How To Manage Small Business Debt

How To Manage Small Business Debt

Is debt bad for your small business? As long as I can remember, I was always taught ever since I could remember that having debt was bad. My dad would always tell me how it’s important to stay away from debt, and to always to try and pay cash when I can. Now that was […]

How To Research Your Competition

Research Your Competition

Competition isn’t bad, you just need to be better than them. In a previous post we talked about how competition is good for both the consumer and for the businesses. Knowing your competition is going to be a huge factor in your small business’s success. We’ll go over several ways on how you can research […]

How Is Your Daily Time Managed?

How Is Your Daily Time Managed?

Small Business Owners Have Multiple Tasks Everyday As a small business owner you find yourself working long hours, and even long weeks. Every minute you can save throughout the day can result in more production for other tasks. A great way to make sure you accomplish all of your daily tasks is to create a […]

Youngster Trying to Earn a Buck

Working Capital Loan

Learning how to raise working capital at a young age. Now that I look back, I was an entrepreneur at a very young age without even knowing it. In elementary school, these handheld video games were popular; this is before there was Gameboy or PSP. These games usually had only two buttons and ran off […]

Competition Is Good For Consumers And Good For Your Business

Competition Is Good For Consumers And Good For Your Business

You can succeed in your business, even with competition! I’m sure you have personally experienced how competition has benefited you as the consumer. Competition is great for the consumer, because it keeps prices at a competitive price point, a wider variety of added services and products. I bet you are wondering how can this benefit […]

Can Your Customers Find You?

Can Your Customers Find You?

It might be hard to believe, but the simplest forms of advertising can result in business. Having a small business is time consuming, from collecting payments, shipping out items, ordering inventory, paying bills, figuring out advertising, the small business owner is definitely responsible for multiple items. So it’s no surprise that some things might have […]

SBA Will Be Cutting Back On Giving Out Small Business Loans

There will be 2,000 fewer small business loans issued by the SBA Congress has not come to an agreement yet, so the President will issue an order for the sequester to go into effect anytime before midnight tonight. Sequester is the U.S. government’s $85 billion dollar automatic spending cuts that was put into law by […]

How to Obtain Working Capital for your Business

Working Capital Loan

Are you finding it hard to get working capital for your business? The obvious solution is for the owner(s) to infuse funds into the company.  But if that’s not a viable solution, what else is there?  Of course using a credit card would be the fastest way, but is that credit card a business credit […]

How Do You Track Your Leads?

How Do You Track Your Leads?

Are you losing track of your possible clients? Whether you are selling solar panels or nutritional supplements, you need to be keeping track of all your prospects.  If your way of keeping track of leads is with a pen and paper, you might be losing money!  I can remember one of the first jobs I […]

How Does Merchant Funding Work?

Merchant Funding

Learn how merchant funding works: Are you a business owner who accepts credit cards as a form of payment?  Maybe merchant funding can help your business with the extra working capital it might need.  If you are strapped for cash and have found out that the banks aren’t lending to business owners as frequently, this […]