Blog entries tagged 'ecom'

Pelosi hates America

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Politics aside, the title of this blog was an attention getter...

Isn't it interesting how innovative the opportunistic mind works ...on February 27th, both Democrats & Republicans under Pelosi leadership passed H.R. 5351, a bill that will raise the prices that you and I pay at the pump for gasoline through the imposition of $17 - $18 billion dollars in taxes.

Before I discuss the technical aspects of this blog post, let me give you a bit of hist [...]

Circle K - Bill Payment Boon in El Paso with TIO and El Paso Electric

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With the innovation of eCommerce in various local municipalities as a service to the unbanked or under banked, auto-payment services through merchants with their customers that have bank accounts, billing beinf either pre-paid, or billed to your cell phone each month, as well as banks trying to regain eCommerce market share with an under banked communities of interest, why are kiosk application not more readily available to the unbanked?

This April, 2008, El Paso Electric c [...]

What about H.R. 3678???

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In my blog "3 Ways to Address Customer Service issues during the Christmas Rush" I reference Governor Spitzer 8% state wide and 8,375% in the City tax on internet purchases for large retailer sales, like Amazon.

Interesting enough, in all of the comments I received, no one pointed out the October 31, amendment to "Internet Tax Freedom Act Amendment Acts of 2007", which appears to be grounds for a challenge by some enterprising group of Tax Attorney's [...]

3 Ways to Address Customer Service issues during the Christmas Rush

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With the Christmas holiday upon us, customer service takes on a new dimension with all of the checkout lines, increase anxiety, hordes of people, of varying character, inventory losses, theft, anger, and a number of battles by angry shoppers reachingfor that last scarf...

Adding to the confusion is the methods of payments as well as where the new consumer will purchase their goods and services for the holiday season. In the fore front, Consumers are looking to change their buying [...]

Incentives To Increase Electronic Bill Payment

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In an effort to increase the number of consumers who receive and pay their bill electronically, Qwest Communications offered to donate 1% of the consumer's bill to their school district if the consumer switched to electronic bill presentment and payment. Qwest offered this incentive to its consumers in an effort to cut down on the high cost of paper billing and payment. While Qwest did not specify exactly how much money they save for every person that switc [...]

Gift Cards � a Grandparents Dream or a Recipients Nightmare

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One study pegs the growth of Gift Card Promotions at 20% a month; this study did include Stored Value Cards, and rechargeable gift cards.

Incentive Gift Cards have community awareness, as indicated by an online research survey conducted by a First Data Consumer Incentives Study with 526 surveyrespondents.

"Two-thirds, 67 percent, of survey respondents state they were already extremely or very familiar with Gift Cards. During past purchase de [...]

CFSI�s Innovators Roundtable study of the underbanked market

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The Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) announced a new study with a number of financial institutions, which have identified the underbanked or the unbanked as a boon into capturing a greater market share for their financial service offerings.

CHICAGO (BusinessWire)--The Center for Financial Services Innovation announced today the initiation of the first comprehensive, authoritative national segmentation study of the underbanked market. Citi, eFunds (now [...]

E-commerce 101: The basics for beginners and why it should be part of your business strategy

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Back in the early 1980's I was employed at a Texaco in Houston Texas, which like so many others in the recent years, has been acquired, and no longer exists in the same form as it once did. One of the ways that Electronic Commerce evolved at Texaco between the late 1970"s and 1990's was to exchange data between drilling partners to manage the cost of drilling an oil well.

The hyphenated version of this process is as you can imagine, in oil exploration, it is a [...]

German cops arrest phishing gang

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German police have arrested an international phishing gang that allegedly used spam e-mail to unleash trojan programs designed to steal bank account details and passwords.

The gang, which includes Russian, Ukrainian, and German suspects, is alleged to have targeted online banking customers with phishing e-mails claiming to come from organisations includingDeutsche Telekom, eBay, Walmart and Ikea. Attached to the e-mails were malicious Trojan programs that stole information from th [...]

Assets and Opportunity Scorecard Released TODAY - Texas Once Again

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Our Grade Is In: Texas Receives "F" in Financial Stability

Today, the Center for Public Policy Priorities (CPPP) and the Texas Asset Building Coalition (TABC) released the results of the 2007-2008 Assets & Opportunity Scorecard. The scorecard, developed by the national Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED), ranks the 50 statesand Washington, DC on their performance in 84 outcome and policy measures. Through a grant from CFED, CPPP and TABC [...]

Mobile banking set to soar in US - report

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The number of US customers using mobile banking services is set to surge in the next few years and will rise from 1.6 million in 2007 to 35 million by year-end 2010, according to Boston-based research consultancy Aite Group.

The number of customers taking up mobile banking will jump from 1.6 million in 2007 to 9.5 million in 2008, according to the research. The number is set to double in 2009 to 21.1 million users before hitting 35 million users in 2010.

Aite [...]