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Scaling Your Business: How to Grow Your E-Commerce Sales

The Realtime Report

As cybersecurity is a genuine worry for online shoppers, you can ease their concerns by: Displaying security badges on your website (e.g. Adding a privacy policy. Paypal Verified, McAfee Secure, and Verified and Secured). Featuring the padlock icon in the browser window (Buy an SSL certificate). PayPal and Apple Pay).

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How To Get Verified On Instagram Even With Few Followers

Keyhole.co

However, Instagram just doesn’t hand out verification badges to anyone. The badge has one primary purpose — to verify the user has an official profile. Earlier, this blue badge was reserved for celebrities, public figures, or global companies. We don’t use the verified badge to endorse or recognize public figures or brands.”

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The Gamification of News

Social Media Marketing

This week Google announced the launch of their Google News Badges. Edition of Google News now lets you collect private, sharable badges for your favorite topics. The more articles you read on Google News, the more your badges level up: you can reach Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and finally Ultimate.

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Are Your Customers Worried About Security?

Small Business Mavericks

One of the best ways to help customers feel confident is by making your privacy policies easy to find and easy to read. Another way to add reassurance is by having badges and logos of any third party security displayed, along with familiar icons like credit card logos or BBB. It feels like the business is professional and efficient.

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Why Foursquare and I Split Up

Ari Herzog

After 2,240 check-ins, 669 photos, 106 tips, 46 badges, and 21 mayorships, I deleted my Foursquare account. ” Citing privacy concerns, I initially deleted my Foursquare account in October 2010. I explained my reasons on their deletion form: “You lost me by splitting into two apps. I don’t want two apps.

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How Businesses like Sylvan Learning Center and Computer Explorers.

Saying It Social

Foursquare awards points and badges when users check-in at locations (check-ins can be done via a mobile phone with internet access or a computer). Businesses can engage and reward consumers by providing deals and discounts to Foursquare users that hold certain badges for checking in and patronizing their business.

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February Social Media Trends

Ignite Social Media

In an effort to further protect its residents’ personal information, California passed bill AB 375 as part of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), in effect as of January 1, 2020. What You Need to Know About the CCPA’s New Data Collection Law.

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