Bitcoin Small Town Awareness

[akula999]

We're a local small town group of bitcoin fans (husband and wife team) and we would like to hold an event in our area to bring awareness, education and usage for Bitcoins!
The space will hold up to 50 people at a time and it's set for the last Saturday of September (Sept 27th). The link below is a simple T-Shirt we're selling to help us fund this event.
Each T-Shirt is $20 USD and can be purchased directly on the site. Delivery of the shirts will commence the first week of September. Unfortunately the vendor will not accept bitcoins but does accept Paypal (I've been trying to get them to accept bitcoins, but like many other vendors, their just not educated enough to accept bitcoins).

The funds will help us pay for the venue (rental of space for up to 2 hours). It will also help us purchase and serve appetizers like cookies, water, juice and soda.

https://www.booster.com/bitcoinsmalltownawareness

Initially, there will be 50 shirts available, more if interest goes beyond the initial 50.
Thanks reading and thank you in advance if you purchase this T-Shirt.

P.S. If this becomes a success, we will hold more events monthly in other areas and more T-Shirts will be available (I'm hoping we can get some graphics artist support for future T-Shirt logos).
 

[justbtcme]

The name of your small town on the title or main post would really help.

[akula999]

That would help! 
Cocoa Beach Florida

[Billbags]

I was just there for around fourth months doing a job for SpaceX. You are right, nobody there knows bitcoin yet. I got a few people to download a wallet app and I sent them each 0.0125. They seemed interested in the concept of a non-centralized currency. I tried to pointed them in the right direction for reasearching more about it.

[Parsons]

I don't see how buying Bitcoin shirts helps spread Bitcoin adoption or awareness? From people from Bitcointalk? Maybe if you walk around your town asking them to come to this event then that would work but why would anyone who's already here pay you for a very simple T-Shirt?

Sorry to sound sceptical but it would be better to go business to business imo

[Darth0ne]

I don't see how buying Bitcoin shirts helps spread Bitcoin adoption or awareness? From people from Bitcointalk? Maybe if you walk around your town asking them to come to this event then that would work but why would anyone who's already here pay you for a very simple T-Shirt?

Sorry to sound sceptical but it would be better to go business to business imo

it's to spread their wallet .. and fill it with USD via paypal ....

way to support bitcoin!

but seriously..
no one here wants your shirts ... look how many people tried to sell their teepspring shirts here, did one EVER reach their 'goal' and actually sell ANYshirts?? not that i could find.

...but like many other vendors, they're just not educated enough to accept bitcoins.

lol.

i had to do that.

if you make any money doing this ..
please do not squander it on juice and cookies (& water???)... use it to enroll in night classes at your small-town community college.
maybe you can sell some t-shirts there.

[akula999]

Well, we don't just want to walk around business to business. For a small town, it's still a big enough area to miss a lot. We already have the venue, we already have most of the RSVP done. We were hoping the we can cover costs of the rental of the building for 2 hours and get some refreshments (and cookies) for the group.
I'm personally going to show them how to setup a wallet (coinbase) and i'm also going to personally be giving them $5 (~.009 btc) to their wallet. Afterwards I will be encouraging them to go out and spend it with a report back to me as to what they bought.
I'll cover decentralization, wallets/storage, purchasing, mining, & alt coins.

The t-Shirts were a crowd source approach to help us cover some costs. I'm not rich, we still have our day jobs. It's time for others to know about this. More users of BTC the better.

[Billbags]

I think it's a good idea. I wear Bitcoin t-shirts I ordered off Amazon and I bought with the gyft app using bitcoin. Those shirts bring a lot of attention and people ask questions and inquiries about bitcoin when I wear them. You have posted in the Marketplace/goods, so you are in the right place. I would include t-shirt sales funding project in the title and try to find a way for people to purchase with bitcoin. Since you will be using the profits to help pay costs of the event, I would buy one if you accepted bitcoin.

[apepoof]

Well, we don't just want to walk around business to business. For a small town, it's still a big enough area to miss a lot. We already have the venue, we already have most of the RSVP done. We were hoping the we can cover costs of the rental of the building for 2 hours and get some refreshments (and cookies) for the group.
I'm personally going to show them how to setup a wallet (coinbase) and i'm also going to personally be giving them $5 (~.009 btc) to their wallet. Afterwards I will be encouraging them to go out and spend it with a report back to me as to what they bought.
I'll cover decentralization, wallets/storage, purchasing, mining, & alt coins.

The t-Shirts were a crowd source approach to help us cover some costs. I'm not rich, we still have our day jobs. It's time for others to know about this. More users of BTC the better.

So you don't want to do the hard part going company to company? I feel people should buy cheaper TShirts and donate the difference to an actual pro-Bitcoin adoption entity, or failing that any other charity, or failing that something that actually impacts their lives.