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The Best PayPal Alternatives For Business
Unhappy with PayPal’s merchant services? Looking for a new processor? Whatever your reason for not choosing PayPal’s credit card processing, there are plenty of other options. Check out our choices for fair, affordable and practical alternatives to PayPal.
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Best Websites To Sell Art & Jewelry
Whether you want a way to sell your own original art online or your business involves selling reproductions of other artists’ work, this list of the best places for selling art online can help you find the resources you need to pick the right method for you. We’ll dig a little deeper into each option, so you can see how easy it can be to show off your artwork, promote your business, gain exposure, and make the sale.
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The Best Business Checking Accounts
You work hard for your business’s money, and your checking account should honor that with great perks, low fees, and helpful banking features. We ruled out the mediocre banks and only included business checking accounts with features and rewards that stood out from the rest.
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Main Street Mavericks Days Five & Six: Meeting Bend’s Small Businesses
Merchant Maverick is dedicated to helping small businesses grow and make smart decisions when choosing business software, but to do our job effectively, we had to hear from real business owners who are out there daily, making their dreams work.
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Main Street Mavericks Day Four: Ashland’s Small Businesses
This thriving community has seen a lot collectively — they recently weathered forest fires that threatened to destroy everything in its path, and many had to close shop to wait out the disaster. While the fire didn’t descend on downtown Ashland, some local cities north of Ashland were not so lucky.
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Main Street Mavericks Day Two: Meeting Cannon Beach’s Small Businesses
On day two of the Main Street Mavericks road trip across Oregon, Kendall and I made our way to the North Coast of Oregon. Most of our scheduled businesses were in Cannon Beach, the iconic town with the giant Haystack Rock as its landmark.
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Main Street Mavericks Business Spotlight: Ida’s Cupcake Cafe
With delicious cupcakes with a unique twist, if you are in Bend, a stop at the cupcake cafe is a must. Come meet Autumn and learn more about Ida’s Cupcakes!
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Business Spotlight On Grant Winners JL Fun Colorz
JL Fun Colorz is a custom crayon shop run by two brothers, Jordan and Joshua Liburd, from Tampa, Florida. For as long as the boys could remember, they wanted to start their own company. Entrepreneurship was in their veins, especially after watching their parents successfully run a small business.
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2024 Business Update With Newks Hot Sauce
Still, to this day, my favorite thing about doing this is hearing customers’ reactions to our sauces while they sample them for the first time. That is when a return customer comes to our stand and tells us how much they love our flavors and what they have done with them. Imagining our sauces on the dinner table at night… It means the world.
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