A Facebook page for your business is an easy way to reach your customer base. However, just like anything else, it requires some thought and preparation when setting up and maintaining the page. This article is about a year old, but still has some great tips on setting up your business Facebook page.
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I always enjoy reading Elizabeth’s articles. She always has something insightful you can take from them. She has a recent article on Inc.com about how to change the way you work to better suit your goals and ideals as a person. You can read the full article here:
She also has recently produced a great book that we enjoyed about Effective Time Investment. Be sure and check it out!
To-Do lists can be a great thing. A lot of us use them but many times we don’t get the most of these lists. Research has found if you put some thought into the list and put the items in order, you will work through your list more effectively. You can read the full article here.
Great article on web predictions for 2013. Make sure your site is up with the times! You can read the full article here.
With the holiday shopping season upon us, this is a timely article describing a simple suggestion that may help boost your company sales and profile. You can read the entire article here.
When creating a landing page for your website, it is important to make sure that it is visually appealing, easy to navigate, and free of errors. This article will tell you the five unbreakable rules of landing page design that can make or break your website. You can view the entire article here.
BCS Engineering offers 2 great mods for simplifying PCI compliance with X-cart
Authorize.net DPM |
Authorize.net CIM |
Which Authorize.net Module is Right for Me?
Both modules provide a path to simpler PCI compliance forms to be filled out. Depending on the features you want will determine which one is best for you. Some customers use both modules! This is great if you want to give the customer the option to store Credit Cards or not.
Note: We have discontinued upgrading the Authorize.Net CIM mod above version 4.6, as the ability to store credit cards is now available on the recent versions of the Authorize.Net DPM mod. This functionality is now possible on the DPM mod because of updates to the API.
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Authorize.net CIM Features |
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Common Features
Both Authorize.net DPM and Authorize.net CIM modules for X-cart include the following features:
- Sensitive Card information is never stored or transmitted on your server or in X-cart’s software
- Simple to install and configure!
- Customers stay on your site for checkout!
With both Authorize.net DPM and Authorize.net CIM modules, Customers should request to be a ‘Redirect’ merchant type when conversing with PCI compliance auditors and scanners.
Authorize.net DPM |
Authorize.net CIM |
Don’t have Authorize.net yet?
Looking for Authorize.net CIM for Magento?
We have an Authorize.net CIM module for Magento on our sister site!
This is a great article and puts a different perspective on customers asking about “high prices.” Trying to justify your price based of the amount of time it takes is not a winning value proposition. That’s because the client isn’t interested in paying for your time—he wants a result produced or a problem solved. Check out the full article here.
After over 100 votes and 20 mod submissions, the winning module is:

Product Option Weights!
The winning contestant was Kevin Bentz – Jeeperz Creeperz, Inc.
Congrats to Kevin! He will get a free copy of the module!
We’re expecting to release the module late November. Thanks for the great idea Kevin!
Check out this great article on TIAS’ new website and the features that we helped them to implement! http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/abblog/blog.pl


