BitPay: Bitcoins Payment Processor For Merchants Worldwide

BitPay.com is an electronic payment processing system for the bitcoin currency. If you are a business owner, you can now use BitPay to accept bitcoins, as a form of payment either in-person or on your website, just as you accept payments from Visa, Mastercard, or Paypal. With BitPay you can eliminate the risk of Fraud, Chargebacks, and Identity Theft from internet payments.


With Bitpay, you can expand your business globally and reach new customers by collecting payment from any country on Earth, with no risk of fraud. Accepting the digital Bitcoin currency as a payment method allows merchants to reach customers in over 60 countries not supported by PayPal.  It also allows merchants to reach various countries that are restricted by Visa and MasterCard for high fraud or lack of infrastructure.

For consumers, there is mobile integration to pay on the go with BitPay. A consumer transacting in bitcoins needs only a mobile phone application or an Internet connection. BitPay makes any smartphone as a point-of-sale terminal. Merchants can accept mobile payments over wi-fi and 3G/4G without the need for NFC terminals.

BitPay accepts Bitcoin and then puts “real” money into the bank accounts of businesses. Basically, there’s no worry on the end of merchants, because they end up getting paid the way that they’re used to. The difference is that a small business in Lagos can now accept a payment from Tokyo for goods and services, which was nearly impossible before.

If you decide to accept payments using BitPay, your payments are sent to the bitcoin address of your choice. Merchants in some countries can choose to receive a direct deposit into their bank account.

BitPay offers simple plugins and extensions for popular shopping carts and billing systems though you must have a merchant account with BitPay to process orders with these tools. Bitcoin payment plugins for popular eCommerce platforms are available for download on the Bitpay website. Bitpay processing rate is as low as 0.99%. No setup fees / No monthly fees.

I see this as a good alternative to Paypal for Nigerian merchants. If Wordpress, Namecheap and thousands of merchants have adopted BitPay, what are you waiting for?

In my future posts, I will keep you updated with list of Nigerian Bitcon Exchangers should in case you are looking for where to fund or buy bitcoins online in Nigeria.

How To Track BlackBerry 10 Phone When Stolen or Lost

Day-by-day the pricing of smartphones are rising. With every new device, the top notch companies such as Samsung, Apple and HTC are trying to grab more funds and add density to their treasury. So has done Research In Motion, now rebranded as BlackBerry.

With the launch of latest BlackBerry 10 operating system the struggling company also has hit the market with expensive BlackBerry Z10 smartphone. By now some of you may have already bought the device, departing with bulk money.

Well, if the device is lost, then what?

We have an answer. We will guide you how to track lost BlackBerry 10 handsets. Yes, just follow the below guidelines.

After buying the brand-new BlackBerry 10 handset don't forget to enable the BlackBerry Protect option through the initial setup process. It is a free service and is offered by BlackBerry itself. It will help you in locating your stolen or lost BB10 device.

For enabling you first need to go into Settings and then tap on the BlackBerry Protect option.

The next page after tapping will require sliding the virtual switch to right. It comes as 'Off' by default. Sliding right will enable the service. Oh yes, you need to have BlackBerry ID for this and need to sign in on the device.

It is done. Yes, easily too.

Now, if the device is misplaced, stolen or lost, just visit protect.blackberry.com website and you can easily locate your device.

On the website you will get the current GPS location of the handset. More to this, you can also play a sound on your lost device, and believe me it is very annoying sound. You can also display a custom message, wipe the device remotely and also lock the handset with a password.

The enabling of BlackBerry Protect service may take about a minute, but it is for sure one of the best and first thing to do after buying BB10 handset. It will save your money when the device goes missing. It will also keep you headache-free.

Do share your own views about this protection service of BlackBerry in below comments with fellow readers.

Affiliate Marketing Program On The Internet: How Does It Works?

If you have been googling, "How can I make money online from my website", there is no way you won't have stumbled on the the idea of been an Internet Affiliate Marketer.

There are a huge number of affiliates earning full-time incomes on the internet from affiliate marketing, and a lot of affiliates doing considerably more than that! You too, can.


So, What is Affiliate Marketing?

In a nutshell, it is a practice where you (as an affiliate) get paid for referring sales or customers to an online merchant web site.

You post links, ad banners linking to the merchant site on your website and earn commission for your marketing efforts.

There are at least three actors in an affiliate program transaction:

A: Merchant site = Seller or service provider e.g Jumia Nigeria
B: Affiliate = You
C: Customer = could be your friend, relative, or an unknown person (e.g blog reader)

 
Why would actor "A" (Merchant Site)  Pay me?   

"A", the merchant has products to sell and is looking for a cheaper way to market the products instead of using traditional advertising. The merchant decides to partner with you, so you can introduce their products to people that trust you.

Since "C" (customer) is not familiar with "A",  "C" is often skeptical of buying any product from an unknown company. "A" is aware of this fact and also knows that "C" trusts you. After all,  if your friends receive an email from you, won`t they open it?.

So "A" partners with you, to use your goodwill to introduce their products to "C".  No doubt,  "C" would show interest in your offers because of your familiarity.

Now, "A" is prepared to pay you commission per transaction with you for referring  "C" to their products. "A" generates unique links, ad banners etc for you which you can be using to promote their products.

You decided to give it a try. You register with the merchant affiliate program, grab your unique affiliate links and post them on your blog, Facebook, Twitter etc

When "C" visits the merchant site via your unique affiliate link and purchase the product of "A", "A" pays you your commission which can pile up to a particular amount before "A" sends your payment to you to your PayPal account or in form of check.

That's all.

Over the past few years, affiliate programs have grown enormously in popularity, taking many interesting forms. In my next post, I will share with you, the basic types of affiliate programs.

More so, I will share with you, affiliate programs that I am making money from, how to join affiliate networks, as well as how to acquire affiliates for your internet businesses.

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