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!
In order to succeed as you climb higher in an organization, the more you must engage other people in conversations. Here are seven ways that the best bosses increase their effectiveness by the ways they communicate:
1. Bring the vision to life
2. Ask smart questions
3. Take time to read the room
4. Create a climate where things get done
5. Use stories to get your points across
6. Be mindful of what you don’t know
7. Make people feel they work for a winner
You can read the full article here.
Feeling stressed, overwhelmed and frustrated? Our friend Elizabeth of @RealLifeE has a new book to help you! We’ve implemented several of her suggestions in our daily activities and these ideas have helped us manage the crazy demands of business and life in general. We work in an industry that expects quick response and availability 24×7. Those expectations can tend to be overwhelming!
The section that focused on various personality traits and how understanding those traits and tendencies from a perspective of getting things done was extremely helpful. Our office may be small, but we have many different personality types and benefited from her insight and suggestions.
If your interested in some great ideas on the best way to utilize your time, reduce your stress levels and start 2013 off on the right track please check out her book :
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.
We are having temporary ‘support’ email issues. You can feel free to email us still at our support or sales email address, we are getting them into our mail system but they are not going into our ticket system. We’re working to resolve this issue. Please be patient while we work to resolve this issue and get your emails out of our email system.
You can alternatively log in directly to our support system to view and respond to any tickets:
https://support.bcsengineering.com
Thank you!
Carrie
UPDATE: As of 2:30pm EST, support email is working again and going to our ticket system and all replies should be in your ticket. Let us know if we missed one.
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.
Authorize.net DPM Features |
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!
