How to orange pill ANY small business/startup (restaurants, food trucks, etc) in few simple steps.
Only requirement: a small group of passionate Bitcoiners.
Us: “Hi, we are looking for a venue to host our monthly meetup and group events. Would it be possible to book a table for 5–10 people?”
Venue: “Sure!”
Us: “Great! There’s just one thing, we host our meetups only at places that accept Bitcoin payments. Would you be open to giving it a try?
There are zero costs involved and we can set you up in no time, is as easy as downloading an app (wallet). The best part is there’s zero risk: if you decide you don’t want to keep the Bitcoin, we can buy it back from you in cash at the end of the event.”
Venue says Yes: they made a sale and gained new loyal customers only for being open minded.
Venue says No: they lost a decent sale
Its all about the incentives. Spending bitcoin is how you create an incentive to accept bitcoin and this is how we accelerate adoption.
This is one of the many reasons why we have gone from 0 to 50+ merchants at
@Bitcoin Basin. NZ in less in 18 months.
We use
@Wallet of Satoshi because of its UX and the very handy POS feature. Showing business bitcoin adoption in the
@BTC Map also helps a lot.
Particularly in New Zealand, this is becoming increasingly easy as well thanks to Bitcoin-only exchanges like Stacked, where you can instantly spend & replace using lightning.
This is how we make bitcoin tangible, real for no-coiners…before they know it, they have started their Bitcoin Journey.
Bitcoin is money, but only if we use it as such.
Onwards.
P.S: So far, nobody has asked for cash instead of Bitcoin at the end of the event, but they have all wanted to learn more about Bitcoin. Once they grasp it is very much like digital gold, they figure it is best to just HODL.
