From Shop To Shop Introducing Prospective Investors to Steem: The Strategies to get them onboard (10% to @promosteem.com)

My promo work activities has now been channeled to shops around the city of Accra to introduce more prospective Investors to Steem. I visited Achimota Retail Center for this promo work.
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I gave a talk about steem and how they can integrate steem in their business and also how they can invest in steem. I was able to talk to some of the shop owners and shop attendants about steem. Many of these shops accept momo(mobile money) as a medium of payment. Ghana is now heading to a cashless society where a lot of people transact business using mobile money.

Though all the telecommunication networks in Ghana(MTN, AirtelTigo, Vodafone, Glo) have the momo service but the telco giant, MTN, has now dominated the Ghanaian market with their services. Only a handful of shops accepted the momo few years back but today almost every shop in Ghana and other West African countries now accept momo.

_{MTN momo is accepted in almost all the shops that I visited}

Through more promotional work, we can get a lot of businesses and people on Steemit and this will eventually lead to a mass acceptance of steem especially in Africa. With time, shops in Ghana and West Africa as a whole will accept steem just like how they have endorsed and have accepted Momo as medium of payment. Steem will even give them more freedom and will be preferred over momo if they come to know the advantages of steem ecosystem.

The Good Question: How Do we get These Investors to Invest In Steem?

Getting more and more people to invest in Steem is something the Ghana Promo-steem team(@mcsamm,@nattybongo,@collinz @odsam2, @anaman) have been working on recently. Many approaches will be used:

📣 We would first give a talk to them about the benefits of steem, the freedom steem can give to their business. Giving a talk about Steemit will also let them know about steem.

📣 We will invite these shop owners to sign up on Steemit. Being part of the platform will surely make a difference. The shop owners themselves will attest to the legitimacy of Steemit and will witness the numerous activities that take place on Steemit, they will know that Steemit is not just a social media platform but also can be a great marketing tool and social networking site that they can use to engage their followers and then convert the engagement into sales.

📣 Those who have no knowledge of cryptocurrency often ask about how they can actually convert their digital currencies into fiat currency or how to transact with cryptocurrency.So we will show them how they can transact using steem in many crypto exchange or marketing platforms, for example Binance, Bittrex.

📣 We will let them know that they can actually advertise their products online through Steemit. Most of these shop do not operate online and so I see this to be a good strategy to get them involved in e-commerce or e-trade.

📣 Those of us who are already on Steemit will buy from them and pay with Steem if we are able to sign them up. Currently there are quite a good number of steemians in the @Steem-ghana community. We can even leave our steem paraphernalia in their shops and direct members to buy from them using steem.

The Next Move: Getting A lot of People Involved

I have arranged with the shops I visited to have a talk with the owners and the attendants as well. I believe much education about steem will help them to know the range of opportunities that steem presents. It is not going to be easy though in getting the attention of everyone to give a talk about steem but I know that it is always good to start from somewhere. I'm hopeful that this approach will be fruitful and I will be updating the community about my progress.

_{Achimota Retail Center-Accra}

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_{At Organic Product Shop}

_{The Attendant:She asked to know more about Steem and How to sign up on Steemit, I'm meeting her this week to enlighten her more and sign her up}

_{At Telefónica shop: They were busy but I still managed to do my Steem promo}

_{At Hisense Shop}

_{At Shoprite:Checking the prices of product and the amount of steem to buy}

Thanks to @arie-steem and promo steem community leaders for their undying effort in pushing steem to the top, @stephenkendal for his generosity and sponsorship for promosteem.com, to steemcurator, @steemcurator01 for the support and also to @njaywan, @oppongk and steem promoters in Ghana(@mcsamm and @nattybongo) for their direction and guidance.

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_{My Love For Steemit}

_{Let's Keep Steeming! Personally steemit has been a wonderful experience for me. I cannot enumerate the numerous benefits I have derived so far. From earning rewards for myself, improving my writing skills, discovering possibilities online, building friendship or acquaintances are some of the great impacts I have had. I would like this to continue and I want more people to come to steemit, to support and help build steemit-@collinz.}