Do you have questions about accepting credit cards? If you do , feel free to join Payment Transaction Systems Podcast on blogtalkradio on 4/8/2010 3:00 PM. Call In # is (347) 215-6574. Feel free to join us and...
Over at MerchantPOS.net, http://merchantpos.net the Nurit 8020 GPRS Wireless credit card machine at $520.00, no coupon code required.
For many businesses, communication costs are eating up much of their profits. When you go to the phone company, asking for a business account automatically doubles your phone or internet bill. What these commun...
Rules of engagement: these days, to gain an increase in productivity and profitability, entrepreneurs must boost employee morale. by Dixon, Ayana Black Enterprise • July, 2009 • SMALL BUSINESS [ILLUSTRATION OMI...
When you apply for a merchant account, Your business information as well as your personal information is checked and verified. At minimum, a credit check is run in order to assess the risk to your merchant acco...
In business, How do you choose your vendors? This is a very important aspect of running your business because the right vendor will help you succeed, the wrong vendor will help you fail. When it comes to accept...
Here is a video that aired on Georgia Public Broadcasting featuring John Weiland, The Founder and Chairman of John Weiland Homes and Neighborhoods. A very successful Builder in the Southeast. He offers some gre...
You read the first article in this series, How to build a website for your business Part 1. You have your domain name and you have your website host. Now what.
You need to choose what software program you will use to build your site, unless you want to hard code the site yourself.
Website software building programs are called CMS (Content management systems). I am a big proponent of open source software and the CMS market has tons of them. When choosing a CMS to build your website, determine how much time you are willing to spend building it, the purpose of your website, and how often you plan to update it.
Are you building a e-commerce site where you will sell things, will it be a blog that will be updated regularly, or will it be a static website that won’t change much.
At opensourcecms.com you can browse through, try and read reviews of most of the open source cms available today. Try the demo’s, she how the sites look that were built with those programs, and look at the backend configuration portion to see if it is something you are able to learn and use. All CMS programs have a learning curve. Some are steeper than others.
Personally, I have worked with:
Free terminal, free machines, free processing, free, free, free. Well If what ever they are selling is free, how does that business make money?
We live in a capitalistic society. Millions of Americans open businesses every day and operate businesses everyday to make earn money, make a profit. If they don’t, if they operate at a loss, they might as well not be in business. The simpilest definition of a business is to earn a profit. So if you have a business selling you a product or service that is totally, absolutely free, you should be concerned and ask yourself,
“If they are giving me this free, what will I pay for by signing up? Why do they want my business if there is no profit incentive for them.”
In the merchant services industry there is a marketing plan that promises small business owners almost everything for free. Free equipment, and free or below cost processing. Well I know this business, I know what things cost, and I cannot figure out how these organizations can offer all of these “free” products and still stay in business…unless, what they are selling is not free.