Accepting Payments Online and the Non-Profit Organization
(ContentDesk) January 26, 2006 -- Non-profit sites, (or not-for-profits) such as political blogs or a public education resources, have special challenges to face online. It is absolutely necessary to accept payments online in order to process donations faster and more efficiently, however, the common solutions of accepting payments or donations online arent always a good fit or are too costly. Some solutions such as Clickbank are only set up for downloadable retail products.The following tips from Acceptiva [http://www.acceptiva.com can assist in the decision-making process.In order to use a processor that is universally available and will show the organizations name on a donors credit card or debit card bill, instead of the payment processors name, non-profit administrators would most likely be interested in an alternative or supplement to PayPal.After assessing options, it often seems the only choices left are traditional merchant accounts which are too costly, and a few other ways to process online payments.To find out which solution is the best fit, one method of evaluation is to check with some other Non-Profit agencies and see what theyre using. Questions to ask would include finding out which processors meet all of the following criteria:*????Doesnt have any hidden fees*????Doesnt require a long term commitment*????Simple to set up*????Easy for your donors to interact with.*????Branded and customized donation pages*????Automatically sends personalized receipts*????Online and real time tracking*????No credit checks required*????Offers payment via direct deposit*????No programming knowledge needed*????No technical knowledge of credit card processingIdeally, the desired solution offers more than just processing and is more like a partner, someone that will send customized receipts to donors and allow the non-profit organization to brand and customize all aspects of donation pages.More about AcceptivaAcceptiva has a strong relationship with many non-profit organizations and meets all the criteria above at an affordable price. Read more about Acceptiva and find out how to increase online donations at http://acceptiva.com/news.html or call 800.507.3871 to speak to a representative..
Little Known Secrets To Increase Ezine Ad Response Ten Fold Automatically!
There are 1000's of ezines out there. So You ask..."which ones do I advertise in?"You must find ezines with what I call "active readership".Active readership will lead to a higher response rate foryour ezine advertising. Everybody wants and needs this fortheir online business to be a success.Use the following secrets to explode your response rateand you will be able to negotiate for lower ad rates atthe same time.Little Known Secret #1: Find a list that you would liketo advertise in, go to that site and look at how the e-mailaddresses are collected.Your prospects are intelligent people! Something that weknow about the behavior of surfers, they are hesitant tomake a decision. Fearing spam they hesitate to fill outforms with their paid for e-mail addresses. They will findout anyway to subvert the system and still get theirfreebies.Anywhere from 75%-90% of ezine subscribers will type theirfree e-mail addresses on these forms.
Many times these arethrow away addresses, which may never...
Little Known Secrets To Increase Ezine Ad Response Ten Fold Automatically!
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WebCopier 4.3 - Web Sites Download Tool that Puts Internet Right Into Your Hands
Dublin, OH (ContentDesk) September 15, 2005 -- MaximumSoft Corp. today announced the release of WebCopier 4.3. The program allows to download entire Web sites, store them locally and view them later, at users' convenience. WebCopier provides access to the downloaded information at any time, no matter where its users are, no Internet connection is required.WebCopier can copy or print whole sites or sections, and you can schedule the downloads to occur at a particular time. Your saved pages can then be copied onto disks and CDs, so you can take your Web-snapshot with you.
Individuals can use WebCopier to save complete copies of their favorite sites, magazines, or stock quotes. Students can download enormous amounts of information from the Internet for later study. Teachers can download whole sites so their students can view them later offline. Developers may use this tool for analyzing web sites.Companies can use WebCopier to transfer company's intranet contents to staff desktops...
WebCopier 4.3 - Web Sites Download Tool that Puts Internet Right Into Your Hands
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More Banking Troubles; "Black Friday" Busiest Shopping Day Without Credit and Debit Cards
Irvine, CA (ContentDesk) November 2, 2005 -- What would happen if on November 25th, consumers across America chose just cash and checks to shop? As consumers use cash rather than credit and debit cards on this important post-Thanksgiving shopping day, known as Black Friday, it will signal their disapproval with the banks $25 billion dollar annual hidden tax. The Credit Card Interchange Report: WayTooHigh.com is evaluating a proposal by consumers to launch this national campaign on November 25th to draw attention to the bank-owned credit card associations' interchange fees. The goal is to educate not impair commerce. Another immediate benefit is that by using cash, it will help shoppers better budget their spending."A Day Without Credit Cards -- A Day With Cash" was suggested by consumers and is independent from the co-editors of WayTooHigh.com, who are also lead plaintiffs in the credit card interchange litigation.The genesis for this consumer initiative began at Irvine, CA-based 30...
More Banking Troubles; "Black Friday" Busiest Shopping Day Without Credit and Debit Cards
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Major Remittance Study Released
BOSTON (ContentDesk) November 11, 2005 -- Results of a landmark Study reveal that "Continued adoption of higher speed image-based remittance processing systems has improved both the quality and cost effectiveness of lockbox operations by 11% since 2001 when the study was last done." The newly released 2005 Remittance Processing Benchmarking Study reports on the results of a comprehensive survey conducted by The Association for Work Process Improvement (TAWPI) and Dove Consulting."The purpose of this study is to gather information which can help remittance processors assess their performance relative to their peers," said TAWPI President Frank Moran.
"In addition to questions drawn from the 2001 study, this analysis is more reflective of recent changes in the remittance processing environment such as ARC and Check 21.""This research was conducted to provide remittance processing professionals and solutions providers information that is relevant to the current environment," said...
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My Online Background Check Experiment
Ever wanted to know a little more about yourself than you already do? I did so I put my name in a search engine and started an online background check
of my past. It didn't take long before I was navigating through websites and I found out where and when I was born, where I had gone to school (did that seem like an age ago!) and surprisingly some of my previous employment history.
I also found out that I had no criminal background worth mentioning (always good to know) and that my credit rating was ok. I found this quite satisfying and decided that online background searching was not only fun, but it could also be very rewarding!
Now that I'd a little background checking under my belt it occurred to me that it might be fun if I did some online background checks on my friends.
So, I chose a few good friends and wanted to discover the following in my online search...
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The Complexity and Risk of Check 21 Imaging Operations
New Research Report by Mercator Advisory Group - This report identifies five areas of risk involved in deploying large projects and then identifies many specific risks inherent in Check 21 and distributed check imaging.
While each individual financial institution ultimately faces its own unique circumstances, the report presents the key areas that every financial institution needs to consider and we trust that the report will be instrumental in guiding the institution's auditing of their own risk assessment effort.Before Check 21, the paying bank had both access to the physical check and the liability associated with any illegible image -- but this all changes in October when sweeping changes will go into effect based on the Check 21 legislation.
Check 21 creates a substitute check, generated from an image, that is a legal document.
The legislation also shifts liabilities between the paying bank and the bank that first converts a check into an image or accepts...
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