Is Your e-Commerce Site Ready For Mobile Shopping (m-Commerce)?

February 6, 2010
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According to recent research from the Nielsen Company as reported by Practical eCommerce, more than 9 million people have made at least one purchase using their mobile handset, and an additional 125 million people indicated they would be willing to do so. m-Commerce is the newest way to increase your customer base and revenues, given [...]

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Limiting Access to Protected ShopSite Store Pages

February 3, 2010
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“How can I protect specific store pages and only allow access to specific shoppers?” is a question I’m frequently asked and there isn’t a quick or inexpensive method for doing it. The typical options are:

Put the protected pages in a sub-folder and use a .htaccess file to protect the subfolder. It’s fairly easy [...]

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Preventing a Web Site Disaster

February 2, 2010
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If you are a small business owner doing business online, you need to think proactively about protecting yourself from web site disasters. Losing your web presence to any kind of web site disaster would have the same impact for most small online businesses as an earthquake would have on a brick-and-mortar business. There are three [...]

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The Cost of PCI Non-Compliance for Small Businesses (Part 3 of 3)

January 25, 2010
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In Part 1 of this 3-part series on PCI Compliance, we talked about the what of compliance, and in Part 2 we discussed the why of compliance. In this final installment of the PCI Compliance series, I want to talk to you about the exorbitant cost of non-compliance. Next week, I’ll talk to you about [...]

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PCI Compliance – How You Can Do It (Part 2 of 3)

January 18, 2010
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Even if you’re a small business with a small amount of credit card transactions each year, you may have already heard from your merchant bank or credit card processor about Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance. PCI compliance is the process of developing security processes and systems that protect you, your bank, and your customers from [...]

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