Author: Maria Sparagis

Maria Sparagis is President of DirectPayNet, where she's spent over 20 years helping businesses scale to six-, seven-, and eight-figure revenue through optimized payment processing. She works hands-on with business owners to solve merchant account challenges, reduce processing costs, and implement payment strategies that support real growth. Maria is a regular speaker at fintech conferences and writes about practical approaches that help businesses break through revenue plateaus.

Fake Reviews Will Kill Your Online Business. Take This Advice Instead!

If you’re using or thinking about using fake reviews, the FTC is not the only thing you should be worried about.

Heading into 2020, fake reviews would be the last thing on your mind. But for us, it’s an issue that could affect a significant number of our clients if they aren’t careful. Business owners, Amazon sellers, marketers, influencers all understand the power of reviews. This has, unfortunately, led to the increasing use of fake reviews […]

Run A Subscription Business? Here’s What You Need To Watch Out For In 2020

Run A Subscription Business? Here’s What You Need To Watch Out For In 2020

Subscription, continuity, rebilling, memberships and other recurring payment models are big online revenue generators. In fact, this e-commerce market is continuously growing year over year. Studies show increases by more than 100% a year over the past five years. Revenues from online companies using recurring transaction models are set to top $3 billion in 2019, […]

Checkout Security Reinforcement! Protect Your Online Business From A Data Breach

order page and checkout security

Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone, but was your checkout security ready to stop cyber threats? Q4 is set to break higher spending records from previous years, particularly in the online shopping space. Projections show spending was set to hit $143.7 billion this year. A huge 14.1% increase over last year. Yet […]

Social Media Management Software Owners Are Leaving Money On The Table

It’s a battle for supremacy between social media management software solutions. You know Buffer, Hootsuite and others big brands offer simple platforms to better manage many social media profiles. New startups are fighting for a share of the market. This is in part due to the rising power of social media in influencing business decisions. […]