Dash community focused on researching the freelancing industry and creating an educational course.
As part of that project we
- Developed Dashlancer.Com as a platform to educate Freelancers about Dash.
- Created a 4 part Video Course to explain benefits of Using Dash to Freelancers.
- Compiled a Research Report on the Freelancing Industry from a Blockchain Perspective.
- Marketed Course to Freelancers in South Asia.
- 774,000 Embedded Video Views to the Dashlancing Course on Youtube
- 22,000 Clicks on the Dashlancer Platform
- 800+ Freelancer Signups interested in Dash Jobs
Download Our Research Report on Freelancing
Dashlancer Proposal Objectives:
- Design and Build a Platform to match Employers with Professionals
- Onboard Freelancers and Employers with a Multichannel Marketing Campaign
- Optimize Platform to increase matches.
- Freelancers in developing countries pay heavy remittance fees(~7%) to receive payments.
- Payments take significant time(7-21 Days) to arrive, depending on payment method.
- Many instances of chargeback frauds and frozen funds.
- Platforms like Fiverr and Upwork charge heavy fees ( 20-30 %) with arbitrary rules.
- Near Zero Transaction Fees.
- Instant, Private and Global Transactions.
- No threat of Chargebacks or Frozen Funds.
Platform Features
The platform aims to offer the following features with a clean and modern interface :
- Add, Manage, Edit, Mark and Categorise Project Listings
- Preview Listings before posting
- Company and Freelancer Profiles
- Searchable Listings Database
- Resume Management System for Freelancers
- Jobs Suggest, Project Alerts, Custom Tags, Tag Filters
- Apply, Manage and Review Project Applications
- Project Bookmarking System
- Review and Rating System
- Dash Payments Integration
- Shapeshift Integration
Platform Pricing and Self Sufficiency :
We will charge a Transaction Fee of 1% to both Freelancers and Employers after an initial free run.
These nominal fees are to not to make a profit, but to fund ongoing development and ensuring that we do not have to depend on treasury funds for times to come.
Marketing Plan
The marketing plan for the project is divided into 3 major segments.
a) Scaling Job Listings
- Collect Job Listings by reaching out to all Treasury Proposal Owners
- Advertisements on Internal Dash Media
- Targeted B2B Advertisements.
A multichannel advertising and content campaign promoting select jobs will be run on the following platforms.
- Linkedin
- Dtube
- Steemit
- Facebook / Youtube
c) Public Relations Campaign
A genuine use case for crypto-currency is a subject matter of great public interest. A public relations campaign will be run to promote crypto-freelancing on Dashlancer. We will look to target influential technology blogs to cover our platform and get us users organically.
*Dashlancer remains unaffected by the crypto-ad ban.
**A more detailed marketing plan can be viewed here.
Budget
About Us
Gaurav Gupta is a Marketing Technologist, specialising in making marketing more effective through Lean acquisition at Scale, Simplifying On-Boarding processes, Funnel Optimisation, and Marketing automation. He has led marketing for consumer internet businesses like Labster (VR Education) and Bridallive.Com (SAAS for Bridalshops).
He has a background in the online freelancing industry and has led marketing for the Netherlands based Squads.Com, a popular online platform to match teams of top talent freelancers with employers.
Main Benefits of Dashlancer to the Dash Community
- Adoption: Builds Adoption for Dash as a currency and payment system in the Commercial Remittances space for Digital Services.
- Large Remittance Market: Freelancing Remittances represent a large and growing market with technically-savvy users who prefer better technology.
- Adds Talent to the Dash Ecosystem: Adds Talented Professionals to the Dash Ecosystem.
- Liquidity for Exchanges : Freelancing hotspots in South Asia, Philippines, South Africa get greater market liquidity as workers sell Dash to convert to Fiat.
- Eliminates Dash-Fiat Conversion: The treasury spends 6176 Dash every month, Dashlancer can enable more direct dash payments , keeping Dash from being sold for fiat and reducing the selling pressure.
- Locks up more Dash : Reduces Selling Pressure on Dash by locking up currency in the Freelancing Trade.
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solarguy
Thank you so much for that.
We would do our absolute best, given an opportunity to carry on working for Dash.
Best Regards
Gaurav
Dashlancer : Building a Remittance Use Case for Dash in the Cross Border Freelancing Industry by GauravGupta
https://dashwatch.org/files/1524869276898.pdf
And not that expensive. Big yes.
solarguy
Dashlancer aims to be a community driven, self-funded but not for profit initiative. Our mission is to play a pivotal key role in spreading the use of Dash as a currency and remittance system, bringing financial freedom to digital workers around the world. We hope to remain under the guidance of core and look to them to choose an appropriate structure.
Thanks and Regards,
Gaurav
I saw great use case of Dash in this proposal for very small Dash ask on budget.
You have my vote.
Good luck with your proposal.
Regards,
Thank you so much for your support and inputs. Really appreciate them.
At the time of resubmitting, I reached out to Techsquad, however he indicated that they were busy with other things at the moment. Thus we are working with a different dev team for this, who have proposed a lean platform at ~50 Dash.
Our main focus is on gaining users quickly and demonstrating how Dash can transform cross-border payment for Freelancers.
Hope to collaborate again with them in future.
Best regards
Gaurav
It's seem to me that the proposal owner my be correct that they are unwilling to start using crypto-currency. For that reason I am voting yes.
*If I am incorrect, please correct and I will change my votes again to no
Platforms like Freelancer, Fiver and Upwork cannot accept crypto without losing a large revenue stream from cross-border remittances. We researched this as part of our foundation project. Here is a link to our research report : https://goo.gl/yCzWxm
With Dash, we can reduce money transfer costs by a factor of 100 and offer instant, private, irreversible and global transactions. Freelancers are likely find these features especially attractive compared to options like Paypal and Wire Transfer.
Best Regards
Gaurav Gupta
Team Dashlancer.
I see a lot of work happening to make paying with Dash possible, but this is the only proposal I've seen that addresses the issue of how people get paid in Dash. The price is reasonable. Voting YES.
The best talent is increasingly switching over to location and time independent work, creating a bigger market for digital work by the day. However, they still have to rely on expensive and legacy systems like Paypal to get paid.
By helping Technical Workers switch over to Dash payments, we can help them experience greater financial freedom and also develop one of our most important use cases - cross border remittances.
Best Regards,
Gaurav
Voting NO.
Many people seem focused and excited to get Dash accepted in shops, even small local ones. How about be equally excited to earn Dash, even small amounts for small jobs?
Also, this proposal isn't just a website, it's also marketing that bypasses the large "ad ban" on cryptocurrencies, since it isn't about speculating on crypto!
To put it in perspective, let's compare to some other proposals:
Freedom book sponsorship $26,000
Marketing remittance to India $34,000
Marketing at German Uni $41,000
A conference in Argentina (5000 ppl) $78,000
A conference in Estonia (4000 ppl) $177,000
Dashop.io site $140,000
DashNexus site $408,000
>> Dashlancer site + PR campaign $77,000 <<
Existing platforms like Fiverr and Upwork cannot integrate crypto-currencies without a losing a major revenue stream. They are built around the legacy money transfer industry. In addition to their fee, they make significant revenues from d inward / outward remittances.
Freelancers get less than 75 cents for every dollar that goes into the system. In addition to Paypal (or wire transfer fees), here is an example of what fiver charges a user just to withdraw their funds. https://goo.gl/yCzWxm
Since Dash can strike at the very nerve centre of the remittance Industry by reducing transfer costs by 100x, we won’t get adoption from these platforms. We have researched this extensively as part of our previous project. Here is the link of our report : https://goo.gl/Yb1ksy
Going crypto-first allows us to reimagine the talent market from a Dash Perspective and implement new ideas that were never possible with legacy payment systems:
Eg. Global Micro Payments for 1 cent can facilitate micro jobs.
We believe Crypto Based Freelancing offers a real use case for Dash for a real need ie Facilitating low-fee, instant and Global Remittances without the fear of Frozen Funds or Chargeback frauds.
The treasury itself is a ~$5M (on current prices) talent market to begin with and there is a strong underlying demand for options to earn crypto. A system to harness and optimally utilise this demand can set off a domino effect for dash based payments in the large and growing freelancing industry.
Best regards,
Gaurav