Nothing else besides anonymity is ever gonna be enough to ever match (or unseat) bitcoin.
Disagree. I think instant transactions and scaling to microtransaction volume (million transactions per second) will unseat Bitcoin.
Anonymity will become more important, but most people in the world don't care about anonymity. They care about social media and stuff like that. Monetizing that with microtransactions is the huge market.
Anonymity could end up being very important as the bankrupt States of the world start to tax everything that moves. Chicago is going to tax video streaming on the internet.
But these anonymity markets may be much slower to develop than microtransaction markets. I'd pursue both if I did a coin.
What marketing plans do you suggest for Monero? I also believe that Monero has the best tech but could benefit from more effective promotion
I would suggest making it super easy for people to mix
BTC. Then try to hook them into using XMR from there.
I would suggest creating new uses for anonymous coins and especially combined with microtransactions.