In the Card Not Present, e-commerce environment that 2Checkout and its suppliers actively sell in, a decision had to be made between real time or time delayed fraud protection. With the 60,000+ suppliers currently selling hundreds of thousands of different products and services, this is a topic debated regularly.
If a stranger walked up to you and asked you for your credit card, would you give it to him?
You probably realize that this scenario is ridiculous, that you should never give a stranger access to your finances. However, when a stranger sends an email asking for sensitive personal information, far too many people respond, providing their credit card numbers, passwords and other important information.
On May 14, 2007, Jaikumar Vijayan, writing for Computerworld, reported on what may be a look at the future for retailers in the United States.
The article, “Texas mulls bill that would make PCI requirements a state law,” states:
The state’s House of Representatives last week voted 139-0 in favor of a bill that would formally codify PCI requirements into a state law that merchants would be obliged to comply with if passed. Under HB 3222 a breached entity will have to reimburse banks and credit unions the cost associated with blocking and reissuing cards if the merchant was not PCI compliant at the time of the compromise.
Personally, I view a unanimous vote proof that this legislative body is doing more than mulling a legal shift in liability to merchants of the State of Texas. Unless this legislation runs into unexpected opposition in the State Senate then law it will become.
Starting May 14, 2007, there will be many changes to shipping with the US Postal Service.
The rates will be changing on several of the products. They will also be consolidating many of the international shipping options and allowing both domestic and international shipping with the same Priority and Express Mail packaging. To read more about changes with the postal service, check out their news release page.
Spiders, also known as web crawlers or web bots, are programs that explore the web by following links from page to page in order to index the web. This technology is used by search engines to determine the popularity and relevance of a web page.In order to increase your score on search engine indexes, it is critical to create your page in a manner that will attract spiders to the site. Here are some tips that you can follow to help your website rank higher.
I guess it never occurred to me how many baby boomers would be eligible to retire in the next 10 years. I attended a HR seminar (Society of Human Resource Management’s Generalist Program in Las Vegas, April 19-20) a couple of weeks ago and when the instructor shot out the number of 78 million, it took my breath away. Meaning, 78 Million skilled/trained employees we are all highly dependent upon will be leaving the workforce.
Being a successful online retailer means having a successful website. This is especially important when the only connection to your customers is your web site. The allbusiness.com article below provides tips for building a successful website and questions that you should ask yourself while you are building your store front.
Develop an Effective Small Business Web Site
Looking to start or expand a business, but you don’t have the capital? What an opportunity!
Whether you are a 2CO vendor wanting to expand, or just looking to start your own business, there is always one hurdle that has to be cleared. That hurdle, is being able to secure a loan. Depending on where in the world you reside, the interest on a loan can be anywhere from 4 to 100 percent.
Have you started reading Seth’s Blog yet? If you haven’t, you’re missing out on some of the best small company marketing advice on the web. Seth Godin talks endlessly about how to market yourself and your product with plenty of examples of who does it right–and a few who fail miserably. Continue reading…
The annual TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference brings together some of the most influential thinkers of our time. Speakers have included Jane Goodall, Jeff Bezos, Ray Kurzweil, Kevin Kelly, Ze Frank, Dan Gilbert, and many more.
In their own words, “TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader”.
The yearly TED conference is invitation-only, costs $6,000 to attend and sells out a year in advance. Fortunately for us, TED exists to spread ideas, so videos of over 100 of the talks are now freely available on the TED site and may be viewed online or downloaded for future viewing.
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