Cointelegraph was so absurdly expensive they refused to tell us the price for a non-"sponsored" article.

The KPIs and measurements will improve as the dashboards are done. Checkinwith did a great job to help at events where accounts through tokens weren't feasible. All of these tech tools aren't instant but the plan is to have them all finished and integrated into the overarching marketing site by end of year.

The franchise idea was brought up before. It can't be done through Value Plan as those locations, with the exception of Krolestwo which is a non-profit and a partial vendor, would act as businesses. Meaning, someone could make money. Value Plan has very strict controls that no Hive community member makes any money as all must be volunteers.