ECHO-ing Nonprofit Sentiments

Your recent article on credit card acceptance for non-profit organizations was very informative and, we hope, useful to your readers looking for a growing market for payment services.

We at ECHO believe that non-profit organizations can truly benefit from adopting credit card acceptance, both on a recurring basis and for one-time payments. We've witnessed for ourselves great interest among community groups, religious organizations, fraternal organizations and many others who have opened accounts with ECHO.

We would like to note one correction, however, that your readers will want to be aware of. Our Web site URL was incorrectly listed without a hyphen. The correct address is www.echo-inc.com. Our "Non-Profits" page gives agents a good overview of our non-profit program, which Mr. Kimels so capably outlined.

Greg Imlay

Marketing Director

ECHO

New Association

Would you have a contact for the new Midwest Acquirers Association?

Mark

Mark,

The contact is Jim McCormick, c/o General Credit Forms, Inc., 3595 Rider Trail South, Earth City, MO, 63045. Phone: 314-216-8600; e-mail: jimmccormick@gcfinc.com. The new association's Web site is under construction. For more information about the Midwest Acquirers and other associations, please see our new feature, "Trade Association News," which appears monthly.

Editor

Reprint Procedure

Paul,

I found "A Primer on Card Acquiring" in your April 28, 2003 issue (03:04:02) to be very informative and would like to incorporate it into our training. What are your policies on reprinting for training and educational purposes? Thanks again for your excellent articles on our industry.

Peter Scharnell

Vice President, Marketing

Electronic Exchange Systems

Peter,

Thank you for the positive feedback. It's always good to know that what we have produced is useful.

We are happy to have our information quoted in other publications as long as we are credited correctly: "As published in The Green Sheet, issue _________. Copyright 2003 All rights reserved."

We sell reprints of our articles in print and PDF format. Pricing for reprints is included on our Web site Media Kit. Please contact Kate Gillespie (kate@greensheet.com) for additional information or to order reprints. Also, visit www.greensheet.com/media/media_rate.htm

Editor