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Small business, Shop Small, holiday shopping, Marketing Advice HOLIDAY SHOPPING SEASON With Small Business Saturday just around the corner, a new poll, Manta, found that 52 percent of business owners are expecting an increase in sales this year. Here are five ways that owners can prepare for Small Business Saturday and market their businesses on a budget. 1.     JOIN […]

Payment Processing, Security MASTERCARD INC. WILL NO LONGER REQUIRE SIGNATURES ON TRANSACTIONS. ETA member Mastercard Inc. will drop its rule requiring merchants to get signatures for transactions made with its credit and debit cards in North America. The change will go into effect April 13, 2018, Mastercard Executive Vice President of U.S. Development Linda Kirkpatrick announced

USING A BUSINESS CREDIT CARD TO MANAGE DAILY EXPENSES CAN BE A GREAT BUT IT CAN BECOME A LIABILITY FOR YOUR BUSINESS. 1. CHOOSING THE WRONG TYPE OF CREDIT CARD It’s important to note that not all credit cards are created equal. Business credit cards and personal credit cards are different products that carry different

DATA SECURITY SHOULD BE ONE OF YOUR BUSINESS’S PRIORITIES. The Equifax breach is reminding small business owners that they may be vulnerable to cybercriminals Small businesses often lag behind big companies in data security, not believing they might be targets. But 61 percent of the victims of breaches in 2016 were businesses with fewer than

USING VOICE-ACTIVATED PAYMENTS FOR TRANSFERS, PAYING BILLS AND MORE The State of Voice Pay We’ve all experienced the frustration of epic fails with voice assistants, often leading to garbled words, misfires and misinterpretations of your original intent. Amazon Alexa now allows customers to make re-ordering simple via voice commands. Apple has enabled Siri to support

PERSON TO PERSON PAYMENTS External players may have been dominating the person-to-person payments game, but bigger brands and established financial institutions are catching up with new features. Person-to-person (P2P) payments have been around for several years. However, they are increasingly becoming a force to be reckoned with. Javelin Strategy & Research last year deemed mobile

There are many new ways for small businesses to benefit. Best of all, most of these techniques don’t require a huge budget or advanced technical knowledge. Here are a few key tactics for small businesses to benefit from the mobile revolution: Optimize your website for local search A recent study found that as much as

Payment Processing Accepting credit cards is necessary for merchants who want to be competitive in their market and grow their business to its greatest potential. The days of cash-only transactions are long gone. New technology has vastly expanded the scope of credit card processing to the point where there are practically no boundaries when it

New Technology Today, there are more tech solutions for accepting credit cards than ever before, and it’s even more important for merchants to understand their options. As a merchant services provider, USB Payment Processing® stands at the forefront of credit card processing technology, ready to advise businesses on how to meet all their requirements with one comprehensive

Credit cards remain popular with U.S. consumers. According to The Nilson Report, purchase volume for goods and services for the general purpose card brands in this country accounted for $5.142 trillion in transactions in 2016. Volume was up uniformly across all four major brands. In this environment, all business owners — but particularly those with