I am looking to help move BTC forward into our economy more and would like to get some suggestions on how we can get more retailers to accept BTC as a payment. The best part about accepting BTC is that they do not have any threat of charge-back from the customer. I am just looking for some more input before I start approaching some of these local retailers.
I think the first thing that you can do was to conduct an orientation for those local business you want to encourage.
And in this orientation you should promote how useful btc was.
Then, told them the advantage of having bitcoin now adays.
Say that it was the new trend of currency.
Encouragement is good idea but its not long lasting because what matters more is the awareness of the people and once they become aware of the idea behind the bitcoin, it will motivate them automatically to start trading in the bitcoins.
Also it depends upon the knowledge factor and how much literate the business man is, if he is well educated, likely chances are that he will already start dealing in the btc.