How can we encourage local businesses to accept BTC?

[sabbirshm]

I am looking to help move BTC forward into our economy more and would like to get some suggestions on how we can get more retailers to accept BTC as a payment.  The best part about accepting BTC is that they do not have any threat of charge-back from the customer.  I am just looking for some more input before I start approaching some of these local retailers.

I think we should introduced bitcoin to them properly. Then we can aware them about the advantages of bitcoin like bitcoins security, low transactions fee,instant payment confirmation.And we can also tell them about bitcoin investment which is very good to earn quick profit.

[runningm520]

Before watching the news, there is a country to take the form of teaching to promote learning.
This is a good way. But, I think the best way is the country's recognition, the country's recognition is the most conducive to the development of btc.

[ethereumhunter]

Its indeed very hard to let people believe in the bitcoin

Open yourself a shop, and show, how it work, positively.

For a local business, you will find 1 from 100.000 costumers that will pay in bitcoin.

Online things can be more easy but local is almost impossible.

Though it is not impossible but we can surely call it hard to promote bitcoin in our local areas because the people around us have never heard of something like this where your money is kept on internet and you just can use them by internet but not like using paper money, so it would probably be quite hard to get customers for this at first.

Where I live for an example, very few people heared about Bitcoins. But they aren't interested on it anyway, they will say it's a hard method to earn money, or that it's a fraudulent method to earn, bla bla bla... So, I just go by myself and don't lose much time with others. Some people are living on old days yet, they don't want to see the real benefits the internet is promoting to us with BTCs.

let me give an example. last night my friend visited me in my home, he asked what i am doing for now. i answered that i am trading with bitcoin. after give him some explanation, he still can't believe if bitcoin can help to make money although we use bitcoin for trading. he make bitcoin same as forex and i told him that bitcoin its different than forex. i give the simple analysis like if supply decrease, then demand will be increase and its make the price reach so high and he agree with this.

the other session, he asked about how we know that the price will go increase? i answer that its depend on many things like the news about bitcoin itself, the market condition, economic global news, and else. the point is my friend not yet accepted that bitcoin can help people with the simple, fast, cheap and not depending for places and time.

this is just happen with another of my friend which is open his business and said maybe later he will found out the good thing about bitcoin and i don't want to push him to know and learn bitcoin, let him search by his self. not much that we can make sure people to accept bitcoin but i am sure that in future many people will be realize the benefit of bitcoin and they want to use it like what we have done now.

[Adamsmit556]

I thought that the Bitcoin community could help to teach the local businesses to how it may assist them and develop them. Bitcoin should give them some benefit as consideration.

[summer68]

I don't think I need to do anything.Bit coins will be accepted by people, this is the trend of development of the times.

[tabas]

I don't think I need to do anything.Bit coins will be accepted by people, this is the trend of development of the times.

But this is a good chance to promote bitcoins to the business near you and you can just simply offer yourself as a business bitcoin advisor to those local middle level businesses. Since we already know that this will be accepted by people in the future that will be an advantage if you will introduce to them bitcoin by simply explaining them what bitcoin is.

[Mastsetad]

I don't think I need to do anything.Bit coins will be accepted by people, this is the trend of development of the times.

But this is a good chance to promote bitcoins to the business near you and you can just simply offer yourself as a business bitcoin advisor to those local middle level businesses. Since we already know that this will be accepted by people in the future that will be an advantage if you will introduce to them bitcoin by simply explaining them what bitcoin is.

It actually looks easy when we say it but it is really hard to promote bitcoin around you since you don't know if there are any people interested about it, because it may turn wrong for you if you introduced it to someone who is against bitcoin because we know that not everyone in the world like bitcoin like us.

[Wintersoldier]

I am looking to help move BTC forward into our economy more and would like to get some suggestions on how we can get more retailers to accept BTC as a payment.  The best part about accepting BTC is that they do not have any threat of charge-back from the customer.  I am just looking for some more input before I start approaching some of these local retailers.

Give them insentives. Present the market if bitcoin through peruasing them. Give the the platform, purpose, use, and advabtages of bitcoin in the market. It is very significant for you to do a deeper findings on the maket you are marketing.

[Aamir1]

I am looking to help move BTC forward into our economy more and would like to get some suggestions on how we can get more retailers to accept BTC as a payment.  The best part about accepting BTC is that they do not have any threat of charge-back from the customer.  I am just looking for some more input before I start approaching some of these local retailers.

Give them insentives. Present the market if bitcoin through peruasing them. Give the the platform, purpose, use, and advabtages of bitcoin in the market. It is very significant for you to do a deeper findings on the maket you are marketing.

Doing any of these things wont make bitcoin accepted by a local business at all, because the basic thing that we need to know before starting a business is the interest in people around us, if they are interested about something we can start that business, but without knowing if there are anyone interested about the service we would probably not do that, so if a local business does not find anyone interested in bitcoin around him except you, they wont use bitcoin at all.

[South Park]

I don't think I need to do anything.Bit coins will be accepted by people, this is the trend of development of the times.

But this is a good chance to promote bitcoins to the business near you and you can just simply offer yourself as a business bitcoin advisor to those local middle level businesses. Since we already know that this will be accepted by people in the future that will be an advantage if you will introduce to them bitcoin by simply explaining them what bitcoin is.

It is not that easy since there are lots of misinformation in the air thanks to the media, so I’m pretty sure many people will think it twice before wanting to have anything with a person out of the blue telling them what to do with their business.

[JasonXG]

Rush into their shop with screaming and shouting waving you guns around and tell them to use btc or you will murder their family xP

Nah just joking

Just show them the ease and close to nothing cost of setup and fees. Show them the speed and security. Instead of keeping a tab someone can Eben keep am escrow open with your shop like at a bar for example.

[serjent05]

Rush into their shop with screaming and shouting waving you guns around and tell them to use btc or you will murder their family xP

Nah just joking

Just show them the ease and close to nothing cost of setup and fees. Show them the speed and security. Instead of keeping a tab someone can Eben keep am escrow open with your shop like at a bar for example.

LOL,small cost to nothing setup?  Does the gadget cost nothing? the internet?  and other device that is use to make the service of accepting bitcoin available.  Aside from software you need hardware to implement the project.  You also need to setup a special program to integrate bitcoin to your payment processor.  There is no question in security but the speed, we all know it is a pain to wait for the confirmation.  

[boyptc]

Rush into their shop with screaming and shouting waving you guns around and tell them to use btc or you will murder their family xP

Nah just joking

Just show them the ease and close to nothing cost of setup and fees. Show them the speed and security. Instead of keeping a tab someone can Eben keep am escrow open with your shop like at a bar for example.

LOL,small cost to nothing setup?  Does the gadget cost nothing? the internet?  and other device that is use to make the service of accepting bitcoin available.  Aside from software you need hardware to implement the project.  You also need to setup a special program to integrate bitcoin to your payment processor.  There is no question in security but the speed, we all know it is a pain to wait for the confirmation.  

Not totally cost nothing but he said close to nothing cost of setup and fees. Still there are some fees and capital is in need. But it is more cheaper than the usual capital that a store owners needs to put out of his pocket. I guess those type of programs are not necessarry for a small shop that accepts bitcoin near you. Because the owner can just implement direct payment to his wallet address.

[maxdeielle]

To encourage some local business to use bitcoin as their payment method is hard, but once you explain to them how big is the advantage of having bitcoin in their wallet for sure they will make it up to you. All you need is just a big and beautiful encouraging words that will for sure persuade them to use this way of payment. And it is all better to make some proof so they will not think that the transaction will be scammed to be trafficked and lead to other’s wallet.

[saiha]

To encourage some local business to use bitcoin as their payment method is hard, but once you explain to them how big is the advantage of having bitcoin in their wallet for sure they will make it up to you. All you need is just a big and beautiful encouraging words that will for sure persuade them to use this way of payment. And it is all better to make some proof so they will not think that the transaction will be scammed to be trafficked and lead to other’s wallet.

Of course this is not an easy thing, but I guess if you are that popularity in your place that is going to be a big plus and you built trust in your community.

And you just need to clearly explain to them what is the essentials and benefits that may get if they will accept bitcoins as payment to their products.

Just tell them, there is no need for investment. For this is alternative way of paying and being paid.

[UDC]

To encourage some local business to use bitcoin as their payment method is hard, but once you explain to them how big is the advantage of having bitcoin in their wallet for sure they will make it up to you. All you need is just a big and beautiful encouraging words that will for sure persuade them to use this way of payment. And it is all better to make some proof so they will not think that the transaction will be scammed to be trafficked and lead to other’s wallet.

Even local businesses use support, the problem is still the lack of people actually paying with bitcoin.
In some countries the community is very small (just check the activity of some local subforums) and, except for those gaining BTC through mining, the process of obtaining BTC to then buy something from a local business is way more cumbersome than simply paying with a credit card directly.

[Darwin02]

They need to decide it by it self to accept it as mode of payment . As far as I know some country already do that even using other altcoin.Just tell them what is the good side of using bitcoin and how it works and they will decide if they can accept it or not.

[tabas]

I don't think I need to do anything.Bit coins will be accepted by people, this is the trend of development of the times.

But this is a good chance to promote bitcoins to the business near you and you can just simply offer yourself as a business bitcoin advisor to those local middle level businesses. Since we already know that this will be accepted by people in the future that will be an advantage if you will introduce to them bitcoin by simply explaining them what bitcoin is.

It actually looks easy when we say it but it is really hard to promote bitcoin around you since you don't know if there are any people interested about it, because it may turn wrong for you if you introduced it to someone who is against bitcoin because we know that not everyone in the world like bitcoin like us.

Yes it is like you are selling fish near the shore, where most of the people doesn't have interest at all. But if you will just have a clear talk to the people that has business and able to explain them that bitcoin can be a good medium to their business for accepting orders and payments online. Everything can be done with talks as long you explained it to them, it will stick to their mind.

[Xenophoto]

Rush into their shop with screaming and shouting waving you guns around and tell them to use btc or you will murder their family xP

Nah just joking

Just show them the ease and close to nothing cost of setup and fees. Show them the speed and security. Instead of keeping a tab someone can Eben keep am escrow open with your shop like at a bar for example.

LOL,small cost to nothing setup?  Does the gadget cost nothing? the internet?  and other device that is use to make the service of accepting bitcoin available.  Aside from software you need hardware to implement the project.  You also need to setup a special program to integrate bitcoin to your payment processor.  There is no question in security but the speed, we all know it is a pain to wait for the confirmation. 

You already have those kind of things. Most business have their own computer, has an internet connection, and everyone has a smartphone. You don't have to spend some more money because you have that in your shop by default. I don't know why would you be needing a software though. They just have to scan your QR code and send their payment. The guy on the counter will then check if it was successfully received. Maybe if you want to automate all of these then you'd need to setup a software but for the meantime, you can still do it manually. It's not that much work especially for small scale businesses.

[ethereumhunter]

I don't think I need to do anything.Bit coins will be accepted by people, this is the trend of development of the times.

But this is a good chance to promote bitcoins to the business near you and you can just simply offer yourself as a business bitcoin advisor to those local middle level businesses. Since we already know that this will be accepted by people in the future that will be an advantage if you will introduce to them bitcoin by simply explaining them what bitcoin is.

It is not that easy since there are lots of misinformation in the air thanks to the media, so I’m pretty sure many people will think it twice before wanting to have anything with a person out of the blue telling them what to do with their business.

i think not much of the media giving the information about bitcoin because until now, i can not find in any media that talk or discuss about bitcoin. the bitcoin is spread by person to person in my community and not using media, maybe later we will use and invite people from local newspaper when we make a new gathering or meeting.