Hi Guys--sounds like a great product. Looking forward to a bright future. Just bought some coins on cryptopia.
Can someone provide a method (or steps), whereby I can have my customers make purchases at my store, with the zero currency?
Right now, I am trialing a bitcoin button, and it uses javascript in the html of my wix store. Few takers though, and a lot of complaints that they want to buy using the traditional methods, paypal and credit card. However, with lots of cajoling and comparing it to paypal as the "new version" and poking at them on emails, I know that, even though this is a group of late-adopters will (for you product life cycle advocates) and are coming around. Much to their consternation, I have relatively unique products and they want them, and I can stomach the loss in sales for this product line as my main lines are prospering now.
That said, my customers do not want a lot of fussing around their first crypto purchase to make a store transaction. They just want some simple guidance. And for this lot, they sometimes want to hide the purchase from "the wife" because if she saw how much he plunked down for his tools, well, he might get quite an earful, or worse, no sex for a week. So for me, as a savvy business owner, there is an opportunity here for my new zero investment (a meager 45 coins).
Also, the zero website (and I did a run through the two bitcointalk threads), is a good start, but really needs some more meat. I am afraid if I send a customer there, they might be scared off by the lack of content.
And, as far as the stigma goes, over these private currencies, I suggest a long term approach that adjusts the message as the audience adopts them more. At this point in time, if I asked my customers what they thought of truly private crypto currencies, well, they might be afraid to mention as it may cause them trouble or someone might be listening. I think that overcoming this inhibition is a first step, and modeling the approach after others (albeit in different fields) can be a great start. Such as the openness today for condoms, and viagra. It was tough on those products in the early years, compared to the widespread acceptance and adoption today.
And, my customers, the general work during the day kind of man, tinker at night in the workshop, located in the US (70%) and Europe (about 30%), they do not know a Monero from a Z cash, from a Zero, from a Zencash. So, a good website presentation and an easy exchange without demanding ID, sthould be sufficient to guide them to the "standard" offering of crypto on my website. You know--two flavors, open ledger with the big name bitcoin, or Zero for privacy.
If you guys need some input on the website marketing, it was one of my majors, so happy to help, and increase my investment value in zero. The approach is simple. First, run through the competition, evaluate their sites and take the best parts to include in the zero site (this way you know nothing is missing or lacking from the competitive approach), then one-up-'em by reading some case studies on Viagara and condoms (whoever is the big name there), then morph their strategies and methods into the approach for the website. In other words, use their techniques for overcoming inhibitions to make "privacy" coin talk an open subject, fit for cashier stand display, where no one needs to turn, or shy away.
But honestly, I truly believe the way to increase the zero value is in commerce, the utility of using it as a means of exchange for goods and services. So if you can get me the code to use on my wix stores, that should help to increase adoption, exposure, and discussion.