Today I’d like to take a moment to venture somewhat further afield than I usually do — and then bring it all back home to settle into some insight about E-Commerce. Primarily what I want to look at is the evolution of video games in the past couple of years and how things seem to […]
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Today The Official Merchant Services Blog delves into the intricate and fascinating world of social media marketing and the pitfalls of Click Fraud. Our interest stems from a recent news story: Limited Pressing, an e-commerce company provides a platform for selling digital music and physical items, stated that they are dropping their Facebook page and removing
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This is the latest installment in The Official Merchant Services Blog’s Knowledge Base effort. Well we want to make the payment processing industry’s terms and buzzwords clear. We want to remove any and all confusion merchants might have about how the industry works. Host Merchant Services promises: the company delivers personal service and clarity. So we’re going to take
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Yesterday, The Official Merchant Services Blog reported that the Mobile Payment market was predicted to expand exponentially over the next few years. Analysis by research firm Juniper has been heady and bold since 2011. A second research operation, Gartner, recently reported that worldwide mobile payment users increased 38 percent in 2011 — jumping from just
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Today The Official Merchant Services Blog brings an update on Mobile Payment Technology. The Mobile Payments Technology sector has been the topic of overt optimism for quite some time now. We’ve reported multiple times that industry analysts have predicted large gains in Mobile Payments profits over the short- and long-term future. Our article from 2011
This is the latest installment in The Official Merchant Services Blog’s Knowledge Base effort. Well we want to make the payment processing industry’s terms and buzzwords clear. We want to remove any and all confusion merchants might have about how the industry works. Host Merchant Services promises: the company delivers personal service and clarity. So we’re going to take
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Today The Official Merchant Services Blog revisits one of its favorite topics: E-Commerce. Specifically we’re going to focus on the staggering growth in E-Commerce and the sky high expectations revolving around its continued success. Trillions Upon Trillions Once again turning to Internet Retailer and its Industry Statistics coverage, we’ve found a report by Interactive Media in
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Yesterday, The Official Merchant Services Blog defined the term Mobile Payment Processing for its readers. We bring this topic up frequently because it’s one of the hottest trends in credit card processing. Today we’re going to update our coverage of the topic. We have been framing almost every discussion of the topic around a set
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Today The Official Merchant Services Blog is going to get a bit personal, for me at least. I’m going to take a moment to talk about print media, and its withering industry. Or, think of it this way: I’ll be talking about the rise to power of E-Commerce — the industry that has helped deliver
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Today The Official Merchant Services Blog turns its tech-obsessed eyes once again to the Mobile Payment Solution sector. Recently, Host Merchant Services became fully mobile and able to offer a mobile payment solution for Android and iPhone devices. This expansion continues, and HMS now also provides a payment processing solution for iPads as well. You
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The Official Merchant Services Blog keeps its finger on the pulse of e-commerce, and today we’re giving you the scoop on the latest hot trend … Social Gifting. What is Social Gifting? Social Gifting is the activity where consumers on social media channels like Facebook can individually, or in groups, purchase gifts for their friends. Virtual
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A payment processing related story setting the blogosphere on fire right now is this study by Pew from their PewInternet and American Life Project that suggests that mobile payments — and swiping your phone to pay for things when you shop — will be the standard by 2020. There’s been a wide variety of takes
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On February 28, 2012 Host Merchant Services teased through its Facebook Page that it would have big news regarding HMS and Mobile Payments in March. The Official Merchant Services Blog is here to give you that big news. Sort of. The news is that Payfox will be usable for Android phones as well as the
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Today The Official Merchant Services Blog is turning its attention back to E-Commerce. Yesterday we delved into the topic of partial payment authorization, hopefully clearing up some of the more confusing aspects of the process. Now we’re going to take things back to the basics, and delve into the advantages of online processing, specifically focusing
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This is part 2 of The Official Merchant Services Blog‘s rebuttal of this New York Times Op-Ed piece titled “What Wikipedia Won’t Tell You” written by Cary H. Sherman, chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America, which represents music labels. The Real Slim Shady Mr. Sherman in his article goes on to accuse Wikipedia of spreading misinformation. He
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The RIAA just won’t quit. They’re taken up the crusade to push for anti-piracy legislation once again, as seen in this New York Times Op-Ed piece titled “What Wikipedia Won’t Tell You” written by Cary H. Sherman,chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America, which represents music labels. The content of the piece is incendiary, and
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Today The Official Merchant Services Blog is going to address an e-commerce issue that perhaps gets overlooked by a lot of merchants — effective design of your online shopping experience. Previously we offered a 2-part series on free, open source online shopping carts that are available. But just having the basic elements there for functionality
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Earlier, The Official Merchant Services Blog began a series on free Open Source E-Commerce solutions that are available. We cited this article by Nova Scotian writer Vangie Beal, which lists her top 10 free online shopping carts. Today we finish up our review of Beal’s list. Before We Get Back to the List Before we pick
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