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Re: Online Reputation Management

David Mytton — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:44:59 -0000

Brandeye doesn't really compete with the likes of Trackur because it is priced so high and is not an "on-demand" solution. i.e. you can't signup for a month to give it a try and then leave if you don't like it. Whilst this kind of thing suits enterprises who just want to try one solution, smaller businesses and individualls (as Trackur is aimed at primarily) won't want to pay $750p/m

I'd also like to add a link to my own service which launched yesterday which does compete with Trackur - http://www.attenalert.com

Re: Online Reputation Management

David Mytton — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:34:47 -0000

Even with the exchange rate though. I am based in the UK and 750 USD = ~375 GBP per month is still very expensive. I know that as an individual I would not pay that, even with a profile in the internet community. And having owned a small business (4 employees) in the past and now with my current startup, I would not be able to justify that kind of pricing.

Of course not to say that nobody will pay for it, but I think it would be a difficult one to justify from my experience running a small business.

Re: Online Reputation Management

David Mytton — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:27:36 -0000

Yes, it will depend entirely how you define "small business" and what that business is after. I suspect Brandeye is a more personal service because you deal with them directly and are paying for such a service. Something like Attenalert and Trackur is less personal in the sense you don't necessarily have an "account manager" or similar. Brandeye also have a variety of other services which link in with their tool, through their parent company.

Re: danieltenner.com — How to get a merchant account

David Mytton — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:29:28 -0000

@Daniel: You don't mention who you got your merchant account(s) with in the end...?

I have had merchant accounts with Bank of Scotland and Barclaycard Merchant Services. BoS had very low fees when I was with them a few years back but as of 2007 they were not accepting new accounts for subscription services. This may have changed now. I had similar problems with Streamline (no subscription payments) around the same time I eventually went with BoS.

In terms of processor, I highly recommend SecPay. They store the card details and allow you to do calls to their API (SOAP when I used it, but also other options) for recurring billing. This is particularly useful because you can vary the fees each time - the amount just needs to be specified via the API call. They have now merged into www.paypoint.net and offer a startup package which includes a merchant account.

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