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Once you complete a sale and sign an agreement with a merchant, it’s often easy to just move onto the next one and focus on finding more of them to sign. Merchants you’ve signed tend to stay happy and complacent as long as their hardware and software are functioning properly…
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4 Ways to Convince Merchants to Upgrade POS Hardware Regularly
Once you complete a sale and sign an agreement with a merchant, it’s often easy to just move onto the next one and focus on finding more of them to sign. Merchants you’ve signed tend to stay happy and complacent as long as their hardware and software are functioning properly…
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4 Ways Cash Discounting Benefits Both You And Your Merchants
In a society where fewer and fewer people are carrying around cash on a daily basis, offering cash discounting programs may seem antiquated or a waste of time to some merchants. When there are so many easier ways to pay, from credit and debit cards to just tapping a phone…
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4 Ways to Help Merchants Prevent Costly Outages
This past Father’s Day, one of the nation’s largest retailers, Target, experienced an outage in their point-of-sale systems which prevented them from accepting credit card payments for over two hours. While the timeframe seemed like an eternity for both employees in the store and their customers who just wanted to…
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3 Methods for Innovating in the ISO Payments Space
Sometimes in the payments industry it can feel like you’re one in a million other ISOs or agents just looking to make a buck. It can be very difficult to differentiate yourself and stand out from the crowd; why should a merchant choose you to handle their business? In order…
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Tips for Choosing the Best Merchant Services ISO Programs
When it comes to merchant service companies, there is a huge variety to choose from. As a result, finding the right one to do business with can be very challenging. Before getting started, make sure you fully understand how the service works. Finding a high-quality merchant service company is crucial…
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“It’s not personal, it’s business.” Most everyone has heard this expression, right? Non-profit partnerships like to flirt with this distinction. If they had their own saying it would be more like, “It’s always personal, with some business mixed in.” Most non-profit organizations start when people sharing one goal join together.
The world of payments is rapidly changing in front of our eyes. Massive consolidation is happening at a record pace, and this will inevitably impact your business as a merchant services agent.