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When merchant processing goes sideways – expect it

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LinkedIn has gotten boring and uninformative.

All the supposed  SEO and eCommerce groups have become as tepid as a lukewarm single bag decaffeinated cup of green tea. “Content is king” – backlinks – due date hasn’t changed in a decade.

I’ll be coming at you like a cup of coffee with five-hour energy replacing cream – be ready to grab on.

All merchant processors are scum-sucking thieves.

In 14 years I’ve gone through 18 merchant processors – at one time I ran 110 websites mostly affiliate stuff but I needed to take money on the web in 2004 – so this is what I’ve learned over 12 years. Not once have I had a good experience.

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How did CyberSource place a hold on funding with out a completed merchant application while not even being the merchant processor of record?

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I have been communicating with

Michael B.

Underwriting Department

Authorize.Net

P.O. Box 947

American Fork, UT 84003-0947

Tel 888-317-6935 x1

[email protected] | http://www.visa.com

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Why this merchant processor is making an angry old white guy angrier

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I blogged about how cybersource used a shell game to keep MY money out of MY bank for weeks

In the 14 years we’ve been processing credit cards we’ve had a little over 20 merchant processors and a half a dozen gateways I’ll explain the difference in a moment.

The gateways aren’t too bad except when they stop working and I’ve suffered through days of broken gateways which is why we always have a redundant gateway in place should the current system break..

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I’m 65 & want to become a social media influencer – what are my chances?

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I’ve been examining latest trend in social media – they call it “influencer marketing”. I just read a post on LinkedIn asking for lists of “influencers”. A plethora of responses recommended this list and that list.

Not surprisingly my reply ran against the grain:

Correlation does not imply causation – everyone is assuming  a big list from an “influencer” implies an endless source of influential content – just for you – right? – and what’s the half life of an influencer? anyone remember Mari Smith or Jon Loomer way back in 2012?

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Leaving a search provider can be harder than leaving Las Vegas

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I’d like to start out with an observation – If groups are so popular on LinkedIn why is there so much apathy?

One of my e-commerce groups (I’m in more than a dozen e-commerce and social media groups) has 323,000+ members and yet you won’t see 12 replies in the first 30 posts – just sayin’.

I am not a conversion rate expert but I have been running e-commerce websites for 19 years (as of 2022) and developed a sizable knowledge base watching the millions of visitors flow across my sites (along with the data).

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