This article is part of our series on how to run a creator business. In our intro article, we defined creators as those who create content and distribute the content online. Most of this content is protected by copyright. That’s why we think all creators need to have a basic… Read More »Copyright Basics, for Creators
Creators. That’s the hot new term in marketing circles. Advertising through a creator is highly effective because each creator has a curated audience interested in one specific thing or another. But creators aren’t just people with a lot of followers on social media. Creators make copyrighted works. And they make… Read More »How to Run a Creator Busines: IP Basics
Crypto may or may not survive as a currency. But if you’ve read our article on what cryptocurrency is and how it works, then you know that you, as a business owner, can play an important part in crypto’s survival. For crypto to survive, a large number of businesses have… Read More »How to Accept Crypto Payments, for Small Businesses
Cryptocurrency has been a hot topic for quite a few years. Yet, a lot of people still don’t understand it. That’s probably why we got the infamous “Fortune favors the brave” Matt Damon ad—the ad that says you don’t have to understand crypto to invest in it, you just have… Read More »What is Crypto and the Blockchain?
Buy now pay later companies have been around for a while. They’ve been quietly building a following. Some have even gotten the attention of and been bought by a couple of the bigger players in the payments industry. But BNPL truly made news when Walmart decided to end their layaway… Read More »Should Small Businesses Offer Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL)?
Credit cards, as we know them today, started in the late 1950’s. In the early 1970’s, the credit card companies computerized much of the workflow. Since then, the process of using a credit card to make purchases has remained more-or-less the same. But their world is changing. A group of… Read More »The Future of Payment Processing: BNPL and Cryptocurrency
Not every small business needs to do wire transfers, but those who do, tend to make transfers often. Most people know that you can make a wire transfer from a bank. They also know that banks often charge a fee for wire transfers. So, it makes sense to look for… Read More »Wire Transfer Services for Small Businesses
Bankers don’t like to gamble. They tend to shy away from doing business with anything labeled high risk. This is true for credit card and debit card processing. Once your business is labeled high risk, you’ll have trouble finding a bank or payment processor that will do business with you.… Read More »Five Great High Risk Processors for Small Businesses
If you’re a small business that takes in more than $10k/month of credit card or debit card payments, then signing up with a merchant account provider might save you some money in card processing costs. (If you take under $10k/month, we recommend you look at a third-party processor first.) In… Read More »Five Great Merchant Account Providers for Small Businesses
If you’re a small business just starting out, your first encounter with taking credit and debit card payments is probably with a third party payment processor. (They’re also known as payment aggregators.) It’s usually easy to sign up with them, and you can take payments basically right away. After you… Read More »Third Party Payment Processors and Their Typical Charges
