In our last post, we introduced what Distrator is and its goal. In this guide, we will walk you through the process of introducing businesses to accepting Hive Dollars (HBD), enhancing customer engagement, and increasing business visibility.
NOTE: Any Trusted Guide onboarding a business by opening a Hive account for that business will earn passive rewards every time someone claims from that business via Distriator.com
Steps to Engage Businesses:
Create a Business Profile like this one. Contact us to help you create a business profile. If you are a Trusted Guide, we will soon add the functionality to Distriator.com so that you can do this yourself.
Visit the Venue: Start by visiting the restaurant, cafe or business. While there, capture your experience in a brief review on spendhbd.social.gifts, including 2-10 photos and a short description. Using an alternate account is advisable to keep your main profile streamlined.
Initiate Contact: After posting your review on the business profile page on https://spendhbd.social.gifts/, approach the restaurant's manager or owner. Begin the conversation by discussing a discount program where their best customers can earn discounts by posting content. Initially, focus on the benefits of the program. There is no need to mention cryptocurrency at this stage.
Present Your Review: Show them the page you created with your review. Highlight the visibility and potential customer engagement it brings.
Introduce Crypto: If the manager or owner inquire about the earnings shown in the review, explain that these are derived from crypto payments, emphasizing the cost-effectiveness to the business (zero commissions, instant, no Point of Sales Terminal costs required).
- Account Setup: With their interest piqued, assist them in setting up their Hive business account. Demonstrate how to generate a QR code invoice using the V4V app.
- Simplify Transactions: Explain the ease of transaction with QR code scanning and show how they can convert their earnings into BTC using the V4V conversion mechanism.
- Offer Instant Rewards: Discuss how their clients can receive instant rewards for their purchases, enhancing customer satisfaction.
- Propose a Workshop: Finally, suggest hosting a workshop at their location to educate their top customers on the program's benefits, ensuring they too can enjoy the discounts.
Follow these steps to effectively introduce local businesses to the Distriator program, enabling them to tap into the digital economy with zero investment. This will not only strengthen the community bond but also propel the business into the future of digital transactions.
I really like the sound of this ! I'm a business owner myself, although it's a purely online e-commerce business, so while it doesn't immediately apply to me it would be lovely to see payment plugins developed eventually that would work with WooCommerce, Shopify, BigCommerce etc.
I've got a couple of thoughts from a physical retail perspective, and please take them as positive ideas, not criticism !
Typing all that out makes it sounds more complex that it would actually be in operation ! I think the key is to recognise that it needs a certain critical mass in an area, and needs to make adoption by both businesses and (more especially) their customers as easy as possible.
Also, sorry if I've just written an essay !
Greetings, your insight is much welcome.
I would say that we could ✅ this one out. In Sucre, Venezuela, we have more than 60 businesses located around the same area, accepting $HBD as mean of exchange with a lot of use cases already proven, feel free to check this out: https://hivesucre.social.gifts/
Absolutely, it may look easy on theory but this is not something that easy to pull out. The @hivesucre team can tell you first hand how titanic yet satisfactory this endeavour has been.
Stores are using QR codes for receipts to their Hive clients and the transactions are smooth, the challenge is for non crypto users or people that doesn't have any clue of how a our wallets work, in our case we have taken a lot of our time to do proper workshops for the businesses so they can know how to use keychain for instance properly, besides giving them personal attention literally 24/7
So yeah,it'd be great to develop tools that would make it easier, and I believe that's the road we're taking. Cheers.
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Very cool.. Looking forward to it taking hold in Canada.. :)
I'll have to do a few test runs to see how easily I can onboard businesses with these steps.
Is there a way to add more info/photos to a business profile on distriator.com?
At the moment, no, however, we have added details of some local businesses in Barrio Bitcoin in Guat City. Hopefully these are good for now. @sagarkothari88 is working on a way for you to be able to modify business profiles directly from distriator.com
In the meantime check out our waivio website for Guat City: https://spendhbd.social.gifts/checklist/owo-business-directory?currObj=ant-guatemala-city#2t6j9z-guatemala/ant-guatemala-city
Onwards!