Merchant Guide

We have worked hard the last weeks and added many channels for you to connect with us. Now we want to show you all of these channels:

Our newest channel is our sweepstake, Win 1 Year Free Credit Card Processing.

Contact Channels

• Phone

You have general Questions about Social Business Bank, a product or a service?

Call (888) 255 4162

• Email
  

You don´t like calling? Just email your questions at sales@socialbusinessbank.com

• Apply Now -  Page

You want to apply for a Merchant Account for your Business? Great! Just fill out the form on our Apply Now Site. We can get you setup instantly!

• Online-Chat

You have a problem and need help immediately? Go to our website, and start typing your problem into the Chat-Box field. The next free Expert will answer you question immediately.

Information Channels

• Twitter

You love micro-blogging-systems like Twitter? You like to join conversions and chat with people? Follow sbbcorp on Twitter and keep up-to-date.

• Facebook

Need to know more about Social Business Bank? Become a Fan of Social Business Bank on Facebook to not miss the latest and greatest about Social Business Bank

• Newsletter

You like reading emails? You are always on the go and don´t have much time? Keep up-to-date by subscribing our newsletter here on our Merchant Guide. Just add your email address in the form on the right sidebar.

• Merchant Guide – Feed

A new way of content delivering are feeds. Subscribe to our Merchant Guide Feed and add it on Google Reader or any other RSS Feed Reader.

Decide yourself how you want to contact us or inform you about Social Business Bank! And don’t forget to enter the Sweepstakes at http://www.SocialBusinessBank.com/win.
We are looking forward to answer your questions: (888) 255-4162. If you want to know more about Social Business Bank visit http://www.socialbusinessbank.com or follow us on Twitter (corporate account)!

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About Social Business Bank

Social Business Bank is Americas first Social Business Banking and Financial Institution. With Easy Shopping^tm and Easy Services^tm Social Business Bank provides full-service credit card acceptance and merchant account solutions for small businesses, social & non-profit entities and corporate organizations.

Questions?

We are looking forward to answer your questions: (888) 255-4162. If you want to know more about Social Business Bank visit http://www.socialbusinessbank.com or follow us on Twitter (corporate account)!

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Kiva – Loans that change lifes

Kiva is one of the biggest non-profit organizations that helps people around the world to grow their businesses.

Some facts about Kiva

Kiva’s mission is to connect people, through lending, for the sake of alleviating poverty.

Kiva empowers individuals to lend to entrepreneurs across the globe. By combining microfinance with the internet, Kiva is creating a global community of people connected through lending.

Kiva was born of the following beliefs:

• People are by nature generous, and will help others if given the opportunity to do so in a transparent, accountable way.




• The poor are highly motivated and can be very successful when given an opportunity.




• By connecting people we can create relationships beyond financial transactions, and build a global community expressing support and encouragement of one another.

Social Business Bank and Kiva

Social Business Bank is proud to support Kiva. We have helped many poor entrepreneurs to start or grow their businesses. We are a social business, and it´s our mission to help other businesses to succeed. As a social business, our bottom-line profits are re-invested by providing more competitive rates to our current customers and to support non-profit organizations such as Kiva.

You can also become a member of Kiva and help poor business owners around the world.

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Social Business Bank has started  a new campaign called Win 1 Year Free Credit Card Processing. There is no requirement to enter the drawing; to participate visit

www.socialbusinessbank.com/win

“With this campaign every merchant in the United States has the chance to reduce his processing costs immensly”, says Samir Said, CEO of Social Business Bank.He adds

“There´s nothing more to do than filling out the contact form on our website. With this campaign,we want to show the world, that there are other values when applying for a merchant account than just bankable collaterals. This is the first step to show how Social Business can help businesses with meaningful actions. Trust and respect are very important in every business.

Our customers trust us and fell comfortable when they call us because they know there´s someone who helps them and solve their issues. Frankly, is there be a better job making a living by helping hard working people succeed in their businesses ventures? I don´t think so.”

Social Business Bank is Americas first Social Business Banking and Financial Institution. With Easy Shopping^tm and Easy Services^tm Social Business Bank provides full-service credit card acceptance and merchant account solutions for small businesses, social & non-profit entities and corporate organizations.

Introducing dignity back into the banking and financial services along with making social business a mainstream and well understood term are the two goals of Social Business Bank.

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Facebook and its community is growing every day. When we can trust the numbers of Facebook´s statistics, there are more than 400 million active users on Facebook.What a great place for companies to interact with customers and to promote corporate/product branding.

In this arctile we want to show, how easy it is to create a Fan Page for your company and brand. So, let´s get started!

Common Mistakes

Many companies want to use Facebook for branding, that´s great, if you do it right! A very common mistake is to create a group or a private profile for your company.

Facebook has designed Fan Pages exactly for companies, so why not use them? There are many advantages we can extract from Fan Pages, which you’ll find outlined below.

How to create a Facebook Page

If you´re currently logged in to Facebook, log out now. Go to facebook.com, at the bottom on the right you can see “Create a Page for a celebrity, band or business.“. Click on it or use the link given here. Now you can select the category of your page and also the name of your page. If you select “Do not make Page publicly visible at this time.” no one can see your page now, you can design it and publish it, when you think you´re ready.

Info, Picture, Tabs and more

Info

Logo

To show your fans who you are, create an amazing logo, you can also add your phone number and your website to the picture. Not to small, but: your images should not be larger than  600px (height) x 200px (width).

Tabs

Beyond the standard tabs, like Wall and Info, you can create your own Tabs and also create your own content for this Tabs. Use this feature to build a well-designed landing page! Here´s a how-to guide which will help you with this steps: Mashable: Build a Facebook Landing Page

Share your content

So everythings fine, but your Wall looks like the Sahara dessert. If you have running a Business Blog or a Twitter account, connect them your Facebook Page to fill your Wall with great blog posts and tweets. To share your blog content add the app NetworkedBlogs and click on “Register a new Blog” and fill out required fields. To add your Twitter account to your page, use this link and click “Link to Twitter”.

You need Fans

First rule: Ask all your friends! Why not? It´s  your business which you want to promote. Also add a Facebook-Badge to your Blog, so every blog reader can also become your Faceook Fan. Some Forums also have groups called  “Facebook Fan Exchange”. That´s another way to get friend on you Facebook Fan Page.

And if you share high quality content, your Fan group will grow constantly.

Another hint: When you have reached 25 Fans you can create your own Facebook Fan Page URL. Goto http://facebook.com/username and click on “Set a username for your Pages“, but be careful, once created you can never change this name.

Here you can see the Social Business Bank Fan Page, hop on the link and become a fan now.

Good Luck!

For startups and established companies alike viral marketing is a highly recommended way to boost brands and generate the sales. But what exactly is Viral Marketing?

Viral Marketing is a marketing technique where companies and organisations use social networks and other media resources like TV or Radio to broadcast an extraordinary or profound message. With this message, companies call attention to a product or a service they offer or promote brand recognition. It´s called “viral marketing” or “viral advertising” because the marketing campaign is designed to be forwarded from one viewer to the next. Viral campaigns can be spread out via many services, the most common services being Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, E-Mail and word of mouth.

Sounds great? Finding a unique and amazing – often humerous – message which triggers so much attention that viewers republish it takes some thinking “outside the box”. In many viral marketing campaigns the product or brand is harldy mentioned at all. We have collected some great campaigns for you to give you some ideas how to create your own amazing viral marketing campaign.

Guys Backflipping Into Jeans – Levi’s

“This video gets major points in the “wow, that’s mad” department, which is a tactic that seems to consistently go well with viral videos. Plus, Levi’s understood the importance of being understated in this video. Try to be subtle, if that’s hard on you – try to be a bit more british in your viral ad campaign. People really dislike the shill.”

Million Dollar Homepage: Pixels for sale on an “online billboard.”

“This campaign offered advertisers the unique chance to buy a spot on the MillionDollarHomepage at $1 per pixel. You could buy as many pixels as you want, and once all 1,000,000 pixels were sold the site would stay like that forever. Well this 21 year old college student quickly sold every pixel, earning a million dollars to comfortably live the student way of life.”

Blendtec: Will it blend?

“This series of online videos were made to demonstrate how powerful these Blendtec blenders really are. They would take common objects we all can relate to, such as an iPhone, and throw them in the blender to show you, well poor iPhone… Many of their videos have gotten millions of views, taking them from a brand most people didn’t know about to an established leader in their industry.”

Nike: A Touch of Gold

“A Nike rep was dispatched to give Ronaldinho his new Nike soccer cleats, with a camera man covering the whole thing. Ronaldinho proceeds to put the cleats on, and perform some amazing tricks with the soccer ball and his new Nikes. Ronaldinho’s performance is the touch of gold, and the people who were smart enough to decide to use this as a campaign made a really smart move. This has become one of the most viewed sports related viral videos online.”

Sheep LED

“Samsung goes extraordinary lengths to show the power of LEDs in one of the most genuine and breathtaking pieces of choreography you are ever likely to see – sheer brilliance (pun intended).”