Chad Gardner - Articles

 

I am a Web Marketing Associate for PaySimple and am responsible for bolstering SEO efforts, utilizing emerging social media technology to create and monitor our collective web presence, and helping provide small businesses with valuable resources to make their lives more efficient.

Recurring Billing: Your Answer to Cash Flow Woes

Collecting payments on-time is a vital part of any business, especially for small businesses that are cash flow dependent. Keeping a close eye on cash-flow both coming in and going out of a business can be one of the most crucial and demanding tasks for any business – this is especially where resources are limited. Fortunately, technology has given small businesses an easy solution for increasing their customers’ on-time payments: Recurring Billing. Read

By: Chad Gardner | 06/02/2009 | ECommerce

Echeck Processing Via the Ach Network: How Does it Benefit You?

We’ve probably all done it hundreds of times – pulled out our checkbook to pay a bill. It is easy to assume that paper check will be manually sorted by the business, deposited at the bank, and processed. But with the Digital Age upon us, paper check processing in this manner is becoming less and less likely, and less convenient. Read

By: Chad Gardner | 06/02/2009 | ECommerce

Ach Payment Processing: an Introduction and Benefits

Offering consumers online payment processing alternatives could be the differentiating factor between whether a customer brings their business to you or a competitor. Read

By: Chad Gardner | 29/12/2008 | ECommerce

Merchant Account Pci Compliance: 4 Tips to Help Small Businesses

If a business, large or small, is responsible for collecting or processing any cardholder data, it needs to follow the Payment Card Industry’s compliance regulations to ensure customers’ data is secure. Here are four steps you as a small business owner can take to get started with understanding the ins and outs of PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Read

By: Chad Gardner | 02/12/2008 | ECommerce

Have You Googles yourself Lately?

With more and more people searching for local businesses on Google (ie. “Denver, CO florist”), it is important for small businesses to be on the first results page – if not the first result on the page – for their respective niche or at least their company name. So, if a small business doesn’t have a website, how can they rank on a search results page or create a valuable online presence? Read

By: Chad Gardner | 21/10/2008 | Small Business