As may or may not know, I’ve spoken with about 6,000 business opportunity seekers over the last 16 years. There’s a separate business I’ve done with a business partner for many years and I thought I’d take the chance to give you the heads up on how things have changed if you plan on offering business opportunities to make a living today. It’s not good news.
Thinking of offering a business opportunity? Think again!
Posted by Nick Bentley on July 1st, 2010
High Volume Merchants Shopping For The Best Rates And Fees.
Posted by Nick Bentley on June 24th, 2010
If you’re an existing high volume merchant doing a lot of business, you can very likely have your merchant account or master merchant account fees and rates reduced simply by shopping around. To do this you’ll need a merchant account underwriter (not just an agent) who knows the banks and isn’t just locked into one with a “take it or leave it” rate. Even if you went directly to some banks with a high volume business, they simply wouldn’t give you the lowest rate, I’ll explain.
Google stops their home page craziness
Posted by Nick Bentley on June 11th, 2010
If you’ve seen the Google home page over the last several days they’ve forced background images if you didn’t login and turn it back to the “Google original” page. This was a bid by Google to
Is PayPal suitable for high volume merchants?
Posted by Nick Bentley on June 9th, 2010
If you’re a high volume merchant then PayPal isn’t a good choice because they do not negotiate their merchant fees for high volume customers. They charge 3 percent and 30 cents a transaction and a large volume merchant can do much better. Typically you can get under
Infolinks vs. Kontera
Posted by Nick Bentley on April 27th, 2010
Infolinks (infolinks.com) is a newer contextual advertising company I came across today and I’m going to see how they measure up against Kontera. A lot of the big names like John Chow use Kontera, but I’ve come across some other bloggers who said