During this morning's SN Q1 recap/Q2 roadmap call @kr mentioned how little referral links were being utilized.

In response. I commented the following:

"Referral program is going to remain a challenge. Most stackers prefer to remain nym on SN and the most likely referrals would be to people they know in the real world. This likely prevents them from referring even though they love and support SN."

While I think referrals uptake may remain challenged, I do think invite links with sats loaded might be a good option for territory marketing. So I tested them today. I create up a 1000 sat invite link with a 5 invitee maximum and sent the first one to myself. It worked perfectly.

Sent it via DM from my Stacker Sports nostr account to my grayruby nostr account. Here is what it looked like when I clicked on the link.

I clicked the link and signed up as a new account and received the sats immediately.

In my grayruby SN account I received the following notification:

In future it would be great if there were territory invite links as well "you have been invited to join the conversation in Stacker Sports. A 1000 sat gift is waiting for you when you sign up today".

I know this doesn't necessarily solve my concerns over stackers wanting to remain nym, thus being apprehensive about using referral links, but it might serve as a good marketing tool for territories. There are a number of people I talk sports with on Nostr. I can use the links to entice them to continue the conversation on SN.

Would like to hear feedback from other stackers and territory founders, what do you think about invite links and have you tried using them to bring new users onboard?

Thanks for reading.

Cheers, GR