With an iPowerPay merchant account, not only will the checkout process be quick, accurate, and reliable, you know you will be getting every penny you are owed without any hassle and within the best timeframe you should ever expect. Using a “third-party processor” to complete credit card transactions with your online business may seem like a convenient and easy way to take care of things, but what is it costing you? Take a good look at the fine print and see how much you are being charged for:

1. your processing fee
2. your reserve fee
3. your startup costs
4. each transaction

Is it working out to your advantage in the end? Or are you spending way too much money to make this happen? Did you even know that your “third-party processor” was charging a reserve fee? These are all thing to consider when you are in the market for a good reliable merchant account. iPowerPay gives you free authorize net setup, free setup, free Virtual Terminal, monies are deposited directly into your bank account usually within 3 business days from the date of the online sale, 100% Online Control Panel for full control, the ability to refund customers yourself, even take phone orders if you choose. You can also accept Visa, American Express, Discover, and Mastercard.

iPowerPay is a merchant account with a small town feel and a big heart. They realize how important your business is to you and want to make it easy and affordable in every way to help your business be successful. Before writing this review I interviewed a friend who uses iPowerPay with his online business just to see if they were everything they claim to be. These are his words after I asked him if he’s ever had any problems using iPowerPay.

“We’ve been using [iPowerPay] for almost four years. There was only one time where I had to call customer service because of something I didn’t understand. The guy I talked to was super nice and easy to be on the phone with. He walked me through my problem and we took care of it right then. I was on the phone for probably ten minutes, and then the problem was solved.”

When I asked if the customer service guy spoke English, my friend laughed and said, “Yes, it sounded like he was in Brooklyn.” Not that that reflects iPowerPay’s performance or credibility in any way, but it is nice to know that you will be able to communicate effectively with customer service if ever the need to call arises. But not only is their customer service effective and easy, the real thing that gives iPowerPay its credibility is its understanding of internet marketing. They know that your company’s sale volume may increase exponentially overnight and they realize that you may be processing extremely large amounts of money in a short period of time. They will not hold this against you in any way! Other merchant accounts have been known to cancel an account and withdraw a large sum of your profits and place it on hold for up to six months if your processing volume gets too high in a short period of time! iPowerPay will always work with you no matter what numbers you are processing. They want to help you make your business successful.

If using iPowerPay as your merchant account sounds like something you are interested in, you can find more information by reading this iPowerPay Review

The portals do have a high potential to serve as the most effective agents of softening the “Digital Divide“ in current times.

Teknolojim, a vertical portal which is focused on technology, providing content in hardware, software, web-design and daily technology news in Turkish, since May 2000. Although starting with the disadvantages of the lack of a professional team and proper funding, Teknolojim was successful enough to position itself as a dependable reference base and receiving wide respect in its sector. Above all, Teknolojim is a project which gives everyone the opportunity to examine the Turkish Internet industry at first hand. One of the basic goals of Teknolojim is to determine the right strategies and the appropriate business models to be utilized for Turkish Internet sector. Before proceeding any further to present what have been accomplished and what is being planned to do, it will be appropriate to look at the vision of the portal:

“To create, develop the best and the most detailed reference base of the high-tech and computing industries by providing unique content.”

Creating the best and the most detailed reference base in its category is a very tough task when one considers that Teknolojim hasn’t been financially supported by any companies from the start-up. But with untiring efforts and highly motivated staff contribution, it has been possible to position Teknolojim as one of the most respected hardware sites of our country in the beginning. Presently, Teknolojim is working with ten of the biggest computer hardware distributors in Turkey. Up till now, the portal has published 62 different articles, totaling up to 700 pages of content. Our industry news are prepared daily with an average of twenty titles every day. It is our proud achievement that all the distributors cooperating with the portal, start to regard Teknolojim as a comprehensive web-media, capable of informing both professionals and potential buyers in a relatively short time.

Being the first to review/preview several different products and services of the computing industry, Teknolojim is recognized as “fast, detailed, always up-to-date”. These are the most crucial properties that are to be found in a vertical portal and Teknolojim is recognized to have those realized, although, there is still room for improvement and future advancements. The difficult task here seems to be sustaining the achieved initial success and improving the capabilities in a competitive fashion.

Several modifications are made depending on the first ten-month experience. We had to focus-out our content with an intention to serve to a bigger market but we were aware that we should not alienate our existing customers, meanwhile. Based on this perspective, some of the best editors in the field were contacted to provide the best content on web-design (html, dhtml, css, Javascript…), daily sectoral news (computer, IT, e-commerce, e-advertising) and Macromedia Flash. With only five editors providing able contribution, Teknolojim has managed to gain wide acceptance as well as winning industry contests.

A business plan, which is built on two different business models, as well as utilizing several locally customized strategies, is prepared. As the first business model is built on the assumption of raising all revenue from advertising, the second model, plans to build one of the first B2C digital marketplaces of Turkey.