CAVSI - Technical Questions & Answers

Where can locate a karaoke machine rental company in Coral Gables?

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Karaoke Rental West Palm Beach

If you are looking for a karaoke machine rental near your area Coral Gables, contact CAVSI at (786)220-1752. Everything you need for the Karaoke event. More than 10.000 songs.

CAVSI offers karaoke equipment rental in South Florida, including these areas: Miami, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, Kendall, Gables Estates, and more areas in South Florida....

What is a charge back?

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Chargebacks occur when a credit cardholder informs the credit card company that the charge was not authorized, or that goods or services were not delivered as promised. The chargeback mechanism exists primarily for consumer protection.

A consumer may initiate a chargeback by contacting their issuing bank and filing a substantiated complaint regarding one or more debit items on their credit card statement....

Why do I need a merchant account?

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A merchant account allows businessmen to accept credit card payments. These days most consumers prefer to shop using their credit/debit cards, if a merchant accepts credit cards payment, the sales could increase from 15% to 100% depending on the type of business.

Advantages of accepting credit card payments:...

How much do merchants pay to accept credit cards?

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The discount rate is one of the processing fees charged to your merchant account. There are various fees associated with having a merchant account. These could vary, depending on the type and company providing the service, but all merchant accounts have 2 main costs:

  • Discount Rates: With most merchant service providers, every processed sale is classified into 1 of 3 qualification levels (Qualified, Mid-Qualified, & Non-Qualified), and is charged a discounted percentage rate associated with that qualification. Each sales level and rate is determined by the type of card used, and/or how it is accepted and processed.
  • Transaction or Authorization Fee: This fee is charged for each electronic authorization request and transaction made, including all approved and declined sales, returns, voids, and batch settlements.

The discount rate is simply, a percentage charged on each transaction. It is usually lower if you are swiping cards, and higher if you are keying them in or taking Internet transactions. For example, if you are set up with a discount rate of 2.5%, and you charge a customer $100, the discount fee would be $2.50....

How do I apply for a merchant account?

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Using a merchant account, a business owner can accept credit cards in any retail environment, including the Internet. To apply for a Merchant Account, all you must do is first submit your info to the Merchant Account Provider you want to work with. To sign up, you will need:...

What is a merchant account?

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A merchant account is a special account that allows your business to accept payments by debit or credit cards and electronic payments through a Web site. You must have a merchant account if you want to be able to accept credit cards from your customers. Setting up a merchant account usually involves the bank understanding your business and working with a third-party processor to arrange a mechanism for accepting payments.

A merchant account is not the same as a bank account. It acts between your payment gateway and your bank account, accepting funds from credit cards which are then deposited into your bank. When a customer makes an online credit card payment to you, the bank debits the amount from your customer’s credit card account and deposits it into your Merchants local business checking account, this process usually takes 48-72 hours....

What is a payment gateway?

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A payment gateway is a link between your business merchant account and the customer’s credit card. A payment gateway is an e-commerce application service provider, it is the equivalent of a physical point-of-sale terminal.

A payment gateway serves as the front end of your merchant account, allowing you to manage funds, transactions, and the like. It also serves as a connection between your website and your merchant account....

What is Twicco?

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Twicco.jp is a group and community feature for Twitter (currently available only in Japan). In Loic Le Meur’s demo video, you can see it lets users create and follow a group instead of an individual account. Twitter Japan, a joint venture with Digital Garage, was already differentiating itself from the US version with ads in the feeds and therefore a monetization option right from the beginning.

In Twicco, groups are called communities. You can create your own “community” by:...

How to Tweet Your RSS Feed?

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If you want to have an RSS feed automatically tweeted to your Twitter account as it is published you can use a service called TwitterFeed to do this. It allows you to customize how often to post on your behalf.

Twitter is a great resource to get extra traffic by posting all the RSS feed inside in just one click if you are a blog owner, or just to get more Twitter followers by twitting the RSS feed from popular blogs. To tweet RSS feed we will need the feed RSS Twitter tool, feed RSS Twitter is a beta version, and, feed RSS Twitter tool tweets from any WordPress RSS, feed RSS twittering tool does not support FeedBurner and other RSS grabbers feed, it tweets only originally syndicated RSS. So you can browse the web for your niche, for example, if you are twittering regularly about SEO, or you are promoting SEO products, you can search in google “SEO blog”, find their RSS URL ( http://someblog.com/feed or click on subscribe to full RSS feeds icon ), check out that RSS has original domain and not FeedBurner and another grabber, RSS URL should start with http://someblog.com, and not http://feedburner.bla.com...

How To Find Twitter Users in Your Niche?

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Finding people that use Twitter who are interested in your niche is actually quite easy. You just have to get a little creative with a Twitter Search Engine. Simply enter some keywords related to your niche, focusing especially on current hot topics or trends. The search engine will bring back all recent tweets containing those terms then all you need to do is look at the tweet and if it looks relevant click through to the user profile to see what other things that user tweets about.

For example, to find people in this niche I searched for things such as thirty-day challenge, blog mastermind, affiliate marketing, and so on....

Can I Organize Twitter Followers?

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You can not organize your Twitter followers from Twitter. There is a utility called CrowdStatus that allows you to categorize your Twitter followers into crowds so you could have a crowd for work colleagues, another for family, and so on. It then displays tweets neatly grouped into their crowds.

Here are some tools to help you investigate your tweeps and make an informed decision about whether to keep following them....

How to Setup Twitter Notifications?

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It’s always nice to know when people are talking about you. On the web and in the blogosphere you can set up a Google alert but that does not cover Twitter.

There is a service called Twilert which acts just like Google alerts but for Twitter. Setup alerts on your name, brand, products, or whatever, and you will be notified by email when these terms are tweeted....

How do you get twitter followers?

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There are lots of ways. First, if you have a web presence such as a website or blog, make sure you advertise your Twitter profile prominently. This can just be a plain text link as I use in my sidebar. For WordPress blogs, you can take this a step further and use a widget to display your latest tweets.

If you don’t have a web presence, try some blog commenting but use your Twitter Profile as your link. Also, insert your link into email or forum signatures if you use those. Another way to pick up a few followers is to just follow other people in your chosen area of interest....

Can I Change My Twitter Username?

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If you need to change your Twitter username, you can do so by visiting your Twitter account Settings page and entering a new username in the Username box. Keep in mind, a Twitter username can only be 15 characters in length and cannot contain spaces.

1. Log in to your new account at Twitter.com/cavsi and change the username to /cavsi1...

How many people are on Twitter?

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One reliable source for the number of Twitter users is Twitdir. TwitDir is a Twitter users (some call them twitterers) directory.

Twitdir reports the number of Twitter users is well over one million. As TwitDir is only capable of detecting Twitter users with a public profile, this number is underestimated as to the total number of Twitter users....

What is a Twitter Retweet?

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Twitter Retweet (abbreviated as RT) is when you read a tweet in someone else’s Twitter stream, if you like what that person says, you can share that tweet with more people.

To do so, simply copy and paste the original tweet and send it out. To give credit to the original person, users usually put “RT” plus the originator’s username at the beginning of the tweet. Here’s an example:...

Who started Twitter?

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Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 (launched publicly in July 2006) by San Francisco start-up company Obvious Corp. Started as a side project in March of 2006, Twitter has grown into a real-time short messaging service that works over multiple networks and devices.

The company has been busy adding features to the product like Gmail import and search. They recently launched a new site section called “Explore” for external and third-party tools that interact with Twitter and a new visualization tool called Twitter Blocks....