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Many months ago, I kicked off this amazing SpendHBD project by onboarding Grand Options to Hive. I met with Miss Chinwendu who is the Manager of this Grocery store. It's great to link up with her again today as she let me spend HBD at their shop. The video above is my shopping experience and what the shop looks like.

I took lots of pictures too within the store environs. I will share them with you below.
















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I have been a Hive promoter for years now, but have never onboarded an institution until the project kicked off today. I got the final approval to pitch Hive at this prestigious institution and the result today was massive.

I started from the public Administration department and I was able to onboard 13 students. They were all able to create their accounts through keychain and checked in through the check in frontend. They also installed Ecency app and are enjoying Waves micro-blogging as they learn about Hive. Here are their first posts:

https://ecency.com/created/hive-152267

I invite you all to engage with these new friends and make them feel at home. Below is the community who you could see their check-in introduction posts. You can see their faces in the video above.

## Is Hive ready for 18,000 potential adopters?

Dr Ogbonna Onu Polytechnic is one of the largest in Aba city. The institution which is my Alma Mata is home to more than 18,000 students. The school has many departments and schools.

Today, we kicked off their adoption with these students from Public Administration department. It's one of the largest departments in the school. From next week, we will onboard more students and there is going to be a special presentation for lecturers and other academic staff.

Very soon, we are creating a program to feature hive to the entire institution. With the staff and students, we are looking at around 20,000 persons getting to know hive and possibly joining. I hope we are ready for it

The question on our lips Is whether Hive is ready for one of the largest institutional adoptions? While we started with the students, this adoption is going to cut across professional and career educators in the institution like professors, heads of departments and schools, Deans and lecturers, and many other professionals.

One great way to show your support is to engage with the new users as they join. You can check their content on waves and through the Hive growth hub community.

https://ecency.com/created/hive-152267

## 500 Hive Face caps - branding plans and moving forward

We are planning to give Hive a big presence in this institution starting with a branded face cap project. I will try to arrange a presentation day and we can distribute 500 face caps to the first onboarded students and users. That would truly be massive. Many organizations and business come to this institution to create awareness for their brands. I believe with such a give away, there would be so students and others talking about Hive.

There are a lot of things planned and we are taking it one at a time. We will need the support of everyone that wants institutional adoption of Hive.

Below are some of the pictures we took at the event.







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Developers of waves Micro-content app recently made a big release announcement. The app now has incorporated other short content sharing tools like snaps, moments and threads. Through the Waves app, users could select which short content tool to use - there are a total of 3 in addition to waves. This video explains how it works.

We care about this update because short content is the first place our onboarded newbies go. They start their Hive journey from their as they try it out. So with this new addition, there is so much to choose from when it comes to sharing short content on Hive.

Just watch the video and learn.

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The first thing we do as an onboarding team is to show new friends how to publish short content on Hive. It's often the best way to introduce Hive to newbies. From that easy part, they could advance to publishing long content. For example, one of the new users that joined 1 week ago @dgoldentwins has made a total of 34 short contents.

We introduce them to Ecency waves as the short content platform. However, it's also nice to let them know that there are other short content publishing tools on Hive besides waves. That is the essence of this video.

So watch above and learn how to access and use all major content publishing apps on Hive.

The four dapps shown in this video are the ones you see below:

1. Snaps - powered by Peakd

2. Waves - from the Ecency Team

3. Threads - from the Inleo team

4. Moments - powered by Liketu

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We have recently been encouraging our friends to develop a power up strategy and track their progress. We even made a group power up initiative with rewards which you could [check here](https://ecency.com/hive-152267/@happycustomer/crowd-power-up-day-1).

As part of measuring results over time, the friends need to know how far they have done recently in powering up. Since many are asking, I decided to make this tutorial to show their power up history through Peakd.

So watch the video above and follow the steps.

1. Open your Keychain browser and log in to peakd.com

2. Click on wallet

3. Under filters, Select Power Up/down

4. Your Power Up history would be displayed

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I promised that August would be our month for increased Hive representation through branding. I have already began work on T-shirts and face caps. More of these items in large quantities are being produced. Now we have also done Hive-branded poly bags. This is another important step towards making Hive more visible to onlookers.

The video above shows the 100 shopping bags that I branded with Hive logo and a good tagline. Each customer that buys at Happy Customer Supermarket walks away with this bag and a message of Hive freedom on the bag. Imagine 10 customers walking away with this nice marketing piece. That's another way to promote the Blockchain we love. I will share some images of the bags below too.





So Hive marketing should be our business everyone. On all regular items used or worn each day, we should be eager to showcase Hive on them. At Happy Customer Supermarket, we will be making more branded items for sale. This way, we help to sell Hive to the world. In your next shopping trip, be sure to collect your branded bag and show it off to the world.

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I just finished branding some face caps for Hive promotion at Happy Customer Supermarket. This month of August, I have decided to increase awareness of the Hive ecosystem to outsiders through branded gear. With many customers coming to Happy Customer supermarket to buy stuffs, we have a chance to create more awareness.

The idea here is that customers wear this face cap to move around their daily activities. Wherever they go, onlookers have a chance of asking what Hive is. That way, we could get extra visibility - this is a way to leverage the connection if our customers.

So in the video above, you could see the 18 Face caps we have available now. It's the first supply which we brought to sample to our customers. Another batch of the printed face caps would soon be available. You rather watch out for it.

I have included some pictures which you could see below.





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One of the goals I set out for Happy Customer Supermarket this August is to create more awareness for Hive through branding. We are going to print Hive on lots of stuffs starting with T-shirts. So Today, we provided 10 branded shirts for Happy Customers and they were all happy to pay for the print. In this video and post, you will see some of the shopper's today as they show off their branded T-shirts.




The shopper's came at different times, so we have a few other images of the branded T-shirts with some customers. Our goal is to make sure that every customer walking in has some sort of Hive branded gear either a T-shirt or Face cap, or other stuffs. The printery is still producing some of the stuffs.

In few days from new, we will show off face caps, branded shopping bags and other stuffs. We are also getting ready to do our August Hive meetup. It's going to be huge and engaging.

Thank you to all our happy customers. We are expecting to see you again in your next shopping trip.

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One of the things I make sure to do at Happy Customer Supermarket is to have enough inventory of the best sellers. Noodles from Indomie and Spirits like Action Bitters, Squadron, Chelsea, etc are some of the most sought after items. We have gone into a brand new month and it promises to be a busy one.

## First stock arrives

So in this video, I share with us some of the first inventory we got in yesterday. Some cartons of Indomie noodles, spirits, Tomatoes past, Detergents, and a few other items were among the order received. Almost every two days we get in new inventory to support the sales. We are happy the business is located just 15 minutes away from the major suppliers. So we are close to the source our inventory handlers.


The picture above is the city warehouse of the biggest maker of noodles in Nigeria. Indomie noodles is almost the most popular food among young people. So we always make big sales or their noodles.



Other pictures below where taken of the inventory that arrived. These are all ready so that our customers would start making their purchases from tomorrow being Monday.

## Our first organized Hive Classes and meetup

This month of August, we are going to organise SpemdHBD workshops/ Hive classes. The materials made by journey of a Hivean team would be very useful. That will enable students to learn at their pace and grow as fast as possible.

This month too, we will not fail to host our Hive meetup. We didn't do that in July. These are things we will definitely do. We appreciate all our customers and can't wait to grow more together. I wish us all a great month of August and eager to see you friends all together during our meetup.

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@distriator.loans gave Happy Customer Supermarket a loan of 1500 HBD. Ever since then, we boast a stronger purchasing power. Watch and see as we got more than 20 cartons of noodles, spices and spirits in this huge inventory that just arrived.
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