I've heard a lot of good things about ListNerds, so I decided to give it a try. Here are my first impressions
I have never used mailing lists or anything like that before, so I'm new to ListNerds and mailing in general, so this has been a great learning experience for me altogether.
With that being said, this will not be an in-depth analysis of ListNerds as a product but rather a report of my first experience as a complete newbie.
ListNerds Overview - The Dashboard
One thing I could notice right off the bat is how intuitive and user-friendly ListNerds is. The UI is incredibly friendly and straightforward, and if you find yourself lost or stuck at any moment, you are very likely to find tutorials (written or on video) that will help you find your way around.
The Dashboard is very clean, and it displays the most important stuff you need to know. With the exception of one or two things that I'm assuming are more specific to affiliate marketing, all the information there is straightforward enough that a newcomer such as yours truly can easily understand and act upon.
I particularly liked the daily login counter. It's a great way to track your consistency on your platform, which is very important because, as you should know by now, consistency is king on Hive!
Using ListNerds
As far as I understand it, the main things you will be doing on ListNerds are reading and verifying emails from others and sending your own emails to the ListNerds member base.
Reading emails is easy as it sounds. You just have to access your inbox on the left sidebar and click one from the list. After reading an email, you can also vote on it if you wish. The amount of email you can vote on is limited by your voting power, but more on that later.
I noticed that, apparently, if you want to delete emails from your inbox you must do it manually, one by one. That's not really a big deal, and I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, but it would be nice to be able to delete multiple emails at a time. They will be deleted automatically after 10 days unless you save them, but apparently, clicking "Delete" is the way to go about it if you want to remove them before that.
Sending mail is just as easy. Find the Send Mail option on the sidebar, and the rest is pretty straightforward. One thing to notice is that you can send a limited amount of mail equivalent to how many Mail tokens you have, so keep that in mind because you may want to accumulate a bunch of those tokens before you send your mail.
Oh, and by the way, if you need help creating good-looking mail to promote your stuff, do check this awesome article by @finguru.
There are probably many other things you can and should do with ListNerds, but I believe those are the main ones, at least as far as a newbie like me can see.
Tokenomics
There are three tokens that are important for ListNerds, and I'll talk briefly about each one:
- CTP is the native token of the Hive tribe Click Track Profit. You can stake CTP on ListNerds to increase your Voting Power, allowing you to verify more emails and get more rewards.
- MAIL determines how many email you can send (1 MAIL = 1 email). You can earn MAIL by clicking the links on emails you get in your inbox, or you can buy them on ListNerd's MAIL store.
- LISTNERDS is the token you get as a reward when the email that you send is verified. You can also earn LISTNERDS passively by staking it within ListNerds.
Final thoughts
ListNerds has a lot of potential on Hive. Whether you are a veteran affiliate marketer, content creator or a newcomer exploring new opportunities, I'm sure you'll find a way to use it in your favour!
As far as suggestions go, other than being able to delete (and maybe save) multiple emails at once, I would say it would be nice to be able to sign up to categories of interest and only get emails belonging to those categories. I said would because I've read on this post by @jongolson, one of the brilliant minds behind ListNerds that this feature is already in their vision for the future of the platform.
I'm sure this and many other things they will come up with will make ListNerds even better, and I see this as a potential game-changer for the Hive community!