Video: Merchant Accounts – What to Look For and Ask About, Part 2

If you haven’t watched part one of of this two part series go here to watch the first video.
The theme of part two of this series is that there is much more than just price to pay attention to when shopping for a merchant account. Watch the video and take a look at my [...]

Video: Are Early Termination Penalties Really That Bad?

Watch this video to here a different poi of view on merchant account early termination penalties. Let us know what you think by sharing your thoughts in the comment section below.

Testimonial #2

I received a very nice, unsolicited testimonial today. This is from my main point of contact at one of my favorite clients, Horizon Moving Systems in Tuscon, AZ.  This is what Susanna Main e-mailed me after we fixed an issue with their virtual point of sale:
“Robb, this is why EVERYONE wants to work [...]

Testimonial #1

I just asked for my first testimonial from a client of mine.  After reading what she wrote I think I need to start asking for more of these!  Allow me to show off a little:
"I have been in the business world for over 25 years.  In that time I have had the pleasure (and pain) [...]

The End of Business as Usual

In recent weeks I have come to learn about a business person who works in one of my key industries – wine. His name is Gary Vaynerchuck and he owns a retail wine business in New York and is the world famous host ofwinelibrarytv.com.
I was recently watching an interview of his where he spoke [...]

An SPT Processing Statement is a Sales Tool? What?

by John Robinson
We know you’re successful business people. (I mean, you’re reading StraightPassThrough.biz, right?) And this means you probably have a pretty good idea who your customers are.
But what if you could use your processing statement to really market to specific customer groups? What if your statement was a powerful sales [...]

Cool Clients – More Thoughts

I have been thinking more about having cool clients. Here are more reasons to make sure you spend at least some of your time going after who ever you think is cool in your industry.
1. Who you surround yourself with shapes your life – I can’t really explain how this works but [...]

Posted on August 14th, 2007 by Robb Lejuwaan in Business, Merchant Account, Sales , ,

Typical Merchant Account Experience

Each day Google sends me a list of blog posts written about merchant accounts.  Today I followed a link to the Fashion Incubator Blog.  Below is a portion of what the blogger, Kathleen Fasanella, wrote about working with on-line shopping carts and merchant accounts:
“I signed-up for the recommended merchant account provider and was surprised to [...]

Warning: Watch Out For Early Termination Penalties

In the merchant account industry there are these wonderful things called “early termination penalties.”  All this means is if you, the customer, switch to another service provider with in a certain time frame (typically 1-3 years) you will incur a penalty fee typically equal to six months worth of merchant account fees.
What!?  This is crazy on [...]