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I don't know of anyone who argued someone else into atheism, ever. (Of course this may happen, but not so frequently.)
But I know plenty of people who were swayed by being a third party to a good discussion, or by reading someone else's ideas as a passive observer.
This suggests to me that Task #1 is finding ways for people to engage with your ideas without involving a status competition between you and them.
For convincing people in person, I've always tried to follow the maxim "Don't argue, discuss." You can present arguments, but it's important to frame them as "I think X because..." or "My take on this is X" and so forth, rather than "X is wrong because..." or "The usual solution to this is X, but that doesn't make sense because..."
With online debates, it's different because your actual interlocutor is only a small part of the audience to your arguments.