Quote from: franky1 on March 22, 2014, 04:09:53 PM

Quote from: coinpharmer on March 22, 2014, 02:52:27 PM

every time Im out an about talking with people I always try and work bitcoin into the conversation. If money is going to trade hands I try pretty hard to bring btc up and Id say 90% of people in my day to day get told about it. Generally nobody has ever heard of it, or if they have they have a bad impression of it from the news. in the past week 5 people in a row had heard of it and seemed to be using it, or thinking about it. I asked yesterday at a family Chinese restaurant and the manager said he had been trying to get his family to accept it. The man I was talking with seemed in his late 30's-40's, saying 70's -80's age range parents didnt trust it. He then thanked me for asking them to take it an said they will look into it harder. I was at the insurance office and the agent had never heard of btc, but after 5 min of talking she was hooked and understood how much btc can help business. the encounters go on, but this week an last week have been better than the past 6 months as far as people I talk to knowing about btc.

I really feel like btc will be in local shops soon, talk to small store owners, and inform them about the fact they can use coinbase or bitpay to easily get dollars for bitcoin and gain NEW business.

don't just talk about the benefits of bitcoin, tell the chinese restaurant manager to go to bitpay, sign up and register his bank account as being the payment address. and watch the tutorials of th many ways he can then get bitcoin from his customers, via bitpay.
(i want to see a reply within the next couple weeks informing this thread that the chinese restaurant and insurance office have gone to the bitpay website and signed up because you showed them how)

same goes for the insurance office.

as for hearing random people talk about it in your area. if i tell a friend about bitcoin last week, then the following week he will of course tell you he had heard about it.

tell 10 people last week and an 11th person that one of those people know, would have been told by them. on average out of 10 people that do not care much about it. only one person passes the information on (compared to you, a passionate person telling 10 people (1000% multiplication))
so even if you think people dont care there is statistically proven a 10% chance your information will be passed on.

so if have talked about it to lets say 5 strangers each day from 6 months ago, then every 2 days (10 people) an 11th person would know about it purely by word of mouth. every 20 days 100 people know about it directly through you and 10 people indirectly
now the average person has a small circulation of friends and those friends do not want to hear about it over and over, so i suspect the amount of new people and conversations about bitcoin died down from 5 day to alot less, for a while.

but your friends who have friends are keeping the chain of bitcoin conversations going (analogy: chain letters)
so lets fast forward 5 months to bring you to this week. even with a 10% rate of passing it on. your community would have heard about it from someone they know.after all they say everyone is connected to every with only 6 intermediaries (6 degree's of separation/kevin bacon)

so kep up th discussions, but dont just talk about it, show them how to set up a wallet. even if they dont use it. they will know how to get to it, should anyone want to throw them a bitcoin donation in the future

I actually did say all those things haha, he seemed to already know half of what I said anyways though and that he was already on board to accept it, and I feel that me as a customer asking to give him more business via bitcoin seemed to 'tip the scales" I do expect to see them accepting it here soon because Im going to be asking my friends to go in and say they want to eat here with bitcoin then leave.