Protecting Your Merchant Accounts

Maria Sparagis, DirectPayNet

– The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 928 Maria Sparagis

As President of DirectPayNet, Maria Sparagis makes it her mission to help merchants find the best payment solutions for their online business, especially if their business model involves online subscriptions or continuity products and services. She helps setup localized payments modes and has tons of other tricks to increase conversions and in turn your revenue!

Prior to starting DirectPayNet over 10 years ago, Maria was a founding Director at MANSEF Inc. (now known as MindGeek), where she led a team dedicated to managing merchant accounts for hundreds of product lines as well as customer service and secondary revenue sources. She is an avid traveler, conference speaker and loves to attend any event that allows her to learn about technology. She is fascinated by anything related to fintech and can offer you a wealth of information on new trends and technology regarding payments around the globe.

Listen to this informative Sharkpreneur episode with Maria Sparagis about protecting your merchant accounts.

Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:

- How there are two different types of risk: reputational risk and charge back risk.

- Why having a lot of charge backs can lead to issues with your payment processor.

- How being a high-risk merchant means you can have large repercussion in your business and little recourse.

- Why relying on aggregators like Stripe and PayPal is a huge risk you shouldn’t take.

- How you lose all your traffic and subscriptions if your aggregator shuts down your account.

Connect with Maria:

Guest Contact Info

Twitter

@directpaynet

Facebook

facebook.com/directpaynet

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/company/directpaynet

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiPxIjN4s6iZskqf7BvP43Q

Links Mentioned:

directpaynet.com

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