The Best Free Lead Source

In what is likely a Knowledge Graph hiccup, Google is giving New York-based AmeriMerchant a wonderfully free source of advertising. Merchant Cash Advance is a product in a multi-billion dollar a year industry. What is a merchant cash advance, you ask? Why it’s something that only AmeriMerchant invented and offers apparently.

What’s perhaps more ironic is that AmeriMerchant is famous for overturning another company’s patented claim to merchant cash advances. In the mid-2000s, AmeriMerchant led a charge against the alleged merchant cash advance inventor AdvanceMe. In a landmark case that overturned AdvanceMe’s patent and put AmeriMerchant’s CEO on the front page of the New York Times, merchant cash advance became the property of no single company. Today, merchant cash advances are offered directly or indirectly by more than a thousand companies nationwide.

I wonder how much AmeriMerchant is banking off this…

Sean Murray is the President and Chief Editor of deBanked and the founder of the Broker Fair Conference. Connect with me on LinkedIn or follow me on twitter. You can view all future deBanked events here.