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Comment on Scalability Matters In The Digital Economy by The Power of Nine « Blog | Vindicia Soapbox

The Power of Nine « Blog | Vindicia Soapbox — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:41:32 +0000

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The Vindicia Holiday Twitter Program: Plaxo « Blog | Vindicia Soapbox — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:23:14 +0000

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Comment on Launching A Digital Business – Global Expansion by Eugene Joseph

Eugene Joseph — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:22:49 +0000

The information is very pertinent to us, as we’re preparing to launch Bot Colony globally (we have thousands of people from 193 countries who have signed up for the Beta). I was wondering if the information was available in the form of a table that co-relates it, possibly in this format:

Country
Number of Internet Users in Country
Preferred Paying Information in Country (1, 2, and 3) – here you’d see Boleto Bancario from Brazil
Pricing in local currencies (can you be paid in Yuan in China, and how do you get the money to North America ?)
Localization importance to conduct e-commerce (on a scale of 1 – 10)
Penetration of English (% of people who understand it)

Comment on Subscription by vbehmer

vbehmer — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:30:33 +0000

Great One…

Thanks. My link:http://blogtext.org/aleshabyali/ ,Thanks again….

Comment on Launching A Digital Business – PCI by Launching A Digital Business – Part Two « Blog | Vindicia Soapbox

Launching A Digital Business – Part Two « Blog | Vindicia Soapbox — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:55:35 +0000

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Comment on Payment Method Breakdown for Digital Commerce by Payment Ecosystem Myths – Part 2 « Blog | Vindicia Soapbox

Payment Ecosystem Myths – Part 2 « Blog | Vindicia Soapbox — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:09:09 +0000

[...] and the potential for cannibalization. The most common payment methods in the US are still credit and debit cards. You’ll obviously need to modify this thinking based on the geographical focus for your service [...]

Comment on Payment Ecosystem Myths – Part 2 by Payment Ecosystem Myths – Part 1 « Blog | Vindicia Soapbox

Payment Ecosystem Myths – Part 1 « Blog | Vindicia Soapbox — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:07:03 +0000

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Comment on Subscription Billing’s Opposing Forces by blupark.net » Blog Archive » Card Payments:PCI Compliance and Tokenization

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 20:23:05 +0000

[...] Subscription Billing’s Opposing Forces In this blog post Gene Hoffman writes: When going to market using subscription billing there are three diametrically opposed forces fighting you, the person who owns the active subscriber count as you try to acquire and retain the most customers possible. These forces are PCI, Account Updater, and customer data ownership. I want to focus on the balancing act between the first two. These days, one of the primary mechanisms to lowering the compliance burden and the actual risk of card disclosures is to use tokenization of those cards from your merchant acquirer, or gateway. Tokenization is simply an infrastructure at, for example, your gateway that will take the card you obtain from your customer on your checkout page, encrypt it for storage in their database, and hand you back a ‘handle’ to that card for future use. It doesn’t remove much of the compliance burden as credit cards still flow through your webserver and thus you still have to fully comply with PCI, but it does lower the risks of actual disclosure and shrinks the scope of your compliance efforts. A surprising number of merchants are unaware of or don’t implement Account Updater, which is available from Visa and Mastercard in North America and some of Europe. Account Updater functions in two ways. The primary way will automatically send card changes for customers that you’ve billed in the last six months to you so that you can seamlessly update their card before a billing event. The alternative way is for you to either proactively or after a billing failure ask if there has been an update on any given card. We’ve found that the absolute best result is to run Account Updater in both modes and spend time optimizing the latter mode for specific billing plan frequencies. Unfortunately, the requirements of Account Updater and its impact on customer retention are at odds with the requirements of tokenization in support of PCI. Most of the tokenization projects at the various vendors do not take the product requirements of Account Updater into consideration. How does one query the Account Updater service for the new card that may have replaced the one that failed when all you have is a handle to the old card? Unless your vendor has specifically added this to their tokenization implementation you are hostage to their product roadmap to save some significant percentage of subscriber churn. When you recall that few vendors are focused on the challenges of digital content and services with subscriptions, and instead get the bulk of their revenue from one time purchase physical goods merchants it makes sense that these tokenization projects have usually not addressed Account Updater functionality. [...]

Comment on SaaS Billing Is A Marketing Asset by Data, Insights, and Best Practices « Blog | Vindicia Soapbox

Data, Insights, and Best Practices « Blog | Vindicia Soapbox — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:54:12 +0000

[...] broader universe of the digital merchants that we service. I’ve discussed in the past how SaaS Billing is really a Marketing asset, not just an operational necessity. We’ve also been extremely vocal about the need for our [...]