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SnapTags: The New Player in Mobile Payment Processing
As QR Codes slowly gain traction in North America, their reach is being threatened by a new sleek and sexy form of image codes known as SnapTags. These new displays allow for companies to create scannable images with their logos prominently featured that facilitate communication between advertisers and consumers, and as of last month, even trigger payment mechanisms. QR Code technology, which was created by a subsidiary of Toyota in 1994, had a long road to application from factories and into the toolbox of marketers. Enthusiasts will cite the fervent use of QR Codes in Japan as a testament to their undeniable future application worldwide, but the fact of the matter is QR Code excitement has become relatively stagnant in America over the last couple years. Unfortunately for these black and white squares, they have an Achilles ’ heel — only 1/3 of Americans have smartphones capable of installing QR … Continue reading
Interview with Alexander from Dashboard Insight
Dashboard technologies allow businesses to take in large amounts of data and rearrange the points in many different ways to help them get a clearer overall picture. Data related to your business is all around you, and using dashboard technology will allow you to take advantage of a relatively unknown resource that many of your competitors most likely don’t know about nor know how to utilize. Alexander Chiang, the Research Director at Dashboard Insight, was kind enough to let us ask him some questions on the future of the business intelligence and dashboard industry, and how we can further take advantage of such an early industry that will be exponentially useful the sooner small businesses begin using it ahead of their competitors… CreditCardProcessing.net: What sort of progress has dashboard software made in the past couple of years? Alexander: Vendors that provide dashboard software are able to handle larger sets of … Continue reading
Interview with InetSoft – Business Intelligence Software
The market research industry is booming as exampled by one of the top market research firms, Nielsen Company, taking in $5.1 billion in revenue last year. Much of the information gathered and turned into reports by market research firms is purchased by other industry-specific firms to help gain an advantage over the competition. A large amount of data is generated by small businesses when they process transactions with customers, get visitors to their websites, and can even be found by a simple web search. Thanks to computer integration in the workplace, small businesses now have to opportunity to conduct their own market research by utilizing software that is customizable to each business’ specific needs. One such firm that offers these insights is InetSoft whose business intelligence (BI) tools and Dashboard Software provide small businesses with performance metrics in an easy-to-understand format. Mark Flaherty, the Chief Marketing Officer at InetSoft, was … Continue reading
Choosing a Business Bank Account – An Interview with Ken Tumin
When someone mentions the word “Banking,” the main ideas that comes to most of our minds are based around the recent turmoil so closely associated with banks like Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, and the numerous others that either failed or received plentiful media coverage for needing to take bailout money – What most likely doesn’t come to mind when banking is mentioned are monks, temples, grain, and cattle. In banking’s infancy, deposits of grain and cattle were made at temples because of the safety that comes with a sacred, well-constructed, building that was “well-staffed” with monks. Since that time, banking has evolved dramatically to become its own institution separate from temples and religion (unless, of course, you are like a few people on Wall Street who consider capitalism to be a religious movement). Modern banks are able to accept deposits from many entities, like corporations and partnerships, which are not … Continue reading
