
Total Merchant Services
I just ran into this site Total Merchant Services that has a similar name to our blog. I was checking out their prices on credit card processing services and noticed they have real good rates and they even provide a low price guarantee. Their retail rates are 1.69% plus $0.08. they also provide the equipment for free.
Retailer uses backdoor to beat credit processing fees
Since Wal-Mart – one of the nation’s largest commercial powers applied for a banking charter, a brouhaha has been brewing over the implications of such an act.
Applying in Utah, which is just one of the five states that issues industrial banking charters, Wal-Mart aims to establish a bank to avoid fees associated with the processing of credit, debit and electronic checks transactions.
A Wal-Mart spokesperson to CNN/Money that…
Merchant Processing Pointers
The merchant processing world is tough to ignore if banks want to please their business customers. There’s also the potential for revenues: combined MasterCard and Visa annual transaction volume topped $1.5 trillion in 2004.
There are three types of merchant processors, according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency-acquiring banks, agent banks with and without liability, and third-party organizations.
A bank that contracts with merchants for settlement…

Advice for Launching an Internet Café Business
Launching a new business can be very exciting; but it can also be very confusing, especially when it comes to an internet sweepstakes café. If you’re one of the many people who want to start an internet sweepstakes café, you probably have many questions on your mind. How do you launch such a business? How much money do you need to get started? In addition to some of the…
Bodog.eu: New Name, Same Game
Morris Mohawk Gaming Group (MMGG) has announced that it is launching a new brand for its online gambling site Bodog.eu. On January 1, 2012, Bodog.eu will become Bovada, offering players the same gambling products and services once offered through the Bodog Brand. You can read a review of Bovada.
Although MMGG has owned and operated the “Bodog” brand since late 2006, the firm is losing its license to…
Internet Cafes, Moving Pocketbooks, and Local Economies
If you have given the green light to your business dream of making respectable
profits by entering the internet sweepstakes business, that scintillating beam
means that the time is ripe for deciding on what internet cafe sweepstakes software
you will employ. The software will compliment your delectable petits fours and
great choices of tea and coffee, which is to say that it all must be…
Internet Café Sweepstakes Consulting Firm Launches the Totem for Retail Businesses
Until recently, the only way for an internet café franchise to sell internet access time was through a standard computer. However, a leading internet café sweepstakes consulting firm is changing all that with its announcement of a new way for customers to buy internet time and receive free sweepstake entries. SweepsCoach announced last month the arrival of the Internet Kiosk Totem for the internet café business and…
Accept Credit Cards
Basically, to be successful in the business world today you have to be able to accept credit cards. If you are not able to take credit cards as a part of your business payment then you will not make it very far. The traditional methods of writing checks and wiring money are slowly becoming a thing of the past. Credit cards are the future.
To make it so you don’t…

Total Merchant Services
I just ran into this site Total Merchant Services that has a similar name to our blog. I was checking out their prices on credit card processing services and noticed they have real good rates and they even provide a low price guarantee. Their retail rates are 1.69% plus $0.08. they also provide the equipment for free. Read More →
Retailer uses backdoor to beat credit processing fees
Since Wal-Mart – one of the nation’s largest commercial powers applied for a banking charter, a brouhaha has been brewing over the implications of such an act. Applying in Utah, which is just one of the five states that issues industrial banking charters, Wal-Mart aims to establish a bank to avoid fees associated with the processing of credit, debit and electronic checks transactions. A... [Read more]
Merchant Processing Pointers
The merchant processing world is tough to ignore if banks want to please their business customers. There’s also the potential for revenues: combined MasterCard and Visa annual transaction volume topped $1.5 trillion in 2004. There are three types of merchant processors, according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency-acquiring banks, agent banks with and without liability, and third-party... [Read more]
