General Advice
Keep Your Business and Personal Finances Separate
Business owners intertwine business and personal finances all too often. After all, you are your business, but muddling up the ...
Business owners intertwine business and personal finances all too often. After all, you are your business, but muddling up the ...
Start the New Year Off Right
The beginning of the year is a great time to take stock and do some financial planning for the new year. Here are four ...
The beginning of the year is a great time to take stock and do some financial planning for the new year. Here are four ...
Limit Your Credit Risk in a Bad Economy
When you want to limit your risk while extending credit there are a few things you can do to protect yourself, your business ...
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Entrepreneur.com - For small business owners seeking ways to remain competitive during this economic climate, now may be a good time to consider using a remote deposit capture service to help ...
• Is the ARC Loan a Sinking Ship?
Entrepreneur.com - It's been six months since the SBA announced the America's Recovery Capital Loan program. My last article on this topic, " Will Anyone Be Saved by the ARC " ...
• Take Advantage of Electronic Communication
Entrepreneur.com - Collectors are starting to use electronic communications to locate debtors or past-due customers. Many people have public social networking profiles that a collector can use to ...
• Cash Shy? Try Bootstrapping
Entrepreneur.com - I define bootstrapping as "pursuing success with limited resources and with the help of others." By limited resources I mean a shortage of money or knowledge. Here are ...
• Save Money by Renegotiating Your Lease
Entrepreneur.com - Every tenant picks up the newspapers and reads that landlords are underwater on many of their buildings as vacancy rates increase and rental rates decrease. Smart tenants will ...
• Strengthen Your Credit Policy Today
Entrepreneur.com - Controlling when you get paid is a huge component in the survival--or failure--of your business. Whether extended to new or existing customers, you need to have a credit ...
• Spend Smart to Grow Smart
Entrepreneur.com - Your business isn’t going to grow on its own. If you’re ready to expand, but you’re not sure where to start or how to best use your resources, consider ...
• How Do Investors Get Paid?
Entrepreneur.com - Startups planning to raise venture capital in these turbulent times should pay attention to the way investors get paid during bear markets. Compensation incentives drive the ...
• Don't Fall Victim to the Triangle of Entrepreneurial Finance
Entrepreneur.com - As an entrepreneur you will make hundreds to thousands of operational decisions in setting up an infrastructure and producing your product or service. All decisions that involve ...
• Overhaul in the Offing at SBA
Entrepreneur.com - Having positioned himself as a small-business ally on the campaign trail, it didn't take long for President Barack Obama to take aim at the embattled SBA. As far as ...
• Banks Eye Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneur.com - The economy might be on life support, but news about the death of business loans isn't telling the whole story. Some institutions, in fact, are doubling down when it comes to ...
• Where the Money is
Entrepreneur.com - Raising money to finance a business startup is difficult; but raising money to finance a business startup during a recession is nearly impossible. I started a business shortly ...
• A Bad Economy May Benefit Franchises
Entrepreneur.com - With all the negativity making headlines these days, it's difficult sometimes to maintain perspective. Foreclosures at record highs. Nearly a trillion dollars in bailouts. The ...
• SBA at a Crossroads
Entrepreneur.com - Talk to people inside the SBA and they’ll say the agency is poised to emerge from several trying years of restructuring a stronger, business-friendlier organization. ...
• Do Rising Costs Point to Domestic Manufacturing?
Entrepreneur.com - In an economy that looks gloomier by the day, a couple of important questions spring to mind: How, specifically, are entrepreneurs affected? What are the most important things to ...
• Economic Crises Call for Better Marketing Plans
Entrepreneur.com - As I write this, uncertainty crashes all around us like a violent hurricane. Now is the time to bolster your sales and marketing plans and get ready for disaster business ...
• How to Make a Million
Entrepreneur.com - So you want to be a millionaire. You dream of going from rags to riches with money to spare. You brainstorm ideas, searching for the one that's going to catapult you to ...
• 4 Steps to Assessing Your Product's Profit Potential
Entrepreneur.com - I've talked to a lot of people who have found a promising market by coming up with a product or service that would solve a problem. But they're paralyzed about taking the ...
• Stretch Your Travel Dollar
Entrepreneur.com - The airline industry is struggling--no secret there. Rising fuel costs have raised ticket prices to uncomfortable levels, for travelers and airlines. In their battle to keep ...
• It's Your Business
Entrepreneur.com - Despite its reputation as a top-flight steakhouse chain, New York City-based Smith & Wollensky's stock floundered after the company went public following Sept. 11. So last ...