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General Discussion / Re: Epic brainstorming session between Marketing and Dev teams.
« on: November 12, 2014, 02:14:40 pm »At present we are imagining it like this.
Merchant saves 40% by using bitUSD and offers to pass 20% savings on to customers.
At checkout page customer sees banner in the payment options section. "Pay anonymously and get a 20% discount by using bitUSD" or "Protect your privacy and get a 20% discount by using bitUSD" [hypelink]What is bitUSD?[/hyperlink]
Customer clicks on link. Goes to a very nice corporate site. Watches a short animated video (3mins) on how cool bitusd is. How he can download wallet(desktop or phone) and fund it within 60 seconds(cool on ramp not yet public) + spend it at legitimate non porn places like XYZ + with absolute anonymity + that some merchants offer discounts to use bitUSD because bitUSD is so awesome it saves them merchant fees + you earn real interest while the bitusd is in your account, so feel free to get a few extra bitUSD (more than you need for this next purchase)
Once user has funded wallet they are returned to the referring merchant.
Points to note:
Our site is professional. It feels like an Amex black card site.
Our site works for all merchants not just porn sites. Porn will be able to make 20-40% discounts where as Amazon will only be able to give 2% discounts, but it all works the same.
We will have there email address and can follow up with informative videos how they can get the "cool new CD like accounts" that pay higher interest than there bank and they may want to park some USD there.
If we can figure out some cool way to make more money on the back end (or get community support donation/dilution/delegate pay) we can pay an army of sales people to approach businesses in all niches OR give customers a free $5 sample to try us out, or some combination.
Now do me a favor. Don't make me regret making this post. Things change and change a lot. Even though deadlines have not been offered, if they were they would be not met. Dont complain this is not happening fast enough or not at all. This will not even be attempted until the product is where it needs to be.
to this idea.
Just one comment to this, most of these porn users are not tech savvy and subscription to this is mostly less $5/mon, they probably prefer hassle free than a discount. Too early to target porn users because bitshares has no simple wallet and mobile wallet yet.
Why not target hosting sites first? the customers are webmasters, tech savvy and payment are all subscription.
just my 2 cents