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Consultant Manager Larger B2B/MOTO/Internet Accounts
Product Development Manager
Matrix Payment Systems
(847) 381-3482 office
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JOHN 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting
life.
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It was a pleasure speaking with you earlier today, thank you for your interest in EFT Canada.  Below, I have included some information regarding EFT Canada & the service we provide.

EFT Canada is a Canadian publicly listed company (TSX-V: EFT) that gives its clients the ability to electronically process debit/credit transactions in the US & Canada.  EFT Canada’s no up front fee software with free customer support and training, can facilitate all your transaction needs, including 24/7 data entry, transaction management and detailed reporting access

Using our platform, clients have the ability to electronically collect or disburse payments including bills, material payments, and payroll, in addition to many other business transactions. This method of electronic collection offers an easier, more reliable and cost-efficient alternative to paper-based collections and disbursements that puts the client in control of the entire process.

EFT Canada deals with many (different) companies/industries across the US & Canada in debiting their customer’s bank accounts for their monthly service fees/dues, while others utilize our service in crediting their employees’ bank account for their weekly, bi-weekly or monthly pay cheque (direct deposit).

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Set up- $199.95 (one time fee)

Monthly- $ 19.95

Transaction Fee – .15 – $1 (based on company profile, monthly transaction volume, product/service, current pricing, etc)

NSF Fee – $1 – $10 (based on company profile, monthly transaction volume, product/service, current pricing, etc)

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-No file fees – savings $10/file

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-Software- $0

Highlights of EFT Canada

Some simple highlights of our service/company are as follows:

1. Our company has processed in excess $1B in the past 12 months

1. Clients have the ability to enter transactions using an excel template, SFTP (text/csv file), and by simply typing transactions into our virtual terminal page;

1. EFT Canada handles all customer support, training, and file processing;

1. Clients have the ability to set dollar limits using our dual authorization functionality per user (similar to a 2 signature cheque);

1. EFT Canada complies with all FSCO and other financial institution security regulations.

1. No charge for any edits , deletes, voids, holds, push payments or reporting

1. EFT Canada is generally up to 50% less expensive then the banks

1. Received 2007 & 2008 ranking on the Profit Hot 50 for Canadian Emerging Companies

Our pricing, software & support cannot be matched by the bank.

Bill – Let me know your availability for a call next week. Once you speak with your client, please provide a few (available) dates/times. If you do not have a conference # available, let me know & I will forward one

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact me anytime.

Thanks

Have a great day!!

Randy Waxman, COO
EFT Canada Inc. (TSX-V:EFT)
Office:  416-781-0666 x102
Fax:  416-781-3318
Toll Free:  1-800-424-8551
http://www.eftcanada.com

—
Bill Hoidas
Consultant Manager Larger B2B/MOTO/Internet Accounts
Product Development Manager
Matrix Payment Systems
(847) 381-3482 office
(847) 381-4289 fax
http://paymentconsulting.net
http://chicago.citysearch.com/review/44659273
http://paymentconsulting.net/funding.html
JOHN 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting
life.
These days we are facing an economic crisis and need to prepare ourselves
more effectively for the recovery – to discover opportunities, identify
potential partners looking for opportunities, looking for a reason to hope.
Now it’s a good idea to ask: how could my product/service provide
opportunities in today’s economic climate?

Mon, Aug 30th 2010 2:50 pm EDT
By Alfred Branch Jr.

Broker-owned ticket exchange Ticket Evolution is launching its auto upload tool this week, and while company officials expect hundreds of brokers to participate, not all competing exchanges are currently supported.

StubHub and Razorgator are among the exchanges that will be supported by the Ticket Evolution auto uploader, but TicketNetwork is not in the group of exchanges where brokers will be able to quickly list inventory using the tool.

Earlier in the year, the creators of Ticket Evolution, Golden Tickets owners Ram Silverman and Steve Parry, pulled their ticket inventory from TicketNetwork following a percentage fee dispute, which led the pair, and former National Events Company executive Drew Gainor, to launch the start-up exchange. At the time of the dispute, Silverman wrote an angry email to fellow brokers blasting TicketNetwork for increasing its fee percentages, which occurred after TicketNetwork, in part, determined that Golden Tickets’ inventory was not turning over at an acceptable rate for the amount of tickets the company was posting.

Gainor told TicketNews today, August 30, that the decision not to include TicketNetwork in the auto uploader launch had nothing to do with any previous dispute, and that he hopes to add TicketNetwork within the next week or so, once some file transfer protocol (FTP) issues are sorted out.
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“I want to include TicketNetwork, and I am hoping to have them in the next update (next week),” Gainor said, adding that he intends to contact TicketNetwork this week about FTP issues. TicketNetwork made modifications to its FTP system earlier in the year to improve inbound inventory efficiency. “Ticket Evolution has no issues with TicketNetwork, and I would like to work with them whenever possible. [Founder and CEO] Don [Vaccaro] and I go back 8 years. As soon as I can get some FTP info from them they will have more frequent uploads from non-POS [point of sale] brokers.”

Gainor announced the auto uploader launch in a recent post on the company’s Web site, which includes a video of how to use it, and he told TicketNews that he expects “to have a few hundred brokers using the auto-upload tool this week,” but he did not offer a specific number. The other exchanges being supported at launch are StubHub-owned Ticket Technology, UK-based viagogo and Vivid Seats. TicketsNow is expected to be added soon.

The auto-upload tool is designed to allow brokers to list ticket inventory on multiple exchanges at once, which could mean that the company is potentially helping other exchanges fulfill faster, and possibly at the expense of Ticket Evolution. Asked whether this was a concern, Gainor said no.

“Ticket Evolution is interested more in helping brokers and the industry as a whole, which will only help the consumer experience that Ticket Network has helped raise the bar for,” he said. Brokers who invested in the company will be the first to use the product, followed by other brokers. “We would like data updated to all exchanges as much as possible to cut down on duplicate sales and unsatisfied customers. This is part of our overall goal with Ticket Evolution.”

Several companies offer similar uploader products for exchanges such as eBay and StubHub, but Gainor believes the Ticket Evolution uploader is unique.

“It appears that there really is not a solution out there to make it easier to get inventory right off to other exchanges. You still need a POS to export your inventory out of unless you manually manage your inventory in a spreadsheet, then you can continue to do that as well,” he said. “We just simplify the process of getting the data to each separate exchange, as most brokers upload to many different exchanges.”

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Mon, Aug 23rd 2010 3:58 pm EDT
By Alfred Branch Jr.
Presale Today

This story was updated at 10:32 a.m. EDT on Thursday, August 26, 2010, to reflect that the Ticket Evolution launch video was placed back on the company’s Web site.

Feeling some pressure over the decision not to refund money if the company fell short of its $4 million investment goal, broker-owned ticket exchange Ticket Evolution recently sought to clarify its stance on its financial situation.

In a statement released late last week on the company’s Web site, President Ram Silverman deflected criticism over the financing and stressed that all investors were given the choice to have their money returned to them.

No investors have expressed a desire to have their money returned, he stated, but the move is an unofficial acknowledgement that the company fell short of its $4 million fundraising goal, which the company had extended through Friday, August 13.

Company co-founder Steve Parry said in July that investors would receive their money back if they company did not reach the $4 million mark.

When contacted by TicketNews on August 13, Silverman declined to disclose how much the company raised, and he also would not offer details on how many investors had committed to the initiative, which officially launched in mid-July with a splashy presentation in Las Vegas.

“We have noticed quite a bit of chatter in the blogosphere about us not returning checks to investors and I can tell you for a fact that this is completely untrue,” Silverman wrote in his recent statement. “We have reached out to all those who chose to invest, with a modified offering. These investors had a choice to have their checks sent back or to leave it with us during the completion of the modified offering and so far not one investor requested their money back. I hope that clears this topic up.”

In the same letter, Silverman also announced a two-months-free promotion to lure brokers to list their tickets on the exchange.

Silverman was on vacation this week and could not be reached for comment. Fellow principals Parry and Drew Gainor did not reply to a message seeking comment.

Surprisingly, and with no explanation, the company also removed the three-hour launch presentation video from its Web site for a few days around August 23. In the video, the principals explained aspects of the company and its technology.

The video was back on the site by the morning of August 26. In an email to TicketNews, Gainor said the video was down because the company’s free Brightcove video trial had expired, and he needed a couple of days to find an alternative.
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Wed, Aug 25th 2010 5:06 pm EDT
By Alfred Branch Jr.
Presale Today

The ticketing executives who are spearheading an initiative to create a new ticket exchange, which they’re temporarily calling “NewCo,” are continuing their efforts to round up backers for the venture, following a closed-door launch meeting yesterday, August 24, in Chicago.

Details of the meeting, held at the offices of SeatExchange, were not disclosed, but according to SeatExchange President and CEO Chris Brennan, representatives from several companies attended the meeting in person or by conference call, including fellow Chicago-based brokerage GoldCoastTickets.com. Brennan declined to give an exact number of attendees, and the principals with Gold Coast also declined to comment and referred questions back to SeatExchange.

“We’re not going to discuss the specifics at this time, but I can say that it was a very constructive meeting,” Brennan told TicketNews today, August 25. All of the participants in the meeting were asked to sign non-disclosure agreements prior to attending. “This is the beginning of a process which will take time, but we’re moving forward.”

SeatExchange Vice President Bill Peterson, also declined to elaborate on the meeting, but he wanted to make it clear that NewCo is not like Ticket Evolution, a competing broker-based ticket exchange that was launched last month by the principals of GoldenTickets.com in Texas.

“The premise of what we’re trying to do is very different than Ticket Evolution,” Peterson said, but he declined to elaborate. TicketNews posed several questions to Brennan and Peterson, such as what was discussed at the meeting; how many people attended the meeting; how much money are they hoping to raise for the venture; and what type of technology platform are they planning to use.

In an email sent to prospective attendees earlier this month, Peterson and Brennan laid out some of the plans for the exchange. “The ‘NewCo’ Exchange is a technology platform delivering brokers a strategic approach to manage and market content online based on an SEO ‘first’ model. The ‘NewCo’ management team is confident this solution will address the many issues and challenges facing the broker community today, while creating value in the future.”

Brennan and Peterson have experience in the secondary ticket market, having worked at sports marketing, package tour and ticket brokerage Premiere Global Sports, where Brennan served as CEO for four years until late 2008.

After parting ways with Premiere, Brennan joined SeatExchange in 2009, and was soon joined by Peterson. SeatExchange has ticketing and travel package deals with the athletic departments of several major U.S. universities, and also has deals with British soccer and rugby teams.

But, according to Crain’s Manchester Business, SeatExchange was dropped as the secondary ticket company for English Premiere League soccer club Manchester City following an undisclosed contractual dispute. At the time, Brennan called the dispute an “isolated incident” over “contractual issues that couldn’t be resolved,” he told Crain’s.
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Fri, Aug 13th 2010 5:17 pm EDT
By Alfred Branch Jr.
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Broker-owned ticket exchange Ticket Evolution, which set today, August 13, as its deadline to raise $4 million in seed money, is vowing to move ahead without revealing how much was raised.

In a blog posting this afternoon on the company’s Web site, chief technology officer Drew Gainor wrote that Ticket Evolution was still accepting last-minute investments and had received several today. How many broker investors the company has attracted, however, was not disclosed.

“We want to thank everyone who has already sent in their checks and signed offerings,” Gainor wrote. “We had over 50 packages show up today and can assure those brokers you have made the right decision and you will not regret it. If anyone had any concern as to whether Ticket Evolution is going to be moving forward, I can tell you that it is 100% moving forward.”

At the time of the company’s launch meeting in Las Vegas in mid-July, co-founder Steve Parry said that if the $4 million was not raised, the company would return the investments to brokers. However, earlier this week, co-founder and President Ram Silverman told TicketNews that the company may not publicly disclose how much it raised, but may eventually tell investors. He made no mention of returning the investments in light of not reaching the $4 million goal.

When reached today, Silverman said that for “confidentiality reasons I can’t share [specific figures] with you,” because the company is a private enterprise.

“I feel we’ve been very transparent throughout this, but there are times when, as a private company, things have to be held close to the vest,” he said.

Within the broker community, estimates on how much Ticket Evolution may have raised range from $1.5 million to $2.5 million, but TicketNews has no way of verifying those predictions, and Silverman said he would not discuss any numbers. The company claims it attracted more than 350 brokers to the launch meeting, in-person and via webcast, so if more than 250 brokers invested the minimum amount of $10,000, the company could have raised more money. In addition, investors were not tied to only putting up $10,000 and could have given the company more for an increased number of shares.

Silverman said he has been “very pleased by the response” of brokers, but declined to offer a number of how many invested. He said the company’s eventual board of directors – 10 brokers and two non-brokers – may decide to release those figures in the future.

Regardless of whether a broker invested or not, the company will make its products available to anyone in the secondary ticket market, but broker investors will pay better rates than non-investors.

“I’d be pleased to have 500 quality brokers on our system, and ultimately, that could make us more competitive than other exchanges,” Silverman said.

The company said it plans to launch “some of our applications” within the next few weeks, but the specific apps were not disclosed. On Thursday, August 12, Gainor wrote, “If you are not ready to become investors we are still incredibly excited to work with you. We know that our applications will help you add profit to your bottom line and make your life simpler and more efficient.”

He added, “We do not know what the future will bring with respect to a second offering but we will certainly keep you posted as we move forward and progress. Ram, Steve, Paul [Harris] and I will work non stop to make sure that we achieve what we have set out to accomplish, which is a more unified industry with the tools that it deserves.”
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