Alex, thank you for your kind words regarding the quality of my work.
Of course, I considered all the options you offer.
I was going to ask for funds directly from the DAO in this thread.
I communicated with delegates and almost everyone who answered me was delighted with my work. But the problem was that no one was ready to put forward an offer on my behalf. This is absolutely understandable - with such a proposal, anyone can ruin their relationship with ENSLabs, whose responsibility includes marketing. I would have asked you to launch Snapshot voting, but you were against my proposal then.
I requested funds from Ecosystem WG. They turned me down for the same reason - they don’t fund non-technical projects. At the same time, they did not consider the project itself, as I can judge from the view statistics from Medium.
Over the past three months, I have written two studies for ENS service providers. One concerned marketing, the other Business Development. In total, I spent a month on them and earned $150, due to the limited budget of these companies. I don’t think it’s even worth saying that this is very little money.
The fact is that many providers exist only on ENS money. For example, if at the same time ENS allocates 200-300 thousand dollars to it, I don’t quite understand how you can hire a researcher or marketer beyond the original budget that was planned to be spent on the Core Team.
You say that now it is important not to sort out the past, but to think about what to do next. So, I’ve been thinking for the last six months and constantly doing something until the situation became critical a couple of days ago. That’s why I wrote this post, because I have nothing left to lose and no good options for the future.
The damage from this situation has already been done and, as you said, there are already service providers who focus on marketing. My data is no longer completely up to date. The solutions I propose in my proposal are already partially solved. I have ruined relationships with many people because I asked them to finance me personally, which makes me look like a beggar. I have much less authority now than I had six months ago.
So I don’t really understand how I can now get funds for an irrelevant project.