Creating New Earning Potential Through Frugal Innovation Chargebacks911™ recently had the honor of sharing valuable chargeback management insight at two prestigious industry events, the IATA World Finance Symposium and the ARC Travel Connect 2016. One trend was abundantly clear throughout the course of both events: airlines are not effectively addressing the issue of chargebacks. However, they can no longer afford …
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Why Management Skills Are Necessary to Lead Effectively In any organization, there are distinct roles and responsibilities each individual must execute. Leaders, though, are often the exception to the rule, as their obligations are quite expansive. Despite this reality, there is one surprising blend of characteristics many are unaware of. A truly effective individual will showcase the best traits of …
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Mobile Growth Continues—Merchants Need a Fresh Approach for the New Market It’s now impossible to ignore the direction in which the eCommerce industry is moving. Mobile is poised to be the undisputed champion of online retail, with the majority of consumers relying on mobile devices to make purchases, research products and interact with brands. Smartphones, in particular, appear to be …
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Encouraging True Gender Equality Rather than Professional Entitlement Gender equality is prevailing topic of conversation in any industry, but it is especially prevalent among science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers. Studies show the STEM industry in particularly is woefully unbalanced. Women comprise 57% of the U.S. workforce, but only 26% of professional computing careers. Similarly, 57% of bachelor’s degrees are …
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Promoting Financial Literacy Encourages More Equitable eCommerce Experiences More often than not, consumers who commit friendly fraud do not set out with the intent of ripping-off merchants and getting something for nothing. Rather, these illegitimate chargebacks are often the result of learned consumer behaviors. Correcting those behaviors requires advanced financial literacy and a greater understanding of cardholder responsibility. That’s why …
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My Experience at One of the World’s Top Events for Affiliate Marketers Affiliate Summit East is one of the biggest annual shows for affiliate advertisers, networks, and publishers. Each summer, the event attracts several thousand attendees spread across three tradeshow areas, all for three jam-packed days of networking, educating and sharing ideas. Affiliate Summit—an Overview Affiliate Summit East, the Atlantic …
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This Rising Fraud Threat is Targeting the Airline Industry Online travel booking is a major developing market. In fact, online bookings are growing at a faster rate than the travel industry itself. This is especially true for mobile devices, as travel purchases made using a mobile device are up 60% year-over-year. Given that 63% of consumers rank travel as their …
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Students Receive Help with Grades, Gain Skills & Confidence Along the Way Business success is its own reward in many ways. However, the ability to leverage your success as a way to help others is one of the greatest rewards imaginable. I’ve been fortunate enough to find a very unique and effective way to give back to the local community …
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The Post-Millennial Retail Environment is Right Around the Corner For more than a decade now, marketers, retailers and analysts have been trying to crack the code to understanding the elusive, mysterious Millennial generation. In many cases, it seems like they’re still struggling to connect with that crucial 18-34 demographic—the pocket currently occupied entirely by Millennials. However, the Millennial generation’s successor …
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Three Key Findings from MRC’s Global Payments Survey As all merchants know by now, the ecommerce environment is not short on sources of revenue loss. However, the MRC Global Payments Survey 2016 demonstrates a surprising shift in perspective on that subject. Merchants are finally starting to realize that one catch-all solution will not do the trick; instead, merchants need different …
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