In a recent article located on Bizbox it was stated that there is money becoming available for small businesses out there more and more each day. This is due to a number of reasons: Small businesses are realizing that we are coming out of a huge recession and therefore there are not as many companies searching […]
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No one likes discussing credit, but, now more than ever, it’s critical to improve your credit as part of running your small business. According to Rhonda Abrams over at USA TODAY, there are ways to improve your credit even if your credit is lousy now. – Get help! The single most important thing I did
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The Dallas Morning News reports that a survey released by the U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy says one in five small businesses nationwide don’t use any form of credit at all.
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With revenues at his six-employee construction business on track to jump 10 percent this year, to $2 million, Gary Desilets thought he’d be able to get credit pretty easily. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, as it turns out, securing financing is harder than he expected because his trade creditors–suppliers that let companies buy now and pay
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Square is a new start-up that was co-founded by Jack Dorsey (the guy who created Twitter and was their original CEO). According to Fast Company, Square is a “is both a foolproof and attractive experience” that will appeal to small businesses.
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The latest example of the blending of offline and online worlds is Kwedit, a new payment service in the United States that enables consumers over the age of 13 to make cash payments for their online purchases at participating offline retail stores, reports trendspotter Springwise. Launched in February, Kwedit offers two payment models: Kwedit Direct
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CNNMoney reports that for better or worse, new laws that take effect on Monday are poised to curb the proliferation of credit cards on college campuses, making it tougher for students to get credit cards. Last May, Congress decided to crack down on credit card companies and passed a law ushering in sweeping changes for
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The new rules for personal credit cards, which don’t apply to business cards, are making entrepreneurs rethink what plastic they choose, the WSJ‘s Emily Maltby reports. Small-business owners who rely on their company’s credit card to purchase big-ticket items or finance day-to-day operations won’t see any benefits from this month’s federal credit-card reform–unless they put
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Small merchants have long chafed at the fees they must pay banks every time a customer swipes a debit or credit card. But now, with business slowing and every dollar important to their bottom line, some merchants are pushing for changes, reports The New York Times. The merchants are lobbying for legislation that would compel
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Anthony Ha has an interesting story over at DigitalBeat about a new site called Blippy based on a pretty provocative idea – it allows users to share all the purchase information from one of their credit cards. Once you buy a movie ticket from Fandango or a cup of coffee from Starbucks, Blippy automatically publishes
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