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Merchant Cash Network Hosts MCA Info Session
April 20, 2013I recently had the opportunity to sit in on an informational session for small business owners hosted by New York City based ISO, Merchant Cash Network (MCN). On Wednesday April 10th, small businesses packed into a room at 1375 Broadway to learn about alternative financing with a focus on Merchant Cash Advance. MCN’s vast knowledge on the subject was obvious and I definitely believe these grass roots sessions are an excellent way to both educate the public and to bring businesses together to network. Great work guys!
Merchant Cash Group NCAA Contest Winners Announced
April 10, 2013
If you weren’t in this year’s NCAA bracket competition hosted by Merchant Cash Group, you missed out on a lot of fun!! But that’s okay, because well there’s always next year 🙂
From Heather at Merchant Cash Group:
“Merchant Cash Group had the privilege of hosting a NCAA March Madness Bracket Challenge offering a top cash prize of $500.00. We invited people from all over the financial industry to join our friendly competition where even the losers walk away with a cool prize. The Brackets were shaken up severely with the Cinderella story of Florida Gulf College and the early elimination of some of the top schools, uh hum Kansas St, New Mexico and UNLV to name a few. By April 8th we were down to only one person (Billy Crowe) who had Louisville winning it all and with that made a come behind win with a 15 point spread.
Now, while Billy is walking away with the Grand Prize all the other participants will be receiving a basketball bobble head trophy announcing to everyone that they in fact our bracket challenged. I would like to thank everyone who participated in the competition and I look forward to hosting more networking opportunities for our space. Below is the final standings and in the interest of saving ego’s please do not rag the losers to hard after all they are stuck with a bobble head.”
- Billy Crowe – PricewaterhouseCoopers Final Score: 111
- Heather Francis – Merchant Cash Group Final Score: 96
- Badger Morning – Merchant Cash Group Final Score: 80
- Sean Murray – Raharney Capital Final Score: 74
- Kara B – Merchant Cash Group Final Score: 73
- Jason Fullen – NVMS Final Score: 69
- Michael Bernier – SBS Capital Final Score: 59
- J. Mark Anderson – Business Funding USA Final Score: 50
- Scott Williams – Financial Advantage Group Final Score: 48
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My chances at bracket gold were dashed when New Mexico lost in the first round to Harvard. Harvard…
Thank you Heather for the fun and also I want to let everyone know that I will be spending some time at Merchant Cash Group’s booth during the ETA expo (#751) on behalf of MPR and DailyFunder. Merchant Cash Group is a great MCA company and I am honored to participate in their exhibit.
ETA Expo 2013 is Approaching
April 9, 2013
The ETA Expo 2013 in New Orleans is fast approaching. If you haven’t registered yet, you should probably go and do that over at http://www2.electran.org/am13/. This will personally be my first time to New Orleans and I am excited to meet and speak with a lot of you. Merchant Processing Resource and DailyFunder will be running a live blog to cover the happenings both big and small each day. So if you’ve got an iPhone and you haven’t downloaded the app yet, now is a good time to go and do that so that you can follow along.
David Rubin, a co-founder of DailyFunder will also be on site and we plan on having some fun giveaways.
So don’t forget plan your meet-ups, what to do, and who to see before you arrive. Talk about it on DailyFunder.
First Ever Small Business Community Chat: Join in!
March 28, 2013
The Small Business Community on Google Plus recently broke 1,000 members and to make the most of it, we’re kicking off the first ever Small Business Chat. The chat events will be held weekly, and each week it will cover a different topic.
The first chat will be on Tuesday, April 2nd at 8pm to 9pm EST in the Google Plus Small Business Community. Please RSVP HERE.
TOPIC:
Come meet and share with likeminded people about how you became an entrepreneur, what makes you tick, wild stories, personal strategies, and more! Thinking about going off on your own? Not sure if you have what it takes? Circle Up and have fun.
Fantasy Football Championship Begins Tomorrow
December 19, 2012
The MCA Industry Fantasy football league is finally drawing to a close. If you somehow missed the action this season, twelve companies came together to compete for a grand prize donation to a charity of their choice. Each company, in addition to several non-participants pledged funds to the prize. A total of $7,100 was raised!!!
In a winner-take-all format, the two teams competing in the championship this week are:
TakeCharge Capital – Newington, CT
Sure Payment Solutions – New York, NY
A winner will be declared next week. A big thanks to everyone that contributed. 100% of the funds will be donated to the winning team’s charity selection.
- Rapid Capital Funding – $1,000!
- Raharney Capital – $500
- Financial Advantage Group – $500
- Merchant Cash Group – $500
- Sure Payment Solutions – $500
- Meridian Leads – $500
- Merchant Cash and Capital – $500
- NVMS – $500
- United Capital Source – $500
- RapidAdvance – $500
- Capital Stack – $500
- Swift Capital – $250
- Strategic Funding Source – $250
- Entrust Merchant Funding – $250
- Paramount Merchant Funding – $250
- TakeCharge Capital – $100
– Merchant Processing Resource
https://debanked.com
MCA Playoffs Begin
December 11, 2012
Congratulations to Merchant Cash and Capital, RapidAdvance, Sure Payment Solutions, and TakeCharge Capital for being the 4 teams to make the MCA Industry Fantasy Football League Playoffs.
The playoffs are 2 weeks long.
Round 1:
RapidAdvance vs. TakeCharge Capital
Merchant Cash and Capital vs. Sure Payment Solutions
Round 2:
Winners of Round 1
Current prize amount to be donated to charity:
Pledged: $7,100
Collected: $6,025
100% of the amount collected will be donated to the winning team’s charity.
Charity candidates remaining:
- Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation – Via the Silver Project
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
- ALS Association
- Distressed Children & Infants International
A press release announcing the winner and donation is scheduled to go out at the end of this month or early January. If you would like to contribute to the total charity prize and get recognition for it, e-mail sean[at]merchantprocessingresource[dot]com.
Movember Rocked!
December 1, 2012
Movember: Mo’ Merchants, Mo’ Deals
The pre-holiday season is usually big in the Merchant Cash Advance (MCA) industry but this year seemed different. We’ve been saying that we’ve entered a new era for a long time, but it’s finally starting to seem real. It feels like 2007 again in a way, when everybody was getting rich and nobody even knew what the heck they were selling. It took years for account reps to finally stop referring to advances as loans and by then it was too late because the ACH loan industry was born.
E-mails like this don’t happen very much anymore:
You know… the ones where the deal would be blatantly shotgunned to multiple companies at once. The major broker shops would “accidentally” CC everyone instead of BCC to let the funders know who was in charge.
That’s not to say that deals don’t get shopped, Some do, but the circumstances have changed. To minimize the risk of being flooded with bad paper, funders ask resellers to put their money where their mouth is. The syndication game has become THE game in town and it’s led to Super ISO networks like the Factor Exchange. A user on the DailyFunder that seems to be intimately familiar with Factor Exchange is quoted as explaining the model like this:
The “mom and pop” ISOs and “Onesy-Twosey” brokers are backed by one giant ISO network and The Factor Exchange assumes half of the risk by syndicating 50% on nearly ever deal…
The massive volume of FEX submissions to lenders gives the ISOs power to negotiate for better rates and terms, One point of submission reaches 15+ lenders, the merchants credit is only pulled once, and the commission is passed straight through to the ISOs because FEX makes their money from participation.
Companies like this empower the smaller brokerages…
Who Did Mo’ Deals in Movember?
Yellowstone Capital broke their single day funding record… TWICE. This actually happened on back to back days. Executive management reported that they funded approximately $3 million in 48 hours.
Who Got Mo’ Money?
Wall Street wizard and business professor, Steven Mandis acquired a stake in Bethesda-based RapidAdvance. The news is all the more interesting with the fact that RapidAdvance is easily one of the top 5 largest players in MCA. Single individuals don’t exactly just walk through door and buy a stake in companies like this. Mandis is taking on a Strategic Advisor position and it’s our guess Rapid is about to enter another major phase of growth.
Who Got Mo’ Likes?
Merchant Cash and Capital’s (MCC) facebook fan page has gotten thousands of Likes since the third week of Movember when they announced their charity campaign. For every new Like until December 7th, MCC is donating $1 to the American Red Cross to help people that were affected by Hurricane Sandy.
Who Got Mo’ Wins?
RapidAdvance was the first team to clinch the playoffs in the MCA industry fantasy football league for charity. Something tells us that Mandis is behind their incredible winning streak.
Who got Mo’ Leads?
You did if you bought leads from either one of our lead advertising partners, Meridian Leads or SmallBusinessLoanRates.com.
Lendio has also been making a splash on the MCA lead scene with Dave Young being a big contributor on DailyFunder. To discuss pricing, he can be reached at dave.young[at]lendio.com
Who lied Mo’?
According to CNN’s statistics, 247 million people in the U.S. went shopping on Black Friday. That’s equal to the entire American population over the age of 14. Something doesn’t smell right with these numbers. It’s our guess that CNN is using Mitt Romney’s polling experts. 😉
But someone else lied just a little bit Mo’. On Movember 26, 2012, PRWeb published a release that claimed ICOA Inc., a small tech company in Rhode Island was acquired by Google for $400 Million. The release turned out to be a hoax as part of a stock pump and dump scheme. Many critics have been left wondering why PRWeb didn’t do anything to verify its authenticity. Considering PRWeb is such a widely used PR service in the MCA space, we can testify that they’ll pretty much publish anything so long as you pay the fee. Some smaller companies use it as part of their SEO campaigns, which explains why there are so many strange looking releases out there that seem to repeat the same keyword in every sentence.
ABC Funding Co Just announced a program that will help small businesses in need of cash by providing these small businesses in need of cash with a special type of financing that will hep them if they are a small business in need of cash. Not exactly New York Times material…
Will Movember be followed by Make-a-lot-of-Doughcember? We’ll find out!
– Mo’chant Processing Resource
https://debanked.com
More Companies Cheer For Charity
October 5, 2012The alternative business lending industry has raised even more money for charity thanks to four new companies. Through a fantasy football competition that started with the beginning of the NFL season, each of the twelve participants are representing individual non-profit organizations. At the end of the season, all of the money raised will be donated to the winning team’s charity. Though registration to compete ended five weeks ago, outside individuals and companies are free to add to the total. One of the following charities with be the lucky recipient of the prize:
- Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship
- Epilepsy Foundation
- Society of St. Vincent De Paul
- Kiva
- ALS Association
- 100 Urban Entrepreneurs
- Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation on behalf of the The Silver Project
- The Missionaries of Our Lady of Divine Mercy
- Smile Train
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
- American Heart Association
- Distressed Children & Infants International
Special thanks to the new contributions from:
Entrust Merchant Solutions
Based in New York City, Entrust has been helping small businesses get financing for more than five years.
Strategic Funding Source
From the flashy district of Times Square in New York City, Strategic is one of the oldest and most successful firms in the Merchant Cash Advance (MCA) industry. They can teach you how to become your own MCA company:
Capital Stack, LLC
Capital Stack is a Brooklyn, NY based financing provider that specializes in high risk deals structured via ACH. They’re also a co-founder of a new industry forum, DailyFunder.com.
Paramount Merchant Funding
Yet another New York City merchant financing company, Paramount is one of the fastest growing firms in the industry.
They’re also helping a separate cause at the same time. Help Paramount raise money for Noah’s Hope!
Dear Friends and Family,
Paramount Merchant Funding is hosting a bowling night on November 2nd to help raise money for Noah’s Hope.
About Noah’s Hope:
Noah’s Hope was started by Jennifer and Tracy VanHoutan, the parents of Noah and twin girls Laine and Emily. Noah and Laine are both battling LINCL-Batten Disease, a rare genetic illness. They have lost the ability to speak, as well as their balance and mobility. At this time, LINCL-Batten Disease is always fatal, usually between the ages of eight and 12.
Fewer than 450 children in the United States have LINCL-Batten Disease, so it doesn’t receive the attention it should. Paramount Merchant Funding has decided to help this great cause. We are raising money to donate to Noah’s Hope in the hopes of finding a cure for LINCL-Batten Disease. All donations, no matter how big or small, help make a difference in the fight against LINCL-Batten Disease.
CLICK HERE TO SEE HOW YOU CAN HELP!
About Paramount Merchant Funding:
Paramount Merchant Funding is a merchant funding company based in Midtown, New York City. We provide capital to businesses in the United States, as well as Canada. Paramount was founded in 2008 and provides professionals with a whole host of funding options depending on their stage of business.
Choose how you want to help!
1. Click HERE to donate money.
2. Donate something to give away at our raffle.
For more information email erika@empiremerchantadvance.com.
We appreciate any and all donations made for this cause!
Sincerely,
The Paramount Merchant Funding Team
It’s awesome what everyone is doing. You’re making the country a better a place!
– Merchant Processing Resource
https://debanked.com
