Greetings Steemit Team,

I am @girolamomarotta, Admin for the Steemit Community Italy, as well as Steemit's Italian Country Representative. I would like to write this post as our application for The Communities of the Month Support Program - Applications for October.

This time I would like to structure the post in a slightly different way than in the previous months, since some basic things of our Community remain unchanged over time and it would be superfluous to repeat them every month.

For this, I will focus on two fundamental points that we know are very important to the Steemit Team.

• Community Progress

• External Promotion

As for all the other points, you can read our proposal, our structure and our organization in this post.

• Community Progress

Our Community, in just over a year of activity, has achieved really positive and in some ways surprising results.

From a small group of 5 committed Steemians, we have grown into a Community of 3239 subscribers (+11.18% compared to last month) with 157 active users (+48.11% compared to last month).

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Our Community Curation Account is @italygame

The current Effective Steem Power of @italygame is 24,604.41 (+13.95% compared to last month and +3,012.26 SP).

We have also started posting an automatic comment to inform all those who have been supported by the Community account and to let them know of our activity as a witness.

• Promotion

So far we have done relatively little work on the external promotion of Steemit.
This is not because we do not consider this activity important, but because we first wanted to consolidate the foundations of our Community.

I am happy to add more users, and it is already happening, as you can see from the numbers.

But with great sincerity, I confess that to mass adoption at all costs, I prefer quality a thousand times over.

I even want to have fewer users, but more dedicated and talented, rather than many in number but perhaps immature and not willing to invest, to be an integral part of a project.

I believe that investing resources in those who are here just to bring a few coins home is useless and counterproductive.

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Having said that, however, we have a plan with which we want to spread the knowledge of Steemit and the Italygame project, starting from our already active users.

The creation of a line of personalized gadgets under the Italygame brand is underway, which will be used to carry the Steemit Italy Community brand in the hand and on our users.

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This is an absolute preview!!

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We get out of the screen and invade Italian cities (maybe even some abroad, who knows...)

The material will be used in contests, initiatives and programs dedicated to users of our Community.

We are at the beginning, but soon we will reveal all the methods, the purchase possibilities, the supports and the rewards for our users related to this new marketing plan.

Another advertising operation and for educational / dissemination and promotion purposes will be my live participation in one of the next videos of friends of Hard Rock Crypto

Hard Rock Crypto is a Youtube channel with 10,800 subscribers that talks about the crypto world and that has a lot of following among young Italian users.

They have about 900,000 views and have a Telegram group with 1500 very active members.

I was invited to participate live by my friend @dexpartacus and soon we will announce the date on which the live will take place. It will, however, most likely, within the next week.

It will be an excellent opportunity to answer the questions of viewers who do not yet know the Steemit world.

I am very curious to see how it will go and what will be the feedback we will be able to obtain.

I hope you have noticed our attention in following the expansion program of the Steemit Team and the intention to put it into practice with a precise and determined rationale, which fits into our vision and brings benefit and development for all.

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Greetings to all

Girolamo

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cc @steemcurator01