Digital Marketing Basics for Merchants in 2020 – Part 2
In a recent post, we shared an overview of how merchants can – and should – approach their digital marketing tactics to reach more potential customers and grow their businesses. Digital marketing is a vast and ever-evolving field. With the digital era well and truly leading the way, more and more businesses are moving online […]
Digital Marketing Basics for Merchants in 2020
Whether recently launched or well-established in their relevant market, most companies have something in common: they’re looking for ways to reach more potential customers. In the past, this meant taking out ads in the newspaper, sending flyers in the mail, and passing out business cards to anyone who would take one. Thankfully (and perhaps a […]
Protect Your Business From Email Scams this Festive Season
Email Scam are rampant during the festive period. Here is how to protect yourself and your business.
How to Grow Your Independent or Small Hotel
Having an independent hotel, while not without its challenges, can be very rewarding. Having a small business means everything feels a bit more intimate – from the smaller numbers of staff, to more capability for personal attention to guests. It also means that managers and owners have more say in what goes, without the scrutiny […]
For Travel Agents – Why and How You Should Invest in Corporate Clients
The popularity of the travel industry is here to stay, as people continue to embrace the luxury and freedom of hopping a flight (or train, or bus, or…) to experience new parts of the world. The travel and tourism industry is one of the largest in the world, contributing $8.27 trillion USD to the global […]
How Online Travel Agencies and Merchants Settle Payments
There are two commonly used business models used by online travel agencies (OTAs) when working with hotels: Merchant Model Through this model, OTAs leverage their relationship with their merchants (hotels, in this case) and purchase a bulk of rooms at a discounted price. They they resell these rooms at a profit and facilitate the booking […]
How to Attract Business Travelers to Your Hotel
With total spending on global business travel projected to reach $1.7 US by 2022, hotels are in a great position scale up their profits. Although competition will be high, with the right approach to marketing your hotel can dramatically increase its revenue in the coming years. Follow some of these tips for both attracting and […]
2018’s Main Payment Trends and Innovations.
Throughout 2018, new technologies continued disrupting traditional payment processing methods across the globe. Cryptocurrencies, P2P payments, and mobile wallets are just a few of the innovations that are gradually gaining momentum to eventually overtake cash and cards. With so many new elements vying to play a role in the future of financial transactions, it’s important […]
Easy Advance
Does You Business Qualify for an Easy Advance? DPO aims to help businesses grow and evolve through understanding, support, and essential features for both brick-and-mortar and online businesses. Sometimes a business is poised to grow, but lacks the funds to support the next step. That’s where the Easy Advance product comes in. Easy Advance is […]
Mastercard Partners with DPO Group to Further Boost Pan-African Merchant Payments
Learn more about our partnership with Mastercard in the Africa payments space. With the right pan-African technology partners, we’ve managed to turn online transactions to a preferred choice of conducting business across all industries.