Merchant Cash Advance Blog

The Quikstone Capital Solutions Underwriting Team

from left to right Bob Wolfman, Bill Krautler, Flora Galvez and Chris Panariello.

As of October 1, 2015, merchants that are not using terminals that process EMV (Europay, Mastercard, Visa) chip card transactions may become liable for chargebacks associated with payments made with counterfeit cards or cards lost or stolen from their rightful owners.

Launching a major holiday promotion can really catapult your sales over the holidays. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, more people shop in stores and online than any other time of the year, so it only makes sense to give your best effort to capture your share of those customers.

Many retailers readily admit that holiday sales are what make them profitable. Allowing this busy time to pass without doing a special sale or promotion just doesn't make a whole lot of sense if you want to maximize your profit for the year and finish strong. Successful holiday promotions can take several forms:

When your business is going well and making lots of money, it's natural to think of expanding to a second location. After carefully considering how a second location would affect the overall business, researching the market for the best location and analyzing your competition it's time to move forward with this exciting new expansion.

You may love your business and enjoy what you do, but do your employees love their jobs as much as you do? If the fun factor is missing from your workplace, here are some reasons to take steps to put more fun in your employees' lives.