For that we need to take an initiate and keep on asking merchants every now and then that do you accept bitcoins? do you accept bitcoins?? that will make him to think twice, if he is aware about the bitcoins he will take further steps and if he is not aware he would atleast try to know what bitcoins is all about So unless we don't take first step it would never gonna work.
totally agree. but i dont think spam bombing retailers is strategic.
research is needed.
1. how popular is this retailer to the bitcoin community. is there an actual usage need for bitcoin to be accepted by a certain number of people.
2. what is this retailers current payment method. do they accept more then just cash and credit.. EG paypal, applepay, foreign currency.
3. who within the company is the decision maker (Chief financial manager, payment processing manager, e-commerce chief)
what would need to be done is find the most popular retailers. and get people who would actually buy from that company to email the customer services of the company a basic request about accepting bitcoin.
next tally up all of these requests (getting users to post that they done it) and then make a formal communication with the decision maker using the stats that there is a demand for it.. using examples like Dell, and other well known retailers already taking it on.
contact coinbase/bitpay that this retailer has noticed a interest/demand for bitcoin acceptance and get advice on how to link coinbase/bitpay upto the retailer so they can organise getting the retailer set up.