JOIN CALL!

Reason we keep our calls SHORT:

TONIGHT WILL BE A
BARN-BURNER!!

WITH JOHN DANIELS.   Join the Call.  Details at rigiht.

More to be Thankful for!!

MORE MG TO BE THANKFUL FOR:

From Avita: 

PAY ANYWHERE IS READY FOR MERCHANT GUARD TO LAUNCH! 

Here is the link you can use to process a pay anywhere application. The link is now in your mginterface under ONLINE APPS.

https://applytablet.payanywhere.com/?source=28638.995​      PAY ANYWHERE

Click and start the app! Isn't that great!?

As you can see there is no where for your AGENT CODE on the application, at this time you will have to fill out this form and submit directly to Avita.  I made the form editable so you can fill out and email no printing or scanning needed :)

PayAnywhere



and the new Phoneswipe:

YOU HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR IT AND NOW IT IS HERE! You can now offer your merchants a flat 2.69% for all qualified phone swipe accounts! The upfront money on the accounts with no monthly fee or no monthly min is $25! That is correct you still get upfront money on the phone swipe accounts! I have attached some information on the phone swipe.

Here is the link

https://apply.phoneswipe.com/?source=28638.2    Phone swipe

The phone swipe app is very similar to the pay anywhere app. Very simple and easy :)  This is also in the mginterface.

REMEMBER THESE RATES ARE SET AND WE ARE UNABLE TO CHANGE THEM FOR THE PAY ANYWHERE AND PHONE SWIPE PROGRAMS.  So your thrifty merchants may prefer one of our other incredible-savings plans!

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NOTE:  3 step process

1. Download either PhoneSwipe or PayAnywhere app from YOUR mginterface.
2. Fill out online.
3. Submit by EMAIL to Avita and include your MG code and the merchant's name in your cover email so Avita can easily process!!

 PhoneSwipe video:

PERSPECTIVE ON REALITY

Great trip to LA and environs, with Ted, Roger and John.  Here are some pics:

Mr. Calm and Cool, Roger Arthur.

MG Founder John Daniels showing a swiper -- each merchant gets  FREE 2 (as minimum) plus terminal.

Mike and John with PayAnywhere unit.

Barb wants in on the action, too!

Love this pic of John...

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YOUSHOULDABEENTHERE!

Or, I should have hidden a recorder because there were FIREWORKS when we got to the meeting site.  Roger's merchant-friend had submitted her statement and MG can save her restaurant around $600/month -- over $7K annually.  She wanted him to meet with her other owners so Roger -- a brand-new Agent -- requested assistance.

John graciously said he'd drive up to help out.

Turned out the other 'owner' was actually the agent for her current processor.  Oh, wish you could have heard John handle him!  That guy thought he was going to pick MG apart but our sweet, meek and mild John became a tiger when confronting that agent who was clearly taking this merchant to the cleaners.  And justifying his overcharging her...

It was worth the drive down to watch John in action and Roger manage the table!

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Moral:  LEARN FROM EVERY EXPERIENCE.  STICK TOGETHER WITH YOUR OTHER MG AGENTS.

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Here is me when meeting began, and me after:

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Hope you read Avita's updates yesterday.  If it isn't in your Inbox, let me know and I'll forward to you.  It's all GOOD!

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THE DAWNING OF MG REALITY:

While Mike and I were waiting outside the first restaurant for the team yesterday, people were going in there by the scads.  It is in a large gorgeous mall in a beautiful area. (That restaurant does over $5 million annually -- we then went to their 2nd that does twice that much.)

Well we were sitting in the shade,  just enjoying the glorious SoCal 70+ deg sunshine.  Suddenly Mike turned to me and said:

"PAID ON EVERY SWIPE, HMMM?"

We were both speechless at the thought.

Guys, even a little bit of a whole bunch  amounts to a great income.  

 

In the specific case yesterday, it adds up like this:

Roger - 20%
Ted       - 5%
Mike/me - 5%
 

Help all the merchants you can, large and small, and when you find you can't get to all of them, bring on some new Agents to help!

Merchant Guard in Paradise!

Merchant Guard in Paradise!

FROM MIKE LAMMONS:

Conference Calls are such a neat way to build your knowledge of and foundation for a national merchant card business from the convenience of wherever you happen to be!  Barb and I believe that and evidently a bunch of other Agents do, too.

On the first MG call Nov. 16 there were callers from 5 states.
On the second MG call Nov. 23 there were callers from 8 states.

There were even callers from WI and TN -- if you had a guest on the call and would like some support or 3-way call, for example, give me a call-- I want to help!

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FROM RICK ANDERSEN:

 Subject: Blazing New Information

Good Morning, Team!

Thanks to all of you who were on the call last evening.  I really enjoyed sharing some of my ideas with you.

I know some of you had problems getting on the call….so Barbara Lammons has agreed to archive it on the blogspot later today.

While you are on the blogspot, check out the video on PayAnywhere, the tool John Daniels has arranged for us to offer.

This is just one of the great things he accomplished on his great Winter Wonderland Tour last week.

We are well on our way to becoming THE shopping center for merchant accounts.

John will be meeting with us tomorrow evening at Sun Harbor Marina conference room, 7:00 PM.

He will have one of the PayAnywhere systems with him.

In addition, he will be putting out information to all of us….stay tuned.

This is a great ride!

Rick

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FROM CHRIS CONTRERAS:

Aloha! Mike and Barb, these are the pics you requested. This is me on sat. 11-22-14 

on my Birthday. This is Ft. Derussy in Waikiki and Hawaii landmark Diamond Head Crater.. 

Come visit paradise some Day.. Aloha!!!!

 Congratulations to Chris for having signed the very first MG merchant in Paradise!

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NOTE THE NEW MEDIA PAGE.  It is where audio recordings and videos will be archived for your biz-growing assistance.

Building RESIDUAL by service and savings!

Don't call about this:  wait for John's announcement/updates early next week.  But...
QUESTION:  can you find some merchants who'd like one of these FREE??

Wait for the appropriate apps and info to be added to your MGinterface -- and don't call Avita about the above:  WAIT FOR JOHN!

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We've had a great week and lots of statements/apps are percolating through the system.  Feel free to call Mike or Barb if you need help!!

LET'S GO BUILD A GREAT RESIDUAL INCOME ONE MERCHANT AT A TIME!

 

from our storefront to yours....

Live Interview with Top Merchant Gatherers for MG Wayne & Angelia Harrington!!

Live Interview with Top Merchant Gatherers for MG Wayne & Angelia Harrington!!

http://fccdl.in/FdEUn5ljK

Merchant Guard presentation

The face looking back at you

Today's Focus on Success:



Kenny Troutt began his career selling life insurance and used the funds to pay for his tuition at Southern Illinois University. He founded a long distance phone company, Excel Communications, in 1988 and took it public in 1996. He merged it two years later with Teleglobe in a $3.5 billion deal, and reinvested the profits in stocks, bonds and horses. He sponsors his two sons' nationally competitive youth basketball teams, which integrate disadvantaged families with middle- and upper-class ones. He also enjoys horse racing and owns Winstar Farm, in Versailles, KY. He ranks 25th on the Center for Responsive Politics' list of top individual political contributors.

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telecommunications, Self Made 

 

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It was Kenny who taught us the value of residual income generated monthly from a service that is unconsciously purchased and habitually used.   

 

Once a merchant chooses Merchant Guard as their card processor, that power kicks in... which is what Merchant Guard  Agents see and is why we do what we do.

Kenny was raised in the housing projects of east St. Louis by his single mom.  She was a powerful force in his life and those who knew Kenny heard many stories about 'Mama Nadine'. 

He had no use for excuses for inaction (do you want to make money or excuses?) and he heard plenty of excuses from a sales force of network marketers who knew zippo about the phone business and were commissioned to take customers away from "Ma Bell", the giant monopoly who had owned that biz forever.

Therefore, we heard the following story many times and it's still my favorite.  It is appropriate to Merchant Guard Agents today because ALL OF YOU are commissioned to get merchant-customers in an industry that you know little about.

When you are wavering over calling or dropping by that merchant today, go stand in front of a mirror and ask yourself this:

 

When you are wavering over calling or dropping by that merchant today, go stand in front of a mirror and ask yourself this:

 

"Mirror, mirror on the wall:  who's going to save that merchant on his processing fees?"

The face looking back at you is THE ANSWER!

NUFF SAID! And Wayne said it....

Awesome first MG Weekly Wrap-up call last night!  There were 16 of us on the call, ranging from Heavenly Hawaii ( Mike Orozco and Chris Contreras) to Wisconsin, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Georgia and California!!  WOW.  Now THAT'S a spread.

MG Agents Wayne and Angelia Harrington did a great job of sharing how they have transitioned from clueless consumers to MERCHANT ADVOCATES in just a couple of short weeks.  Their merchant stories -- from the first one their first week as Agents to the last one on Friday at noon -- show what a great benefit MG is to merchants.

Their top tip for working with merchants:  when you get one active, BE SURE THEY CALL IN TO THEIR EPI SERVICE NUMBER.  Finding out they have real life support available to them 24/7/365 gets 'em every time.

Their top tip for Agents:  just contact merchants and don't worry about making mistakes.  They say they've made several (wrong apps, for example) but everything can be corrected.  They mailed out some of the tri-fold brochures that we all have and 5 of their merchants came from there!  (so guess who's mailing today!)

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Here's some more from Wayne (continued from Saturday blog):

Now let’s talk equipmen.   Since I was in the heavy construction business each piece of equipment  cost from $90k to $320k. In my particular case about $2.5 million invested in equipment. Now for the small equipment needed, trucks, trailers, tools, Nextel ,engineering tools, and many others. This estimated to be an additional $250k.   OK time to talk about employees. Office personnel, Engineer, estimator, mechanic, several operators and drivers plus a supervisor.

Somewhere down the line comes a CPA, and an Attorney. Next is capitol to operate until the payday starts and capital to purchase the materials and fuel needed to perform the job usually runs around $150k. Capitol needed for payroll for a minimum of 90 days.

 

FOLKS!  Listen, all this must be in place before a project can be bid. Once the contract is complete the headaches really start.  Worrying, stress, deadlines, inspections, collection, breakdowns, conflicts, employees, inflation, thefts and many more…Estimated profit margin 5 to 7 %.

The point of all this is most people don’t have a clue what it takes to start and maintain a new business. Let’s compare for a short second. 

MERCHANT GUARD IS A $195.OO OUTLAY  AND THAT COVERS TUITION.   YOU ARE NOW IN BUSINESS WITH NO EMPLOYEES, NO EQUIPMENT, NO BOSSES, NO DEADLINES, NO CAPITAL,AND ALL THE OTHER EXPENSES THAT ARE REQUIRED BY “NORMAL” BUSINESSES.  

INSTEAD OF HAVING SLEEPLESS NIGHTS YOU CAN NOW GO TO BED WITH THE THOUGHTS THAT SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE IS SWIPING A CARD THAT PAYS YOU WHILE YOU ARE SLEEPING.  

YOU ARE COMPLETEDLY SUPPORTED BY A STRONG , SOUND AND ESTABLISHED COMPANY. Believe me, there is no comparison…………………

Thanks,

Wayne Harrington

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SUNDAY: our TOP MERCHANT GATHERERS. Dial in and listen!

It's going to be a GREAT call tomorrow night (see details at right or below) because

STARS

WAYNE and ANGELIA HARRINGTON

will be Special Guests.

Wayne and Angie live in a small town in south Georgia, knew nothing about the card processing industry, and are completely alone in that part of the world, trying to make sense of Merchant Guard.

How has it worked for them so far?

They got the FIRST merchant submitted.

Got the FIRST merchant signed and active.

Are approaching 7 or 8 active merchant accounts and submitting more daily!

They will be sharing their MG wisdom so far, as our TOP MERCHANT GATHERERS.   Dial in and listen to their story and find out how they approach merchants!

Here's a note from Wayne that you might want to share with a guest or two, inviting them to tune in:

"I have noticed that my friends Mike and Barb have disclosed some of the information of owning a traditional business. You know the kind where you need expensive education, experience from somewhere and a ton load of money to get started.

Once you have that to get started you must have insurance (auto, structure, equipment, liability ,bidders, employee and personnel) & know that all of these are on different policies. Then there is license, bonds, and more insurance to guarantee that you will complete the job you started.

Now let’s talk equipment, since I was in the heavy construction business each piece of equipment  cost from $90k to $320k. In my particular case about $2.5 million invested in equipment."

More from these MG Stars tomorrow!

YAGOTTALOVETHISBIZ!

Let's wrap up a great week by getting together Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014, 5pm Pacific (8 pm Eastern)!

MG Conference Chat with Mike/Barb
Dial-in Number: (605) 562-0020
Meeting ID: 319-289-214

THIS WILL BE AUDIO ONLY but you may go to our Wall to access the MG .ppt file if you do not already have it.  

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Plus
WE NOW HAVE FREE EMV TERMINALS! THESE WILL REPLACE THE VX510. I HAVE MADE A FLYER FOR YOU TO USE OR EMAIL ME WITH ANY EDITS OR ADDITIONS YOU WOULD LIKE. PLEASE NOTE THESE DO NOT TAKE FLEET CARDS AT THIS TIME.

Thank you,

Avita Pizano
Office Manager

 These are ready waaay sooner than we thought!  If you didn't get the editable flyer from Avita, email Barb. 

I'll get it to you over the weekend:  Avita actually has a life whereas I live for Merchant Guard!  WHOO HEE!  YAGOTTALOVETHISBIZ!

 

 

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We Invite You

FROM THE INBOX:

"My Merchant account has completed the EPI SAQ Wizard and has eliminated up to $240.00 in extra fees from the account yearly.

 

It took less than 10 minutes to complete this Self Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) and avoid the monthly compliance fees.

 

Marlyn Ano" -  Galletti's Shoes, SF

And: 

"Barb and I  have been in various bizzes over the past 60 years and each one required capital, commitment, dedication, focus, etc. Some required employees, leases, huge financial risks and long term obligations.  The first 38 years were consumed in various traditional types of biz which really required entrepreneurial types.
These past  22+ years have been in direct marketing industry and anyone can enjoy this biz.  This industry is least expensive to join with biggest potential Income and no risk.

Now here comes a 15 year old company in a 4 trillion dollar industry (USA only) that decided to add a network marketing division, the first and only such company in this industry.  They invited us to help them develop the "perfect" opportunity:  cheapest-quickest payout-highest residual.

So here we are- less than 90 days since beginning and just yesterday, one of our personal Agents (more from him later) enrolled a company that  processes  OVER $8 million in revenue annually. The merchant loves the savings on processing fees that MG will save them.

The monthly residual is unreal.

Barb and I had highest residual in one company that had over two million reps and 20 million customers, so we know true residual.  Anyone reading this info needs to contact the person who sent it to u or contact us.
Remember this business fact:

EVERY GREAT COMPANY  HAS ONLY ONE BEGINNING.

I invite you to be part of MG."

Mike Lammons, Pacific Accounts Manager, Merchant Guard

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Does Merchant Guard REALLY stand up to its $500 guarantee?

Does Merchant Guard REALLY stand up to its $500 guarantee?  Judge for yourself.  Here are some MG proposals for merchants that you Agents have submitted the past few days:

Good Morning,
Attached is the completed proposal. The savings comes to 9% or $590.95 monthly, $7091.40 yearly. They are on a pretty good rate, but we were able to save them.  I do think they will change for $7000 a year! I have attached the analysis and the application for you. Let me know if you have any questions.

Attached is the analysis. We are able to save them $75 this particular month which is over a 20% savings! 
Their rates are a 1.66% for Qualified ours is a 1.19% 
They are on a mid qualified rate of a 2.28% ours is a 2.16% 
Non Qualified is a 3.59% (which is really high) our is a 2.66%


They are also getting charged between 14 to 24 cents more a transaction but they don't have it broken out except on the non qualified ones so that is not included on the analysis.
Their credit card trans fee is 29 cents and ours is only 15.


Another thing they are on a MOTO Amex rate of a 3.50%, I am not sure why because it looks like they are not MOTO. If they are not then the rate would be a 2.89% on the one point program.


If you have any questions you know what to do! ;)

Attached is the completed proposal, pricing the merchant on your four tiered structure as follows:
The savings comes to 31% or $76.17 monthly, $914.06 yearly.
She will have to reprogram the terminal she currently has or we could provide her with a phone attachment.
We are able to save her over 30% monthly which is a great savings! I have attached the analysis along with the correct application.
Please let me know if you have any questions.

Here is the analysis. Their company is really taking advantage of them. If we charge him 2 times as much as we usually do we will still save him over 50%. I am attaching the analysis along with the application. Please let me know if you have any questions. ​

Here is the analysis. As  per our conversation yesterday she is on a super high rate. We are  going to save her about 70%. I think this is the highest savings I have ever seen. This poor merchant has been getting ripped off way too long. 
I have attached the analysis along with the application. Please let me know if you want any revisions or have any questions.

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 Editable tri-fold brochure, front and back:
 
WANT  THE .pdf or Word .doc to edit for yourself?  Email Barb, barblammons@gmail.com

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