Gift Card Rewards for Crowd Funding Project Donors

CardsCashRewards.com founder Jeffery Lakes seeks to leverage social sharing synergies of gift cards and crowd funding in announcing all-new rewards initiative for supporters of donation-based campaigns raising funds to launch new businesses and creative projects.

  

Los Angeles, CA (Press Release) - February, 6, 2013 - Today, CardsCashRewards.com announces its gift card incentives initiative to reward crowd funding contributors for sharing the campaigns they support on its official Facebook page.  

Gift Card Rewards

 Raising millions of dollars using crowd funding campaign portals is more commonplace today than three years ago; however, most campaigns miss their mark because of inadequate planning and poor execution. More specifically, most campaigners underestimate the level of engagement required to raise funds successfully as well as lack access to large social networks beyond their circle of family and friends. To help overcome such daunting obstacles, CardsCashRewards.com is offering $10 gift cards (one per person) to contributors of campaigns active on KickStarter, IndieGoGo, RocketHub, and FundRazr. For this initiative, CardsCashRewards.com defines a campaign “contributor” as a person who completes the process of pledging or donating “verifiable” monies to any campaign active between February 1^st to May 15^th, 2013 on one of the four designated platforms; thereafter posting (aka: sharing) their support of the campaign on the official CardsCashRewards.com Facebook page. 

For more information or to request an interview, contact:

Jeffery Lakes 

CardsCashRewards.com, Inc. 

http://facebook.com/cardscashrewards 

(877) 852-7797  

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PayPal’s recent entry in the rapidly forming mobile payments field only offers the slightest price break in comparison to Square; however, both pale in comparison to the rates offered by Total Merchant Services for its newPayment Jack. Whereas Square users pay 2.75% per transaction and PayPal users pay 2.7%, Payment Jack users pay as little as 1.29% per transaction for savings on card processing fees, which is more than 50% less than Square and PayPal. In addition to providing the first Payment Jack free to new accounts, the Total Merchant Services office operated by CardsCashRewards.com provides additional Payment Jack devices for only $10.00 each with an eye for outfitting a merchant’s entire outside sales force. Further distinguishing Payment Jack from Square is the fact the latter’s platform is not supported by a sponsor bank; instead Square (led by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey) functions more as amerchant aggregator.

In summary, Payment Jack is powered by the same RoamData technology supporting Intuit’s GoPayments. As a more traditional card services provider, Total Merchant Services fashions its mobile payments pricing model consistent to its primary “card present” pricing model. In summary, if it is “hip to be Square” then it will also costs more, and if paying more makes you pals, then buyer’s remorse is inevitable because friendship should not be so costly. With Payment Jack, users are free to “roam” about the providing far superior service at lower costs than its better known brand name rivals. 

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How to Save $1,200 Annually in Card Processing Fees

As MasterCard and Visa and many of the nation’s largest banks regain their footing following the settlement of a massive antitrust lawsuit, small businesses continue to pay card processing fees disproportionate to major chains, and excessive by every standard imaginable. Many service providers were forced to regroup following last year’s Durbin Amendment as many emerged with new service wrinkles such as blended rates, month-to-month contracts, merchant sign-on bonuses, just to name a few. For busy small business operators that typically see five merchant account representatives per week seeking to earn their business, the offers often sound too similar to differentiate the prospects for savings as well as for sorting through opportunities to grow the business by adding new services such as accepting Discover and American Express, as well as checks, and issuing gift cards. A brief sampling of independent retailers recently demonstrated that many small business operators still pay between 1.49 to 1.79 percent per transaction to accept credit cards. Even more, most independent retailers remain in long-term contracts with their service providers when in fact; many have relented to month-to-month agreements with their clients as well as to lowering rates to retain existing customers.

  Assuming $20,000 in monthly MasterCard and Visa sales revenues, merchants lowering their rates five basis points (ex: from 1.79% to 1.29% ) and their per item fees $0.10 each (ex:$0.30 to 0.20) will achieve $100.00 per month in card fee savings; which will accrue to $1,200.00 in annual savings.

Merchants typically encounter numerous service providers in person as well as through direct mailers, emails, and online advertising. Since keeping costs as low as possible while also maximizing revenues, it would not hurt the merchant to invest a few hours per month to inspect new offers. In addition to lowering costs, merchants should listen for offers that make breaking its existing contract easy (signing bonuses, etc.) as well as for value-added programs such as gift cards, check conversions, mobile payment readers, and merchant cash advances that help ease the cash flow crunch.

Simple Steps for Retailers to Increase Cash Flow $45K Per Year or More

Experts often said that small businesses are the engine of job creation in the United States; however, many small businesses continue to struggle at creating jobs because of lingering economic instability. For independent retailers, one solution stands above the rest for increasing revenues so that new employees can be hired and adequately trained to help operators grow their business. By issuing gift cards, independent retailers are tapping into the underlying power of social media by leveraging one customer to reach many more. For example, most customers that purchase gift cards do so for someone else; not themselves. Therefore, a gift card sale not only drive the merchant’s average sales ticket higher, but also enables the store owner to access capital he or she otherwise would not see in the absence of issuing gift cards. Gift cards also enable merchants to keep more of the cash earned from sales in the store by becoming the centerpiece to a store’s refund policy. Even more, merchants can also feature their own gift cards in product bundles as add-on’s to promoted items thereby enhancing the perceived value of the featured products. Merchants can also provide their gift cards to other local merchants or chambers of commerce to support sales promotions or membership campaigns. Issuing gift cards also enables raising capital such as powering a crowd funding campaign whether through leading sites such as Kickstarter and IndieGogo or direct to fans via social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

CardsCashRewards.com provides various free gift card program setups for merchants including 50 custom gift cards complete with low cost hosting, marketing, and sales support. Once set up small business operators must require their sales team (cashiers, floor reps, and outside representatives) to “plus sell” gift cards to each customers that buys from the store. Even more, owners should track sales of gift cards made by each team member as the basis for promotions, bonuses and other merit-based compensation. Why? Because selling gift cards will increase the store’s revenues, cash flow, and profits. For example, by selling five gift cards per day averaging $25.00 per card load, merchants net additional annual revenues of $45,000.00. Upon redemption, additional revenues come into play because gift card recipients tend to spend 33% more than the value of their cards. Therefore merchants that sell five gift cards per day can increase sales revenues $60,000 per year more than they currently generate in the absence of issuing gift cards.

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Key Facts About Gift Cards

Gift cards empower customer acquisition and retention-minded retailers

In an up and down economy, retailers (large and small) simply cannot afford to leave money on the table. To do so ultimately requires laying off loyal employees or missing out on opportunities to sustain their business until the economy stabilizes. Whether by lowering credit card processing costs, or accessing cash advances when traditional financing is no longer an option, retail merchants must come to know of the equity they build simply by accepting credit cards in their business. In most cases, tapping into this equity enables retailers to sustain, expand, and reposition their businesses into dynamic profit centers.

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Gift Cards Rebate Better Than Paper Checks

Gift cards are more effective tools for fulfilling instant and mail-in rebate campaigns. Better than gift certificates as well as paper checks, and the benefits to marketers and issuers include increased customer loyalty, creating new revenue streams and fulfillment efficiency. For example, mail-in rebates fulfilled by checks often require 4-10 weeks due to processing.

Gift cards can be issued unactivated until the customer takes the appropriate action required by the issuer or program manager, which ultimately factors into reducing risk of fraud or theft. Marketers can also include images of their products or brands on the card face as well as issue re-loadable gift cards which collectively makes a lasting impression on recipients.

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