photo credit: Andres Rueda ActiveRain describes on possible reason that it might not be best to use your personal credit, if you can help it. What might be perfectly normal and acceptable for a business credit profile, such as submitting multiple applications for business credit, can have a serious negative impact on personal credit because of […]
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The Wall Street Journal: Nicole Pritikin, the owner of an online knitting and yarn shop in North Bennington, Vt., was so happy with her credit card from Advanta Corp. that she praised the company in its 2001 annual report. “The checkbook is history!” she said. Since last week, though, she has switched her automatic bill
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photo credit: lumaxart ABiz.com recently posted an article for you small business owners that are running into dead ends on obtaining a loan that you may find quite interesting and useful. Below are a few of their tips that should help you secure that loan you have been fighting for. Â Â Â One of the most
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photo credit: AMagill Business’ that are having trouble getting bank loans or line’s of credit that they usually qualify for do have other options. Cash advances for merchants is a valuable option that work’s for many big or small business’ all over the world. When a line of credit (so to speak) is given to
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SmartBrief: Congress is considering legislation that aims to tackle questionable lending practices by credit-card companies. Many business owners use a small-business credit card for their business expenses, but the Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights does not cover those types of cards. If a small-business provision is not added to the bill, biz owners may want
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photo credit: SvenDowideit Small Business Labs recently posted an article on obtaining venture capital. VC has been a long time funding option for businesses all over. However, with the recent economy, funding in all areas is becoming scarce for businesses including that of venture capital. A surprising 90% of businesses that have already been funded are
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The Wall Street Journal: Many small-business lenders are seeing signs of a thaw in the secondary market for loans backed by the Small Business Administration. That is spurring more lenders to originate new loans — and more small companies to apply for them. In February, the latest month for which figures are available, 35% of
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photo credit: orphanjones ActiveRain recently posted an article revolving around obtaining credit for your business. For those of you who are thinking about starting your own business for the first time, this would be a great article for you to read. Most people don’t realize that it’s better to have a business credit report to show
photo credit: Andres Rueda As someone who has had creditors banging on my door in the past, I found this article located on Entrepreneur.com very interesting in negotiating with your creditors in business. We all in business or personal life eventually come to the situation where we are forced to deal with at least one
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The New York Times: Three small companies are playing a role in a business that has been growing as the economy’s troubles have deepened – the business of prepaid cash cards. The cards, which have the Visa, MasterCard and Discover logos, act like portable checking accounts, though they are replenished with deposits made at retail
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