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Square Debuts Appointment Booking App to Help Service Providers Connect with Customers

Retail TouchPoints

Financial services and POS solution Square has launched a new consumer-facing app that lets customers search, discover and book appointments with beauty and personal care professionals. Additionally, businesses can solicit private feedback through the app to better improve operations and customer service.

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Combat Inflation’s Impact by Streamlining Conversational Commerce Channels

Retail TouchPoints

for Q1 2023 — the first period with no online sales growth since the Index debuted in 2014. And how are you giving them a value-added product or service for being loyal to you? Another opportunity is for field service technicians and reps that now have upsell opportunities that they [can complete] with customers in person.

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Best Platform to Sell Online in 2020: An In-Depth Analysis

Ecommerce Platforms

Recommendations. Whereas a standard website platform/builder has features for adding pages and posts and menus, an ecommerce platform takes it a step further by including product management, shipping tools, payment processing, and more. From one perspective, it's easy to only have a few solid choices for payment processing.

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Everything You Need to Know About Achieving PCI Compliance [Checklist Included]

BigCommerce

56 million card numbers from Home Depot in 2014. This is particularly because many of us maintain large numbers of (supposedly secure) personal online profiles that afford us a convenient way to deal with recurring monthly or annual payments. In total, PCI DSS outlines 12 requirements for compliance.

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Square Capital Review (September 2019): Simple Business Loans

Ecommerce Platforms

The company launched with a mission of giving companies and service providers the easy-to-access transaction systems that they needed to run pop-up shops, retail locations, and restaurants around the world. The mobile POS recently converted their Square Capital product to a “loan” service.

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The Marketer’s Guide to Gain Brand Mileage on Google Maps

Kissmetrics

Searches including the phrase “best place to buy” with the applicable product or service keyword grew by 70% between 2015 and 2018. And, it released an algorithmic update, in July, 2014, to favor local businesses for neighborhood-focused mobile device queries. “Near me” searches also rose by 500% in recent years.

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Wine Ecommerce: How To Sell & Ship Wine in 2018

BigCommerce

has been the highest consumer of wine in the world since 2014. In this guide, we’ll focus on the latter factor — the increase of online wine sales — and how ecommerce merchants can take advantage of this expansion. Since the late ‘90s, wine sales in the U.S. have steadily increased. Wine Ecommerce is Growing Rapidly. Prepare packages.