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Jodi Goddard
In Partnerships, SOCi Partners, Uncategorized

Platinum + CR-T

We are excited to announce that Platinum Payments and CR-T have recently combined our business services with a partnership to benefit both entities’ customers. We are so happy to be able to have them as an ally to assist with security.

About CR-T

CR-T has been providing professional IT support for businesses in Utah since 1991. Their team of experts can become your IT support department and will guide you through the complexity of technology to help better your security.

CR-T Provides

CR-T

Managed IT Services – They strategically, optimize and protect your infrastructure while performing day-to-day maintenance that keeps users from experiencing downtime.

Hardware & Software – Covering everything from your servers and network infrastructure (both on-prem as well as in the cloud), to your computers, workstations and mobile devices.

Advanced Security Software – By using their Security Operations Center (SOC), you can get back to business, with the peace of mind that you are protected. Utilizing SOC decreases the risk of threats to your sensitive information.

Budget-Friendly – Monthly fixed-rate options catered to your specific infrastructure.

Monitoring – With constant 24/7 overwatch, they will be aware of any signs of trouble. If problems arise, they will identify the problem, determine what’s needed, and resolve it.

IT Support – Their TrueHelp desk is there for you 24/7 with their dedicated phone line or online through TrueHelp Ticketing System.

CR-T is one of the few locations in the United States that have high tier technicians who are well equipped and certified to handle and projects. They are able to use their experience in the industry to cater to their clients’ needs VS a cookie-cutter model.

Platinum Payments

You can benefit from:

Electronic payments – Credit, debit, check, ACH, and gift card processing.

Customized solutions – Our payment professionals will work with each merchant finding the ‘right’ solution for their organization and analyze their processing statements for a customized proposal created specifically for them.

Invoicing and billing – Direct invoice customers giving them access to a ‘pay now’ page.

Reoccurring payments – Setup regular interval payments using any time period.

Batch processing – Sending many transactions all at one time.

Integrate with major shopping carts – Authorized.net, BigCommerce, Magento, 3dCart, Lightspeed, WooCommerce, cubecart, PinnacleCart, UltraCart, Shopify.

Interchange Optimization – For business-to-business entities, we will ensure merchant accounts will be paying the lowest interchange available for all Business Purchasing and Commerce cards taking advantage of level 2 and 3 interchange categories.

Solutions for all environments – Retail, restaurant, health care, government, e-commerce, mobile, kiosk, charity.

Fast-Track Funding – Same day payment funding.

Software Integration – Using Commerce SDK, fully integrate our payment processing into the merchant’s application. Takes as little as 2 weeks to complete and makes EMV, PCI, and pinned debit easy as they are all integrated with Commerce SDK.

Global payment acceptance – Accept cards from anywhere around the globe.

Jodi Goddard
In Humanitarian, Partnerships

Open Doors Highlight

Why Open Doors?

I chose Open Doors because of my own struggles with being a single-teen parent. I had the support system of my family to help ensure that I did not become another statistic. Reading about Open Door and Circles program it really resonated with me on how important the services they are offering are helping other members of the community overcome the hurdles they face.

Philanthropy Friday

Open Doors was our very first Philanthropy Friday. I was so excited to be able to accomplish what I set out to do when I started Platinum Cares. As a company, we collected some of their most needed items for the food bank. Pantries are always short on dry goods, next time you donate to a food drive, try to keep that in mind.

We all know there are kids going hungry each night but it really hits home when you see a kid get so excited over a simple box of macaroni and cheese or when getting a boxed cake mix is a big deal. Something that we often take for granted, was a highlight of someone else’s day. As a society, we need to do better. Circles is one way that I hope to be able to help make a difference, among our other partners and volunteers.

Circles

My favorite part of Open Doors is Circles. Circles is a 12-week class to help low-income individuals break intergenerational poverty. It is peer-based mentoring where graduates are paired with other peer mentors for job training in business and trades.

I was invited to attend one of the Circles’ weekly meetings. I was literally moved to tears at the end. I have never seen that type of community or support among others in a long time. Each person there had a huge impact on me in various ways. Everyone is on a different step in their journey, but to watch them hold each other up, support them to help them reach their next step, offer other ideas, viewpoints and tips was an amazing experience.

I love how members of the community have a place to go to get not just resources, but the help to work through various barriers and come out on the other side with a whole new outlook on life in addition to their new skills and friendships that were built.

Open Doors services provided to people go well beyond aid to meet basic needs. It is education, support, a safe place for those who are struggling, a sense of community, being linked to others who have had the same experiences goes further than a caseworker, or a paper handout. It builds long-lasting results, not just for those attending the classes, but also for those who help support Open Doors in any way.

Guest Blogger
In Partnerships

Simple Way to Create a New Revenue Stream

With many companies struggling to increase revenue, here are some ideas that could add some much-needed revenue using the resources you currently have. From early university marketing classes, we find out there are 3 main ways of increasing revenue:

  • Add new customers

  • Get your customers to come back more often

  • Increase each sale

Today we are going to focus on getting your customers to come back more often. Repeat business is critical because you have already found the customer so let benefit from them returning over and over again. This becomes easier as you add new products or services to your product line. They become new revenue streams using your existing customer base.

This is the easiest to capitalize on since you already have the customer relationship. It becomes as easy as contacting your customers and letting them know of a new product or service you are offering.

The hardest part is defining what you will be offering. Many considerations need to be thought out. Which product or service will enhance your current offering? Is there a potential of decreasing relevance on your main product? Can you support it internally? Will you have to add additional costs in order to bring on the new revenue stream?

Luckily, I have a product that any business-to-business (B2B) company can implement quickly and deliver a long-term sustainable revenue stream without increasing internal support cost structure. It is called SOCI.

SOCI is the enhanced partnership program from Platinum Payments that provides a new revenue stream to B2B organizations utilizing their current customers. You provide your customers, we provide the sales team and all needed support, and you receive a new revenue stream based on receiving a share of the gross margin Platinum makes on any account signed.

There are many benefits for your organization when rolling out SOCI:

  • A dedicated partner team – We have our internal partner team focused on making the partnership a success. Admin, marketing, and sales are work together to offer your customers a positive environment to start a relationship with.
  • Real-time customer status access – You will have 24/7/365 access to information about your customers and their status with us. You will be able to see the NEW REVENUE being produced monthly.
  • New revenue stream – As discussed earlier, SOCI adds a new revenue stream to your company using your customer relationships.
  • Customer retention – SOCI gives your customers access to Platinum’s vast array of products and services which will assist them in increasing revenue and decreasing cost. It will allow you to help your customers without having to decrease your product’s cost plus they will be tied to you more tightly by having a strong relationship with us.
  • Protection from competitors – Your competitors will not have these valuable products and services to offer to your customers plus you will have strengthened your relationship with them so they will not want to leave.

To find out more, visit our website: www.3fd82ae651.nxcli.net. Or connect with me on my LinkedIn Profile if you have any questions.

Jodi Goddard
In Get Started With Wix Blog, Partnerships, SOCi Partners

Strategic Partnership | 4 things you should look for

Strategic Partnership

So why partnerships may be the key to true organic and stable growth for your business?

As the NFIB Blog states: “Strategic business partnerships allow small businesses the opportunity to grow their customer base and improve their business”, and I’d like to add that it also helps big businesses reach customers they wouldn’t be able to reach otherwise through small businesses.

So let’s talk about the things to look for.

1. Great Reputation

Great reputation with customers and other businesses are vital to enhancing YOUR reputation when partnering up with a company for the first time. Always check on reviews and what the majority of customers may be saying about the company. Check to see their website and brand. Is the brand parallel to what YOU want to be doing in your business?

2. Right Co-Marketing

Co-marketing is very important. If it’s done right it may help increase the brand awareness and enhance the service you are providing to your customers. Remember, marketing has to be done with the PLATINUM rule: [Market to] others the way they want to be [marketed to].

Correct co-marketing consists of a couple of things: 1. Value – Give as much value as you can in the least amount of time, kind of like a multi-vitamin pill…but this will actually work. 2. A clear offering – Make sure your offering is connected to the “multi-vitamin” you put up before that so that the person makes sense out of the content and it leads to action. 3. CTA – Call-to-action is something people miss all the time. They do everything else right…until it’s time to “ask” for the sale.

3. Meet each other’s needs

Your time is valuable and so is your potential partner, so make sure that both of you are getting the most out of it. Talk clearly to your potential partner so that you understand their point of view and what responsibilities you both will have and what the benefits will be – will there be compensation? increase in sales? additional revenue stream? and most importantly, how will all this be done? Familiarize yourself with their process to reach those goals!

4. The right partnership

Inc Magazine talks about their lack of success in choosing the right partnership. This could happen to anyone, but it is important to follow the first three steps first to make sure things are being talked about clearly.

I believe the key to a successful partnership is an open channel of communication that allows both parties to talk about issues that may be fixed before it’s too late. Just remember that it’s imperative to make sure there’s a win-win-win situation: Company wins-Your company wins-customer wins!

Feel free to connect with me through my LinkedIn Profile if you have any questions about partnership opportunities that you may be looking at!

Data Privacy Policy Agreement.

Applicant Privacy Policy
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Legal Disclaimer
Effective Date: January 1, 2021
This Applicant Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) describes the practices of Platinum Operating Company, LLC d/b/a Platinum Payments (“Company”) regarding the information that is solely collected through the Platinum Workforce Now portal (“Careers Site”) in connection with your application for a job or internship with us.


1. CATEGORIES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT THAT YOU PROVIDE
We may collect the following information from you in connection with your application through the Careers Site: Name, e-mail address, mobile number, work authorization status, resume, profile information (e.g. work experience, education, skills, licenses & certifications, and memberships), professional and other work-related licenses, permits and certifications, references, and any other information you elect to provide to us (e.g., employment preferences, willingness to relocate, current salary, desired salary, awards, or professional memberships).
If you do not provide sufficient information, we may be unable to consider your employment application.
However, please avoid submitting the following information that may qualify as sensitive information under applicable law, except where such information is legally required: information on race, religion, ethnicity, nationality or national origin, age, gender identity, sex life or practices or sexual orientation, marital status, medical or health information (including disability status), genetic or biometric information, biometric templates, political or philosophical beliefs, political party or trade union membership, background check information, judicial data such as criminal records or information on other judicial or administrative proceedings, and veteran status.
If the personal information you provide contains details of the information referenced in the preceding paragraph or your job evaluations or educational records, you authorize us to handle such details for the purposes of your job application.
Any information you submit through the Careers Site must be true, complete and not misleading. It is your responsibility to ensure that information you submit does not violate any third party’s rights.
If you provide us with personal information of a reference or any other individual as part of your application, it is your responsibility to obtain consent from that individual prior to providing the information to us.


2. USE OF INFORMATION / LEGAL BASIS
We collect and process information about you for the following reasons:
a) Because you voluntarily provide this information;
b) Because this information is necessary to take steps at your request prior to entering into an employment or internship;
c) Because this information is of particular importance to us and we have a specific legitimate interest under law to process it;
d) To comply with a legal obligation; or
e) Where necessary to protect the vital interests of any person.
The information that you submit on the Careers Site will be used for our personnel recruitment, management, and planning purposes, as permitted by local law, including:
• To process your application;
• To assess your capabilities and qualifications for a job;
• To conduct reference checks;
• To respond to your inquiries and communicate with you about your application, and to send you information regarding the Careers Site and changes to our terms and policies;
• To comply with or monitor compliance with any applicable law or regulation;
• To conduct background checks if we offer you a position; and
• To preserve our other legitimate interests, for example, for our administrative purposes, aggregate management reporting, internal training, and as generally required to conduct our business.
The information about you will be added to our candidate database. If you do not wish us to do this, please contactwendy.clawson@ptpay.us.
If we hire you, personal information we collect in connection with your application may be incorporated into our human resources system and may be used to manage the new-hire process; any such information may become part of your employee file and may be used for other employment-related purposes.
We may also use the information as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to protect our legal rights and operations or the rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or of us, you, or others; and (e) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.


3. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may share personal information with affiliates and/or partners that are involved in and/or for performing pre-employment, post employment processes in compliance with state and federal law, evaluating candidates for a given position and to track employee and/or contractor performance and progress. We will make the information available to personnel with a business need to know the information, including personnel in the recruiting, human resources, and information technology departments, and in the department responsible for the position for which you are applying and for which you, if hired on an employee or contract basis, hold.
We may share personal information with third-party service providers who provide services such as hosting and operating the Careers Site, recruiting assistance, background check processing, Work Opportunity Tax Credit, eVerify, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and any other governmental programs the business elects for voluntary or compliance purposes and similar services.
We also may share personal information as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to protect our legal rights and operations or the rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or of us, you, or others; and (e) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
We may transfer information in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
Disclosing your personal information may include transferring personal information to other countries (including countries other than where you are based that have a different data protection regime than is found in the country where you are based). If you are located in the European Economic Area (the “EEA”), this may include countries outside of the EEA.


4. DATA RETENTION
We keep your personal information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include (i) for as long as we have an ongoing relationship with you (such as an application process); as required by a legal obligation to which we are subject; or as advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard of applicable statutes of limitations, litigation, or regulatory investigations).
We may remove personal information for inactive accounts, subject to any applicable legal or regulatory obligations. Furthermore, we may delete personal information about you (including your CV/résumé) from our database at any time and without providing any reason. Therefore, please retain your own copy of the personal information provided to us.


5. PASSIVE INFORMATION COLLECTION: COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGY
When you visit the Careers Site, we collect certain information by automated means. Cookies are small text files that websites send to your computer or other internet-connected device to uniquely identify your browser or to store information or settings in your browser. Cookies allow us to recognize you when you return. They also help us provide a customized experience and enable us to detect certain kinds of fraud. In many cases, you can manage cookie preferences and opt-out of having cookies and other data collection technologies used by adjusting the settings on your browser. All browsers are different, so visit the “help” section of your browser to learn about cookie preferences and other privacy settings that may be available.
We also use Flash Cookies (also known as Local Stored Objects) and similar technologies to personalize and enhance your online experience. The Adobe Flash Player is an application that allows rapid development of dynamic content, such as video clips and animation. We use Flash Cookies for security

purposes and to help remember settings and preferences similar to browser cookies, but these are managed through a different interface than the one provided by your web browser. To manage Flash Cookies, please see Adobe’s website at http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/526/52697ee8.html or visit www.adobe.com. We do not use Flash Cookies or similar technologies for behavioural or interest based advertising purposes.
Pixel tags and web beacons are tiny graphic images placed on website pages or in our emails that allow us to determine whether you have performed a specific action. When you access these pages or open or click an email, the pixel tags and/or web beacons generate a notice of that action. These tools allow us to measure response to our communications and improve our web pages and promotions.
We collect different types of information. For example, we collect information from the device you use to access the Careers Site, your operating system type, browser type, domain, and other system settings, as well as the language your system uses and the country and time zone where your device is located. Our server logs also record the Internet Protocol (“IP”) address assigned to the device you use to connect to the Internet. An IP address is a unique number that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on the internet. We may also collect information about the website you were visiting before you came to us and the website you visit after you leave the Careers Site.
In many cases, the information we collect is only used in a non-identifiable way, without reference to personal information. For example, we use information we collect about website users to optimize the Careers Site and to understand website traffic patterns. In some cases, we associate the information we collect with your personal information. This Policy applies to the information when we associate it with your personal information.

Although the Careers Site currently does not have a mechanism to recognize the various web browser Do Not Track signals, we do offer individuals choices to manage their preferences that are provided in the previous sections above. The Careers Site does not collect personal information about an individual’s online activities over time and across different websites when a consumer uses the Careers Site. To learn more about browser tracking signals and Do Not Track please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.org/. We use Google Analytics as a third-party vendor. For information on how Google Analytics uses data, please visit “How Google uses data when you use our partners sites or apps”, located at http://bit.ly/2jXZ13Y. We also use Pendo as a third-party vendor. For information on how Pendo uses data, please visit https://www.pendo.io/privacypolicy/.

 

6. ACCESS AND CORRECTION
If you register on the Careers Site, you may access, review, and change your personal information stored therein by logging into the Careers Site and updating your account information. However, if you have authenticated your login via a mobile number or email address, such information cannot be updated in the same login session.
We encourage you to promptly update your personal information if it changes or is inaccurate.
Apart from information contained in your profile, where permitted by applicable law, you may request (i) access to personal information we collect, (ii) its modification or suppression, (iii) that we restrict its processing, (iv) that we cease using it (objection right); (v) that we transfer personal information to you or another organization in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (right to data portability), and/or (vi) that we not sell any such information. Please email us at wendy.clawson@ptpay.us
or contact us at 1483 Wall Ave, Ogden, UT 84404 with any such requests.
For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that certain personal information may be exempt from such access, correction, or suppression rights pursuant to local data protection laws.


7. SECURITY
We use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect personal information within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below.
We hereby disclaim, as far as permitted by local laws, any liability for us and our affiliates and contractors for any personal information we collect in connection with your application that is lost, misused, illegally accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed or not timely delivered to our Careers Site.

 

8. LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
The Careers Site may contain links to other websites. This Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service to which the Careers Site links. The inclusion of a link on the Careers Site does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us. We encourage you to read the legal notices posted on those sites, including their privacy policies.


9. LAW APPLICABLE TO JOB APPLICATION
This Careers Site is operated from ADP Workforce Now in Dallas, TX. Accordingly, any personal information you submit to the Careers Site will be collected in ADP Workforce Now in Dallas, TX and will be subject to state of Texas laws.
The Careers Site is not intended for distribution to, or use by, any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to local law or regulation.


10. ABOUT CHILDREN
The Careers Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18.


11. CHANGES TO THE POLICY
We reserve the right to amend this Policy at any time in order to address future developments, the Careers Site, or changes in industry or legal trends. We will post the revised Policy on the Careers Site or announce the change on the homepage of the Careers Site.
You can determine when the Policy was revised by referring to the “Last Updated” legend on the top of this Policy.
Any changes will become effective upon the posting of the revised Policy on the Careers Site. By continuing to use the Careers Site following such changes, you will be deemed to have agreed to such changes.
If you do not agree with the terms of this Policy, in whole or part, you can choose to not continue to use the Careers Site.

 

12. CONTACT US
If you have questions or requests, please feel free to contact us at info@ptpay.us or USPS address at 1483 Wall Ave, Ogden, UT 84404.