Topic: If we want Bitcoin to go mainstream, we'd better start doing stuff like this. - page 2. (Read 2440 times)

A lot of people forget this. We have a system that's capable of transmitting something of value across the globe for almost no fee, instead people want to focus on profit and profit only.

Once people see that Bitcoin has other benefits and actually holds value the rest is just easy.

to go mainstream

1. getting merchants onboard for stuff like food, utilities, etc (not gimicky watches or breast implants) basically day to day living stuff, to hep show that people can live on a bitcoin income.

2. getting the suppliers of these merchants on board, so the merchants hoard the coins and even employe people who want to be paid in bitcoins, rather then the gimmick of taking something thy do not really need and instantly convert it to fiat.

3. once there is a stable infrastructure of true bitcoin use and availability, then get average joe.

bitcoin is still too early for average joe, it seems people want to pus grandad and little pete into bitcoin purely for a price ramp so those holding bitcoin can cash out. these people have no clue of bitcoins true uniqueness, true usefulness, they just want quick profits and only measure bitcoins in fiat profits, not a bitcoin retirement. and no one should be taking advice from them. instead lets concentrate on building the proper bitcoin ecosystem and get a firm base for which we can expand on.

so get grocery stores accepting bitcoin, get DIY stores accepting bitcoin. get landlords, realters/estate agents, get electric/gas companies, get the 'daily essentials' covered before throwing grandpa and little cousins into the bitcoin ecosystem by wasting money on advertising. its still too early for average joe.

the only reason dogecoin done advertising is not because they want to grow an economy, they know doge is dead but they needed just oe more push of doge buyers so that the ones that were holding the bag of crap could sell out. now those left holding the bag of doge have to deal with the fact that thy cant buy daily lifestyle stuff with it..

dogecoin was a pump and dump. bitcoin is totally different

A little promotion never hurt anyone. I personally think sponsoring is a great way to get Bitcoin noticed but it shouldn't be a priority.

I think doing marketing for bitcoin is largely a waste of resources. You can talk with people and explain bitcoin to them if they seem interested, but sponsoring a racecar is like throwing away funds that could better be donated to individual bitcoin developers.

Bitcoin is an incredibly useful invention. Therefore it does not need a marketing team. It will spread by word of mouth and by increasing business adoption, because people will realize that it improves their lives.

That forum thing is a good idea, but we'll have to do it in a way that won't make it look like we're just dropping links. Then it'll look like we're just spamming. I would say just participate in the forums you find in a way that looks normal and, if economics comes up in the subject at hand, point out that Bitcoin could solve this problem and that problem if only more people would use it. You ARE going to get the skeptics, so be sure to have some answers ready for the inevitable questions from people who don't know much about how cryptocurrencies work and/or have heard a lot of the bad news.

Yeah something more needs to be done. I feel like not enough people know about it considering how amazing bitcoins really are.

When some popular company states that they will now take bitcoins, that does give bitcoin some more popularity, but that's not enough. Not enough companies/organizations do that, and even if some do, it might not make it into the news. What needs to happen is the community to start posting in other places other than this. Obviously don't stop posting here, but posting on other forums explaining to people what bitcoins are and why you should invest in them. But obviously much bigger things that that could be done.

This would be a perfect scenario for some sort of guerrilla marketing strategy. A physical faucet in a high foot traffic area would be a fun way to do it.

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So I know a lot of us have Bitcoin-related websites and we're used to advertising those sites to other people who already use Bitcoin. But if we're really serious about getting Bitcoin to go mainstream, we'd better start advertising our sites outside of the Bitcoin community. So maybe we'd better take a hint from Dogecoin and their racecar and start doing inexpensive sponsorships. (And I know Dogecoin is kinda tanking right now but that racecar is part of the reason people know about it.) I just recently wrote an article about Mars One for Bitcoin Users to basically provide information on how you can become an official Bitcoin sponsor for US$1250-$6250. Does anybody know any other clever strategies to market our Bitcoin sites?