Merchant Guard in the Headlines!

 Today's headline of note:

Retailers' fight against Apple Pay could be a long-term battle

By Mae Anderson

Associated Press

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By next October, retailers will be required to have point-of-sale terminals that work with the new EMV chip-and-pin security standard for credit cards. Those terminals usually also have the "near-field communication" capability to work with Apple Pay, Google Wallet and Softcard systems, but they aren't automatically enabled to work with NFC.*

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*MERCHANT GUARD HEADLINE:  The free terminals we will be furnishing our merchants ARE!

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From the "It's all in how you look at it" File:

There's no getting around it: Too many older Americans just haven't saved enough for the retirement lifestyle they hope to enjoy. They add up their anticipated Social Security payments, their investment income, pensions and other sources, compare that sum to their expected expenses and -- there's a gap.

You can fill that gap by continuing to work, of course, but retirement isn't really "retirement" if you're still cranking away for a hovering boss. But there are alternatives, and one that is gaining popularity among those looking to pad their retirements is joining a direct sales enterprise. These businesses are also called network marketing, multilevel marketing, networking, direct sales and the not-so-flattering pyramid scheme.

In essence, you sell a product line (Not Merchant Guard!)  to your "affinity groups" -- in other words friends, friends of friends, family, and colleagues, past or present. You get a straightforward commission on your sales, and you can also invite people you know to sell the products as well -- and you earn commissions on their sales. These sales structures can -- and often do -- go on for quite a few levels. Hence, the name multilevel marketing.

"In the United States, approximately 16 million people are involved in direct selling, accounting for almost $30 billion in annual sales," the Direct Selling Association says. That averages out to $1,875 per person a year.

How It Works

Some people believe that since the people at the top of the distribution chain make the bulk of the money, that the term "pyramid" is appropriate. I'd respond to that by encouraging you to look at any large corporation; they all pay their top people significantly more money than their lower-level employees. Yes, it's true: The company you work for is probably also one of those dreaded "pyramids."

Multilevel marketing is merely a different way to promote and distribute products and services. Instead of spending large amounts of money on traditional marketing and advertising, it uses that money to pay commissions to its distributors or agents.

Distributors get to tie into an existing product line, and it takes minimal capital to get started. The key is to represent a product or service that you believe in, and one that has a good, true story of how it is helping people. Let's say a certain brand of weight management products has been a huge help to you. Why not tell other people who have similar goals and earn a commission if they try the product?  (Hmmm...Can you spell autoship?)

Before You Get Involved

Here are some tips to a successful network marketing experience.

1. Understand how much you can make if you just sell the product and don't recruit new sellers below you.
2. Look for a company that has been around for at least five years -- and 10 would be better. Launches and failures of networking companies are common.
3. Investigate marketing support.  How  does the company bring help distributors?
4. Be wary of seminar companies in network marketing clothing. If you are forced or strongly encouraged to buy the CD of the month and a ticket to any and all events, that is the best sign that more money is being made on those items than on the actual product. Gatherings are a good thing in moderation. There has to be more than just hype andCDs . (SO true...)
5. Be patient. It might take you a year or two to achieve that income goal -- or more if you have bigger goals. Steady, persistent action is the key.
6. Ask about if there are monthly minimums for personal production to qualify for commissions and if there are monthly personal points to be maintained.

Don't judge direct selling by just the numbers. Judge by how it would work for you, with your own solid plan of action. One of my business ventures is a real estate brokerage, working with out-of-area investors. Realtors average a little over $14,000 a year. This encompasses everyone with a license -- even if they don't sell anything. Many friends and colleagues -- and I -- make many multiples of that amount. So don't let an average scare you.

Do your homework, and look before you leap. Then be patient, persistent and refine your marketing campaign and sales skills. If you succeed, it could be just the boost your retirement needs.  (MG can also be the CAREER you need!)

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P.S.  We'll be home tonight.  Why don't you come over?

I'm Your Local Agent!

John Daniels reports that he just saw stats stating that 150,000 people are enrolling in network marketing companies monthly!!  SOMEBODY is wanting to find you:  so get your 'shingle' out:

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"I am your LOCAL Processing Agent!"

That's powerful, and here's a respected marketing professor to expound on that a little bit:

RADIO INTERVIEW WITH Merchant Guard Founder JOHN DANIELS

RADIO INTERVIEW WITH  Merchant Guard Founder JOHN DANIELS REGARDING DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF MERCHANT GUARD:   click here to access.  There are 4 clips, edited out of one much longer clip for ease of sharing. 

Enjoy!

                                                     AND GO TELL SOMEBODY(IES)!

Welcome to SEVERAL new Agents

Industry stats for your Tuesday from Bloomberg Markets:

$72 Billion = what banks make from credit/debit card swipe fees per year in the US
$12.4 Billion = what banks/retailers LOSE anually to global fraud*

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Welcome to SEVERAL new Agents who have either just submitted or are in the process of submitting their app for training!  From south Texas to central Oregon....  MG is slowly and carefully expanding merchant reach through some capable and serious new Agents!

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Like to jar your merchant-seeking mode?  There are business listings available all over the 'net.... pick a town, city, village.  Search their .gov site for new business licenses (out here these are downloadable monthly).  Go to chambers of commerce sites for biz members.  Check yellow pages or google maps for biz's in a specific area:  so MANY methods to meet some nice folks working hard for their money and wanting to save on their processing fees.

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*PCI compliance is a new merchant requirement designed to help with fraud.  Be sure your merchant has the excellent PCI flyer from your mginterface!  It will save them even more monthly.

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TOMORROW, Mike and Barb head to LA for midday MG with Ted, Roger and whoever shows up!  Ya'll come!  (Details at right.)

Mike Lammons and Merchant Guard

Merchant Guard gold mines

IMPORTANT NOTE FROM "Ask Avita" session:

Don't have your merchant cancel his current processor until he has  received his MG terminal  and has it set up and processing; that way you are assured he has uninterrupted processing.

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Remember:  the mginterface is your friend!   Curl up with a training video or a questionnaire this weekend for some real thrills!



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WE ARE GETTING SO MANY CALLS from you guys with seriously interested people:  just this morning Mz. Marlyn called regarding a friend in Texas who looked over MG, watched the .ppt, and called for her enrollment papers and already has others lined up.  She describes this as 'a gold mine'!

One of biggest gold nuggets found in modern times:  California.  Now.

     

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There are Merchant Guard gold mines all over these United States.  Put on your hard hat and get to shovelin'!

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Have you run across one of these?

Merchant: Do I Need a Credit Card Processing Company?

Many companies start out thinking that they can run their business without taking credit cards; however, they learn pretty quickly that credit and debit are the primary ways of paying for services and products. If someone is ordering online, they do not want to wait an additional week for an echeck to clear or wait for you to receive a money order or cashiers check before they send out their items. As such, you need to have a way of accepting credit cards online.
A credit card processing company is a company who manages your credit card transactions for you. Companies like PayPal, for example, are credit card processing companies, although they do not necessarily bill themselves as such and their  fees can be very high.

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Merchant Guard is a FRIEND to the small merchant as well as the huge ones.

 





 

Be a Merchant Magnet!

Love the Salinas-area team:  Chan, Jorge, Roberto and Jacqueline are some of the nicest people we know!  LOVE getting to work with them.

(PERKS OF THIS BIZ!)

And we're going to start calling Central Valley's Lety 'MagneticLety' because she just walks past  businesses and statements fly over and stick to her.  No particular  type:  restaurant, motel, shoes, donuts...whatever.  She's a whiz!

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1PM  TODAY  "Ask Avita" webinar.  GET REDDY!

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Get those statements in:  I'm off to bake potatoes while Mike grills ribeyes!  LOVE THURSDAYS!

More after webbie..

'Just visiting' =dream job

C'mon -- you've gotta know somebody close to here:   start filling them on Merchant Guard now and invite them!

Meeting. Wed. Oct 29 at 12:30 noon. El. Torito. Mexican restaurant 600 so sepulveda blvd manhattan beach ca 90266    Please. Put in barbs blog.   Thanks Ted. Dawes Pacific. Accounts. Executive

Mike and Barb Lammons will be there and just maybe some   MG stars!!

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Don't forget tomorrow's session webinar of   "Ask Avita"! 

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Mike had  a great visit yesterday with a new Agent and an interested party,  friend of his who was visiting from Oregon.  Friend immediately saw the beauty of Merchant Guard AND has a friend of his own in OR who owns ski resort that turns over big bucks daily, almost all card-swipe business. 

'Just visiting' with people has great potential for expanding your MG scope!

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WANNA JOB?

At U.S. News, we publish an annual ranking of jobs, to analyze some of the most important choices job seekers encounter when selecting a career and to provide context for how jobs within the same industry compare. Our picks share one thing: They're jobs where employment should grow exponentially and faster than the average rate from 2012 to 2022, according to predictions by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. For 2014, there have been shake-ups. Though the BLS continues to paint a rosy landscape for some industries, it's also taken a closer look at where opportunity is most expected. What this means for us: We're ranking 18 new jobs this year. Nineteen jobs were bumped from our list entirely. And perhaps the biggest change: For the first time, our No. 1 job overall isn't from the health care industry — it's a tech job.

One thing we can tell you fo sho -- you better have a DEGREE to snag one of those puppies! 

Better to get an MG Degree (Agt.) and move your career ahead! 

DREAM BIG!

Ask Avita Series:

I would like to have a question and answer meeting. I want you to be able to ask any questions you may have. I want to do it as a group so everyone can hear the answers. I do have several questions I get asked regularly which I will cover first. Once I go over those I will be open for all questions. If I do not know the answer I will get it for you after the meeting.  If this meeting is a success I would be happy to have them on a regular basis! This meeting is only open to current MG Agents. 


Hope everyone can make it! - Avita

1.  Please join my meeting, Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 3:00 PM Central Daylight Time / 1:00 Pacific

https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/998120085

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2.  Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended.  Or, call in using your telephone.

Dial +1 (646) 749-3131

Access Code: 998-120-085

Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting

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Let's Get Active!

LET'S GET TO WORK!

From the Inbox of MG Savings Examples:

"....If you want to put them on the 1.19% bundled package you can. The thing is we would then be saving them close to 50%...."

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You've got to enjoy saving merchants money on their processing fees:  if you're a people-helper, you are perfect for  a Merchant Guard Agent career.

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Continuing ideas for merchant statement-gathering:

Hi, ____________________.  This is Mike Lammons with Merchant Guard. 

I stopped by yesterday to drop off a new brochure about  our merchant benefits package.

Something that I talk about in there that has been very helpful for my clients, and that I thought might be helpful for you is running a comparison analysis of your processingfees.  This analysis will compare your costs side-by-side with what we believe is best for you, to help you see whether or not your costs are fair in a very clear, concise way. 

Would you be interested in submitting your processing statement to find out how competitive your costs are, and more importantly, see if there is an opportunity to drive down the cost of your monthly fees?

Voice Mail Message:

My phone number is 555-333-4444.  This is Mike Lammons.  I stopped by yesterday to drop off a new brochure about  our merchant benefits package.

If you would like to do your due diligence on your processing statement, and look a little deeper at your plan costs, I have some time available on ______________________.

If that day would be good for you, or if another time would be better, you can reach me at 555-333-4444. 

Again this is Mike Lammons with Merchant Guard , 555-333-4444.

Thanks, _____________.  Have a great day!  

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Selling is not a numbers game…..

…..its an activity game. Its about doing the right amount of the right activities in the right way. If you focus on the numbers you just get numbers. If you focus on the right activities then you get results. This was the essence of the advice from Chris Mather – a top sales manager from a company selling door to door when I interviewed him for TheAccidentalSalesman.com last year.

- See more at: http://www.theaccidentalsalesman.com/starting-selling/effectiveness/selling-is-not-a-numbers-game#sthash.PZxBliMb.dpuf

 REMEMBER:  This is NOT a numbers game:  it is an activity game.  It's about doing the right activity the right way.  

…..its an activity game. Its about doing the right amount of the right activities in the right way. If you focus on the numbers you just get numbers. If you focus on the right activities then you get results. This was the essence of the advice from Chris Mather – a top sales manager from a company selling door to door when I interviewed him for TheAccidentalSalesman.com last year. - See more at: http://www.theaccidentalsalesman.com/starting-selling/effectiveness/selling-is-not-a-numbers-game#sthash.PZxBliMb.dpuf

Selling is not a numbers game…..

…..its an activity game. Its about doing the right amount of the right activities in the right way. If you focus on the numbers you just get numbers. If you focus on the right activities then you get results. This was the essence of the advice from Chris Mather – a top sales manager from a company selling door to door when I interviewed him for TheAccidentalSalesman.com last year.

- See more at: http://www.theaccidentalsalesman.com/starting-selling/effectiveness/selling-is-not-a-numbers-game#sthash.PZxBliMb.dpuf

 So, LET'S GET TO WORK!

SINCE IT'S FRIDAY: good simple training

MG Founder John Daniels doing a short training.

Know any salon operators?

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SINCE IT'S FRIDAY, we'll just stick to pictures and stick figures...OK?

How our industry works.  Well, there's also still dial-up, but you get the picture.

 

You can only help the merchant one place here:  and that's what WE do as Processor.

                                                                     
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So our merchants save $$ and we make $$ so we can spend $$ with our merchants who can save $$ -- the great economic circle of life!  

GOT IT? 

GOOD!

YOU HOLD THE HIGH CARDS: play 'em!

SHAZAAM!  Gawrsh!  Golllleee!

FIRST RESIDUAL CHECK has arrived to the account of the FIRST MERCHANT-GETTER  and we are very surprised/happy to hear how much it was for just 1/2 a month on a small rural merchant.  YA  HOOO!

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You hold the high cards in talking to merchants:

  "We can cut your processing bill or we'll pay you $500."


"Nobody should waste money on phony fees and high rates."


"Next day funding...24/7 in-house LIVE customer support."


  "FREE terminal!  No contract."

  "I'M YOUR CUSTOMER."

 
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Ask Rick Andersen who's NOT AFRAID to play the "I'm your customer" card!  

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Congrats to Sean Krohn:  another merchant app submitted...to Rick Andersen, who's team is seriously on the verge of opening up the French Quartre...to Lety Rodriguez for her Merchant-a-Week plan...  to Dave Hardcastle for getting to the app...to Marlyn Ano for giving her team serious support!...to Mike Orozco for taking the savings to the Islands...

and for some very nice  people who are currently taking a serious look at all things MG...and to so many others of you Awesome Agents!

Once again we say: