DISQUS

Flip Bits Not Burgers: SlideShare lead generation #fail

  • Amit Ranjan · 2 months ago
    Andrew,

    I'm from slideshare. Came to your blog via technorati.

    We hear you and understand this.

    Yes... credit card payment gateway is very much on the cards. We should have it in about 10 days from now. We know Paypal is not good enough. Just that we ran into some technical issues in implementing the gateway a couple of days before launch, by which time it was to late. We decided to go ahead and quickly get the credit card up and running soon thereafter.

    We'd look forward to your feedback about LeadShare & AdShare. Do contact me by email if you need any help.

    Amit Ranjan
    Cofounder, SlideShare
  • andrewbadera · 2 months ago
    Thanks for stopping by Amit. Happy to hear a fullblown credit card option is on its way.
  • Michael O'Neill · 2 months ago
    So why can't you attach a business cc or checking account to your paypal?
  • andrewbadera · 2 months ago
    I wouldn't attach my personal PayPal to my business accounts, and why in the world would I register a whole new PayPal account for my business accounts when I have zero other business need for PayPal? And don't want to risk exposing any more banking data in any more places than I have to.
  • Michael O'Neill · 2 months ago
    I don't quite see how you are mingling business and personal accounts/transactions by having them both under the umbrella of PayPal.

    For each PayPal purchase you have explicit control over which cc or bank account is utilized. To your business cc/account it makes no difference paper-trail-wise that the conduit was PayPal.

    I suppose if you have insufficient funds, you risk PayPal attempting to use an undesired secondary source, though.
  • andrewbadera · 2 months ago
    Well Michael, when you're paying my accounting and audit bills, you can make that decision for me :)
  • Jonathan Boutelle · 2 months ago
    As Amit says, we are working on it (I'm filling out the application for a payment gateway as we speak). Hang in there!
  • andrewbadera · 2 months ago
    Great! Looking forward to it. Thanks for being so responsive, SlideShare folk.