"Who Needs Cash When There's Electronic Money!"

Written by Merle


It's a new world. Gone arerepparttar days of writing paper checks and entering credit card numbers. Now withrepparttar 112792 click of a mouse you can pay anyone anywhere, anytime, or you can receive payments yourself without a merchant account. All you need isrepparttar 112793 right service and an email address.

There are so many "electronic payment" services onrepparttar 112794 Net today, if you're not taking advantage of them you're missing out on a fast, simple way to move money around. If you're selling products or services online, adding one or more of these payment processes to your site will give your visitors more options and possibly result in more sales for you.

Let's examine some ofrepparttar 112795 Top Players a little more closely:

1) PayPal http://www.PayPal.com

PayPal has to berepparttar 112796 most popular ofrepparttar 112797 payment services available by far. They offer three different account types: Personal, which has a limit of 100.00 per month in credit card payments; Premier, for those in need of high transactions (which means you need to accept a large number of credit card payments); and Business accounts, which are intended for business use only. A business account includesrepparttar 112798 ability to accept payment from your website and use of PayPal's shopping cart along with your own ATM/Debit card which allows you to access your funds at any local bank or userepparttar 112799 debit card like a credit card at any store.

Fees: For Premier accounts these are 2.2% of each transaction plus $.30. Business users pay 2.9% per transaction plus $.30. There are no transaction fees for personal accounts. They do allow International payments for some countries; checkrepparttar 112800 site for details.

2) BidPay: http://www.BidPay.com

Owned by Western Union and devised to make paying for online auctions easier. Basically, when you open an account with them you purchase money orders that they send out to pay for any auctions you may have won. Cannot handle transactions over $700.00. The money orders are mailed out within 24 hours. Emails are sent torepparttar 112801 buyer and seller once payment is on its way. All payments under $100.00 are charged a $5.00 flat fee. Money orders between $100.01 and $700.00 are charged $5.00 +2.25% ofrepparttar 112802 face value ofrepparttar 112803 money order. International access allowed but limited to certain areas.

Risk reversal - Getting paid for performance

Written by Kris Mills


I've regularly written aboutrepparttar importance risk-reversal plays in dissolving buyer scepticism. As a way of allaying buyer fears, some of my clients have adopted money back guarantees and their sales have increased dramatically just as a result of implementing that guarantee.

One area where buyer scepticism is particularly rampant is when it comes to enlisting consultants. A company knows they need to enlistrepparttar 112791 services of a consultant to increase their bottom line, yet in most cases, they've been burnt before, paying too much money to consultants that don't come up withrepparttar 112792 goods.

And, when I speak with consultants many tell me that their services are so much better than their competitors, yet when asked if they are willing to offer a guarantee, 99% say "NO".

The reason forrepparttar 112793 "NO" answer? I often get told, "Advice is only as good asrepparttar 112794 implementation" and unless they can control implementation, they can't guarantee an outcome.

As a consultant myself, I see their point. It's very, very true, however I'd like to tell you a story about a global, franchised consulting group that has been offering a bold "no win, no fee" guarantee for years, with great success too, I might add. As a result, they have no problems getting their feet inrepparttar 112795 doors of evenrepparttar 112796 biggest multi-national firms.

The company is Expense Reduction Analysts and they offer a cost reduction service whereby they reduce a company's business operating costs in areas like printing, stationery, freight, telecommunications, travel and so on. Instead of charging a fee for this service, they charge 50% ofrepparttar 112797 savings realised inrepparttar 112798 first year. If no savings are found, no fee is paid.

In reality, every company they work with does achieve savings with most shaving 23% or more off their costs. Withrepparttar 112799 size ofrepparttar 112800 companies ERA works with, this represents a saving of anywhere between $100,000 to $1,000,000. One multinational client has just saved $2million thanks to ERA's efforts. (Incidentally,repparttar 112801 ERA consultants involved withrepparttar 112802 project pocket a healthy proportion of those savings as their fee.).

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