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Merchant Services and What They Can Do for Your Small Business
These days, it’s hard to keep your small business at the top of its game. Look left and look right – and there’s a new big box store sprouting up. From Target to Walmart, Petco and Costco, mom and pop stores all over the country are losing out to stores with lower than low prices and super fast financial processing.
Big box stores have something mom and pop stores don’t have – they have the manpower to make things move smoothly at all times. They have the ability to keep things under control. You’d never hear a Target employee say, “Sorry, Miss, but we don’t take credit cards.” However, you hear small businesses say this line all the time. What small business owners don’t realize is that it’s time to either step it up and get in the game, or to get out all together.
Cash only just doesn’t cut it these days. Hardly anyone carries cash on their person anymore – it’s all about plastic. With smart phone technology evolving by the second, it seems that soon we won’t even be carrying credit cards; we’ll be carrying our phones and our phones only. As things move forward and cash becomes a thing of the past, small businesses have to pull out the big guns when it comes to payment processing if they want to stay in business. Mom and pop stores have the heart and the history that the big box stores don’t, but if they want to get in the game, they’ve got to get with the program.
So, what can you do? For starters, you’ve got to get your payment processing systems up to date, and this means hiring a responsible and respectable merchant service provider. Your merchant service provider will help you with everything from credit card processing to debit card processing; from getting you the top of the line equipment you need to be compliant with payment card industry systems to great customer service. In short, they’ll do it all. You’ve simply got to let them work their magic.
Regardless of what business you’re in – whether you own a small bakery or a boutique, a bodega or a laundromat, a merchant service provider has the right payment processing services for you. With around the clock technical and customer support and free equipment, you really can’t go wrong!
Credit Card Processing
As mentioned above, plastic is in. Paper is out. As the spending habits of today’s consumers change, accepting credit and debit cards and other forms of non-cash payments are essential for your business. If you want to thrive, you’ve got to get with the future. It makes sense, of course, to keep your payment processing costs as low as possible, so that you keep as much of your hard-earned dollar as possible. These are tough times for all of us, and small businesses are feeling it especially hard.
Stay a step ahead of the competition with a variety of advanced payment solutions, from debit card and credit card processing to check processing, pre-paid card processing, electronic balance transfers and even revenue-generating gift and loyalty cards. Whether you’re a business that’s accepting credit cards for the first time (welcome to the future!) or a business that’s looking for a better credit card processing system, your merchant service provider will be committed to helping you find a safe and secure solution that’s customized for your industry. They’ll also give you everything you need to get the job done, from wireless terminals to PIN pads and check readers.
Check Acceptance
While many customers are shunning cash, there are still some old-fashioned folks who like to pay with checks. Even in a wireless and digital age, some feel that a paper check is safer. Don’t stress, however – even if you’ve gone digital, you can still accept checks! Your merchant service provider can set you up to accept checks electronically – just like you do with credit cards. There’s a system that converts checks into electronic documents, making for easy record keeping and guaranteed payment. No more bad checks! Imagine that.
If you can accept checks, there’s no need to turn down a paying customer. No more saying, “sorry, no personal checks allowed.” Their money is good here. Add checks to your payment acceptance options and you’ll get ahead of the game. Put your check acceptance alongside your debit and credit card acceptance, continue to accept cash and you’ll be good to go!
Remember – you can also up the ante by accepting electronic balance transfers and making use of revenue-generating gift and loyalty cards. Gift cards are often like free money in your pocket – many people never spend their gift cards. Loyalty cards, meanwhile, might give your customers a slight discount, but it will also keep them coming back!
As you can see, merchant service providers can really help your small business prosper. Find the right plan for your business now.
About the Author
Alberto Moran is a freelance writer who writes about a range of topics including merchant services.
Saving Money by Spending Wisely
Why is it that the older and richer people become, the more conservative they are with their money? Have you ever done or know someone who has made an investment that promised a 10% interest or profit per month? Everyone wants to make above average profits. It is amazing how many people will send their very hard earned money across the world to Nigeria or to Boca Rattan, Florida on the promise of a telephone acquaintance to make them much richer. People give their money to complete strangers in hopes of making more money.
All good investment advisers will tell their clients “If a deal is too good to be true, it probably is.” Professionals only make very high returns in areas they personally know very well. This, for them, is a business investment, not a passive investment like stocks, bonds or mutual funds. Real estate and business investments are considered active investments. People who are employed by others do not usually make active investments, because they just do not have the time to watch a business investment, where big profits are always possible (as well as big losses.)
People with small amounts of money come to me all the time and ask: “What can I do with $1,000 that will give me a big return?” Here is the answer. When I was a 21-year-old lad working for my father, I had money in the bank, I owed securities (stocks) and my income was a fixed salary. I saw many opportunities to make money all around me, in the business. My father, like so many employers, wasn’t interested. Besides I was trying to figure out how I could make money for me.
At the time, 1971, we had high inflation and prices were going up on many things. My father used metal rings to seal containers, nuts and bolts, paint, and other industrial supplies. I watched prices starting to go up and it appeared that they might even double on finished products that were made from steel. Since the company used these products all the time, buying bigger orders meant buying much more then you needed and having to store it so it didn’t get stolen. I used to buy 2 years supply of bolts at a time. Knowing the price was going up, I bought a 4-year supply. Rings took a lot of space so we would buy 3 months at a time. The problem with new rings, being bought and laying around, in storage, was that the workers, taking the easy way out, would take new rings out of the warehouse, instead of cleaning the old rings, which saved the company a lot of money.
My father didn’t want to have a years worth of rings around, even though we both knew the price was going to continue going up. We came up with an idea. I would buy, with my own money, the extra inventory, the amount above the companies normal order size. My investment inventory would be stored in a separate locked area in the warehouse. When the company needed more rings or bolts, it would buy them from me at the then current market price. I made $1,500 on my $5,000 investment in just six months. That was a 30%, no risk profit in just half a year. Now I was hot.
When I got married, and I used more toilet paper and toothpaste than I did before, I decided that I should repeat the process that I learned as a boy. When I was a boy toilet paper was 10 cents a role. If you do not know what it is now, take a look. I bought 5 cases of toilet paper and put it in the garage. I knew that paper prices were going up. I not only got the increase in price, I got close out quantity discounts by the case. Do you know that dog and cat food by the case is 10% off? Then if you wait for when Friskies has a sale or close out, then buy large cases; you cannot believe what you will save. If you can get a distributor or wholesaler to sell direct to you, another 20-33% is possible. You might check the price at Costco. It may be cheaper than what the wholesaler will sell it to you for.
You only buy items that you know you will use yourself, personally. You are not buying for resale. You are buying a two-year supply of things you know you will use, for sure. Toilet paper is one of them. (Make sure you try the brand out, to see that you will like it.) Smart and Final has many things in bulk. Compare prices at Costco, Smart and Final, the 99-cent store, and if you can find the distributor that the 99-cent store buys from in Downtown LA, you will really be buying cheap.
First step. Make a list of everything you buy on a regular bases. List non-food items, bathroom items and dry or canned food items. Do not buy food the rats can get into. Grains must be in steel drum with bags. You will be shocked at how much 20 lbs of rice will cost you compared to a one pound bag, about a quarter of the cost or less. Do not buy clothing, because of change of styles and weight. You can buy men’s socks and underclothing when you see a real close out at 80% off. Men wear the same style all their lives and their weight tends to be constant. Do not do this for children or woman. Things change too fast.
Second step. Price shop so you will know what are the good prices and bad prices. Do not buy yet, just price shop.
Third Step. Decide how much inventory you want to have, how much money do you have to spend and how long it will take you to use it all up. Where are you going to put it so that it will be safe and dry? Not a public storage place, please. The rent will eat up your volume buying profits, real fast.
Fourth Step. Look for close outs so you can buy cheaper than the best price you planned on and then have fun buying.
Hidden Bonus: There are also non-profit advantages to this program that you should be aware of. In case of an economic depression you have food. That means if you loose your job, you still eat. Your unemployment check can then go towards the rent, gas in the car, car payments, and fresh food. You will already have most of the toilet items and other things you will need, until you get a job.
In case of a natural disaster or a teamster strike you will have your well-stocked private supermarket with those needed items. The IRS closed down Howard Ruff, a newsletter writer in the 1970’s. They attached all of his bank accounts, and locked the front door of his store. Howard had 12 children, no income and no money in his pocket. He did have big food storage, which fed his family while he took a month to decide what his next move was going to be. He was able to think his problem out without panicking because his family was fed, and he could postpone his mortgage, utilities and other bills for a few months, before he had big troubles.
So be smart. Invest in a food storage program. Only buy what you will use, and do use. Buy in quantities that you will use up in 2 years. Do not buy a 5-year supply of anything. Shop for the best price, and then wait for a better deal than that. Then you have made a safe and profitable investment, while at the same protecting your family from emergencies.
About the Author
Willard Michlin is a real estate and financial distress consultant. He can be contacted at his Ventura, California office by calling 805-529-9854 or by e-mail at kismetrei@earthlink.net. See other article by Willard at http://www.kismetgroup.com