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Category Archives: Ecommerce
BCSE Business Partners Carrie & Brandon are always looking for ways to keep us current with the trends of the industry. This year is no different, as they recently traveled to IRCE where they were able to meet with some of our customers as well as X-Cart Staff. It’s always exciting for us to be able to meet the people that have been a part of our business for years! Not only was it a great time learning about some very interesting new technology, but socializing with those that are an important part of our company always makes the trip worthwhile. Stay tuned for updates on what we learned at the conference and how it can help you grow your business!
It might not seem intuitive, but applying psychological concepts to your website design can be beneficial. The main goal of a website is to interact with customers. Psychology studies how people (your customers) process information. This article provides 5 principles that can be helpful to make your website more intuitive to users.
Read more here: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/235923
Looking for numbers on Content ROI? This article has an infographic that approaches several different types of content and evaluates their ROI from a number of perspectives.
Read more here: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/236182
Sometimes in the realm of customer service, it might be necessary to say no. This is a great article about when it might be appropriate to go this route, and furthermore, why it can actually be beneficial for a business. There are also some great tips about how to go about saying no in a tactful and customer-oriented manner.
Read more here: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/236153
Want to meet the Owners of BCSE?
Come Join us at IRCE 2014!
We will be attending IRCE again this year! It’s the world’s largest eCommerce event! You can get great tips and tricks to moving your eCommerce site to the next level!
We will be also hanging out with the X-cart gang and other 3rd Party Developers at their Annual X-cart Beer meeting. There are only a few tickets left! Join us June 12, 2014 as we socialize, answer questions about eCommerce and our business.
We hope to see you there!
Here we are in April 2014 right after I completed the Triathlon and after Brandon completed a Mudrun at the OU Race for a Reason charity event.
Left to Right: Jeremy (mommymakeup.com), Alex (X-cart.com), Carrie & Brandon (bcsengineering.com) at IRCE 2013
The Faster, Safer Way to get Paid!
We’ve been using PayPal since 2000 and want to let our customers know that it’s one of the best payment methods available! Great customer service for the merchant and the customer, as well as safe transactions, are key to your business success!
How can we help with PayPal?
- Custom PayPal Integrations for Magento including:
- Custom PayPal Integrations for X-cart including:
- Paypal Setup for Magento
- Paypal Setup for X-cart
Why is PayPal great?
- Customers do not have to post financial information to you to get paid
- Merchants can easily see if a person is a Verified PayPal account holder
- Protects you against fraud
Contact us now for help setting up the faster and safer way to get paid!
A very serious OpenSSL security flaw, known as the Heartbleed bug, has recently been discovered simultaneously by two different teams of security experts. The bug is a serious vulnerability in the encryption technology used throughout most of the Internet and the bug has been around since 2012!
Does this affect me?
The answer is, it depends. If you are hosted with us, then no, you were never affected by this bug. We have never used an OpenSSL version that includes this vulnerability on any of our hosted servers. If you are hosted somewhere else, you need to check with your host and insist that they fix this if needed. It is extremely important that you check with your host and make sure they fix the bug!
Do you have more technical details?
This website gives a great overview of the technical details surrounding this bug: http://heartbleed.com/
10 years ago in November is when we released what became our flagship product! I can’t believe it’s been that long already! Time has flown by and it’s well past due a complete overhaul!
This year we’ll be releasing a major update to our infamous X-cart Customer Reward Points module and we need your help! We have molded it and changed it along the way based upon customer feedback and we want to make the new version even better than before! Contact Us to make your suggestion and be eligible for a FREE software upgrade to the latest version! We’re looking to get all requests by March 15th, 2014.
FedEx did an update on January 18th that has caused the X-cart FedEx Code to break. Other shopping carts seem to not be affected though, this is specific to X-cart’s code. Please let us know if we can help update your site. You can also find a fix that a user of X-cart has found out in the X-cart forums:
http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=68500&page=3
Carrie
