Title: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on March 25, 2014, 04:09:08 PM Removed
Title: Re: remove Post by: retweeting on March 25, 2014, 04:13:00 PM Here is a little attempt => https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=510683.0
Title: Re: remove Post by: rohnearner on March 25, 2014, 04:38:17 PM 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.
Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on March 25, 2014, 07:00:33 PM Here is a little attempt => https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=510683.0 Great, but you will have to give the text so that post qualifies for winning :) Title: Re: remove Post by: Antoine777 on March 25, 2014, 09:45:39 PM I just tried yesterday on twitter
https://twitter.com/sinelael/statuses/448216208505307138 And today https://twitter.com/sinelael/statuses/448392173483220992 Title: Re: remove Post by: b¡tco¡n on March 26, 2014, 01:55:02 AM 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." Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on March 26, 2014, 04:22:15 AM Great! That's what I'm talking about! :) Keep it going.
Title: Re: remove Post by: roslinpl on March 26, 2014, 03:53:59 PM I am not too good with slot machines but I wish you all luck!
:) Post reviews when you will play some more! Title: Re: remove Post by: b¡tco¡n on March 26, 2014, 10:04:49 PM 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." "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. Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on March 27, 2014, 07:02:15 AM Looking good so far. People contribute! :)
Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on March 28, 2014, 10:15:32 AM I've meant it like "Go ahead and think about one, like figure it out"
Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on March 30, 2014, 09:31:15 AM 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 Title: Re: remove Post by: jonald_fyookball on March 31, 2014, 05:25:59 AM Cool are we on page 2 yet
Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on March 31, 2014, 07:03:24 AM Heh, no, but I was hoping for more participants. Remember only posts that actually have conversation with a business pasted can win.
Title: Re: remove Post by: medUSA on March 31, 2014, 08:03:51 AM 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. Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on March 31, 2014, 12:12:25 PM 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? Title: Re: remove Post by: zolace on March 31, 2014, 04:44:41 PM Think by coming up with a business plan and I had an idea for this but is worth way more then what your offering,
Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on March 31, 2014, 05:45:47 PM 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? Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 02, 2014, 01:15:31 PM And the thread lost traction again, where is the spirit people?
Title: Re: remove Post by: medUSA on April 03, 2014, 10:02:23 AM Not sure if I can make it shorter? 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>.... Title: Re: remove Post by: zolace on April 03, 2014, 11:37:01 AM 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.
Title: Re: remove Post by: Onews1990 on April 03, 2014, 02:15:54 PM Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 03, 2014, 02:54:22 PM every sponsor chooses one winner per page so far there is just 1 sponsor though :) Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 03, 2014, 02:55:56 PM 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." ***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 Title: Re: remove Post by: barkinos98 on April 03, 2014, 03:01:19 PM 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"... Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 04, 2014, 11:01:16 AM The original post was just edited thanks to a great suggestion of medUSA, thank you medUSA. It's much better now, isn't it?
Title: Re: remove Post by: medUSA on April 07, 2014, 07:41:41 AM 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! Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 07, 2014, 11:48:19 AM 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! Title: Re: remove Post by: googlemaster1 on April 07, 2014, 06:03:20 PM 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. Title: Re: remove Post by: allthingsluxury on April 07, 2014, 06:34:43 PM Great job! Good idea, keep it up.
Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 07, 2014, 06:38:15 PM 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. Title: Re: remove Post by: b¡tco¡n on April 07, 2014, 09:45:16 PM 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." ***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 Thanks :-). I'd like to thank my mum, my dog..... Anyway my username is chickun Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 08, 2014, 06:09:04 AM 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." ***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 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. Title: Re: remove Post by: b¡tco¡n on April 09, 2014, 12:07:47 AM Prize now fluttered it all away on the poker machine, was fun ;D
Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 09, 2014, 04:27:21 AM Well, someone is having fun, so the campaign is working! :)
Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 09, 2014, 01:09:17 PM by the way, do you guys think we can get this thread to be sticky?
Title: Re: remove Post by: zolace on April 10, 2014, 12:32:12 AM We need to more good things with bitcoin like Seansoutpost, that is one way to spread the news about bitcoin.
Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 10, 2014, 05:45:24 AM 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. Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 15, 2014, 05:50:16 AM Who else is going to try?
Title: Re: remove Post by: eternalgloom on April 15, 2014, 03:06:04 PM 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 Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 16, 2014, 05:18:33 AM 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! :) Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 23, 2014, 10:43:15 AM come on, please participate :)
Title: Re: remove Post by: eternalgloom on April 23, 2014, 04:45:45 PM 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 Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 23, 2014, 06:20:29 PM Simply great!
Title: Re: remove Post by: jonald_fyookball on April 23, 2014, 06:35:52 PM 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. Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 24, 2014, 05:36:45 AM 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. Title: Re: remove Post by: eternalgloom on April 24, 2014, 01:48:34 PM 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 :) Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 25, 2014, 06:43:46 PM Yeah that's perfectly fine, will edit the OP
Title: Re: remove Post by: BillyBobJoe on April 25, 2014, 06:53:19 PM I've meant it like "Go ahead and think about one, like figure it out" I think you were correct. Title: Re: remove Post by: eternalgloom on April 25, 2014, 10:25:19 PM 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. Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 26, 2014, 06:25:28 AM 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. Title: Re: remove Post by: Doretteign on April 26, 2014, 01:01:38 PM 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
Title: Re: remove Post by: eternalgloom on April 26, 2014, 01:27:57 PM 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. You don't have to put a link there, just my forum username is fine. Title: Re: remove Post by: joinmicah on April 26, 2014, 03:31:46 PM 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.
Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 26, 2014, 06:12:05 PM 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 well if you post any of those emails here you might actually win some Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 26, 2014, 06:17:18 PM 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. You don't have to put a link there, just my forum username is fine. ok all set, as soon as we turn to page #4 we have to give prizes for this page. Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 28, 2014, 05:52:56 AM *** So now you can win up to 0.02 for every page this thread makes. We are slowly making progress :) ***
Title: Re: remove Post by: vnvizow on April 28, 2014, 06:08:42 AM I think that this might bring the community a bad reputation, isn't this technically spamming?
Title: Re: remove Post by: eternalgloom on April 28, 2014, 06:37:13 AM 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? Title: Re: remove Post by: medUSA on April 28, 2014, 08:49:52 AM I think that this might bring the community a bad reputation, isn't this technically spamming? 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. Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 28, 2014, 09:32:10 AM Re
Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 28, 2014, 03:50:33 PM Re
Title: Re: remove Post by: LAMarcellus on April 28, 2014, 04:42:11 PM 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! Title: Re: remove Post by: durrrr on April 28, 2014, 04:46:46 PM 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
Title: Re: remove Post by: eternalgloom on April 28, 2014, 05:29:41 PM 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? Done, I raised our prize as well. So, now everyone can get up to 0.04 for every page of this thread. Btw, we have to give prizes for page #3, which one do you choose? You can just reply to a qualifying post of your choice and let him know that he wins and how to claim the prize. Make it bolded or something :) Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 28, 2014, 05:46:40 PM Re
Title: Re: remove Post by: eternalgloom on April 28, 2014, 05:52:24 PM Just registered, my username is eternalgloom
Title: Re: remove Post by: BitCoinDream on April 28, 2014, 06:02:07 PM So what is the process of winning here ? One needs to register at BitBandit.eu or promote Bitcoin to a business or both ?
Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 29, 2014, 04:54:38 AM Just registered, my username is eternalgloom 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 :) Title: Re: remove Post by: silvestar on April 29, 2014, 08:19:29 AM So what is the process of winning here ? One needs to register at BitBandit.eu or promote Bitcoin to a business or both ? Bitcoin Users: Promote Bitcoin to a business you frequent and win prizes Business Owners: Sponsor a prize and be featured in this post permanently How to win prizes 1. Think of a business that you frequent but doesn't accept bitcoin (online or not) 2. Tell them how bitcoin could benefit them and give relevant real life examples (similar business successes) 3. Post the email you sent here, or write down the conversation if it was real life 4. Sponsors from the forum will randomly pick one winner for EVERY page (can win multiple prizes each page!) (if no business comes to mind, just hit again one of those already posted) Is it that hard to understand? lol ;D Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 29, 2014, 09:07:17 AM Re
Title: Re: remove Post by: medUSA on April 29, 2014, 10:02:10 AM We just got moved to Games and rounds after being few weeks in the main forum. This campaign will die here :( 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. Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 29, 2014, 11:43:51 AM 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 :)
Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on April 30, 2014, 06:04:44 AM hm, seems the mods don't want to return it.
Title: Re: remove Post by: counter on April 30, 2014, 07:57:26 AM This is a fun idea and I hope it catches on. I hope to win a prize or two myself. :)
Title: Re: remove Post by: eternalgloom on April 30, 2014, 09:18:08 AM 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% :) Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on May 01, 2014, 05:50:05 AM actually yes :)
Title: Re: remove Post by: jonald_fyookball on July 17, 2014, 01:10:44 PM is this thread still alive?
I want to make this a bigger deal...get sponsors....create serious incentives for bitcoin adoption Title: Re: remove Post by: CryptoPanda on July 18, 2014, 12:07:09 PM Re
Title: Re: remove Post by: PolarPoint on July 18, 2014, 01:03:44 PM OP should lock this thread so no one can post any email clippings here.
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