{"id":2342,"date":"2015-04-28T11:38:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T15:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2015-04-28T11:48:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T15:48:50","slug":"new-orleans-transaction-cardi-gras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/new-orleans-transaction-cardi-gras\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Transaction Cardi Gras"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2343\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/8464154511_e1c128b654_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2343\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2343\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/8464154511_e1c128b654_o-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Cardi Gras\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/8464154511_e1c128b654_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/8464154511_e1c128b654_o-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"&lt;iframe src=\">&#8220;&gt;Credit: Flickr<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Southeast Acquirers Association held its 14th annual conference April 20 to 21, 2015, in New Orleans with a balanced blend of exhibits, entertainment and presentations. It\u2019s a two-day event which includes networking, presentations, seminars and entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>It was a well-organized, high quality event with a great balance between social gatherings and informative discussions around payments, acquiring and merchant relationships.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Leading industry processors, manufacturers, vendors, leasing companies and technology startups convened in the exhibit hall. Monday evening&#8217;s opening reception was followed by a Bourbon Street pub crawl led by a live jazz band. Show highlights included an ETA Certified Payments Professional seminar, an array of contests and an eclectic mix of guest speakers.<\/p>\n<p>Other presentations by industry experts included advice on selling merchant portfolios, using technology to acquire new merchants, and effective ways to build a personal brand through networking and relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Exhibiting at SEAA increased company&#8217;s visibility and credibility. The show&#8217;s overall atmosphere as friendly professionalism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lagniappe<\/strong>, a word that means a little something extra, can be used to describe the spirit of camaraderie and partnership at Transaction Cardi Gras. It thought to have originated in New Orleans from the Spanish phrase <strong><em>la \u00f1apa<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southeast Acquirers Association held its 14th annual conference April 20 to 21, 2015, in New Orleans with a balanced<\/p>\n<div id=\"more-button\"><a class=\"btn btn-more excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/new-orleans-transaction-cardi-gras\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[84,49,808,212,595],"class_list":["post-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-practices-for-merchants","tag-merchant","tag-payments","tag-processors","tag-transaction","tag-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2346,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}