these people said it perfectly
If you have any services to offer to goods to sell you could get paid in bitcoins.
Start a business or service that takes bitcoins. I have two.
Mow yards, sell services, get money, then buy bitcoin with that. If you sell your services for Bitcoin only, your missing out on the 99% of ppl who use cash.
you can also look into being your towns point of contact for bitcoin, do local meetups, offer shops the ability to swap bitcoins they receive for FIAT (you buy the bitcoin fro them. design the service so that the bitcoin price your API sends to the local merchant ensures the FIAT they receive is 100% what they ask.
this will get merchants onboard easily. then when bitcoin is a massive thing that loads of places accept you can adjust the prices the opposit way. at the moment its bitcoin users screaming out for ways to spend bitcoin, so the demand is on the user, meaning they should pay the premium. not the merchant.