How can we encourage local businesses to accept BTC?

[TIDOVEE]

This will be in form of extension services,(innovation) sensitizing them on what it is, how it can be used, but i think it will involve at least educating partially the unschooled. great task it will be though.

[SimmonenY]

I think market always responds to the needs of buyers. If we will constantly ask for the option to pay with bitcoins thay will finally begin to accept bitcoins. Also disseminaton and education through mass media, social networks, news, etc. is very important.

[n0ne]

We encourage the local businesses to accept BTC by promoting the advantages of this currency, like for example; in the future we don't need cash as currency instead of cash we buy any things they want using online market. And we need a currency as trade for some goods and it is the BTC.,

Encouraging bitcoin acceptance into business platforms is quite good and a possible one. Something that needs to be insisted is the advantages that it provides. It should be explained clearly that it requires some knowledge only then it can be profiting in the better way.

[Fatanut]

There's only one way-reduced taxes or a lot of bonuses which they will get.

How will there be a bonus when you use bitcoins? I don't see any increase in the amount of bitcoins that I receive everytime I do a transaction. Reduced taxes? Seller still have to pay the same amount of tax even when he started using bitcoins unless of course he did on purpose to avoid paying taxes by not submitting the right amount of income that he has.

I think there are a lot of different options-for me the way how that will happen is not a problem as long as there is desire for that to happen.

This is the "If you want it, there's got to be a way." argument which I really fail to understand. I want to blow up the whole multiverse including but not limited to the universe that we live in. Since I desire that, there's a thought that's going to pop up in my mind on how to do it? I hardly think so.

And since you've mentioned that there's "lots of different options", would you mind sharing even just one?

If we as a community really want more retailers to accept BTC then we have to propose our offers

This is the desperate approach. "Plz accept out BTC, we'll give you money." No one in the bitcoin world would want to pay more than he should just to use his bitcoins. The way I see it, the retailers will start accepting bitcoins when our population has started to blow up.

[terrate]

at first, u need to introduce local bitcoin exchange which are convenience to them.

second taxation. because they are local business, so u need to ask the government department again about the taxation in using bitcoin
Don't see in government website, need personally go reach them. Many country government website no do mention in btc using.

actually tell them the risk they accept bitcoin include their a/c audit.

If they receive bitcoin debit card,
 there will be fees on merchant so better confirm more card user then can accept card.

Tell him their revenue will be drop if btc price drop.
If they decided to hold btc then they need enough cash flow which support their business.

always sharing anything of bitcoin to let them feel confidence against bitcoin.






 

[boyptc]

We encourage the local businesses to accept BTC by promoting the advantages of this currency, like for example; in the future we don't need cash as currency instead of cash we buy any things they want using online market. And we need a currency as trade for some goods and it is the BTC.,

This is going to give them advantage in the future if they are going to try to adopt bitcoin for their business. And it's better to say too that this type of currency is very unique to others because the value of it is getting higher and higher as the day goes on. Since they are businessmen, when they here about profit, they will get interested to it.

[choppork]

We encourage the local businesses to accept BTC by promoting the advantages of this currency, like for example; in the future we don't need cash as currency instead of cash we buy any things they want using online market. And we need a currency as trade for some goods and it is the BTC.,

This is going to give them advantage in the future if they are going to try to adopt bitcoin for their business. And it's better to say too that this type of currency is very unique to others because the value of it is getting higher and higher as the day goes on. Since they are businessmen, when they here about profit, they will get interested to it.

"Profit", "easy money", "Huge Interest", "Best investment" and many more really catches the attention of most people. Who doesn't want money anyway. I don't see any reason how local businesses accepting bitcoins will have profit by doing so. They are going to accept the exact same amount of money but in different form. Maybe by holding the coins, they can get profit. But if they are after that, they should've bought bitcoins instead and then hold it right away.

Holding the coins that they got from the payments of their customers is also quite risky since the price of bitcoin has a tendency to go down and customers might only buy using bitcoins when the price is high.

[fancy_pants]

We encourage the local businesses to accept BTC by promoting the advantages of this currency, like for example; in the future we don't need cash as currency instead of cash we buy any things they want using online market. And we need a currency as trade for some goods and it is the BTC.,

This is going to give them advantage in the future if they are going to try to adopt bitcoin for their business. And it's better to say too that this type of currency is very unique to others because the value of it is getting higher and higher as the day goes on. Since they are businessmen, when they here about profit, they will get interested to it.

Its a unique currency but the fact is not many people are aware about bitcoins yet so I don't think that they will be using bitcoins to make a payment as to do that they also need to have bitcoins in their wallet and merchants will accept bitcoins only if its an profitable for them.

[boyptc]

We encourage the local businesses to accept BTC by promoting the advantages of this currency, like for example; in the future we don't need cash as currency instead of cash we buy any things they want using online market. And we need a currency as trade for some goods and it is the BTC.,

This is going to give them advantage in the future if they are going to try to adopt bitcoin for their business. And it's better to say too that this type of currency is very unique to others because the value of it is getting higher and higher as the day goes on. Since they are businessmen, when they here about profit, they will get interested to it.

Its a unique currency but the fact is not many people are aware about bitcoins yet so I don't think that they will be using bitcoins to make a payment as to do that they also need to have bitcoins in their wallet and merchants will accept bitcoins only if its an profitable for them.

If the businessman is just for the uniqueness, technology and other way of paying his goods and services, then he will grab and adopt bitcoin. But if that businessman have a close mind and he really don't understand what bitcoin is, he will going to ignore it even you will show him, how bitcoin is a very good help for his business.

[daxiake]

We encourage the local businesses to accept BTC by promoting the advantages of this currency, like for example; in the future we don't need cash as currency instead of cash we buy any things they want using online market. And we need a currency as trade for some goods and it is the BTC.,

This is going to give them advantage in the future if they are going to try to adopt bitcoin for their business. And it's better to say too that this type of currency is very unique to others because the value of it is getting higher and higher as the day goes on. Since they are businessmen, when they here about profit, they will get interested to it.

Its a unique currency but the fact is not many people are aware about bitcoins yet so I don't think that they will be using bitcoins to make a payment as to do that they also need to have bitcoins in their wallet and merchants will accept bitcoins only if its an profitable for them.

If the businessman is just for the uniqueness, technology and other way of paying his goods and services, then he will grab and adopt bitcoin. But if that businessman have a close mind and he really don't understand what bitcoin is, he will going to ignore it even you will show him, how bitcoin is a very good help for his business.

Yes and he should also know that there is a demand of bitcoins but the only issue is he will never come to know that whether people around him are aware about bitcoins or not and are willing to pay with bitcoins.

[bitbunnny]

Local authorities and governments could encourage small business to accept Bitcoins especialy in terms of tax privilegies and similar but the problem is that authorities itself mainly don't support Bitcoin. So the risk is often too big for this local businesses and they just can't afford it.

[boyptc]

We encourage the local businesses to accept BTC by promoting the advantages of this currency, like for example; in the future we don't need cash as currency instead of cash we buy any things they want using online market. And we need a currency as trade for some goods and it is the BTC.,

This is going to give them advantage in the future if they are going to try to adopt bitcoin for their business. And it's better to say too that this type of currency is very unique to others because the value of it is getting higher and higher as the day goes on. Since they are businessmen, when they here about profit, they will get interested to it.

Its a unique currency but the fact is not many people are aware about bitcoins yet so I don't think that they will be using bitcoins to make a payment as to do that they also need to have bitcoins in their wallet and merchants will accept bitcoins only if its an profitable for them.

If the businessman is just for the uniqueness, technology and other way of paying his goods and services, then he will grab and adopt bitcoin. But if that businessman have a close mind and he really don't understand what bitcoin is, he will going to ignore it even you will show him, how bitcoin is a very good help for his business.

Yes and he should also know that there is a demand of bitcoins but the only issue is he will never come to know that whether people around him are aware about bitcoins or not and are willing to pay with bitcoins.

And if that businessman believes to bitcoin immediately then that is going to make him accept immediately just upon hearing your explanation into it. But if he is still skeptical into it, he will take sometime and in the end he will realize that he really don't need it. Still if many bitcoin users surrounding him, he will that it fast.

[Potato Chips]

We encourage the local businesses to accept BTC by promoting the advantages of this currency, like for example; in the future we don't need cash as currency instead of cash we buy any things they want using online market. And we need a currency as trade for some goods and it is the BTC.,

This is going to give them advantage in the future if they are going to try to adopt bitcoin for their business. And it's better to say too that this type of currency is very unique to others because the value of it is getting higher and higher as the day goes on. Since they are businessmen, when they here about profit, they will get interested to it.

Its a unique currency but the fact is not many people are aware about bitcoins yet so I don't think that they will be using bitcoins to make a payment as to do that they also need to have bitcoins in their wallet and merchants will accept bitcoins only if its an profitable for them.

If the businessman is just for the uniqueness, technology and other way of paying his goods and services, then he will grab and adopt bitcoin. But if that businessman have a close mind and he really don't understand what bitcoin is, he will going to ignore it even you will show him, how bitcoin is a very good help for his business.

Pardon me but from what i know most businessman puts heir business first than technology. and most of them determines that bitcoin cannot boost

their sales because there are only a few number of people who knows it. some business man thinks it can like what the japansese has done. So what

I'm trying to say is.... this whole thing is subjective. our situation is not that good right now but we are improving. hoping that one day we can make

at least 50% of the population a bitcoin user then it will be easy for merchants to accept it.

[boyptc]

We encourage the local businesses to accept BTC by promoting the advantages of this currency, like for example; in the future we don't need cash as currency instead of cash we buy any things they want using online market. And we need a currency as trade for some goods and it is the BTC.,

This is going to give them advantage in the future if they are going to try to adopt bitcoin for their business. And it's better to say too that this type of currency is very unique to others because the value of it is getting higher and higher as the day goes on. Since they are businessmen, when they here about profit, they will get interested to it.

Its a unique currency but the fact is not many people are aware about bitcoins yet so I don't think that they will be using bitcoins to make a payment as to do that they also need to have bitcoins in their wallet and merchants will accept bitcoins only if its an profitable for them.

If the businessman is just for the uniqueness, technology and other way of paying his goods and services, then he will grab and adopt bitcoin. But if that businessman have a close mind and he really don't understand what bitcoin is, he will going to ignore it even you will show him, how bitcoin is a very good help for his business.

Pardon me but from what i know most businessman puts heir business first than technology. and most of them determines that bitcoin cannot boost

their sales because there are only a few number of people who knows it. some business man thinks it can like what the japansese has done. So what

I'm trying to say is.... this whole thing is subjective. our situation is not that good right now but we are improving. hoping that one day we can make

at least 50% of the population a bitcoin user then it will be easy for merchants to accept it.

They might go with business first, but once they saw innovation has a good factor in their business. It will give them some understanding and they will realize that it will be a good option for their business. Once they've got a bitcoin user customer, that will just go and up suddenly if they want to make their sales go up.

[Fatanut]

And if that businessman believes to bitcoin immediately then that is going to make him accept immediately just upon hearing your explanation into it. But if he is still skeptical into it, he will take sometime and in the end he will realize that he really don't need it. Still if many bitcoin users surrounding him, he will that it fast.

People don't just jump on the boat just because they were enlightened about the idea. I can be a bitcoin user but I will not accept bitcoin in my business right away because it has its disadvantages. First, the authority might think that you're trying to avoid taxation.

Second, there's not that much people using bitcoin especially in smaller scale businesses. I'm just going to waste my money hiring someone to make a system for me so I can accept bitcoin as payment.

Lastly, it's just not going to work out for me. Bitcoin isn't a mainstream thing yet and even if a businessman sees an opportunity on how accepting bitcoins might increase his sales, there will be very little to no increase in sales because the number of bitcoin users is quite small as of now.

[iMaster]

at first, u need to introduce local bitcoin exchange which are convenience to them.

second taxation. because they are local business, so u need to ask the government department again about the taxation in using bitcoin
Don't see in government website, need personally go reach them. Many country government website no do mention in btc using.

actually tell them the risk they accept bitcoin include their a/c audit.

If they receive bitcoin debit card,
 there will be fees on merchant so better confirm more card user then can accept card.

Tell him their revenue will be drop if btc price drop.
If they decided to hold btc then they need enough cash flow which support their business.

always sharing anything of bitcoin to let them feel confidence against bitcoin.

[bettercrypto]

One of the strong point of Bitcoin is its increasing price.  We can capitalize on this when we introduce Bitcoin to local businesses.  Transaction is favorable to the merchant because there is no chargeback meaning unlike paypal, once the payment is done, merchant does not need to worry about the payment to be charged back.  Aside from that, Bitcoin is not taxed in my country so definitely more profit to our local merchant.  So probably that is one of the aspect we can tell the merchant to catch their interest in accepting BTC.

[Fatanut]

One of the strong point of Bitcoin is its increasing price.  We can capitalize on this when we introduce Bitcoin to local businesses.  Transaction is favorable to the merchant because there is no chargeback meaning unlike paypal, once the payment is done, merchant does not need to worry about the payment to be charged back.  Aside from that, Bitcoin is not taxed in my country so definitely more profit to our local merchant.  So probably that is one of the aspect we can tell the merchant to catch their interest in accepting BTC.

Bitcoin is not taxed but the sales of your company will still be taxed. You're going to pay the exact same tax regardless if you sold your items in bitcoins or in fiat. There's no chargeback but the transaction time is not instant. You can't close a deal right away. And you can't just say that even without confirmation, the transaction is already done. This is probably the problem that lead other merchants to change their mind about accepting bitcoins. There's also the micro-transaction problem but this problem can be solved by using a different cryptocurrency.

We can never guarantee the increase in bitcoin's price so we can't actually use it to persuade the merchants. When the price of bitcoin goes low, the scenario will be them blaming us and regretting the decision of accepting bitcoins.

[sunsilk]

Local authorities and governments could encourage small business to accept Bitcoins especialy in terms of tax privilegies and similar but the problem is that authorities itself mainly don't support Bitcoin. So the risk is often too big for this local businesses and they just can't afford it.

This will be one of the problem that the government will face or maybe a challenge for them when a businessman starts to accept bitcoin.

Because government will have hard time to collect tax from them and it is not covered by their law and it needs a revision for the taxation law before they will be taxed.

If you'll say that you can have chance to lessen your tax with the use of bitcoin, do you think that will attract them?

[rhamzter]

We need first to introduce the Bitcoin as currency and their value, because how the local businesses encouraging if they cannot know the value of this currency? Moreover, we need a lot of advertisement regarding the usage and benefits they provided to the users/businesses.