I received a call from a reporter at US News an World Report two weeks ago. His name was Matt Bandyk, a business writer for the magazine. He had found me through my other blog straightpassthroug.biz and he had some questions about how businesses could lower their merchant account processing fees. We talked [...]
Acquirer:
An Acquirer is a Visa / MasterCard Affiliated Bank or Bank/Processor alliance that is in the business of processing credit card transactions for businesses and is always Acquiring new merchants.
Acquiring Financial Institution:
An acquiring financial institution (or “acquirer”) contracts with the bank and merchants to enable credit card transactions. The acquirer deposits the daily [...]
Speaking Programs
Robb has spoken to over 75,000 people from corporations and associations to high schools and faith communities. He offers workshop style programs for anyone interested in merchant accounts and/or e-commerce solutions. Robb typically uses Power Point presentations like the one found in this blog post, wide open question and answer [...]
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Welcome! This web site is here to assist you with the selection and management of your merchant account. On top of that I point you to other resources that will help your business grow, because let’s face it, if your business isn’t growing you are not going to need a merchant account for [...]
I stole the title for this post from Seth Godin’s book “The Big Moo” which was a follow up to his previous title, “Purple Cow.” I just looked at some reviews for this book on amazon.com; here is some of what Publisher’s Weekly had to say,
“This means you have to toss out everything you [...]
