How can we submit proposals to add value to the Steem blockchain, receive funding for our projects promoting Steem, get more upvotes on our posts, and earn 50% as an investor delegating Steem? Will we discover the answer by reading this post because below are solutions to some of our most challenging questions on Steem such as how do we fund innovation quickly, what works to earn more money on our posts, and how do those of us holding Steem power convert it into Steem without powering down?
To stay updated with changes, review budget proposals, view funded projects, and see investor payout reports, will we please visit https://steemit.com/trending/budget because #budget is the primary tag for our collaboration?
Our first budget proposal submitted by me is at https://steemit.com/budget/@jerrybanfield/50-million-ads-for-steem-on-facebook-google-and-youtube and presents one way to request funding succesfully.
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Steem Video Ad #10 on Facebook and YouTube
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1,000 STEEM to pay the advertising costs on Facebook and Google AdWords to promote Steem's new budget proposal systems for $10 a day for 2 months to those interested in cryptocurrencies. Thank you for funding $10,000 so far on these previous campaigns (list of links). More details explained in the post including screenshots, etc.
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budget, steem,steemit,advertising,busy
View the first proposal to receive funding at https://steemit.com/budget/@steempunknet/steempunk-net-mmorpg-on-the-steem-blockchain-already-in-open-beta-testing-attracting-players-from-outside-steem.
We funded this proposal to begin because we liked seeing the months of service in creating the first MMORPG on the Steem blockchain alongside an active website and community prior to requesting funding.
We naturally can fund budget proposals at https://steemit.com/trending/budget with an upvote or our own Steem/SBD. We hope that posting all under the budgets tag will help organize what we have already been doing so far on many different tags to make it easier to upvote projects intended to improve Steem. How will we collaborate to provide greater funding than what we already have available through upvotes and direct contributions?
We are primarily funding these proposals today with the new 
Transferring 0.1+ SBD to
All bids sent to 
With the current Steem dollar price and the existing voting power we have, we are starting with probably around $500 USD a day in funding split with $250 a day to those delegating and $250 a day to budget proposals. As delegations are made to
Sending
Track all upvoting bots including
Delegating Steem power to
The minimum delegation amount to receive a payout is 500 Steem Power which today is 1025530.6135 vests. Less than this will still contribute to the project but will not receive payouts from
Want to just click a link and delegate? Ask me for a link in the comments including the phrase "Would you please make me a delegation link" because then I can search directly for that in the comments? As soon as I see your request, I will make a link you can click directly to complete the delegation using the active key to sign in. To make sure I get it right, please include the amount of Steem Power to delegate or say "ALL" for a full delegation link.
To make and manage delegations, I prefer using the Vessel wallet by 
First, open the wallet, click on accounts, click on SP Delegation, and then click on + to add a new one next to the account desired.
Next, add jerrybanfield into the account field and choose the amount of Steem Power to delegate by typing the number in or using the slider at the bottom to select. Note that previously delegated Steem Power takes a week to return meaning when we remove a delegation to make room for this one, we have to wait a week to delegate. Click "Confirm Delegation" to proceed and enter the Vessel wallet password to finalize the transaction.
To confirm the delegation was successful, visit https://steemworld.org/@jerrybanfield and check delegations (in).
Delegations can also be confirmed at https://steemd.com/@jerrybanfield
Not using Vessel wallet or just want to delegate from here? The link structure below will do it directly when substituting our account name for ournamehere in the links below and the VESTS in with the amount we want to delegate. Here is an actual link example for 
Here are prefilled links by Steem Power that we can use just by replacing the ournamehere with our account name with our own account. Customize the delegated amount of Steem power using http://www.steemdollar.com/vests.php to convert to vests, copying that amount of vests into the vesting shares area, and making sure there are six decimal places after the period in VESTS which requires usually adding a couple zeros to the end after using the converter.
1,000 Steem Power
10,000 Steem Power
100,000 Steem Power
https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/delegateVestingShares?delegator=ournamehere&delegatee=jerrybanfield&vesting_shares=205106122.704600%20VESTS
After creating our link, we need to sign in with our account name and ACTIVE private key to confirm the transaction which is found in our permissions tab under wallet like this https://steemit.com/@jerrybanfield/permissions except substitute your username for mine.
All of
When 100,000 Steem power is delegated in total, those delegating will effectively be receiving about 100% of the delegated voting power in return because of my voting power not counting to the total. When 1 million Steem power is delegated, everyone will effectively still be receiving a ~10% boost from my Steem power.
Review existing delegations anytime at https://steemworld.org/@jerrybanfield under delegations (in).
All of the curation and witness rewards
Starting yesterday I paused my 
After reading all this, we might wonder how I am going to earn anything now given that I am not taking a percentage of the rewards anywhere and not planning to power down indefinitely? My liquid author rewards will be my only earnings going forward. To keep these separate, the rewards will be immediately redeemed and transferred to my wife 
Finally, this system is not coded into Steem and relies on our collaboration. It would be ideal for us to be able to have this done completely through the Steem blockchain but it also would require a lot of energy from the development team which would be best spent now making sure we get Smart Media Tokens launched and improved consistently. Perhaps one day we can get a built in budget proposal system in which case I would stop running my system. Given the feedback on the budget proposals whitepaper I wrote, we are unlikely to see a budget proposal system coded into Steem within a year if ever which is why we see this system here today which is immediately available for us to use!
For questions, will we please collaborate below in the comments because there we can provide clarity for anything uncertain and improve this project to help us add the most value to our Steem blockchain? I will attempt to answer as many questions as I can and focus my reading on Steem in the budget proposals going forward.
The main question I can think of is "Why not use a separate account like the rest of the voting bots?" Branding. Trust. Using my account to vote and separate accounts for payouts is ideal in the big picture.
I appreciate this chance to be of service on Steem together and hope our time in this post together was useful!
Love,
Jerry Banfield
