Integral Merchants Group Named Top 30 Business By Pivotal Payments

Monday, 28 February 2011 19:55 Written by Chris Akin

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Just a quick notice to announce that INTEGRAL MERCHANTS GROUP was named one of the top 30 Sales Providers by our parent credit card processing provider, Pivotal Payments.  We are extremely grateful to be honored in this way in our first year of operation!  Moving forward, we look forward to moving up the ladder and becoming a top 5 provider for Pivotal Payments!  Thank you to the staff at Pivotal Payments for recognizing our hard work through the last year.

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Are You Overpaying For Processing?

Sunday, 09 January 2011 14:49 Written by Chris Akin

Being in the payment solutions business, I’ve discovered a phenomenon that just plain shocks me. For most business professionals, they are very careful with their spending - thrifty to the point of annoyance many times in order to find the best solutions that allow them to make the most money for themselves. That is, seemingly, with the exception of their credit card processing.

I know what you’re saying. “Wait a minute! I know I got a good rate from the last guy.” We hear that, literally, every time we talk to a customer. And yet, when we crunch the numbers for businesses that will give us a chance, we find that 99 out of every 100 customers are overpaying for their credit card processing...by a LOT! Multiple consumer reports over the last year report that 7 out of 10 businesses overpay for their credit card processing.

So, how do you fix this? I’d be lying if I said that I don’t want you to fix this by coming to INTEGRAL Merchants Group and allowing us to fix this for you, but there are some practical solutions that can help you regardless of if you work with us or not. Here’s a couple that should make sense to you.

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2011 Trends For Small Businesses

Monday, 03 January 2011 18:12 Written by Chris Akin

Like any other year, the beginning of 2011 is a crucial moment for any small business owner. It’s critical because, as a business owner, it’s your only time of the entire year where you have a few seconds of breathing room to look forward and plan your business decisions for the next 12 months. With the economy in it’s current state, smart decisions are going to be the difference between success and failure in 2011. According to Mashable.com, here are the expended trends for small businesses in the next year:

1. Increased spending on websites. Recent surveys state that over 50% of small businesses have websites, yet virtually all of them are informational and have nothing available for purchase on them. Even less of them have anything more than an email address as the “customer service” arm of their business online. As more and more people shop for goods and services online and have less face to face interaction with their merchants, it becomes increasingly important that businesses, and specifically small businesses, keep up with the times. Falling behind technologically in 2011 will be a direct indicator that a business cannot compete with the “big boys”. Many of those businesses will be passed by. Trending shows that competitive businesses will invest in their websites in 2011 to not only compete aesthetically, but technically in order to best serve the new age of customers who are changing the way people shop for products or services.

Businesses that compete will do so by upgrading their E-Commerce offerings, blogging to interact directly with their customers, creating ways to schedule or reserve services online and creating direct links/interfaces with the social media market.

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