Author Archives: Kristi Siedow-Thompson
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10 ways to optimize your online payment form
Every day more and more processes are moving online. Payment forms, account signups, and even online merchant applications are quickly moving to online-only formats. Not surprisingly, the design of your online payment form can increase or decrease your customers’ completion rates significantly, and therefore affect the volume of online payments you’re receiving!
Here are 10 tips to design an effective online payment form: Continue reading…
INFOGRAPHIC: The Late Payment Show
Almost half of small businesses consider late payments to be their single biggest pain point when it comes to cash flow. But with so many small businesses experiencing these annoying late payments on a monthly basis, it’s a wonder why the issue isn’t brought under the spotlight more often.
Check out this infographic that illustrates how chasing down those late payments can be as complicated as orchestrating your own late night show. Data was gathered from PaySimple’s October 2011 Small Business Pulse Survey.
How to create a solid business card
Nothing conveys professionalism like a solid business card. And if you run a small business and plan to engage in any sort of in-person networking, you better have one to trade.
As a graphic designer I have designed my own fair share of business cards, and have traded more than I can count with prospective business clients and contacts. Below are some tips to help your business card have an impact: Continue reading…
INFOGRAPHIC: The Electronic Invoicing Game
Collecting payments from customers is not a game, which is why it’s surprising that two-thirds of small businesses continue to go through the long-winded process of invoicing their customers manually.
Endless paperwork, adding numbers by hand, and waiting on processes that aren’t in your control like the postal service can be avoided by implementing a simple electronic invoicing system that can automatically handle these tedious tasks for you.
Kristi Siedow Thompson, PaySimple’s Graphic Designer, created this infographic below to illustrate how an electronic invoicing system can make managing your business simpler. How much time (and money) can you save your business by switching to electronic invoicing?
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