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The Best 2019 Cyber Week Deals For Small Businesses

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Looking for new software, hardware, or services to help your business run better? We’ve collected the best small business Black Friday deals, offers, and savings.

How To Prepare Your Online Store For The Holidays

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Is your online store ready for the holidays? With 20 – 30% of all annual sales taking place during the holidays, it should be. Here are our top tips to prepare your eCommerce store for the holiday sales rush.

Giving Tuesday for Small Businesses: Why Your Company Should Get Involved, Plus 5 Fun & Clever Ways You Can Participate

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After Black Friday comes Small Business Saturday, followed by Giving Tuesday. Learn what Giving Tuesday is, why your company should get involved, and some fun and thoughtful ways to pay it forward.

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The Complete Guide To Credit Card Processing Rates & Fees

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Credit card processing fees are extensive, complicated, and can be overwhelming. Nevertheless, you have to pay them if you want to process credit cards through your business. Rather than paying these charges blindly, you might as well make an effort to understand them. That way, you can dispute any costs you think are unfair or […]

The 5 Best Small Business Credit Card Processing Companies

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Trying to choose the best credit card processing company can be overwhelming. This is especially true when you are a new small business owner who has never even heard of a “merchant account” before — but the truth is that even seasoned CEOs can get dizzy while researching the payment processing industry. (Trust us, we’ve […]

Top 7 Square Alternatives

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Square is great for some businesses, but it’s not right for everyone. Check out these Square competitors to find a solution that works for your business!

A Visual Guide To Credit Card Processing Fees & Rates [Infographic]

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Credit card processing fees are hard to understand, but we don’t think they should be, so we set out with the goal of creating the most easy to digest and visually appealing infographic on the subject. You be the judge. 😉 Share this Image On Your Site <a href=’http://www.merchantmaverick.com/a-visual-guide-to-credit-card-processing-fees-and-rates-infographic/’><img src=’http://cdn.merchantmaverick.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/A-Visual-Guide-to-Credit-Card-Processing-Fees.png’ alt=’A Visual Guide to Credit […]

The Ultimate Guide To Accepting Mobile Payments

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In 2012, the PewResearch Internet Project found that 65 percent of respondents in its survey believed that by 2020, mobile payments will have almost entirely replaced the need for cash or even credit cards. And if you’re a merchant who’s not accepting mobile payments yet, you’re already behind the curve. Now is a good time to take a […]

QuickBooks Online VS Xero

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Intuit has dominated the accounting software market for years. QuickBooks is a household name, with a reputation for reliability. It’s only relatively recently that the competition has begun to heat up – and it’s happening in the rapidly expanding field of cloud accounting software. Specifically, it’s happening with Xero. […]

Volusion VS Shopify

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Shopify and Volusion are two of the biggest names in eCommerce, robust SaaS solutions that provide users with web-based platforms on which they can feature, market, and sell their products. Both are easy-to-use shopping carts that are comparable in design and price. So, how do you choose between the two?

Do You Really Need An EMV Chip Card Terminal?

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If you have never encountered a credit or debit card with a chip embedded in it, you’ve probably been living under a rock for the past 3-4 years. In which case, you’ve got an awful lot to catch up on and we’ll come back to chip cards after you’ve covered the important stuff. However, if […]

Square VS PayPal

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The mobile payments space has undergone a major transformation in the past few years. Small contenders have come and gone, new names have emerged. But it feels like the big names — such as Square and PayPal Here — have gotten bigger. Square has been a giant in the mobile payment processing since its inception in 2009.

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The Best 2019 Cyber Week Deals For Small Businesses

How To Prepare Your Online Store For The Holidays

Giving Tuesday for Small Businesses: Why Your Company Should Get Involved, Plus 5 Fun & Clever Ways You Can Participate

The Complete Guide To Credit Card Processing Rates & Fees

The 5 Best Small Business Credit Card Processing Companies

Top 7 Square Alternatives

A Visual Guide To Credit Card Processing Fees & Rates [Infographic]

The Ultimate Guide To Accepting Mobile Payments

QuickBooks Online VS Xero

Volusion VS Shopify

Do You Really Need An EMV Chip Card Terminal?

Square VS PayPal