No. The key to acceptance is not a slick mass-mailer. The key is to understand our market's needs, and to understand our own product. Anyone standing outside of our egos can see that we have done miserably on both jobs.
This was exactly what I was thinking. I see the main strengths of Bitcoin as: irrevocable payment, low fees, and micro-payment capabilities.
We need a solid list (5 or less, we don't want to overextend ourselves yet) of industries that could really benefit from these strengths. From this list, we build letter templates. We find businesses, categorize them into these lists, and send them a letter based on the corresponding template. That way the letters are tailored to the type of business they are operating. It has to be highly targeted to be successful.
We should start building a list somewhere. (here?)
The P2P/crypto/generation stuff is just technobabble to most business people. They could care less. We omit that stuff. Mentioning the lack of central authority might be too scary to most of them as well. (That might largely depend on the industry in question.)
The recipients should be hand-picked. The letters are addressed to them personally at their place of business. They should be written with a personal touch, and perhaps even a contact telephone number. Perhaps we need someone to pose as an agent of Bitcoin (or another org affiliated with Bitcoin?), and answer their questions over the telephone. This agent would have to have sales experience. Having an antisocial programmer answer the phone would just ruin our efforts.
Am I missing anything?
