Whether you’re a young, aspiring entrepreneur or a successful leader in academia, you depend on your customers and clients to pay on time, every time, and you need straightforward policies and processes to make that happen. If your customers are late with their payments, your business has to handle the situation with kid gloves because the last thing you want to do is lose a customer. Here are some tips for how to tackle late payments without offending your clients.
Yearly Archives: 2022
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A recent survey demonstrated that nearly 2 in 3 small business owners sought loans for their businesses in 2021. However, small business owners should have advance notice of what lenders are looking for from potential borrowers in 2022. This article gets at some of the characteristics lenders will ask borrowers who wish to secure financing for their businesses.
Without a doubt, small business owners want access to capital so they can run and grow their businesses. However, many small business owners who we speak with do not know where to start. So, to help small business owners access these free programs we have built a list of small business grants on our portal which we keep current weekly.
While the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) and the Payroll Protection Programs (PPP) were beneficial for small business owners, as they say, “all good things must come to an end.” What it does not mean is that there are not great options out there for small business owners to take advantage of. We know that traditional bank loans and lines of credit are rarely out there but that does not mean access to financing has to be hard or expensive. In this article, we will share a list of 8 different financing products which are easy to attain, and in some cases will cost you nothing.
In recent weeks, I have been writing about how some small business owners took advantage of the generous funding to help small businesses during the height of the pandemic (The Zeroes of the Pandemic). Each day, more and more light is being shed about those who have defrauded our nation with EIDL or PPP fraud and again, I wanted to share more examples of what some people tried to get away with that in essence, shut out many of our clients and small business owners who deserved PPP or EIDL funds. In most cases, their actions made it easy for the government to catch.
Business owners tend to rely on borrowing money to grow their businesses. However, it is not without pain that many small business owners and entrepreneurs experience when borrowing money. In this article, we explore a bunch of damaging outcomes that occur when small business owners borrow money for their businesses. By sharing what we see every day from small business owners we hope to share some foresight for small business owners who wish to access financing for their businesses.
Did you receive EIDL or PPP proceeds in 2021 and you do not know how that is handled with regards to your taxes? What are the new requirements for the submission of taxes for small businesses in 2021? Indeed, for Small Business Owners Tax season brings on a layer of anxiety and additional work. While some small business owners use accountants, many small business owners file their taxes on their own. In this article, we provide an overview of some of the changes which small business owners should be aware of when preparing to submit their taxes either through an accountant or on their own.
Small business owners and entrepreneurs must balance the grind of their work each day with the compliance requirements to run their businesses effectively and legally. One compliance attribute which our clients and others deal with each year is the filing of their annual report. In this article we tackle what an annual report is and provide resources for small business owners and entrepreneurs to complete their reports.
This article shares some things that small business owners should watch out for when applying for an SBA loan.