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The #1 Cost to Business Owners for Taking Plastic

11/23/2015

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Creep: (Verb) To move slowly in order to not be noticed. Expensive. There’s an old saying: That which gets monitored, gets managed. Your electric bill, the amount of ice cream left in the freezer, your gas gauge. Credit card processing companies know this and act accordingly. They make your business’s statement for taking plastic so hard to read, the…

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How My Massage Therapist Cuts Healing from Surgery by 50% (And still gets hosed by her bank)

11/23/2015

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| Categories:Business, Credit Card, Merchant Account, Rate, Savings, Service, Taking Plastic, Training

I have a friend that is a massage therapist. No, not like the ones you see on billboards for truck stops, but a real, licensed massage therapist. She is the real deal and if you have never met someone from this industry, you are missing out. There’s a reason these men and women work in resorts and spas. Seriously,…

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Life Hacks and the Mystical Power of Goats

10/30/2015

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My grandfather was a farmer. His knowledge seemed to be a little off and downright arcane sometimes. He watched the weather every night even after retiring (a great pastime of old men), because he knew it took 600 hours of cold to replenish the soil for a new year of planting. He also used to say that a horse’s…

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I’m Going Mobile

10/30/2015

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| Categories:Credit Card, EMV, Merchant Account, Service, Taking Plastic

“I can pull up by the curb I can make it on the road Goin’ mobile.” I am willing to wager that when Pete Townshend wrote these words for the Who’s chart topper “Goin’ Mobile” in 1971, he never thought it would be used to describe any type of credit card payment processing. Truthfully, who would? All puns aside…

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Why a Senior Bank VP Didn’t Use His Own Bank for Plastic

10/30/2015

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I once got a call from a Senior Vice President of Investments from a large bank. We spoke for a bit and set up a meeting. At the meeting he asked me to help him setup a private company of his for credit card processing. I told him I could easily set up his business to be able to…

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The #1 Cost to Business Owners for Taking Plastic

How My Massage Therapist Cuts Healing from Surgery by 50% (And still gets hosed by her bank)

Life Hacks and the Mystical Power of Goats

I’m Going Mobile

Why a Senior Bank VP Didn’t Use His Own Bank for Plastic

What Banks Don’t Want You To Know

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