Topic: Earn 0BTC for getting shops/organisations to accept Bitcoin! - page 25. (Read 98078 times)

I think MyBitcoin have currency conversion built in to their merchant services.
A few getting started guides for merchants have been written, for example this. There is some work to be done on making something more comprehensive. There's also this which has a different focus.

Ha! They answered and said they were now testing bitcoin donations.

They're even inclined to use it in their shop but have, of course, the exchange rate problem.

Does anyone have some sample code I could point them to that grabs the exchange rate from mtgox / google (they think in EUR) so they could implement a live BTC price in their shop?

Is there a good place to start for someone wanting to accept bitcoin in his shop and doesn't know where to start? A HowTo or something?

Guys, sorry that I still haven't put up that spreadsheet - have been busy with work and college. I will try and do it tomorrow evening (GMT).

Going to go for Minecraft.net.

Aceptado Aqui sounds better in English than Spanish. Let's go with "Se Aceptan" I think if you put it with those logos it will look fine. I would think of it in English like "Bitcoin Acepted"

In regards to formatting I can change the size in photoshop if you can send it to me as a PSD. I'll probably make an avatar and a logo for webpages etc and repost them.

Thanks a bunch.

You can have a look at what I am going to send to DOSBox here.
A few points which are important in my view are:
1. Don't be a spammer. If it's a shop, only contact them if you've made purchases before. If an organization, show that you are actually involved in and care about their cause.
2. Unless they are very much inclined towards the philosophy of Bitcoin, they won't care how great it is to have an Open Source peer-to-peer deflationary cryptographic currency which is not controlled by any possibly malicious single point of failure and that they will be helping promote a better future. These can be mentioned to provide some perspective of what Bitcoin is, but downplayed. They care about what's in it for them, how it will help them in their own lives. They want to know that Bitcoin will give them extra business/donations they can convert to fiat currency which is of known use to them. That's not them being selfish, just practical. If they later choose to be more involved that's an added bonus.
3. They will want to know that with Bitcoin, people can send money easily and with no/low transaction fees.
4. Shops may be interested to know there are no chargebacks with Bitcoin.
5. Make it personal. Let them know how you personally would love to pay them with bitcoins.
6. They will be concerned about the work required to receive Bitcoin payments. Let them know that it's easy and offer to help (it helps if yourself you know a thing or two about Bitcoin and its related services).
7. Be polite, of course.
8. Don't overdo it. They will be put off by too much enthusiasm.

Update: 2 organizations I've contacted were concerned about what they could do with bitcoins, so I recommend mentioning CoinCard in the first message (for shops, too). 2 shops were concerned about the work required to integrate Bitcoin to their shopping carts, so you may want to familiarize yourself with existing solutions to make it easier for them.

I like this idea! Could someone post a sample letter or a list of talking points for pitching the idea of Bitcoins?

will try to convince queeky.com (online drawing) to accept bitcoins for their upcoming premium account selling and maybe donations.

Take a look at this picture to see what I have already. http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/6039/bclogos.png

Really with how the "accepted here" is drawn, maybe you want to say that... "Aceptado Aqui"? I'll put whatever you want because only takes a second to change text, just my Spanish is not good.

Also, you need to tell me the size and if you want PNG/JPG/AI or other file format. If you can use AI or Illustrator that is best and you can edit yourself

I'm going to contact the German Privacy Foundation (http://privacyfoundation.de)

They're selling a product, the cryptostick (smartcard on a usb stick), maybe I can get them to accept bitcoins in their shop or as donations.

Don't start buying cryptosticks yet wait for them to accept bitcoins. If you'd like to get a cryptostick, ask if they accept bitcoins :p

Don't know if they match the criteria, but will do anyways.

"Aceptamos Bitcoin" works but "Se Aceptan Bitcoin" is more formal and I prefer it. I guess if it takes 10 seconds more to make both then you could do both. If I had to pick I'd go with the 2nd.

I have the design files and fonts to alter something like this, so I can do it for you free in the next couple days. What do I put, Aceptamos Bitcoin? Tell me what size you need and jpg/png/ai format whatever you want

My ecig webstore is going to open any day now and I changed my section on Bitcoin from the video on the homepage to the new animated one at http://www.weusecoins.com/. Hopefully I qualify, but I have known about bitcoin for a while.

I will attempt to get Cory Doctorow http://craphound.com/ to accept Bitcoins.

Currently only accepting Paypal, which sucks. Does that count as an organization or as a shop? :p

Okay, I'll try to get, Revision3.com, Hak5.org, and Jupiterbroadcasting.com to exept donations in bitcoin.

Are there any "we accept bitcoins!" logos that anyone has made?

I want to put it on my site but I'll need it in Spanish. If this hasn't been made and someone is good at that stuff I'd be happy to chip in.
I've only got a little btc in my account though. Still I figure others are looking too.

I like the idea of Bitcoin selling force - people contacting eshops and explaining them the benefits of Bitcoin. So I offer 3 BTC per shop, up to 100 BTC in total (for the first phase).

My conditions:
a) Site google rank > 3
b) Offer legal goods
c) Bitcoin is listed on the site as standard way for payments (not just tiny link on the bottom of the page).
d) Site is listed on trade page on bitcoin wiki


And I'm reserving 'veto right' in all cases, because I know that people can be very inventive when the money are lying around .

I am contacting ThinkGeek.

Hey, we gotta start dreaming big.  

Edit:
Also contacting PayPal.

I will also contact KDE.org to see if they will accept bitcoins!

I will contact Bits Of Freedom (https://bof.nl) A dutch digital rights organisation to see if they are interested in using bitcoin for donations/gadet sales.

Yes, I will create something like that later today or tomorrow the latest.