{"id":1785,"date":"2007-03-09T06:43:01","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T14:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/sometimes-youve-got-to-spend-money"},"modified":"2017-01-20T12:46:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T20:46:15","slug":"sometimes-youve-got-to-spend-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/sometimes-youve-got-to-spend-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes You&#8217;ve Got to Spend Money\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/debtconsolidationlowdown.com\/2007\/02\/getting_to_blac.html\">100 Tips to Cut Small Business Overhead and Reach Profitability<\/a> is a fantastic quick read filled with quick advice that is easy to implement.<\/p>\n<p>One of their tips for small businesses is to <strong>always take plastic<\/strong>. I wholeheartedly agree and would add that, when you take plastic, steer away from penalizing your clients for credit card processing fees.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: I recently went into a local coffee shop and ordered a couple teas. The barista handed me my drinks and then rang me up, charging an additional fee for using a debit card. I looked around \u2013 no signs about the policy at all. I felt penalized for using my card and am quite likely to not go back to the shop.<\/p>\n<p>We didn\u2019t come easily on the decision to accept <a href=\"https:\/\/paypal.com\/us\/mrb\/pal=ML8LLCV6XJEA4\">PayPal<\/a> and credit cards, largely because there weren\u2019t many current clients asking to pay in this manner. Once we gave it a try, however, we found that the ease of payment choices was a benefit (and a motivator) for many new clients. Are there fees associated with this? Sure, but they\u2019re well worth it and, in truth, there are always costs associated with doing business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>100 Tips to Cut Small Business Overhead and Reach Profitability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0-9\/89696604_1c3fc9a0b2_o.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}