3 Ways Your Business Will Benefit from an Integrated Payment System

Whether you operate a restaurant, coffee shop, retail store, or bar, an integrated payment system is crucial to your business’s future success. Accepting credit cards is far more than a simple payment transaction. POS systems are now integrated with fast and reliable payment processing services, which means you can now streamline operations, manage front and back end operations more efficiently and improve customer loyalty.

The Top 13 Pregnancy Myths

Created by baby equipment vendor PishPoshBaby.com, this infographic explores 13 popular pregnancy myths and the facts and fallacies behind them, like eating spicy food or walking triggering pre-term labor, avoiding coffee or sushi. It is a great reference that dispels most of the false beliefs that make life uncomfortable for expectant mothers.

Here Comes the Sun

Before trudging to the kitchen to grab your daily cup of coffee, consider starting your day by integrating some quick and easy flow yoga moves, also known as Vinyasa. Vinyasa is a type of yoga that works with your breathing, allowing stretches to work with your body’s natural inhaling/exhaling rhythms.

Breakfast From Around The World

The food one decides to eat for breakfast can vary greatly from person to person, especially when you’re thinking about what people outside of the U.S. prefer to eat to start their day off right. Breakfast sandwiches, cold cereal, coffee, eggs, fruit, and juice are all common breakfast choices for people living in the U.S. What about the rest of the world? The following infographic will take you on a trip around the world, giving you a “taste” of what people cook and eat for breakfast in different countries.

Is America a Nation of Java Junkies?

Amazing, but true – some substance abuse clinics already view caffeine as a potentially hazardous substance and do not allow patients or employees to bring the contraband into the facility. I don’t know about you, but I’m a Java Junkie for sure, First thing I grab in the morning. How about you? Check out some fascinating facts and figures on coffee and caffeine in general in the following infographic.

What Your Instagram Filter Says About You

Are you one of the 100 million active users generating 40 million photos a day on Instagram? As a marketer, user generated content is a gold mine for insights and can be a nice complement to any content marketing strategy. The infographic below from the folks at Marketo explains the psychology behind the top 10 Instagram filters, and profiles the personalities of the photographers who use them.

13 Money-Saving Tips for 2013

How would you like to start out the New Year saving money? This infographic from Quicken Loans will show you 13 different money saving tips that will help you save a combined total of $11,244.00! These tips are simple adjustments to your daily life that will help you take control of your debt and fatten up your bank account.

The Study Habits of Online Students

One of the most valued aspects of online learning schools is that you can do it at home, in your local coffee shop, library and just about anywhere your heart desires. Working students, parents and active-duty military worldwide benefit from this particular feature of online learning. So, with this in mind, Allied Schools surveyed around 70 of their students, asking them questions about their study habits. They transformed the survey results into this infographic on the Study Habits of Online Students.

How Toxic Is Your Food Environment?

These days we live in a world full of tempting, tasty food everywhere we turn. New research from Weight Watchers reveals that it’s this overloaded food environment that causes us to overeat– it’s not just about lack of willpower! From browsing for breakfast cereals in our kitchen cupboards to grabbing a coffee on the go or piling on the pasta at dinner, we make an average of 200 food decisions every day. Around 90% of these decisions are unconscious – we don’t even notice them.

NYC Subway System

New Yorkers are faced with infinite struggles in their daily life including higher taxes, congestion, transportation delays, $5 cups of coffee, and so much more. But the one thing they have over any other city in the world is a safe, (usually) reliable, 24/7 means of public transportation – the subway.