Could we get emerging online markets to adopt feathercoin???
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Nah, scratch that. It’s a dumb idea, even if it worked. Yeah, it would lead to faster adoption of feathercoin in the short to medium term, but probably doesn’t offer much long-term value.And perhaps, more to the point, its not up to us “feathercoin insiders” as Hazard likes to describe us. We’ll know that feathercoin is on a path to sustainable adoption when businesses and customers (of whatever shade of legitimacy) start using feathercoin without being assisted or prompted to do so.
[/quote]Hey I actually quite liked this idea. I could set up Project folder for you to head up on the do.com if you wanted to drive Merchant adoption, we still have a list of merchants from a few months back that we could do with chasing up. Also I want to Merchants to the [url=http://local.feathercoin.com/]Feathercoin Map[/url].
Edit: sorry I only skim read your post lol - I think driving general merchant adoption isn’t a bad idea but yeah I wouldn’t go after the drugs, I think that would be a bad look. Offer’s still open if you wanted to go vanilla.
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I’m flat out atm, and I’m offline for a month trekking in Nepal from late November, but come January I got a bit of time spare. So perhaps if you’ve got a list of potential merchants you think might be interested, I could make contact (not that I’m a great salesman or anything!) with them and explain the benefits of getting in early as a merchant for ftc. Having said that, I think it would be necessary to plug each new merchant as they come on board. I’m thinking the package includes free plug via the FTC forum, twitter, any other social media (we could possibly include them in future videos like the one done at the Oxford Blue???) plus addition to the “Feathercoin Merchants Hall of Fame” for the first 1000 merchants to accept FTC (basically a flashy web directory/page with all the early adopters on it) - or perhaps the first 100 in each category.
In any case, no point just asking them to accept FTC in theory, we need to get them some custom if they’re to continue accepting FTC payments.
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I’m flat out atm, and I’m offline for a month trekking in Nepal from late November
[/quote]Would be great if you could take some Paper Wallets with you and get FTC in to Nepal. Maybe you can raise some sponsorship in FTC?
And promotion via social media is a part and parcel of merchant adoption, so yes.
C
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I thought it was a big moment for btc when Silk Road was busted and everyone held there breath waiting for the crash and … Nothing
A slight fluctuation later and btc has now gone from strength to strength, probably helped by the fact that it no longer has the Silk Road noose round it’s neck
Mainstream marketplaces did not want to touch btc whilst it thought it was no more than a way for drug dealers to do illicit deals on the dark web. Now it is free from that stereotype it is free to be adopted in the open marketplace
Why muddy the featherCoin name now when mainstream crypto adoption is becoming a reality ?
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Silly chris from i have seen on natgeo channel people normally smuggle out of neppal not in :P
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I’m flat out atm, and I’m offline for a month trekking in Nepal from late November
[/quote]Would be great if you could take some Paper Wallets with you and get FTC in to Nepal. Maybe you can raise some sponsorship in FTC?
And promotion via social media is a part and parcel of merchant adoption, so yes.
C
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We need to push the SMS system in Africa. I see we’ve got a couple of members in South Africa, in Local Feathercoin…
I vote Chris reaches out to them, and we start a thread on how we can optimise things for our SMS market, training material, how to set up as a merchant on a smartphone? and find what they need.
The 3 rules of successful marketing.
1st. “do what you know” or cost in double losses for new investment.
2nd. Sell “what you got” before selling what you will have!!
3rd. The easiest sell is to those people who are already sold to. -
[quote name=“solasaurus” post=“31159” timestamp=“1381709908”]
Nah, scratch that. It’s a dumb idea, even if it worked. Yeah, it would lead to faster adoption of feathercoin in the short to medium term, but probably doesn’t offer much long-term value.And perhaps, more to the point, its not up to us “feathercoin insiders” as Hazard likes to describe us. We’ll know that feathercoin is on a path to sustainable adoption when businesses and customers (of whatever shade of legitimacy) start using feathercoin without being assisted or prompted to do so.
[/quote]I’m not saying that marketing to gray/black markets is a good idea, but, I will say this. I’m starting a business with my girlfriend, our reach is very small right now outside of a few people we know on facebook. To increase our reach do we reach out to people to buy our products and vendors to stock our products or do we sit on our butts and assume that it’ll catch on by itself?
Truth is for “bigger” businesses and online markets to start catching on themselves they need to see the value in FTC. And in order to see the value in FTC they need to see that it’s successful for other businesses and worth implementation.
There comes a point when you no longer needed to reach out to people because people start to reach out to you, but, until than you need to sell your product to online marketplaces.
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Feathercoin has the reverse problem to a normal business. Too much already done, and ready to implement. We actually don’t need extra “promotion”.
Silk road and all the associated businesses (that use money) are open to start developing for any one who wishes to set them up. We need to make sure the infrastructure is there to make that possible, first.
i.e. We are building the Railtracks of a Railroad, we don’t need to sell more tickets. We need people to build trains and coaches to run on our tracks.
You are right that appearing to promote illegal activity is one way, at this stage, we could seriously shoot ourselves in the foot.
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[quote]Feathercoin has the reverse problem to a normal business. Too much already done, and ready to implement. We actually don’t need extra “promotion”.[/quote]
I disagree with you. I don’t think you can ever have “too much” done on your end if something needed to get done at some point anyway. I also don’t think if I e-mailed 100 businesses that most of them would have any idea what FTC is - They might know what Bitcoin is, but I doubt they know much further than that. FTC has had its share of publicity, but I think it’s highly overestimated when it comes to the markets that matter. -
Fwiw, I have been participating on the Zidisha.org microlending community for over a year and I notice there are several problems that ftc might help to address. The organization often struggles to get money into these poorer countries and to the lenders, and the lenders may have to travel 50km to visit a bank to make a monthly payment. They have access to internet and mobile phones but not to financial services that are easy to use.
I think microlending organizations would be very open to viable micro payment systems. -
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Fwiw, I have been participating on the Zidisha.org microlending community for over a year and I notice there are several problems that ftc might help to address. The organization often struggles to get money into these poorer countries and to the lenders, and the lenders may have to travel 50km to visit a bank to make a monthly payment. They have access to internet and mobile phones but not to financial services that are easy to use.
I think microlending organizations would be very open to viable micro payment systems.
[/quote]Please contact UKMark via PM urgently. I joined Feathercoin to help you…
