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• Join other Portland area business owners & professionals over lunch in a casual atmosphere conducive to building relationships. PBN's Lunch & Learn ...

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• On the 3rd Wed. of every month we host an Open House at Pamiris.  We partner with other local business to enjoy food, drinks and networking, while le ...

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• Join other Portland area business owners & professionals over lunch in a casual atmosphere conducive to building relationships. PBN's Lunch & Learn w ...

One of the greatest lessons we as business professionals can learn or at least reaffirm during tough economic times is frugality.  When the economy is in a downward trend, it is imperative to analyze your budget line by line and make sure every dollar earned is spent wisely.   This can often involve looking into areas of your budget that in years past, may not have received enough scrutiny.

For example, if you are a company that solely uses a credit card swiping machine to process all credit transactions whether the person is standing in front of you or over the phone, then you aren't taking advantage of what a virtual terminal can do for your bottom line.  By taking advantage of the latest breakthroughs in payment processing technologies, you will simply save your company money as well as streamline your office's day to day operations.

If you take payments over the phone, fax, or internet and then have an employee(s) walk over to a card swipe terminal to process the transaction, not only are you getting charged the highest fees and downgrades in the industry, you are also wasting a good percentage of your employee(s) work day.  A virtual terminal eliminates all of that for your business.  Imagine, your employees being able to process payment transactions from their desk/computer...imagine all your employees being able to log in from their desk/computer to the same virtual terminal and process transactions without having to get up and wait in line....imagine as an Owner or CFO being able to login in from anywhere and watch your money process in real time....imagine custom reporting features that eliminate the need for multiple locations to have to fax or email in their daily reports....imagine having mobile payment processing options from a laptop, blackberry, or Iphone that are sent directly to the same virtual terminal....imagine being able to do all of the above without having to purchase any hardware or software...

If any part if this interests you, please give me a call or send me an email.  I am lucky enough to be in the position to offer all these cost saving features to you for zero upfront costs.  Let me help you, help your business.

Darin