As for getting non- geo-promiscuous customers to keep coming back, I guess businesses will have to keep up the ole put-your-business-card-in-the-fish-bowl-to-win-free-stuff trick.
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PAN, which was demonstrated at the Comdex trade show in 1996, showed how two people could transmit business-card details to each other electronically, via a handshake.
His exemplary badges are typically 3 inches high and 4 inches wide, and enclosed in a plastic sleeve that can double as a business-card or room-key holder.
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This grants business-card holders virtually the same rights as consumer card holders, making them, in my opinion, the safest option for businesses that carry balances from month to month.
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She also singles out the "ultimate working woman's set": a passport cover, personalized notebook or agenda, lovely pen, chic business-card holder and small makeup bag with some of her favorite things.
Banks like the credit-card business because the juicy interest rates on card balances, combined with their own cheap deposits, produce fat profits.
Returns on the Dean Witter end of the business are poor, and Mr Purcell said recently that the credit-card business would be spun off.
The heftier equity base has also helped it acquire Chase Manhattan's credit-card business in Singapore.
By late last year it was clear that Bank One's credit-card business had deteriorated.
Citi does not have a big debit-card business of its own, giving it more room to maneuver.
The credit-card business has been an important revenue generator for Sears, representing about three-fifths of the group's operating income.
The bank is exploring a sell-off of its branches and credit-card business in America, to refocus on corporate banking there.
The truth is that the bank's bosses worry that the untried debit card might cannibalise some of its highly profitable credit-card business.
He said that he foresees continued strong results as the bank builds more branches it currently has 50 and develops its newly opened credit-card business.
Visa, which declined to comment, is no longer in the debt-collection credit-card business, according to lawyers for debtors who have gotten card offers.
And this at a time when the credit-card business was already becoming more competitive, with new entrants offering rates as low as 5%.
Anything he touched will count--a business card, a rosary, a faucet.
The credit-card business also offers access to a wider customer base.
By placing its credit-card business and systems firm under the holding company, Mizuho would get handy income to help fill holes made by its banking operations.
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Outsourcing services, whether a bank outsources its credit-card business or a hotel its reservations, is harder to manage than outsourcing the manufacture of chips or tyres.
Few industries remain as stubbornly inefficient as the gift-card business.
Barclays, for instance, has good figures on fraud in its credit-card business, but until recently it kept no records on how many times its dealers have breached trading controls.
Yamauchi, who ran Nintendo for 55 years before stepping down last year because of ill health, never shut down the playing-card business, even as he dragged the company into consumer electronics.
As the credit boom reached its peak, the firm's credit-card business was growing by a dizzying 20% or more a year, with younger consumers with scant track records among the targets.
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Caixabank has begun searching for a partner who would buy part of its Spanish credit- and debit- card business, the latest indication of a selling spree by Spanish banks to raise capital.
Virtual gift cards sent online or from a smartphone are breathing new life into the gift-card business, which is expected to soar this holiday season, according to the National Retail Federation.
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Purcell pushed Mack out in 2001 and retained control of the firm until the spring, when he faced unrelenting pressure from shareholders to divest the firm of the underperforming brokerage business and the credit-card unit and focus the firm back on its core strength: institutional securities.
Down the line, APB Online is considering business-to-business ventures, such as a call-center service that alerts corporate clients about the latest credit card scams.
Instead, he gave me his business card and hand-wrote a phone number on it.
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