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The Common Cents Week In Review: May 17, 2012

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Quotes of the Week:
  • You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. ~  Eleanor Roosevelt ->
  • “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Seuss RT @drsarahdavidbiz ->
  • �Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.� ? Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist ->
  • Day by day, what you do is who you become.- Heraclitus RT @bethheilman: ->
  • �A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.� ? Mae West ->
  • And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.? Marianne Williamson ->
  • I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.? Michel de Montaigne ->
  • A great man is always willing to be little. ? Ralph Waldo Emerson ->
  • Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined. ? Henry David Thoreau ->
  • A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him ->
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]]> http://www.thecommoncents.com/blog/the-common-cents-week-in-review-may-17-2012/feed/ 0 http://www.thecommoncents.com/blog/the-common-cents-week-in-review-may-17-2012/ 5 Tips To Helping Your Customers Feel Safe About Online Transactions http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OurTwoCents/~3/lH1-GlU50lE/ http://www.thecommoncents.com/blog/5-tips-to-helping-your-customers-feel-safe-about-online-transactions/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 12:29:50 +0000 Guest Blogger http://www.thecommoncents.com/?p=2129 Consumers are using plastic, especially online, at record rates. But security is still a major concern with recent data breaches making the news.

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]]> 5 Security Tips for Merchants – Online and Offline

By Steve Myers

PCI Compliance and Data Security have become hot topics in the payment processing industry recently. Consumers are using plastic, especially online, at record rates. But security is still a major concern with recent data breaches making the news. Credit card fraud, phishing scams, click-jacking and identity theft are all on the rise and transaction security is an increasing concern for more than just payment network providers — it’s a major issue for merchants as well.

Knowing is Half the Battle

With that in mind, I’d like to offer some tips for merchants on how to approach their business’ security.

Right off the bat, you can download a PCI Compliance FAQ here.  And you can read a step-by-step guide on how to become PCI Compliant here.

Both of these resources provide some key insight on PCI Compliance and how to achieve it. Statistics show that merchants are still having trouble keeping up with PCI Compliance. A 2011 study by Verizon stated 79% of organizations were not fully PCI Compliant. And then a further study by Gartner Research in December 2011 found 18% of merchants are not PCI Compliant at all.

Some Tips That Can Help

To help combat the issues these studies have raised, here are five tips that can help merchants reassure customers that their credit card data is safe and secure. Following these tips can help build stronger customer loyalty and just generally promote the feeling of safety that comes with using your business among your consumers.

Tip #1:  Start a Security Campaign

You can help put anxious customers at ease with a marketing campaign that teaches them to protect their identities. Take the initiative and help them with their own private security. Host Merchant Services’ article archive provides a series of useful resources on combating identity theft. You can point your customers to those resources, you can send regular emails, tweets and texts to customers that provide privacy tips and fraud-prevention tactics.

Tip #2:  Remind Consumers of Your Security Measures

Keep your own business’ fraud protection features prominent with a mailer or newsletter letting customers know the steps you have taken in the area of security. You can blend this with your security campaign and keep your customers aware of the security features they have just by patronizing your business. Emphasize the privacy rules you have in place and what steps you take to comply with standards like the PCI DSS.

Tip #3:  Work With Card Companies

Beyond just PCI DSS, major credit card carriers like Visa offer fraud-prevention measures. Take advantage of these extra measures. And let your customers know you go this extra mile. Everything from regulations that prompt merchants to produce receipts with only partial card data to the use of special “codes” to hide card data on receipts. Every little bit helps.

Tip #4:  Get Your Employees On Board

To ease consumer unrest over security issues, it will greatly help you to have your entire staff on board with your security measures and the marketing campaign that pushes those measures. Your employees are customer facing and so having them well versed in the steps you take to make transactions secure will make consumers feel a lot safer during their shopping experience.

Tip #5:  Be Ever Vigilant

Just like in Batman or Superman adventures, the war on crime is a never-ending battle. To maintain your security measures and to consistently promote how well you maintain those standards, you need to be like Batman — ever vigilant. Always maintain good records. Keep those records secure. Keep credit card receipts away from the public. Make sure the data that you store is password protected. And always maintain your PCI Compliance.

These are a few basic tips to helping your customers feel safe about transactions. Go the extra mile, be ever vigilant, and let them know what you do for their benefit.

About the Author: Steve Myers is the Marketing Director for Host Merchant Services. Host Merchant Services is a different type of merchant services company which focuses on delivering the industry’s lowest processing rates while providing industry-leading service and support. The company is headquartered in Newark, Delaware and executes all operations with the manifesto of “great service, great rates, great people”.

 

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The Common Cents Week In Review: May 10, 2012

 

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Question of the Week:
QuickBooks Quickies & QuickBooks Stuff:

Quotes of the Week:

  • “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”~ Winston Churchill” http://t.co/I6lQZ1kH RT @VTwinFitness: ->
  • �Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.� ? Coco Chanel ->
  • �Those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.� ? Bernard Baruch ->
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]]> http://www.thecommoncents.com/blog/the-common-cents-week-in-review-may-10-2012/feed/ 0 http://www.thecommoncents.com/blog/the-common-cents-week-in-review-may-10-2012/ Integrity in Business – Where Is It? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OurTwoCents/~3/OW4olpRYApY/ http://www.thecommoncents.com/blog/integrity-in-business-where-is-it/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 11:51:43 +0000 Guest Blogger http://www.thecommoncents.com/blog/?p=1914 Based on the experiences that I have had over the last few years and on the experiences of others that I have witnessed, sometimes it seems that integrity – I mean genuine, pure integrity on the most basic level – cannot survive in the business world. Is this true? Have I just encountered the wrong people and the wrong situations? Are my standards too high? Is it me? Is my definition of integrity just WRONG? I am going to explore that now the only way that I know how – written expression. I can do nothing but twist and squeeze the words that I love, and hope that the answer….well…squirts out.

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]]> Based on the experiences that I have had over the last few years and on the experiences of others that I have witnessed, sometimes it seems that integrity – I mean genuine, pure integrity on the most basic level – cannot survive in the business world. Is this true? Have I just encountered the wrong people and the wrong situations? Are my standards too high? Is it me? Is my definition of integrity just WRONG? I am going to explore that now the only way that I know how – written expression. I can do nothing but twist and squeeze the words that I love, and hope that the answer….well…squirts out.

So, we can all agree that for everyone the goal of business is to make money, at least to some degree. Even those who start a business with a passion for something – a hobby, an invention, an art, an idea – want and probably need to make a living, unless they already have a stockpile of money that will never run out, or some other sufficient form of income. In spite of the lofty mission statements of some entrepreneurs that speak of providing ‘insert extraordinary life changing product or service here” to the world, no entrepreneur is willing to throw everything that they own into a business and live in a box under a bridge by night, and work with free WiFi from a coffee shop by day – and not be able to afford coffee. At least not forever. We all have to survive and provide for ourselves and our families.

So we all either work at jobs within someone else’s business, or we run our own, and those businesses, theoretically, provide something of value to consumers or other businesses, and therefore people buy it. AND YET….no product or service is of value to everyone, right? AND YET….businesses will sell their goods to anyone who is willing to pay, right? Is that RIGHT? Fast food joints sell horrible food to anyone who asks for it – no weight check, no health check – and we can all pretty much agree that while its not a pretty picture, the burger-eater is acting with free will, so no harm no foul.

But what about a doctor who prescribes a drug to a patient knowing that 1) the drug is probably unnecessary and/or 2) the drug is potentially harmful or addictive, however the drug is legal and the doctor gets a nice kickback from the pharma company for prescribing that drug? The patient has the free will to research the drug or get a second opinion, but we can safely assume that most people will trust the doctor because he is a professional and they will take it.

So, lets talk about other businesses that provide professional services. Lawyers are an easy example. Many people will say that they don’t trust lawyers, but if you’re in trouble and a lawyer gives you advice, chances are you are going to take it and pay for it big time – in dollars, and perhaps in other ways if the advice is wrong. The law is not an exact science, so advice is just advice. Its allowed to be bad, or so it would seem.

How about business services like web development or marketing or business consulting? They are not exact sciences and there are no standard fees, so what about a “professional” who charges too much and/or provides services that are unnecessary, low quality, or just ineffective? Sure, most people would get multiple quotes and do some homework for those types of services, but really good salespeople have a way of gaining your trust and loyalty, and they might just win you over. Is it okay? Is it okay to SELL something defective and overcharge for it? If you’re talking about a car that the salesperson knows is broken, then the answer is obviously no, but not everything is that clear cut.

There are too many examples of businesses that provide unnecessary, overpriced, poor quality, or even fraudulent services to ever list or even identify, and what they do is not always illegal or fraudulent or against any written rule, HOWEVER…I believe that if you do those things, you lack INTEGRITY. Period. If you choose money over what is right, you lack integrity. If you cheat people, you lack integrity. Consumers. Colleagues. Partners. Friends. Anyone. If you purposely mislead someone or give bad advice for money, you lack integrity. If you are disloyal to someone for money, you lack integrity. Period. Again.

Those are my standards. Are they too high? Do I expect too much of human beings who are just doing what they can to survive?? You know what? (I squeezed and the answer just burst forth like a geyser from the earth). I really, really, really don’t think so. Integrity is everything, and I expect it. I will continue to expect it. I am far from perfect….in fact I am so far from perfect that I can’t even hear it when it screams. I have made many mistakes, and I have terrible horrible flaws that are too numerous and/or embarrassing to discuss. However, in business, I will do everything in my power to always do the right thing. I don’t cheat. I don’t lie. I am loyal. I do the best quality work that I know how. If someone comes to me with a business idea and they want a business plan, but I believe or know that they don’t have a cat’s chance in a shark tank of success, I won’t take their money. If I know that a partner is doing something unethical or wrong, I won’t tolerate it. If I know that someone is making a mistake, I will speak, whether the receiving ears want to hear it or not. I will speak and try and do my best until I am forced into silence, and then I will be able to do nothing but let people stumble down their chosen paths to failure, or worse. But I still hurt for them.

No, I think my standards are just right.

By Guest Blogger – Carolyn Young

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The Common Cents Week In Review: May 3, 2012

 

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  • want some insider information? want to know what tools we use at CommonCents – take a peek behind the curtain http://t.co/SOSCPcXX ->
  • New! The Common Cents Week In Review: April 26, 2012 http://t.co/XJz59IPs ->
  • get 2Cents every week… tips & inside stuff - http://t.co/GX2exRJ3 ->
  • working on changing directions… mid-stream. would I do it any other way. May is going to be a seriously crazy month!!! Stay tuned. ->
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The Common Cents Week In Review: April 26, 2012

2Cent of the Week:

Question of the Week:
  • What is stops you from keeping up with your business finances? What is your QuickBooks phobia or horror story?… http://t.co/2AjRNZ8o ->
QuickBooks Quickies:
  • QuickBooks Quickies: garbage in, garbage out – setup your foundation correctly then forget about it http://t.co/qh7gsIBp ->
  • QuickBooks Quickies: foundation of your QuickBooks file begins with correct setup http://t.co/qh7gsIBp ->
  • QuickBooks Quickies: meaningful reports begin with planning – your chart of accounts matters http://t.co/qh7gsIBp ->
  • QuickBooks Quickies: sometimes you need someone to walk you through it…we can help - http://t.co/0RfqygFj ->
  • QuickBooksQuickies: setup wrong and your QuickBooks house of cards will come crashing down http://t.co/qh7gsIBp ->
  • QuickBooks Quickies: save time and headaches – set it up right. don’t know how, ask a QuickBooks ProAdvisor to help http://t.co/qh7gsIBp ->
  • QuickBooksQuickie: entering & paying bills is a piece of cake – just give me 5 mins http://t.co/GUyIrcSw ->
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]]> If you’re a small business owner, your job may include going on a few or even several business trips a year. If you do go on business trips fairly often, you’ve probably noticed that traveling isn’t necessarily conducive to staying on top of everything you need to do. You may be wondering what productivity tools you could take with you on the road or up in the air to help you complete your work. Fortunately, advances in technology mean that there are several useful online apps and other tools at your disposal. Here are some of your best productivity tool options:

1. LogMeIn – This is an app you can use to access your computer from your iPhone or iPad. If you need to access a document from your phone or tablet while you’re traveling and you’re away from your laptop, LogMeIn is an excellent resource. LogMeIn is one of the many online apps that are only available for Apple devices. If you’re an Android user, you may be interested in ControlMyPC, an app that lets you remotely access your computer from your Android phone or tablet.

2. A USB Wireless Adapter – You can plug a USB wireless adapter into your tablet or laptop and connect to the web anywhere. You can’t always guarantee that the Wi-Fi in your hotel will be working or that the cute Thai restaurant down the street from your hotel will offer free Wi-Fi. A USB wireless adapter is a productivity tool that lets you stay connected no matter where you are, which means you’ll be able to stay productive no matter where you are.

3. EasySign – This is one of the most innovative productivity apps on the market. EasySign allows you to digitally sign documents and then save them on Box.net or Dropbox so your employees and colleagues can access them. As a small business owner, you probably sign quite a few documents on a regular basis. With EasySign, you can digitally sign documents and digitally deliver them wherever they need to go, even if where they need to go is thousands of miles away. EasySign works on iPhone models, iPad models, and all Android smartphones.

These are just three of the thousands of productivity tools you can use to stay productive on business trips. Try them out, and you’ll be surprised by how busy you can keep yourself as you travel.

Author’s bio: Logan is a guest post writer on the subjects of small business success, international travel, and why flying on private jet charters makes sense in terms of efficiency.

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]]> Nobody likes to do it but you just have to… you wouldn’t want your clients to do it to you, right?  

What the heck am I talking about… paying bills of course!  It’s unavoidable and sometimes tedious but if you want your cash flow to be accurate and meaningful, you must take the extra step and record your accounts payable.  Vendors need love too…

In this installment of QuickBooks Quickies, I’m going to show you that giving love to your vendors can be painless and quick! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4cr6WZIkVs

 

To learn more about the Vendor Area of QuickBooks, you’ll have to check out the rest of Module 2:  Bills, Bills, Bills – Vendors Area  in QuickBooks Basics.

As always, if you have questions… drop us a line:  inquiries[at]thecommoncents[dot]com.

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The Common Cents Week in Review: April 19, 2012

2Cents of the Week:

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Quotes of the Week:
Photos & Random Thoughts:
  • …think I just had an epiphany. totally rethinking part of my content creation strategy but enjoying this journey & having fun with it! ->
  • Quick break… smelling the roses (and sunflower) http://t.co/O5haYpxx ->
  • flowers = smiles… enjoy http://t.co/bTK44gbc ->
  • testing, testing… one, two, three. so far, I like. #MarketMeSuite ->
  • holy toledo… talking to my pal @bruce_taxguy. he just found a balance sheet that doesn’t balance!!! what the heck #TaxDay ->
  • what do you get when you call a tax preparer on tax day for an appointment? directions to file an extension…. http://t.co/5wHdrJZd ->
  • pretty neat for the tail end of tax day (and yes, that 2 laptops & a big axx monitor. I admit to my tech toy http://t.co/G680PVR2 ->
  • writing the QuickBooks QuickTips aka QuickBooksQuickies…. I’m having way too much fun for this to be work…. http://t.co/Cj4g8TqP ->
  • Dear Snoopy: As If!!!! ~The IRS http://t.co/9DXnK0L0 ->
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]]> This month, I have the pleasure of being Ace Insiders Club’s expert for the month!

It is my belief that EVERY small business owner should know something about bookkeeping and that they should keep their finger on the pulse of the financial health of their business.  So it should come as no surprise then that the Host of the Ace Insider’s Club – Coffee Break Interviews, Jane Hinchey and I talked about bookkeeping basics.  What else would an accountant talk about?

In this snippet from our 60+ minute interview, I answer the question:  ”What do terms like ‘Profit & Loss’ and ‘Cash Flow’ mean in everyday language?”  Check it out and tell me what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh7LTDVf6Sw

Hey…Jane, THANKS! I had a lot of fun.

If you would like to learn more bookkeeping basics from me, check out QuickBooks Basics.

Thanks for watching!

 

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