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Ty Kiisel Articles

Small business evangelist and veteran of over 30 years in the trenches of Main Street business, Ty makes small business credit and finance topics accessible by weaving personal experiences and other anecdotes into a jargon-free discussion of what small business owners need to know. Ty writes about small business financing for OnDeck

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In 1982, Johnson & Johnson pulled 31 million bottles of Tylenol from shelves at a cost of $100 million after seven Chicago-area deaths from cyanide-laced capsules — the company’s decision to recall before regulators required it became the template every business school still teaches for crisis response

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 24, 2026
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Being easygoing isn’t always a personality trait — for some adults it’s a strategy learned in households where having an opinion cost too much

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 24, 2026
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Charles Ponzi promised investors a 50 percent return in 45 days on international postal reply coupons in 1920, took in $20 million in eight months from 40,000 Bostonians, and was exposed when a reporter noted there weren’t enough coupons in worldwide circulation to back even one percent of the claims

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 24, 2026
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In the 1920s, a Kansas publisher named E. Haldeman-Julius tested his book titles by changing only the cover words and keeping the contents identical — Schopenhauer’s ‘The Art of Controversy’ barely sold until he renamed it ‘How to Argue Logically,’ sales jumped to tens of thousands, and he proved the headline mattered more than the book

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 23, 2026
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