So I heard about this thing, Empire Avenue, on John Chows blog…and I figured I would give it a try. I am not going to write a post about how to use it, but basically it measures your activity on certain social networks, and is similar in some ways to other influencer measuring tools such [...]
Archive for May, 2011
May
30
2011
If anyone is interested in being a guest blogger, I would love to have you. Content would have to be focused on payments and internet marketing. Contact me if interested.
May
30
2011
How does the announcement of the Google wallet effect online merchants. Well, as far as I can tell – it doesn’t. Its important to note that Google Wallet is separate from Google Checkout, and can be thought of as the brick-and-mortar counterpart to the online payment nature of Google Checkout What Google basically did is [...]
May
24
2011
Today I was asked “are your rates better then paypal” and I gave two answers. 1. Yes 2. PayPal and a direct merchant account are two very different things. I am sure you can find tons of articles on the internet about PayPal Vs Merchant Accounts, but I would like to give you my perspective. [...]
May
19
2011
When I speak to a lot of internet marketers and bring up the option of processing business offshore, I am told (in a lot of cases) that they are not interested in offshore and they only want a domestic solution. I am actually not 100% sure of the reason but one thing is for sure, [...]
May
13
2011
Recently I read a post on directreponse.net (http://bit.ly/kUQ7fO) that discusses Limelights integration with CCBIll. I am a huge fan of this blog, I look forward to reading the posts and I know that Rich is clearly a person that knows a lot about this industry. That being said, there are some things that I don’t [...]
May
11
2011
Some Merchants in certain categories (but definitely not all) that deal with high volume sales in eCommerce are likely to be designated as “high risk” because they might have a high rate of charge-backs. Chargebacks occur more often when the merchant does not actually see and swipe the credit card. This is why traditional retail [...]
May
11
2011
Daily Deal websites are something I know quite a bit about as I work with some of the largest Daily Deal websites around. These guys process a significant amount of volume and quite honestly the chargebacks are extremely low considering the volume. So the question is, why in speaking to some companies, do they tell [...]
May
11
2011
My name is Jared Ronski, and you are probably asking yourself why does this guy have a blog and why am I reading it. Well to give you some background on who I am, I have been in the payments industry for over 7 years in various capacities. I started off working in prepaid, helping [...]