I am Creating a template for Merchants and businesses to accept BTC - Help? plz

[gtraah]

Hi Guys,

I would like some help if possible, as I know there are a lot of smart eloquent people here , my aim is to create a template letter to introduce the ease of accepting BTC for the merchants, I will be giving it to following at the moment  but hey I guess we all can use a copy and then obtain there emails adds and 1 st them an email, no response 2nd email STILL no response then address it to manager personally  :

FIRST >> WE AIMING AT THIS AREA
Sydney Population : 4.7 million (Most multicultural city in Australia)

• Pharmacy ONLY 24/7 pharmacy in the whole of Sydney.

People drives hours just to get here at 3-4am

• Woolworths
• Coles
• Target
• Kmart
• Tobbaco
• BlockBuster
• some other independent stores i know off
• Big-W
• DickSMITH Electronics

In the template we need to show them that large companies like Dell, TigerDirect, Dish, Overstock (even keeping 10% as an investment shows us that a well respected e-commerce business can see this is going to disrupt the status-quo of traditional money and has a big future.

Did you know Virgin Galactic also offered Bitcoin payment for seats in his spaceship to fly up to the edge of space and enjoy the tour, and more
Dell tweeted " there really isn't a reason right now why other merchant should not accept bitcoin " We are talking about  a huge industry accepting the payment, and you know why? I will tell you why! Very VERY simple, Its MONEY  and the good thing about Bitcoin is its actually deflationary, not right now but over time. If you feel uncomfortable not holding it then this is a simple solution as it can instantly transferred from Bitcoin to your dedicated bank account.
 
Bitcoin is truly innovation, everyone with a Bitcoin wallet on the mobile device essentially has a portable eftpos machine , YES seriously, you could, pay receive, change Bitcoin to USD all on your phone, PC, Tablet, I can sit here and tell you all the things you can d with this revolutionary payment system which is taking the world by storm, Do not be out to the end, get in early learn and use it to its full potential.


Here are some Customer to shop demonstrations on how merchants can except payments with some videos a bla bla bla

OK

Guys can you help me make this professional I know it needs alot of work.. Its like 3:30am here and I cannot keep my head up I want to do this, but If we can come up with a mad one then we can all use it, and this cold be the tool that brings MANNNNNY shops in..


Andrew

[franky1]

firstly be professional. but dont be 'geeky'

DO NOT EVER use the term

"bitcoin is a decentralised cryptographically secured account ledger"

keep it simple and laymans

"bitcoin is protected by encryption and dispursed throughout the world to ensure no single entity can manipulate or control it

or the short version

"bitcoin is so secure and so spread out, even hackers cant break it"

[jonald_fyookball]

when you're done creating it , send me pm,
I will link to it or publish it on bitcoinadoption.org

[gtraah]

Thanks for the tips and phrases or comments you think I should add ... Add them in this thread I will compile them and organise it in a readable form.. once finish i will show everyone for final editing and once we all happy .. i will start sending.

[peeveepee]

An Ebay type merchant website can add value to bitcoin.

[beetcoin]

you know what would be a good idea? creating a bitcoin sticker with a QR code that opens up your webpage to explain what it is to curious people.

[gtraah]

Here is my draft, I am just wondering if this is too much - Its very hard for me to keep it short and sweet but explain to them roughly what BTC and where it is at now and why they should accept it. etc etc

I find this is really hard

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6wtwrwsuyhcv0ih/To%20whom%20it%20may%20concern.docx

[mwlarkin1]

Hi Andrew!


I've actually been working on a letter myself with a few others over at this thread:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=710931.0

Here's the document we've been working on:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q6WiJPvmx3FCwgSRAcie9-Ay3Pz54GUhlfTXtVlZDFE/edit?usp=sharing

It's morphed a bunch, and it's gotten a lot more streamlined and merchant-focused since its inception.  Getting away from geek speak was difficult.  Feel free to take anything from this letter to use/morph with yours!

I'm going to give a closer look at yours tomorrow and give some feedback!


Good work,
Matt

[gtraah]

Hi Andrew!


I've actually been working on a letter myself with a few others over at this thread:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=710931.0

Here's the document we've been working on:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q6WiJPvmx3FCwgSRAcie9-Ay3Pz54GUhlfTXtVlZDFE/edit?usp=sharing

It's morphed a bunch, and it's gotten a lot more streamlined and merchant-focused since its inception.  Getting away from geek speak was difficult.  Feel free to take anything from this letter to use/morph with yours!

I'm going to give a closer look at yours tomorrow and give some feedback!


Good work,
Matt

I Like your letter because its short and sweet,

hmmm Now I am thinking of just using yours and tweaking it abit LOL dam it! wrote mine for nothing, mines quiet long. A full page

[iluvpie60]

firstly be professional. but dont be 'geeky'

DO NOT EVER use the term

"bitcoin is a decentralised cryptographically secured account ledger"

keep it simple and laymans

"bitcoin is protected by encryption and dispursed throughout the world to ensure no single entity can manipulate or control it

or the short version

"bitcoin is so secure and so spread out, even hackers cant break it"

But one entity can and has controlled bitcoin temporarily already.

[gtraah]

Not really one entity, it was a combination of thousands of entities pointing to one place... Each of the thousands pointing there have there own minds, thoughts, intentions.

If even 20% of these entities stopped aiming their miners here will all know what would happen. I really don't think this incident was the scare, it was more of the "What if" factor that caused the big stir. People were like " see one company can have 51% " But really this is not all there hardware so I don't think it really counts as the initial 51% that satoshi was talking about.


Sometimes I think why arn't all these people that were so scared, worried about all the money in their bank accounts, we all know more than one person has access to the funds.

It would be much harder to perform a 51% then for someone to take the funds from your bank

[Kazimir]

Any word containing 'crypt' should NOT be in this letter at all.

And sure as hell don't bother them with technicalities like mining, the block chain, confirmations, and what not.

Do mention:
- free to use (unlike any other payment method)
- available worldwide (unlike any other payment method)
- zero risk of fraud or chargebacks (unlike any other payment method)
- no need to register, sign a contract, open yet another account, or other prerequisites (unlike any other payment method)
- money arrives almost instantly (unlike any other payment method)

And if the company appears to be open for idealistic arguments:
- not run by some evil monopolistic company or organization who has full control over your money and creates it at whim out of thin air (unlike any other payment method except gold)

[gtraah]

Have you read my draft? I have not heard anyone commenting on it

[franky1]

Have you read my draft? I have not heard anyone commenting on it

no one downloads .docx files (risk of trojans (via macro's and VBA code))
paste the wording to a pastebin or a public google docs.

[gtraah]

oops what about PDF?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0hvy6hakv0rxcvk/To%20whom%20it%20may%20concern.pdf