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GS Online Flexes Muscle to Empower Industry

T he Green Sheet Web site, www.greensheet.com, has recently undergone some significant upgrades. As a result of the new functions with faster processing time, the site and its services are enjoying an average of more than 15,000 hits a day1.

Contributing to the success of the family of online services is the revamped ISO Forum. More interactive and streamlined than its predecessor, the forum sports a new look and feel. In this growing community of friends, associates and newbies, there is an unparalleled wealth of information and insight.

The strength of the site is not in reckless self-promotion but in the amount of relevant industry news and data that ISOs can put into action.

With a click, visitors can get the most up-to-date trends in smart cards, equipment, check processing and mergers in the industry. All of the wisdom and objective reporting readers have come to trust, and then some, is right at their fingertips.

One of the most exciting aspects of the Web site is the turbocharged search engine. The new search engine was written with speed and usefulness in mind. The five years of prior issues archived online are a great resource for anyone doing research for this industry.

Such a resource, however, is useful only if inquisitive viewers are able to comb through it and find what they are looking for. The search is built to make easy work of finding relevant results with a superb keyword search. The search has been engineered so that even complex searches take mere seconds.

Another useful new feature of the search engine is viewing a document as a highlighted version. Each search result has a link at the end offering the user to "view the highlighted version." This function takes the user to a modified version of a desired article, where up to six individual keywords are highlighted throughout the text with a different color. This makes it very easy to wade through a document and quickly find the text one is looking for. There are also many advanced sorting options for the results.

The Green Sheet has always been as much a mission as a company, and for all of us who work at The Green Sheet, this is not going to change. What we believe can change, however, is our ability to serve the industry in even more ways, and you have seen many changes from us already this year.

All our efforts have been directed toward helping the average professional salesperson succeed in the ISO marketplace. Because we believe knowledge is power, we have worked hard to bring you breaking announcements, product information and detailed evaluations of the changes in the payments industry, while making you aware of the success stories and opportunities for income. In addition, our goal is always to make some element of each Green Sheet turn into an action item for our readers, and this is why we continue to say that The Green Sheet is about education, inspiration and actionable advice.

As you well know, we have been making a lot of changes to increase our ability to serve the ISO community and enhance our ability to provide even more support, and we would like to know if you think we are succeeding.

While our Web presence was born in 1995, the changes we have been making in the last few months will help The Green Sheet Online be the robust 21st- century tool that we believe the industry expects from us. I hope that you will give our new Web presence a try. Use the forum, search for information or drop me a line.

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