To the average person who doesn’t own a business, for-profit firms are often thought of as unethical and ruthless entities, precisely because it’s assumed that unethical behavior and ruthlessness are necessary in order to maximize one’s bottomline....
Many merchants with otherwise strong and successful businesses worry that they can’t qualify for the working capital they need because of personal credit issues. Bad experiences with larger, more impersonal companies in the merchant cash advance business often...
“Business is good, I really don’t need a cash advance right now.” During my years in the industry of alternative business finance, this might be one of the most common mistakes I find business owners making. For many business owners, a merchant cash...
For many business owners, the SBA can seem like the answer to a prayer. But in this, as in most other things having to do with government, the ideal theory is better than the practice. Long wait times, extensive paperwork, and low approval rates means that the...
With their big promises and heavy fees, “debt settlement” companies target business owners with hopes of lowered payments and reduced obligations, without any intention of providing these services. Remarking on the “fraudulent, abusive, and...
