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4 Home Improvements You Can Make Over The Winter

florenceGeneral Article / Home Improvement

Over the winter months, most of us find ourselves spending a lot of time indoors and unfortunately, there are quite a few months to get through before it is spring again. But, before you get invested in a box set on the sofa or get frustrated at being indoors for most of the time, why not use this time to spend improving your home? Not only will home improvements increase the value of your home, save money on bills and prevent more expensive problems from developing, but it will also give you something to do!

Freshen Up With A Fresh Coat Of Paint

If you’ve been staring at bare, neutral walls for months and want to brighten up your home, then why not give some of the rooms in your home a new lease of life with a fresh coat of paint. The winter months tend to be the time of year where we need the most visual stimulation, so fresh paint and bright colours can have a significant impact on your mood.

Declutter

By the time spring arrives, you probably won’t want to spend more time indoors decluttering your home, so why not use the winter to organise and …

Worlpay Inc. to Collaborate with ACI Worldwide

florenceEconomy / General Article / Technology

Worldpay Inc. will be incorporating ACI’s services to speed up its plans to add more alternative payment methods to its merchant solutions. The world-known payment-processing tech provider will use ACI Worldwide’s UP eCommerce Payments segment to achieve its target.

ACI is an international real-time and any-to-any e-payments provider for banking institutions, merchants, and corporations. Earlier this month, the firm publicized global collaborations with Worldpay and specified that it would give out its UP eCommerce Payments solution to speed its Alternative Payment Methods (APMs) projects.

Worldpay already takes over 300 forms of payment and plans to utilize UP eCommerce Payments to offer more avenues and increase its list of alternative payment methods. The payment tech provider’s goal is to incorporate all the available payment types in the world.

The collaboration will open new opportunities for Worldpay Inc. to increase its dedication to the modernization and development of new-age services and products.

About ACIW’s UP eCommerce Payments

This solution, being target by Worldpay, is an all-inclusive payment gateway and risk control service that allows retailers access to international payment networks for overseas transaction processing and internal acquiring solutions. ACI’s service also offers first-rate business intelligence solutions and high-end real-time fraud-prevention tech.

So …

How The Furniture Industry Approached eCommerce in 2019

florenceGeneral Article / Global News / Home Improvement

eCommerce has outscored every other form of online business in 2019. With billions of dollars fluctuating on the matter, the eCommerce industry and (its relative approaches) has “contaminated” a lot of business sectors which weren’t normally associated with such business model, like the furniture industry for example. Let’s see how many small, medium and enterprise-level companies were able to build and launch their eCommerce portals in 2019.

How Does That Work With Furniture?

Let’s state the obvious, when it comes to furniture, pretty much the vast majority of buyers would like to see the product and touch it with their own hands before buying it. How does eCommerce apply then to the furniture industry? Well, simply by providing great descriptions of the products and by leading clients to their physical showroom. Lead generation, when done this way, has been a great source of income for companies who were selling both designer furniture or specific items like luxury bar stools.

Is It Complicated To Set Up?

That depends on the company’s size and, most importantly, their approach to the matter. If the furniture company is trying to develop an eCommerce portal from scratch and it’s only selling 4 products, setting …

How to Decorate a Modern Office Space

florenceEconomy / General Article / Global News

If you have ever worked in a boring office space then you know how dreary it can be. Bad decoration and poor lighting are only a couple of factors that can work to make a poor office, but both are equal in that they need to be rooted out of your office design. Your office deserves something more than just the same-old, same-old, it needs innovation. Modern office design at its best.

With this in mind, then, when decorating an office space, there are a number of things which you may want to keep in mind in order to make the most of it. These include:

Use an Open Plan

An open office plan is the modern way to do things as it’s less restrictive, makes workers feel less stuck, and overall better for office ambience. So make sure you factor this into your office design. It can also help your workers feel like there is less of a them/us divide when it comes to senior and junior members of the team. If everyone is together, then how can anyone be apart.

Make It Lighter

Light is an integral part of any office space. If you’re missing it, then likely …

How to Make Money in a Side Hustle

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Do you like your job but find it doesn’t quite earn you enough money? You may want to start considering the inclusion of a side hustle in your life. Though you may continue your regularly working life, a side hustle can help to enrich not only your bank account but your CV as well. As it demonstrates a certain type of engenuity and interest to keep pushing yourself.

So, do you want to consider starting your very own side hustle? Then consider a few of the following points to help you along the way:

Choose Something You’re Good At

A side hustle is only as good as the person attempting to be the hustler. For that reason, if you have a particular skill in mind when attempting the side hustle… then all the better. It’s much harder to start a side hustle that you have to learn the skill for along the way. Of course, the other caveat of a side hustle is to follow. This can sometimes mean pursuing a side hustle based on your primary skill may be more difficult than you imagine…

Try to Prevent Overlapping Your 9 to 5

…because you really shouldn’t attempt a …