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15 Sep Looking for business funding? Start here

Posted at 13:33h in Blog, Funding Terms For Dummies, Line of Credit, Small Business Funding, Working Capital And Business Loans

There may come a time in the life of a business when an owner may need additional funding. A dentist realizes he needs to upgrade his computer system to comply with HIPAA regulations. The proprietor of a salon opens the door one morning to a...

14 Sep Should you use a personal line of credit for your business?

Posted at 13:52h in Blog, Line of Credit

Experts say it is wise to keep your personal finances separate from your business’s. While this may be true, at some point in the life of a small business, an owner may have no choice but to use a personal line of credit (LOC) as...

12 Sep Etsy, and the Transition from Small Scale Business

Posted at 13:13h in Blog, Business, Small Business Funding

“Do what you love, and you will find a way to get it out to the world.” --Judy Collins That quotation wouldn’t be at all out of place on the wall above the home computer of any of the thousands of sellers on Etsy, the popular...

08 Sep Food Truck for Sale? What You Need to Know Before You Buy

Posted at 13:46h in Blog, Equipment Financing, Line of Credit, Small Business Funding

For a while now, you’ve been toying with the idea of buying a food truck. Maybe it began back when you were ten and the ice cream man-- with his popsicles and Drumsticks-- rolled through your neighborhood on a hot summer day. Or you’ve been...

05 Sep What slow season? Goal Setting for Customer Satisfaction

Posted at 13:46h in Blog, Business, Small Business Funding

Happy customers come back. Disgruntled ones take their business elsewhere. Who among us hasn’t experienced a rude clerk or waitress, and as a result vowed, “I’m never going back there”? Or the opposite – smiled all the way home from a store or a restaurant...

01 Sep How to get a business loan despite your past

Posted at 14:38h in Blog, Business, Small Business Funding

Let’s pretend for the next few minutes that you’re a lender. One afternoon, three business-loan applications land on your desk. One’s from Pope Francis. Another’s from Martha Stewart. And the third is from a local woman hoping to expand her day-spa business. Like many lenders, when...

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25 Aug What is Fintech? And Should You Get Involved?

Posted at 14:30h in Blog, Business, Funding Terms For Dummies, Loan partners, Vendors

If you're not familiar with the word, “Fintech,” you need to be. Given the impact it’s having on the financial industry (and on small businesses, in particular), it is quickly becoming the way the modern user has come to understand money. The word is a mashup...

22 Aug Choosing the right POS Software for You

Posted at 13:20h in Blog, Equipment Financing, Small Business Funding

A comprehensive Point of Sale (POS) system is like a cash register on steroids. In addition to giving your business the ability to accept payments, POS software provides detailed reports that enable you to analyze sales in all sorts of ways: items sold, peak periods,...

18 Aug Building a Small Scale Business for the Next Generation

Posted at 13:34h in Blog, Business, Small Business Funding

Did you know that the American small scale business is family-owned? A whopping 90% keep it in the bloodline, but two-thirds have encountered difficulties in the process of transferring ownership to children or relatives. Why? Let's take a look. One family's story Decades ago a young man...

15 Aug Less-than-perfect Credit? How to Get a Business Loan

Posted at 10:43h in Blog, Short Term Loans, Small Business Funding

There’s no getting around it: you’ve got to have money to run a business. Because of that, how to get a business loan is foremost on many entrepreneurs' minds. It’s not unusual for small business owners to initially think of a bank as a logical...