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Click & Convert with Maria Sparagis

Click & Convert with Maria Sparagis

By: Maria Sparagis
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Maria Sparagis has spent 20+ years helping online businesses find the revenue they didn't know they were losing. As president of DirectPayNet and a payment solutions expert, she knows that the difference between a good business and a great one often comes down to how you handle payments and conversions. On Click & Convert, Maria shares the strategies, tools, and insider knowledge that ecommerce founders and online entrepreneurs need to scale to 6 and 8 figures — from optimizing your checkout flow to maximizing what hits your bottom line. Featured in American Banker, Vice, Coindesk, and Yahoo. Connect at mariasparagis.com or directpaynet.com.Copyright 2026 Maria Sparagis Economics Leadership Management & Leadership Marketing Marketing & Sales
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  • 256 How to Stop Losing Money on Chargebacks
    Oct 13 2026

    Chargeback prevention starts before a customer disputes a payment. Learn how to prevent chargebacks, reduce dispute losses, and protect your ecommerce profits.

    A $200 chargeback can cost your business far more than $200. Between lost merchandise, advertising expenses, chargeback fees, and administrative costs, the financial impact adds up quickly.

    In this video, I explain three ways online businesses can reduce chargeback losses:

    ✅ Prevent chargebacks with better fraud controls, recognizable billing descriptors, clear subscription terms, and customer communication.

    ✅ Stop disputes early using Visa Order Insight, Consumer Clarity, Rapid Dispute Resolution (RDR), Ethoca alerts, and CDRN.

    ✅ Fight chargebacks strategically by understanding when representment makes financial sense and when resolving a dispute is the better option.

    You'll also learn why chargeback ratios matter and how Visa's VAMP program can affect your payment processing account.

    Whether you use Shopify Payments, Stripe, or a traditional merchant account, these chargeback prevention strategies can help protect your revenue.

    💳 NEED HELP WITH CHARGEBACK PREVENTION? DirectPayNet helps online businesses manage chargebacks, implement dispute prevention tools, and find reliable payment processing solutions.

    👉 https://directpaynet.com/contact-us/

    RELATED VIDEOS

    ▶️ Visa VAMP Explained: https://youtu.be/dVWFZq6Z0kw?si=HOtRJGQHyH9kIN9

    ▶️ How to Fight Chargebacks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKUKO9ajoH4

    ABOUT MARIA SPARAGIS Maria Sparagis is the founder of DirectPayNet, a payment processing company helping ecommerce businesses navigate merchant accounts, fraud prevention, chargebacks, and payment challenges.

    Subscribe to Click & Convert for practical insights into ecommerce, payment processing, and growing an online business. #ChargebackPrevention #Chargebacks #Ecommerce

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    10 mins
  • #255 The Problems That Start When Your Shopify Store Hits $1M
    Oct 6 2026

    Scaling your Shopify store toward $1 million in revenue? Your payment processing setup may need to change before your sales do. As ecommerce volume grows, payment approval rates, routing, reserves, funding speed, fraud controls, and backup processing become increasingly important to the stability of your business. In this video, Maria Sparagis explains what Shopify store owners should review before reaching higher processing volumes, including why relying on a single payment setup can create unnecessary risk and what questions you should ask before your store reaches its next stage of growth. You'll learn about: - Shopify payment processing at higher sales volumes - Payment approval rates - Payment routing and redundancy - Reserve exposure - Funding and cash flow - Fraud controls - Backup payment processing - The real cost of changing your payment setup - What to review before your Shopify store reaches $1M+ If you're scaling an ecommerce business, your payment infrastructure needs to scale with it. ____________________________________________ 👇 Need help with your payment processing? DirectPayNet helps ecommerce businesses improve payment approvals, reduce payment issues, and build payment systems that scale. 👉 https://directpaynet.com/contact-us/

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    6 mins
  • #252 Shopify vs WooCommerce: Which Is Better as Your Business Grows?
    Sep 14 2026

    Shopify or WooCommerce—which is the better choice for your ecommerce business?

    Shopify offers an integrated, easy-to-manage ecommerce ecosystem, while WooCommerce gives you considerably more flexibility and control. But the differences become more important as your business grows.

    In this episode, I compare Shopify and WooCommerce from a business owner's perspective, including ease of use, customization, total operating costs and an area that's often overlooked: payments.

    I also explain why payment flexibility can become a financial decision at higher sales volumes, and what established ecommerce businesses should consider before deciding which platform makes the most sense as they scale.

    Learn more about DirectPayNet: https://directpaynet.com/contact-us/

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    11 mins
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