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Here is a little attempt => https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=510683.0

I'm From India , Here not many biz deal with Bitcoin , and I wonder why..! may be because all that ambiguity by authorities .. ! but once they clear thir stan on Crypto I think we will see more Biz accepting bitcoins here . Only site i can name accepting bitcoins is Highkart ..! would like to see the situation in next couple of years.

Great, but you will have to give the text so that post qualifies for winning :)

I just tried yesterday on twitter

https://twitter.com/sinelael/statuses/448216208505307138

And today


https://twitter.com/sinelael/statuses/448392173483220992

To: http://www.ecoffeecard.com.au/ContactUs

"I have an idea I would like you to consider:

Since you have the ability to get a free coffee. How about you allow people to upload funds and buy coffee through the app (and pass those on to the coffee shop?).

Then you can accept payment by Paypal or similar.

And also.. and here is the exciting bit... you can accept payment for coffee by Bitcoin. People who have bitcoins are always looking for novel ways to spend them and to grow the community.

You'll be ahead of the game when Bitcoin really takes off."

Great! That's what I'm talking about! :) Keep it going.

I am not too good with slot machines but I wish you all luck!
:)
Post reviews when you will play some more!

"Hi b¡tco¡n,

eCoffee Card does have the functionality to upload funds onto the platform and use it at the cafe. It appears that neither Coffee Express or Coffee For You! use this though. Maybe you could have a chat to their management and see if they'd like to?

We are periodically in touch with bit coin POS providers about updates and advancements and are well positioned to implement this should there be enough demand to do so."

Oh well they are not too bovvered.  :P. I will try another biz.

Looking good so far. People contribute! :)

I've meant it like "Go ahead and think about one, like figure it out"

As soon as we go to page 2 I'll award one of the posters on page 1.
Also bitcoin business owners, please contact me to get featured in the original post

Cool are we on page 2 yet

Heh, no, but I was hoping for more participants. Remember only posts that actually have conversation with a business pasted can win.

This is actually a very easy thing to do and most members have done it before.
I believe the opening post is formatted in such a way that readers loose interest half way through.

How come? I made it with the focus to be short and to the point so more people actually read it.
Not sure if I can make it shorter?

Think by coming up with a business plan and I had an idea for this but is worth way more then what your offering,

What are you talking about?

And the thread lost traction again, where is the spirit people?

Nothing wrong with the length of the passage. I believe the section headers weren't very "to the point".
Give this a try, hope it helps:

....<snip>....

I think the way you can get a business to accept bitcoin is saying they have won to represent bitcoin and help them bring more money to  there business by doing so and will be making history.

How much is the BTC prize? Off-line is out of limit for me but I might spend a half an hour or so talking to a close-minded people trying to persuade them to the Coin side if it worth it :) edit: seen it's 0.01 and it's good what about the other question? . also do we have to convince them to use BTC's to win? and who chooses the winners?

no, you just have to post what you emailed them
 every sponsor chooses one winner per page
so far there is just 1 sponsor though :)

***WINNER***

Hey, you just won! :)
Please register at https://BitBandit.eu and give me your username so I can credit it with the promised 0.01BTC

I tried doing this to turkish stores
they are either controlled by this one huge corporation (which i cant bother to go to) or very small businesses which hardly makes the end of the month.
Its just not "good" enough for the Turkish market.

We even tried going to a company which makes automated kiosks and whatnots, but the finance person there knowingly said he wont allow transactions done with BTC.
I also have close relations with the helper of a VP in Turkey's leading bank, and he thinks this whole thing is completely bullcrap as well.

We, as a market is not ready for this, and with the distrust from bankers (which i agree with some as well) its going to be incredibly hard to do in Turkey, and many other 3rd world countries where many people can not even do with "real/old world currency"...

The original post was just edited thanks to a great suggestion of medUSA, thank you medUSA. It's much better now, isn't it?

It is. Readers now know exactly what the thread is about from the first few lines, and sponsors get better ad space  :)

READERS: Start promoting and get your 0.01btc now!

Yes, let's show some spirit. Even 1/10 of the activity of the doge community will make miracles :)
We need some more sponsors too!

I think we need to stop the drive for merchant adoption, and start drumming up ways to just get more people genuinely interested in whats going on here.


create a bitcoin user = maybe he will speak positively about it to others and play around with btc from time to time
Create a bitcoin evangeslist = at least a few of his closest friends will try it out and everyone he meets will have a different outlook on it
Create a bitcoin merchant = Give people a convenient offramp to spend their bitcoins and then MAYBE buy more?

I dunno, merchant adoption is a good endgoal, but I had to get into the real world a little bit and realize that even in my city which could be considered one of the bitcoin hubs of the world, is largely a rarity running into a bitcoin user that is STILL a user and didn't just stumble across it or hear something about it from the silk road days.

Quite a shame, but I really want to get more people crazy about it directly.  Merchant adoption comes from consumer demand, and quite frankly, the consumer demand, for most businesses, especially brick and mortar, don't care.  Thats the harsh reality.  I am going to continue to buy bitcoin and continue to tell people about it, but the merchant adoption push is a little too soon in my opinion.  Now if I heard rumors of a merchant that MIGHT be thinking of accepting, I'll ask to schedule a meeting with that person, to help get them started.

Merchant adoption is all fine and good, but lets not kid ourselves about how far along we are in this process.

Great job! Good idea, keep it up.

so far it proved extremely hard to make people be pro-active. Sticky thread would help a great deal I guess.

Thanks :-). I'd like to thank my mum, my dog.....

Anyway my username is chickun

Your account has been credited!
You are the first one that have won, hopefully many will follow.

Prize now fluttered it all away on the poker machine, was fun  ;D

Well, someone is having fun, so the campaign is working! :)

by the way, do you guys think we can get this thread to be sticky?

We need to more good things with bitcoin like Seansoutpost, that is one way to spread the news about bitcoin.

Yes for sure, but lets push the adoption of commerce as well.

Who else is going to try?

I just sent a mail to udemy.com
I have bought some good courses there in the past, so I sent them this message:

Hi,

I've been a customer here for a few months now and I'm really impressed with the sheer amount of courses available.
I do have one suggestion that could make my experience much better, I would like to see some alternative methods of payment like Bitcoin for example.
Would it be possible to add Bitcoin as an alternative method of payment?

Sincerely,
(my real name)

http://s22.postimg.org/570nococx/d3f41452db1722918b25c69190d46b08.gif

Great work, that's how it's done!


Amazingly Page #2 went by without anyone contacting a business, so no prize for page #2
We are starting this one with great example though! :)

come on, please  participate :)

I've sent an e-mail to Mojang (creators of Minecraft) to implement bitcoin.
I hope I get a second entry on this page for it ;)

Message:
Hello Mojang Support,

I was wondering if you guys could consider using Bitcoin as a payment option. I think implementing this would not be very hard to do through Bitpay for example and it would save you a lot in transaction fees compared to Paypal.

Let me know if you would consider this and if you plan to implement this.

Thanks!

http://s13.postimg.org/613mru713/mojangbitcoin.png

Simply great!

things like this WILL get attention if enough people send them in.

the customer service agents that answer the tickets will eventually
tell their supervisors "People are asking about bitcoin", and it will
go up the chain.

The more consistent the requests, the more likely they will
be taken seriously and eventually acted upon on.

100% agree. We need to hit some of them more than once, but we need people to start hitting them at least once at first.

I would suggest allowing people to contact companies that already have been contacted on this thread.
For people who can't think of a company themselves :)

Yeah that's perfectly fine, will edit the OP

I think you were correct.

I would like to add a prize to this contest, I was thinking about adding 0.05 BTC. (maybe for an additional 0.01 btc per page)
But it would be best if we could put this in escrow.

What do you think?

Edit: And I forfeit my possible winnings for this page, so anyone we puts down an entry on this page still has a big chance of winning.

Great! Please give me the link you want put in the OP.
So you want to give 0.01 per page until 0.05 is given away, so basically for 5 pages?
You can pay directly to the winners, that way we won't need to make an escrow.

I'm not sure that I'll be able to earn BTC by emailing businesses asking them to consider accepting bitcoin, but still it will be a very good advertisement for BTC

Yes that's fine, I'll keep an eye on this topic and you can choose the winner, no problem :)

You don't have to put a link there, just my forum username is fine.

This is a Great Idea I will do my part in my area to Spread the BITCOIN Protocol to all the Stores and Businesses I am in contact with.

well if you post any of those emails here you might actually win some

ok all set, as soon as we turn to page #4 we have to give prizes for this page.

I think that this might bring the community a bad reputation, isn't this technically spamming?

I have another suggestion since it is going pretty slow at the moment.
Raise my contribution to 0.02 BTC per page (will keep aside 0.06 in total for 3 pages).

Do you think this is a good idea?

You are correct. Emailing companies you have no previous dealings with and start nagging about bitcoin, can be considered spamming.

OP does not want members to do that. He encourages members to contact businesses "you frequent but doesn't accept bitcoin". It's written in the first post under the "How to win prizes" section.

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I just sent this off to one of my favorite companies. Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company. They produce the American Spirit line of tobacco products. They are additive free and they even have an organic tobacco cigarette.
I hope I win!   ;D   I also hope I lose to an even better email!

*Begin Email*
Hello SFNTC,
I previously wrote to you about NYS prices of your product due to excessive taxation.
Today I write for 3 others reasons.
First, there is a show on Netflix I've seen titled "American Horror Story". Season 1 Episode 11, at 9:19 minutes, the actor is smoking at the table. She is smoking a marlboro, you can tell by the pack. Except 10 seconds later we see her with a cigarette in her mouth and it is an American Spirit. I know because I see the Thunderbird clearly on the cigarette. Rewinding the video I noticed that in fact the marlboros are "morleys". They're supposed to look like marbs, but what is the actors personal choice....
American Spirit!
Are you aware your product was in this show?

The 2nd reason I write is because I found this article today. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=89207
Are you able to direct ship your product? Will that allow me to order my product of choice and avoid state taxes because it is an internet sale? I want to use your product over the competitions, but at $11.80/pack I just can not justify this cost. Perhaps direct sales will enable me to save some money and thereby return to you as a loyal customer?

Finally, to make the transition to direct sales even easier, I would suggest you consider adopting Bitcoin as an acceptabloe form of payment. This could allow you to accept payment from sources worldwide! Typical payment middlemen can be disintermediated, leaving more money in yours and mine pockets.
From a customer willing to pay with bitcoin, I would suggest if you do not feel informed as to what Bitcoin is, well this would be my go to explanation which I encourage you to read and consider.
http://evoorhees.blogspot.com/2012/04/bitcoin-libertarian-introduction.html

Your loyal customer,
As long as government isn't meddling in our voluntary association,
LAMarcellus
*End email*

When I get a response from them I will share it here!


Next up on my list of companies to email....
OPEC!

i think that we need to just start letting companys know that we would  prefer if they accepted bitcoin. and to further it even inform them a little more about it. and of course we need to always be learning new things about the currency to give the best opinions and able to answer any questions a company may have

I think I am the only one who is eligible for a prize on page 3,  and it would be silly to send myself a prize for that.

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Just registered, my username is eternalgloom

So what is the process of winning here ? One needs to register at BitBandit.eu or promote Bitcoin to a business or both ?

done, enjoy :)


BitCoinDream, if you have honestly read the original post that explains everything, and still haven't understood i'll reward you right now :)

Is it that hard to understand? lol ;D

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I understand the mod's point of view. Any thread where coins could potentially be given out should not be in the main forum where it is primarily for discussions. I believe the mod might have mistaken this thread being similar to your other giveaway topic. You can PM the mod asking him to reconsider moving the thread back, cos this a not a game, it's about promoting bitcoin to businesses.

Yes, I changed the title hoping to get more attention from users, but unfortunately it made look the thread like it doesn't belong in the main forum. Anyway, messaged the mods and hoping for the best :)

hm, seems the mods don't want to return it.

This is a fun idea and I hope it catches on.  I hope to win a prize or two myself. :)

The chance to win is pretty high, currently there is about 1 entry per page, so the chance of winning is 100% :)

actually yes :)

is this thread still alive?

I want to make this a bigger deal...get sponsors....create serious incentives for bitcoin adoption

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OP should lock this thread so no one can post any email clippings here.