Credit card processing: A thorny, expensive process When a small business signs a contract to process credit cards, it is easy to miss the details and…
With a Merchant Services Provider, you have a chain of relationships. The first is a credit card gateway. Authorize.net is one of the most well-known, but…
For businesses that process less than $5,000 per month, Payment Service Providers are the best deal. Although the cost of processing is usually…
Small business people likely will not see advertising for platform-based Payment Service Providers. These companies are embedded in accounting invoicing…
Do you love a nice tall glass of iced tea on a hot summer day? If you do, you are part of a relatively new tradition in the long and noble history of tea….
The legendary Twinkie, once America’s most irresistible shortcake, started out as a toss-off product created to mark time until strawberry season. The…
For centuries in the West, ladies tucked their neatly pressed and embroidered handkerchiefs into their sleeve or purse. And, eventually, men arranged…
In 1920, Kimberly-Clark, a Wisconsin paper company, became the first to offer a disposable handkerchief. They called it Kleenex. Now a lot of people call…
For thousands of years, possibly in every culture, humans carried cloth handkerchiefs. They were the privilege of wealthy humans. Evidence of…
As a kid growing up in downtown Los Angeles in the 1950s, John Paul DeJoria didn’t really think times were tough. The second son of an Italian immigrant…
