iSwipe is a great iPhone app for business owners on the road
So you’re a business owner on the road, the original road warriors. You leave your business in the morning and service your clients on the road all day. Maybe you run a landscaping business, or a delivery service. Or how about the trade show people, you travel from city to city selling your products.
Sounds a lot like you huh? Well here is something I’m sure sounds familiar as well. Getting paid…or not. You do the service drop the invoice and cross your fingers that you will be paid. Or you sell your product at that trade show or flea market and take a check or credit card number.
What if you could do your service and then get paid. Simply process your customers credit card right at the time of service. Credit card companies charge hundreds of dollars for hardware to do this, but if you have an iPhone, iSwipe app and your credit card merchant account you can process credit cards right on your iPhone in real time for no additional cost.
Currently iSwipe supports the following merchant account service providers
- PayPal
- Authorize.net
- CyberSource
- PayFlow
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The Problem with XM Radio on the iPhone
So it’s been a few months with the XM radio app on the iPhone. First off the app is great, the problem is with the company and how they run it. XM/Sirius is a company with no imagination and no marketing savy. It seems like they are run by a bunch of old timers who run their business like they did 20 years ago.
XM/Sirius is a company without a future, with the debt they have there is no way they can survive. The iPhone is killing them when it should have helped them but they did it all wrong.
What they did:
They took forever to release an iPhone app, far to long.
What they Should Have Done:
That app should have been released when the app store first opened.
What They Did:
They gave the app away for free and the only people that could use it are subscribers who already have a radio with a subscription. You could try a 7 day demo, but you have to buy a radio to get a radio ID to use the subscription. On top of that they shut down existing subscribers free online access and started charging an additional $3.00 to use the streaming service for the iPhone app.
What They Should Have Done:
The app should be $5.99, they would have made a ton of money on the sales of the app like the MLB did with their app. They should not have screwed their existing customers by charging them for something they have been giving away for years. And they should not require potential subscribers to buy a radio just to use their iPhone apps. Since the iPhone version does not have all the channels why should users pay extra for something they don’t get.
So there is no way for them to attract new subscribers to the iPhone, big mistake on XM’s part and the reason they are in the position they are in.
Some companies just don”t get it.
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Tweeting with Tweetdeck
I have about 6 or 7 Twitter clients on my iPhone and have been using all of them on and off and never really staying with one all the time. I’m happy to say that I’m down to two. Two because Tweet Deck does not work in wide keyboard mode. Yet, I hope.
Tweet Decks non use of the wide keyboard is about the only downside to the app. But it excels in so many other areas that you tent to over look it’s one short coming. What I love most about Tweet Deck is it’s ability to have all the functionality of the desktop app. You have the ability to create different columns for almost anything you want including mentions and any specific topic you want to follow.
I find Tweet Deck to be the best Twitter app for the iPhone but would love to hear what Twitter apps you might be using.
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