Square Market launches, provides easy online storefronts for small businesses

Local businesses can now sell online with Square Market

SAN FRANCISCO – June 26, 2013 – Today Square, the company making commerce easy for everyone, introduced Square Market, an online marketplace for businesses to sell everything from handmade jewelry, housewares and merchandise, to yoga lessons and beauty services. Square Market provides local businesses across the U.S. the ability to sell their products throughout the country to anyone, anywhere.

Square has enabled millions of businesses to use the Square Reader and free Square Register app on their mobile device to process payments, run, and grow their business. Now sellers can reach more customers and sell more goods by setting up in the Square Market.

"We're focused on making easy-to-use tools for merchants that create an incredible experience for their customers - no matter where they are. Creating an online marketplace is our next step in making commerce easy for everyone," said Ajit Varma Square's Director of Discovery. "Square Market makes local businesses accessible to customers down the block and across the country."

Sellers no longer need to waste money on expensive website development, complicated fees, or complex inventory management. Square Market enables anyone to open a store for free with items, photos, and a profile for their business. Sellers can post items directly to Twitter for their followers to discover and share. Square offers one low fee of 2.75% per item sold and there is no charge to list items.

Many Square businesses are already selling their items in the Square Market.

Standard & Strange, American-made men's apparel, began using Square for pop-ups and trunk shows before opening an Oakland-based retail shop in 2012. "We're small and it would have been really tough to make a go at eCommerce on our own," said owner Neil Berrett. "Running an online store is like having a whole other business. Square makes it easy with a simple solution, and we are featured along with other great brands."

Indie electronic band The Limousines sells their albums to fans across the country on Square Market. "In a world where retail space is getting harder to come by, we've got a gorgeous, user-friendly storefront that's open 24 hours. The backend couldn't be more intuitive and the money from sales automatically goes straight to our bank account," Eric Victorino of the Limousines said. "Being in a band is an unpredictable adventure, but selling our music should be cut and dry - it is, thanks to Square."

Square is making sophisticated, big-business tools simple, easy to use, and available to anyone. Visit www.squareup.com/market to create a store in the Square Market to start selling online today.

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Zoho announces Zoho Vault, provides a hub for businesses to manage passwords

Zoho Launches Zoho Vault, Online Password Manager for Businesses

Zoho Vault Helps Store Passwords in a Centralized Repository; Offers Strong Security and Complete Data Privacy

"Host-proof hosting" encrypts passwords (AES-256) at the browser, stores only encrypted data on server, does not store encryption key
Secure, controlled password sharing among team members and workgroups; complete visibility on password usage and access
One-click login to launch direct connection to websites, applications
iPhone app provides access to passwords while on the go
PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zoho today announced the launch of Zoho Vault, the secure, easy-to-use online password manager for teams and businesses. Zoho Vault establishes a central repository that offers unmatched security and complete data privacy for companies that want to store, organize, manage and safely share their passwords, online credentials, financial records and other sensitive information. The Zoho Vault iPhone app lets users access passwords anywhere, any time.

"Organizations are drowning in a sea of passwords - both personal and business - because passwords are still the dominant form of user authentication"
"Organizations are drowning in a sea of passwords - both personal and business - because passwords are still the dominant form of user authentication," said Raju Vegesna, Zoho evangelist. "To stay afloat, users have developed poor password practices. They store passwords in spreadsheets, text documents and other volatile sources. They share them insecurely, without protection. And they reuse passwords that are usually weak and easy to remember. Zoho Vault solves these password problems with an online password manager that's easy to use yet highly secure."

Highlights of Zoho Vault

Zoho Vault offers safe, secure password and data storage and complete data privacy. Passwords are encrypted with the latest encryption standard, AES-256. The passphrase, which the user enters to access Zoho Vault, is used as an encryption key but is not stored anywhere on the Zoho Vault server or on the user's computer or iPhone.

The Zoho Vault server holds only encrypted data, and the passphrase never leaves your browser. As a result, the user's passwords and information remain completely private and can only be viewed by the user.

Businesses can use Zoho Vault to securely share passwords among trusted members of their organization, and different access privileges can be assigned to different users. The sharing process has been designed to follow the highest levels of information security and privacy standards. Sharing can be enabled or revoked in real time just by a single click.

To automate the web app login sequence, Zoho Vault features a direct, one-click login mechanism. Zoho Vault users will never be required to type or copy-and-paste passwords to login to websites or applications. Instead, users can launch direct connections to all of their websites and applications from the Zoho Vault interface, without even viewing the password.

Zoho Vault has been designed to meet the requirements of businesses of all sizes and types, including SMBs, enterprises, online marketing firms, web professionals and IT teams that are struggling with shared passwords. Additional highlights of Zoho Vault include:

Grouping of passwords and secrets for better access and management
Clearly-defined ownership for all passwords, with provision to transfer ownership when someone leaves the organization
Provision to enforce password policies
Import and export passwords and secrets
Secure offline access mechanism for passwords and sensitive information
Comprehensive audit trails for all user actions
Two-factor authentication for increased security
iPhone app for access to passwords while on the go, even when there is no Internet connection
Pricing and Availability

Zoho Vault is available immediately. The Personal Edition is free and supports one user. The Enterprise Edition is $1 per user per month and supports an unlimited number of users and the iPhone app.

For more information on Zoho, please visit www.zoho.com. To get breaking Zoho news, follow the company on Twitter at @zoho and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/zoho. The latest news about Zoho products is available on the company blog, http://blogs.zoho.com.

Additional Zoho Resources

Zoho news releases: http://www.zoho.com/in-the-news.html

Zoho product videos: http://www.zoho.com/product_videos.html

Zoho general videos: http://www.zoho.com/videos.html

Zoho blogs: http://blogs.zoho.com

Zoho on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/zoho

Zoho Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/zoho

About Zoho

Zoho is a comprehensive suite of award-winning online productivity, collaboration and business applications for businesses of all sizes. Over seven million users rely on Zoho for their Business, Productivity & Collaboration needs and actively connect via Forums, Blogs, Facebook and Twitter. Zoho has launched several online office applications such as Writer, Sheet, Show and Mail along with a host of business applications ranging from CRM to Projects, Invoice and Meeting. These applications are offered directly via Zoho.com or through hundreds of partners in the Zoho Alliance Partner Program. For more information about Zoho, please visit http://www.zoho.com/.

Zoho is a division of Zoho Corp., a privately-held and profitable company, which also provides IT Management Software (ManageEngine with over 72,000 customers) and a Network Management Suite (WebNMS with 25,000 Tier 1 carrier deployments). With headquarters in Pleasanton, CA and offices in Austin, New Jersey, Chennai, London, Tokyo and Beijing, Zoho Corp. serves the technology needs of millions of customers worldwide. For more information about Zoho Corp., please visit www.zohocorp.com.

All brand names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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Yelp Now Shows Businesses How Much Money They Make From Yelp

Seth Fiegerman2013-03-26 14:12:05 UTC

Yelp released a new tool on Monday that helps small businesses estimate how much revenue they make through the review site.

The tool, called the Revenue Estimator, lets local businesses track the number of customer leads from their Yelp profile and provides an estimate for how much revenue the merchant generated from those leads, based on data from The Boston Consulting Group about average consumer spending in different retail categories.

The Revenue Estimator is free for businesses to use and available to any local merchant on Yelp. The goal, according to Matt Halprin, Yelp's VP of revenue and analytics, is to give businesses and advertisers a better way to evaluate the potential return from using Yelp.

"First, it helps quantify the revenue opportunity Yelp is already sending to each business," Halprin wrote in a blog post announcing the new tool. "Second, it establishes a revenue baseline for prospective advertisers, from which they can later evaluate the impact of their investment in Yelp Ads."

Yelp isn't the only Internet company providing better tools for businesses to assess revenue. Google just rolled out a new tool to help businesses measure their ROI from mobile ad spending.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto, gmutlu and Yelp

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