Merchant Services Network Signs Exclusive Partnership Agreement with Self Storage Association.ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Today the national Self Storage Association (SSA (Serial Storage Architecture) A fault tolerant peripheral interface from IBM that transfers data at 80 and 160 Mbytes/sec. SSA uses SCSI commands, allowing existing software to drive SSA peripherals, which are typically disk drives. ), announced that Merchant Services Merchant services is the name given in the United States to a broad category of financial services intended for use by businesses. In its most specific use, it usually refers to the service that enables a business to accept a transaction payment by use of the customer's credit or Network (MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). ) has become an SSA Partner for the remainder of 2006 and all of 2007 as part of the SSA's Sponsorship Program. As the SSA's exclusive category Partner in the electronic payment and virtual processing A parallel processing technique that simulates a processor for applications that require a processor for each data element. It creates processors for data elements above and beyond the number of processors available. sector, MSN will enjoy unprecedented membership access and visibility as well as multiple advertising exposure opportunities. The SSA Partner program combines sponsorships of all the Association's major conferences, trade shows, seminars, publications, including the monthly SSA Globe magazine, and the SSA Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the Web site. "This Partnership between the Self Storage Association and MSN pairs two forward-thinking organizations that are prepared to serve the self storage community throughout the year," stated Michael T. Scanlon, Jr., SSA President & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "We thank Michael Usbelger and the entire team at MSN for their support and welcome them as an exclusive SSA Partner in a particularly important field - payment processing. We appreciate MSN's support for the industry's non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. and will strive to serve their needs, meet their expectations and make the most out of this important relationship," Scanlon added. Merchant Services Network is a full service, ISO/MSP of First National Bank of Omaha, Omaha, NE, a member bank of the Visa & MasterCard Association. They offer one of the most comprehensive packages of products and services available from a single source. MSN enhances point-of-sale transactions by offering all types of payment options: Credit, Debit A monetary amount that is subtracted from an account balance. A debit from one account is a credit to another. See credit. , Electronic Check Processing, eCommerce capabilities, and Gift & Loyalty card programs. Commenting on their relationship with the Self Storage Association, MSN President Michael Usbelger said, "We are truly looking forward to our Partnership with the Self Storage Association. We have been working with the self-storage industry for the past several years, and we have an understanding of the way their industry works. Our dedicated team can provide the tools to assure they receive the most comprehensive service available at the most competitive price possible." By bundling benefits, SSA sponsorship programs are a more convenient approach for vendors than the fragmented frag·ment n. 1. A small part broken off or detached. 2. An incomplete or isolated portion; a bit: overheard fragments of their conversation; extant fragments of an old manuscript. 3. model of past years. SSA Partner sponsorships are limited to eight (8) companies; the Partner program is for a two-year period and is business category exclusive. All four SSA sponsorship options can be viewed in detail by visiting http://www.selfstorage.org. Click on "Sponsorships" to learn more about the program. About the Self Storage Association Founded in 1975, the Self Storage Association (SSA) is the national not-for-profit trade organization serving the $145 billion (market cap values) and $18.5 billion (revenues) self storage industry including owner-operators, facility managers and vendors in the self storage industry. The SSA represents some 3,000 direct member companies and another 3,000 indirect member firms (via nineteen (19) affiliated associations) that own and operate a total of some 18,000 facilities in the US, Canada and 16 other nations. SSA direct members range from individual facility owner-operators to multiple-facility operations, to the industry's largest publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). The Association specializes in twelve areas of core competency A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
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