Financial Wellness Month: January 2021
Tax season is upon us folks, stretching from January 1st to April 15th. For that reason, January is also recognized as Financial Wellness Month.…
Financial Wellness Month: January 2021
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The parts that are not the funding: pricing, hiring, stock, marketing, software, tax deadlines and the fiddly admin nobody warns you about before you start. Specific where we can be, and honest when the real answer is that it depends.
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How the matching works, what happens to the details you give us, and the occasional story from someone who came out the other side with funding. Company news ends up here too.
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Credit scores, personal loans, consolidating what you owe and getting out from under it. Same approach as everywhere else on this blog: what the product does, what it costs you, and who it genuinely suits.
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Borrowing against the value of your home. A HELOC is usually cheaper than other consumer credit and secured against the place you live, and that second part is why it sits here rather than filed in with personal loans.
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Home security and home warranty plans, and the companies behind them. What a contract covers, which exclusions are the ones that matter, and how to work out whether a monthly fee is worth paying.
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5 Simple Tax-Saving Hacks That Small Business Owners Often Miss
Everyone’s on the lookout for tax hacks, and trying to find out how to reduce tax in company is the talk of the town-…
5 Simple Tax-Saving Hacks That Small Business Owners Often Miss
How Will the SBA Loans Shutdown Affect My Business?
It’s day 30 of the government shut down and counting. Though government shutdowns are not new to the U.S. political arena, the current one…
How Will the SBA Loans Shutdown Affect My Business?
What Are the Pros and Cons of Online Lending Platforms?
The market size of online lending platforms from all around the world is projected to increase by more than 200% over the next four…
What Are the Pros and Cons of Online Lending Platforms?
How to Grow Your Small Business in 2021
Just because you’re running a small business, doesn’t mean it has to stay that way. With the start of the new year, now is…
How to Grow Your Small Business in 2021
Why Are Employees That Work from Home More Productive?
Productivity. It seems to be an obsession among business owners and managers. ‘How can I get my employees to be more productive?’ is the…
Why Are Employees That Work from Home More Productive?
5 Customer Retention Strategies for Winning Back Dormant Customers
“How many leads have you acquired today?” It’s the question on every business owner and marketers mind at the end of the working day.…
5 Customer Retention Strategies for Winning Back Dormant Customers
How to Perfect Decision Making in Business and Achieve Business Success
Show me one person who’s never made a bad decision – I dare you. If you find that person, he’s either dishonest, too young…
How to Perfect Decision Making in Business and Achieve Business Success
The Most Popular Articles of 2018
2018 was a big year for Become and no doubt for you too! It’s amazing what a difference a year can make. In 2018…
The Most Popular Articles of 2018
10 Things Every Business Must Do by the End of Year
What do surgeons, architects, hedge fund managers and pilots all have in common? Checklists. Didn’t expect that, did you? According to Entrepreneur.com, they all…
10 Things Every Business Must Do by the End of Year
Lending Express Clamps Down on COJ’s With a New, No-nonsense Attitude to the Corrupted Practice
Become customers can now rest assured that they’ll never have to sign a Confession of Judgment (COJ) to get funds for their business. Putting…
Lending Express Clamps Down on COJ’s With a New, No-nonsense Attitude to the Corrupted Practice
Why Does My Lender Want to See My Bank Account Activity? [5 Reasons]
Whether you apply for business funding from your local bank, an online lender or through Become, it all comes down to the same thing…
Why Does My Lender Want to See My Bank Account Activity? [5 Reasons]
5 Ways to Improve Your Business’s Monthly Sales Performance
Sales are a crucial part of any business – without those crucial cogs, the business wheel would simply stop turning. But what you have…
5 Ways to Improve Your Business’s Monthly Sales Performance
How to Franchise Your Business
Your business is running, no, it’s sprinting and you’ve realized that you might actually be onto something here. Your business model has been tweaked…
How to Franchise Your Business
How Can Small Businesses Manage Their Cash Flow During the Holidays?
The festive season is upon us! And you know what that means – seasonal fluctuations are at their peak on both ends of the…
How Can Small Businesses Manage Their Cash Flow During the Holidays?
8 Effective Holiday Marketing Tips & Ideas
Is your business ready for the holiday season? The holiday season starts with some of the biggest sales of the year on Black Friday…
8 Effective Holiday Marketing Tips & Ideas
Guide to Creating Recurring Business Revenue Streams
When you set up your business you knew that it wouldn’t be smooth sailing – there’d be ups and downs, but you hoped that…
Guide to Creating Recurring Business Revenue Streams
How LendingScore™ Uses Technology to Improve Your Loan Approval Chances
The struggle to secure a loan is a common challenge many face. Understanding Your Chances of Getting a Loan You’re not alone in your…
How LendingScore™ Uses Technology to Improve Your Loan Approval Chances
What Are the Minimum Credit Score Requirements for a Business Loan?
Unlike banks, digital lenders place much less importance on your credit score when assessing you for a business loan. Even though it’s certainly not…
What Are the Minimum Credit Score Requirements for a Business Loan?
5 Ways to Stand Out from Your Business Competitors
We live in a world where everyone is claiming to be the ‘best’ in the business. How many times have you seen a coffee…
5 Ways to Stand Out from Your Business Competitors
How to Best Manage Your Business Loan Repayments
You’ve managed to get yourself a business loan. Go you! You may have thought that was the hard bit but what about the paying…
How to Best Manage Your Business Loan Repayments
Common Business Banking Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Every small business owner and entrepreneur needs to set up a business bank account. Sounds simple, but unfortunately there are some common mistakes that…
Common Business Banking Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
How to Digitally Market Your Small Business
In the good ol’ days marketing was all about TV ads (hello MadMen), billboards, newspaper ads. Times sure have changed. Nowadays,…
How to Digitally Market Your Small Business
The 8 Most Profitable Small Businesses in 2021
Some people know exactly which small business to start and where their passion lies. But what if you’re not one of those people? What…
The 8 Most Profitable Small Businesses in 2021
How Our Customers Successfully Used Their First Business Loan
Whether you’ve just managed to score your very first business loan, or you’re in the process, you’re probably trying to figure out how you’re…
How Our Customers Successfully Used Their First Business Loan
Top Ten Small Business Management Tips
As the owner of a small business, you’ll know all too well the immense pressure that comes with running a company and the copious…
Top Ten Small Business Management Tips
How to Get the Most Out of Your Business Loan
You’ve just qualified and been handed your business loan – whether you’ve just popped your loan cherry or it’s your fifth time around, getting…
How to Get the Most Out of Your Business Loan
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