Summary: I had signed up for a merchant account for my Internet business and got taken to the cleaners. It seemed like every time my authorize.net account sneezed it cost me 20 bucks. I was getting bills for 60 and 70 dollars for processing credit card payments (there were some nice orders, but especially American Express charges were getting ridiculous). I have spoken about Square Up in the Past and Now I heard about Intuit offering a system to take credit card payments from your phone. There is a catch here. You get a good deal if you swipe the card. This is great for gigs, but if you need to key in the card, it may be more profitable to send them an invoice via PayPal and let them pay that with their credit card. Here are services mentioned in this episode GoPayment from Intuit 2.70 if swiped, 3.7 if entered manually. Square Up 2.75 for swipe and 3.5 +.15 for manually entered. Check Your Tweets with Crowd Booster Tired of complex monitoring software? Quickly identify your most effective messages - drill down to see the impact of each Tweet and Facebook post. Their technology suggests who you should engage with and how to improve the content and timing for your messages. The more you use Crowd booster, the smarter their suggestions get. For more information go to crowdbooster.com Hello A Show They call themselves the Craig's List for bands and venues. I'm a little uneasy that this is built on "Google Sites"... You may want to check it out.
