Topic: Ideas for promoting bitcoin to mass public - page 3. (Read 4492 times)

Nice! I just signed in and they gave me 50c for free. If many of us tip the same person it might get attention. I what about Colbert or similar? I'd imagine he'd be more open to mentioning it and getting some more momentum with it?

You could send Obama a tip on @changetip.  They will set up a wallet for his twitter account, which he can claim if he chooses.

Bitcoin can be easily advertised if companies start accepting it, along with Paypal.

Then it will also become more publicly used.

Maybe some other celebs that are more receptive to audience tweets and mails etc? THeyd hopefully mention it on their shows and it would have more impact than any president lol

Give it to Michelle?

Nice, but how do we get him a wallet address? 

Send Obama a bitcoin and let him mention it on tv.

From what i am thinking we should start a facebook page with some posts explaining how BTC works.
Then a post how to become a millionaire. The giveaway thing can totally work. like bring 10 friends of yours to this page and you get 0.002 btc this could eventually work out if everyone plays their part. But the question is where will we get those 0.002 btc. So it would only be possible for a guy who has tons of BTC and can get back his profit after BTC reaches 5000$ or 10K$ landmark

In some sub-forum I saw someone has created a iOS and Android game where you play a super hero and earn free bitcoins along the process. That can work.

Also we need a killer app like WhatsApp which makes it a lot easier to send BTC to people on your contact list. Think of a WhatsApp where you choose someone from your contact list, input the amount you want to send and the payment instantly goes out to recipient.

Just normal talk. Nothing fanatic, that is what turns people off. Show them benefits and try to find some fun examples to do it. Video are always good to explain something fast.

We need to kidnap the President of a Significant country and demand ransom to be paid in Bitcoin.

Everyone have given their share of great idea I like them all. how i wish everyone from every corner work together and mainstream campaign BTC. It would be awesome i guessed hahahah. Is it even possible ?

A good old fashioned FB viral effort could do it:

1. Start a BTC campaign FB page, or use an existing one + get someone (or many ppl) to donate 1.5BTC for this 'awareness' campaign.

2. of this 1.5BTC, divide 1BTC into 500 or 0.002BTC ie ~50c (or whatever multiple you want).

3. get word 'out' via posters around town or through facebook or whatever works in your area, that the 'next 500 people who like the fb page will get some free btc' via facebook (ie quickcoin). Avoid using BTC forums, this would mean BTC converts will just take the BTC for themselves which is a waste. Id try reaching out to fans of Snoop dog or other musicians that are selling their albums via btc, or something like that.

4. distribute that 0.002btc to the subsequent 500 'likes' received and at the same time:

5. tell them when they get that 0.002btc that if they send that to someone, and that person sends it to another person and that person to another person etc (like a pass the parcel game), that the first one to prove they have sent it through 20 people, that the originator will receive a prize of 0.5btc (which is the remainder of the original 1.5btc investment). This part can be changed to whatever way you want, like the prize can be shared among the 20 people for eg, but its important to get people to convince their friends to receive the btc and then they send it to someone who has to convince the next person etc.

6 repeat every time you can get 1.5btc investment.

This way you get people actively/aggressively spreading the word out and at the same time getting people to use btc (sending and receiving).
Once they dip their feet in, it opens the flood gates and they are way more likely to re-dip on their own later.

Next, once they then become aware of where they can spend btc (which is what you can do via fb posts) now that they know how to use it, it should be more likely those people will go buy btc on their own afterwards and hopefully get some more believers along the way. 

I think youd get the first 500 people pretty easily, then after that youd have maybe 5% of those actively seeking the prize meaning they'd try to convert another 2~20 people on their own too. So thats 500 to 750 people reached with 1.5 BTC spent...


Whatever you do when promoting, i'd always skip ideology and economics and technology when converting the average joe. keep it light, simple get them to have fun using it and just show them how fast it is and that its cool 'cos you can do it over facebook or apps etc. the average joe doesnt care about the things 90% of us here signed up for, so keep it simple and fun and centered around gadgets they already use: phones apps and facebook.

^^^Hell, I'm already toying with a Kickstarter campaign to jump-start this bitch.

You guys keep talking. I'm in development: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/obap-749075

Feel free to jump in over there with your ideas anytime, whereupon together we'll do our best to incorporate them.

The best promotion is adoption by large online companies. All we need is Amazon and Ebay and then anyone who hasn't heard of Bitcoin will!

Update: Needs name change. Why? Think Obama. Hence, need to rid the M. How about O:B.A.P. (Operation: Bitcoin Awareness Project)?

The O:B.A.P. Team:


Onė


Bùi


Alysyn


Pandüü

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Plays multiple roles as various shopkeepers that has an Accept Bitcoins Here sticker displayed in the shop windows, revealed in the final episode of the Mockumentary to be...

since last week in Argentina now we have something like Tigerdirect www.avalancha.com.ar and it had 10% discount paying in bitcoin all week



this is a great idea, but sometimes it's difficult for small shops do discounts like that

Btc needs to grow organically for the mainstream to absorb it.

This already exists:

http://takemybitcoins.tv