Our Mission is to engage existing customers more often and bring new customers - to and through merchant doors – ready to buy.

Our goal is to create sustainability and profitability for small to medium sized merchants by providing them the tools of modern marketing– resulting in a higher frequency of visits from present customers and by motivating new customers.

Smaller merchants and professionals don’t have either the budget or the time to implement an effective program.  We are pledged to offer them a platform that responds to both of those issues - by providing a powerful marketing program at the cost of about a cup of coffee a day, and a customer service department that implements it for them.

Local Thanks℠ helps local businesses compete effectively with large retailers by:

National Mall℠is a customizable online shopping platform focusing on assisting corporations, non-profits, and retailers increase their revenues, and build customer loyalty.

• Don Barbacovi, Ph.D

  Chief Executive Officer of mFunds Global Payments

  Dr. Barbacovi began his career in prepaid by founding a company, CashDisc, that was sold to a LasVegas based marketing company focused on personal lending.  He headed business development for eCommLink, a prepaid processing company for two years before serving as the CEO of mFunds Global Payment Solutions and PayCardUSA, a full service, B to B, Payment Solutions Company for ten years. He has nearly 20 years of experience in prepaid card program management and operations.

   

  He is a well-known product innovator in the prepaid space and under his leadership, prepaid card management companies have been able to design a myriad unique of prepaid methodologies. Dr. Barbacovi holds a PhD in Statistics and is very knowledgeable in the operations of loyalty Internet Malls. mFunds is the debit card program manager for Loyalty Superstores's MUST Discover Card.

• Eugene H. Berns

  President of Housing Marketing Team

  Eugene Berns is a well-known Marketing Consultant specializing in customer motivation. He served 23 years as Vice-President of Sales and Marketing, and a Member of the Board of Directors, for one of Florida's largest, American Stock Exchange, community builders. Mr. Berns has an extensive background in sales and marketing, and is responsible for over $4 billion of sales. He has acted as consultant to various marketing and advertising agencies assisting in planning relating to consumer demographics and motivation.

   

  Additionally, he held many leadership positions in the shelter industry including President of Gold Coast Builders Association and was elected to their Hall of Fame. He served on the Board of the National Association of Home Builders and the Board of the Florida Home Builders Association and is a member of the prestigious Institute of Residential Marketing (MIRM).

• Brent Gephart

  President of Merchant First and Instant Accept

  Brent is the Co-Founder of Merchant First which provides consulting and private label payment processing services for Banks, ISOs, merchants and multinational companies. He is also the Founder of InstantAccept.com which enables merchants with the ability to accept and process payments from within QuickBooks Basic, Pro, Enterprise and QuickBooks Retail POS, as well as having designed a unique proprietary networked QuickBooks Point of Sale solution that works on any computer networked to QBS.

   

  He is also the Founder of ChargeBack Alerts, a Chargeback payment fraud system and the Co-Founder of PrismPay Gateway in the U.S. and IndiaPay Gateway in Asia the second largest TPP and Gateway transaction processing company in India, focused on providing credit card, ECS, NEFT, and RTGS payments for the Banking, Utility and Insurance industries in South and Southeast Asia.

   

  Prior to his current positions, he served as COO and Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Financial Services for Innuity, Inc. where he developed strategic partnerships with fortune 500 companies to provide private label payment and payment gateway solutions, and stored value debit card issuing programs. Brent also served as Senior Vice President of U.S. Corporate Strategy and Outside Sale for Moneris Solutions where he worked on strategic portfolio acquisitions, ISO Sales and Telesales. He was also previously the Director of Marketing and Director of Corporate Strategy for Chase Merchant Services, the acquiring division of J.P. Morgan Chase. There he created and implemented turnkey merchant account programs for channels and ISOs including Intuit QuickBooks, Peachtree Software, Pitney Bowes and other strategic channel partnerships, whereby his program generated over 35,000 merchants for CMS.

• Bruce Hollander

  Entrepreneur

  Bruce Hollander, is a retired Member of the Board of Medianet Group Technologies (MEDG), Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of BioLok International. Mr. Hollander has been President and Chief Executive Officer of BioLok since 1996, and Chairman of the Board of Directors since 1998. Mr. Hollander was sole owner of Lion Wines and Spirits, a Florida beverage distributor from 1991 to 1995, and President of B.L. Hollander & Associates, a business consultant to a number of companies, including Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co., from 1982 to 1984. Prior to 1982, he was an executive with Income International, Rockwell International and General Electric. Mr. Hollander received a BSIE from the Pratt Institute, a MSEM from Union College (GE -Co-op.) and is an APICS certified fellow.

• Mark Kallan

  CEO of Superhero Scramble, Inc.

  Mr. Kallan has been a business developer and leader for more than 30 years, involved in the organization and management of public and private companies in America, Europe, and Asia. He has founded, directed and managed public companies that owned and operated international schools, developed approximately 4,000 homes in China, and developed proprietary food and plant technology. Previously, he was the Chairman and principal shareholder of a major wristwatch company, selling to Wal-Mart, Target, QVC, and Home Shopping Network.

   

  Formerly, Mr. Kallan served in senior positions at three of the worlds largest advertising agencies, managing advertising for Carnegie Hall, MGM, Deutsche Grammophon, Bristol-Myers, Philips, Magnavox, JVC, AT&T, as well as the award-winning Keep America Beautiful campaign. In addition, Mr. Kallan founded and operated companies that provided diagnostics and treatments for several important health conditions in America.