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Intuit Launches Prepaid GoPayment Visa Card

GoPayment Prepaid Visa Card for MerchantsMobile phone applications, like Square and Intuit’s GoPayment, let anyone receive credit card payments. Having a garage sale? You can now use your iPhone or Android phone to receive payments, just like a big-time merchant. Selling stuff at a farmer’s market or flea market? Whip out your iPhone with the Square or GoPayment apps and let your customers say “charge it”. One problem is that it can take time to set up your new merchant account to let you receive funds from these transactions. Intuit claims to have made it even easier, with the launch of their GoPayment Prepaid Visa Card. Read More

Prepaid Exaggerations

Dec 20, 2011 — As a larger and larger percentage of the population enters the prepaid debit card market, there are exaggerations and untruths perpetuated nationwide. When using any financial tool, there are methods that can financially benefit cardholders, while others that can be quite detrimental to the pocketbook. Below are a few prepaid card fallacies that we have outlined for you:
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A Senator’s Annual Prepaid Card Tradition Continues

Menendez Prepaid Debit BillAh, the holidays… a time of tradition. Some of us celebrate Christmas, some of us celebrate Kwanzaa. Others celebrate Hanukkah. A few people may actually celebrate Festivus (December 23 is the traditional Festivus date if you don’t already know). Whatever you celebrate, an important part of it is the predictability… the comfort in knowing that traditions will be preserved. So what event recurs on December 17 (at least for the past few years)? Read More

Holiday Gift Giving in the Workplace

Dec 19, 2011 — You have your family gifts purchased, wrapped and are ahead of the game this holiday season. Wait…What? You forgot to get something for your assistant and your boss? How about that special coworker you share much of every day with? Don’t forget about your favorite clients! No problem, you still have some time, but now you are concerned with what the appropriate gift might be or how much you should spend. Here are some guidelines you can go by:
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Prepaid Spotlight: Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend with RushCard

Dec 19, 2011 — Our Prepaid Spotlight twinkles on Russell Simmon’s UniRush LLC family of prepaid cards with unique upscale graphic designs and a striking brand image portraying diamonds. The RushCard prepaid card corral includes the Pink Diamond RushCard, Purple Diamond RushCard, Black Diamond RushCard and a new specialty design by Kimora Lee Simmons called the KLS RushCard. If diamonds aren’t your thing, the RushCard also includes a basic black design, a blue Dynasty design and the Baby Phat card. RushCard Visas come with lots and lots of great features that many prepaid customers enjoy.
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Don’t Run Your Budget Like Congress

Dec 16, 2011 — It appears as if our national legislators get to go home for the holidays after negotiators came to a 2012 agency spending agreement just 27 hours before the deadline. Once again, at the last minute, it seems lawmakers can compromise and avoid another potential government shutdown when under pressure. Needless to say, budgeting a nation,more or less a household should be a process of careful planning and decision making that isn’t necessarily done at a moment’s notice. Prepaid Debit Cards can be useful tools to assist you, not only in purchasing power, but financial management as well.
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First Data Releases 2011 Consumer Gift Card Insights White Paper

Dec 15, 2011 — First Data Corporation, known as a payments processing and global information and analytics industry leader, released their annual report named “Consumer Insights into the U.S. Gift Card Market: 2011. With the report, First Data tracks year-over-year data in a closed-loop vs. open-loop comparison.
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Instead of Tebowing, Take Charge of Your Financial Future

Dec 14, 2011 — The current starting Denver Broncos quarterback and recent Heisman Trophy winner, Tim Tebow is taking the nation by storm with his unrelenting style of “never give up” football. Drawing an inordinate amount of chatter from football fans, religious and not-so-religious pundits, Tebow continues to advance his team onward to the top of their division. Rather than watch his team mate, Matt Prater kick a game winning field goal, Tim partakes in a patented ritual called “Tebowing“. Olympic skier, Lindsey Vonn is now doing it and even Nicki Minaj performs in a music video dedicated to the ever-kneeling Bronco’s QB. As the state of the U.S. economy continues to flounder, many a football fan and financially struggling households across the nation practice their own “Tebowing” ceremonies.
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