Category: News - Part 9

Yelp’s Local-Mobile Success Shows How Consumers Are Using Mobile To Drive Local Purchases

Yelp has become the bellwether for a location-based service, as well as the huge opportunity in local-mobile marketing. It’s also often mentioned in connection with social-local-mobile strategies, sometimes known as SoLoMo. Consumers also use the Yelp app as an integral step in the local purchase cycle. 93% of U.S. Yelp users in a recent Nielsen study said they at least occasionally…

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10 Tips for Preventing Online Credit Card Fraud

Small Business Trends | September 12, 2013 Merchants and retailers are often on the front lines of managing payment card fraud. Online businesses face a unique challenge because all purchases are made as a “card not present” transaction. But there are red flags to look out for and security measures to put in place that…

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Are you using mobile technology to process payments?

A new PayPal app now allows users to pay for products using photo verification. Are you embracing new technology to increase the efficiency of your business? There are now many ways for SMEs to take credit or debit card payments quickly and efficiently. Smartphone technology, whereby customers use their mobile device to pay for goods…

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Groupon Expands Push Into Payments

Groupon, known for its emailed coupon offers, said it will begin selling traditional credit-card-swiping hardware to merchants as it pushes deeper into bricks-and-mortar commerce. As growth in daily deals slows, Groupon has been expanding into new lines of business — selling merchandise and enabling restaurant reservations, for example. The company began offering iPhone and Android smartphone dongles last year…

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