Click & Convert with Maria Sparagis

Your ROAS might look great—but your business could still be leaving serious money on the table. The problem may have nothing to do with your ads or traffic. In this episode, I reveal an overlooked way to increase ROAS...

If you're a non-US resident with a US LLC and Stripe suddenly puts your funds on reserve, holds your payouts, or shuts down your account, finding another US payment processor may be harder than you expect. In this...

What happens to your business when you step away? If every important decision still needs your approval, growth eventually becomes harder — no matter how talented your team is. In this episode, I share what I learned...

Same product. Same customer. A $900 difference. Two businesses can sell almost identical products to almost identical customers, yet see completely different business revenue growth. One generates $100 from that...

Every month, I see which businesses are about to stop growing before they even notice it. Most founders blame marketing first. More ads, a new funnel, a better website. But because my company processes payments for...

Someone could be testing stolen credit cards on your website right now — and your payment processor isn't going to stop it. It's called a card testing attack. Fraudsters get their hands on stolen card numbers and run...

Shopify shut off her Shopify Payments entirely — with less than 48 hours' notice before she'd lose the ability to take payments at all. They flagged her account as high risk, disabled her processing as of June 21, and...

Are Stripe, Shopify Payments, PayPal, or another processor delaying payouts, adding reserves, or asking a ton of questions about your business? In this episode, Maria explains why your payment processor treats you as...

You could be losing thousands of dollars a month — and your marketing dashboard would never show it. Most founders respond to slow growth by launching new campaigns, testing new creatives, and tweaking landing pages...

If customers are reaching checkout but not completing payment, your checkout page may be missing the trust signals, payment options, and clarity buyers need before entering their card. Your ads are working. People are...

You added AI support agents to save money. It might be why your chargebacks are climbing. For ecommerce brands, AI support chatbots are an easy sell — fewer tickets, lower headcount, faster response times. But there's a...

Your Stripe account closed and Stripe is still holding your funds? Here's what's actually happening and how to recover Stripe money faster. When Stripe shuts down your account, your remaining balance doesn't get sent to...

Your customers are trying to buy. Their cards are valid. Yet the transaction still gets declined. Do Not Honor is one of the most misunderstood credit card decline codes, and for many businesses it's quietly costing...

Take back control of your payments before Stripe, Shopify Payments, PayPal, or Square take control of your business. Many ecommerce brands build their entire payment infrastructure around a single payment service...

Your account can get flagged long before you ever hit a 1% chargeback rate. For years, 1% was treated like the magical chargeback threshold. As long as your business stayed under it, most merchants assumed their account...