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Quote from: mk4 on February 19, 2018, 09:46:58 AM

Quote from: tdrinker on February 19, 2018, 09:42:26 AM

Merchandise, Hardware Wallets, Books/guides, Mining equipment, perhaps some sort of gift card (if an exchange offers them or you can get an exchange to offer them).

If you want to build a sense of community you could try have some sort of service/event where people can come and learn and discuss cryptocurrencies.

Yes! I forgot books. Definitely sell some of Andreas Antonopoulos books. I haven't read them personally but I've heard nothing but good feedback on his books Mastering Bitcoin[1], Mastering Ethereum[2](pre order), and The Internet of Money[3]. Pick some up and sell em on your store; they'll probably grab some attention from the readers.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Programming-Open-Blockchain/dp/1491954388
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Ethereum-Building-Smart-Contracts/dp/1491971940
[3] https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B075VG4NTN

Links above are non-referral links. All from https://antonopoulos.com/books/

I've not read them cover to cover but have a little and again have always heard good things. You should definitely look at getting beginners books instead of books for more experienced people, in fact I'm not sure quite how many there are.

A few books for beginners in the store window will really attract some passersby.

Bous

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Well, I think that your idea is really great, congratulations! A clothing line sounds very good to me, and also mining equipment could be useful. I hope it's going to work.

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Selling what they sell isn't a good idea. You need to look for something that does not sell one. I realized that you want to trade for cryptocurrency. Try to trade what you need miners. For example buy a broken GPU, and restore them. In this case, you will have a good range for pricing. If you do your job well and offer an adequate price you will have many offers.

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This is a laudable project and it will further raise more awareness of cryptocurrencies in your location and beyond. Soon , you will start getting referral. I definitely like the incorporation of crypto books.

I hope you also have plans to put your business adverts on the internet, so that you also have larger patronage. Nice idea.

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Quote from: cbtan on February 19, 2018, 09:12:13 AM

hi, i want to open a crypto-themed, brick-and-mortar store. currently trying to figure out what I should sell. a couple of ideas i have are hard wallets, crypto apparels and mining equipment. Any other suggestion? I want to build a community around this place so while profitability is important, it is not of utmost priority. thanks a lot for any advice!

As I were you, I won't sell hardware wallets... Especially for the average people... It's a rule of thumb that you only buy hardware wallet from the webshop of the original manufacturer... especially you should not buy hardware wallet from ebay...
In a brick and mortar shop you will have to provide a warranty (or something similar). Imagine that you sell a hardware wallet (an original one, not a tampered) to someone (an Average Joe). He starts to play with it at home, buys 1 bitcoin and accidentally lose the seed, PIN, or anything. It's definitely not a warranty case, but you have to be able to handle these kind of situtaions as well.
Other stuff is OK, books, clothing, etc. but be really cautious with the above mentioned things.

Yes, by providing anything in the shop, provide warranty is very important.
Warranty can be used for building customer trust so we can make sure our demand in the increase.

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I like the idea of selling books, clothlines and gadgets with crypto-related themes. As to the hardware wallets, it is a great idea too, but I would be thinking you need to have some very well thought-off processes to convince your customers that the hardware wallets you are selling have not been tampered. So it is better to have it well thought off before you even start. Maybe you could strike a partnership with the official vendors, so that they can audit and certify your store?

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Minning equipments are something that you can only order online in most countries and they cost a lot and if you are going to do this then remember you will need super tight security.

You could also hire someone to teach the newbies about cryptocurrency..how it works or have some paid sessions in the store itself where you can give them kind of a crash course.

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Will that is a better idea to start a new business especially of all the people who are intrigued with a world crypto .many users think of it here to have suggested to we open a coffee place or els.my idea will be customized by involving menu like pizza or fries .its size is as a beginner and up to high the sized that well be awesome and there are deserts yet it.can be the name for the coffee shop can be satoshi .this is a business class not here I'm sure I really appreciated and enjoy my life though it is just a plan so we should be looking for our idea about store own pur livelihood sand someday also helps some people lose their money and sometimes even get up.

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I guess a crypto themed pop up restaurant will do. Though some of the users here have suggested to open a coffee place. My idea will be a customized menu involving burgers and fries. The sizes will be newbie, full member and legendary sizes. That will be awesome. Then desserts can be names of altcoins but the best seller will be named bitcoin. Additional name for coffee can be satoshi and also name of some forums here like economics .. Bitcoin discussion,etc. Hope this helps.

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Quote from: cbtan on February 19, 2018, 09:12:13 AM

hi, i want to open a crypto-themed, brick-and-mortar store. currently trying to figure out what I should sell. a couple of ideas i have are hard wallets, crypto apparels and mining equipment. Any other suggestion? I want to build a community around this place so while profitability is important, it is not of utmost priority. thanks a lot for any advice!

Thats great bro!we wish your success of this your new crypto bussiness store.i suggest that you must selling a mining equipment because many people now want to become a miner and the equipment is limited in some few store or maybe selling some cellpone with an application of all kinds of wallet in altcoins like ledger nano,so that when you need to view your asset of different crypto all you can see in the phone.

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make your own birthday cards or something like that. in these cards are keys for some inexpensive altcoins or bitcoins (some satoshis). in addition, should be in the birthday card a writing, how and from where you can download the wallet and how to insert the key in the wallet. so it it easy for customers to buy some coins or to buy a present. this is maybe something for your shop.

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Quote from: cbtan on February 19, 2018, 09:12:13 AM

hi, i want to open a crypto-themed, brick-and-mortar store. currently trying to figure out what I should sell. a couple of ideas i have are hard wallets, crypto apparels and mining equipment. Any other suggestion? I want to build a community around this place so while profitability is important, it is not of utmost priority. thanks a lot for any advice!

As I were you, I won't sell hardware wallets... Especially for the average people... It's a rule of thumb that you only buy hardware wallet from the webshop of the original manufacturer... especially you should not buy hardware wallet from ebay...
In a brick and mortar shop you will have to provide a warranty (or something similar). Imagine that you sell a hardware wallet (an original one, not a tampered) to someone (an Average Joe). He starts to play with it at home, buys 1 bitcoin and accidentally lose the seed, PIN, or anything. It's definitely not a warranty case, but you have to be able to handle these kind of situtaions as well.
Other stuff is OK, books, clothing, etc. but be really cautious with the above mentioned things.

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I would do a combination of a Coffee shop and a Book shop. There is always some debate around Bitcoin and "buying coffee".

I would proof people wrong about the misconception that it is too expensive to buy coffee with Bitcoin. {they say the miners

fees, makes micro payments like this impossible.} If you can implement the Lighting network it would even be better,

because it is ideal for micro transactions. Go for it. Wink

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Good luck on building the crypto community in your place.

Quote from: angelakrasnova on February 19, 2018, 10:41:42 AM

Branded clothes

This is what's on my mind that will start hyping the crypto trend in your country when someone avails your crypto t-shirts it's like a free advertising from the coin you have bought. I've also seen some car plates that tags "bitcoin" and other altcoin of buyers choice.

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Quote from: cbtan on February 19, 2018, 10:09:11 AM

all very good ideas. thank you so much!

will certainly look into the books, giftcards, digitalbitbox, opendime and cryptostell. all great suggestions!

These are the good ideas but you are not easily survive in this field so try to hard work and smart work. Because most of the peoples are start these kind of business but many peoples are not maintain properly you should maintain proper in your field you are the successful man.

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Right now, in theory, there is everything you need for life. Branded clothes, coffee, ice-cream baskin robins. They all have a name and a chip. You may like to do floristry and open your flower shop and make your own unique chip. maybe it will be roses with petals on which the name of your chosen one is written.

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This is an awesome idea and I encourage you to go with it. Mining equipment sounds good but also I would suggest a clothing line

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Quote from: CryptoBeefy on February 19, 2018, 09:21:55 AM

I like the idea of the clothing line. Apparel with the key phrases like Hodl and Lambo etc That would be pretty cool. You could also put those kind of things on coffee cups and the likes there of.

I agree with you, that kind of things can be very profitable, because they are suitable for everyone, most people heard of coins and they will easily buy such things even though they are not involved in much.

cbtan

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all very good ideas. thank you so much!

will certainly look into the books, giftcards, digitalbitbox, opendime and cryptostell. all great suggestions!

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Quote from: tdrinker on February 19, 2018, 09:42:26 AM

Merchandise, Hardware Wallets, Books/guides, Mining equipment, perhaps some sort of gift card (if an exchange offers them or you can get an exchange to offer them).

If you want to build a sense of community you could try have some sort of service/event where people can come and learn and discuss cryptocurrencies.

Yes! I forgot books. Definitely sell some of Andreas Antonopoulos books. I haven't read them personally but I've heard nothing but good feedback on his books Mastering Bitcoin[1], Mastering Ethereum[2](pre order), and The Internet of Money[3]. Pick some up and sell em on your store; they'll probably grab some attention from the readers.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Programming-Open-Blockchain/dp/1491954388
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Ethereum-Building-Smart-Contracts/dp/1491971940
[3] https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B075VG4NTN

Links above are non-referral links. All from https://antonopoulos.com/books/

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