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What Is Working Capital: A Guide to Small Business Funding

As the saying goes, you have to spend money to make money. When starting or scaling a business, you’ll need to invest in certain assets, like inventory, space or employees, before you start making a profit. But, before you begin putting money toward equipment, supplies or other needed purchases, it’s critical to understand your current financial […]

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Managing Your Business

5 Leading Tips for Starting a Successful Small Business

Starting a small business is a massive but rewarding undertaking. Part of starting a small business is doing things in a way that makes the most sense to you, but a little guidance can help as well. Consider these tips for starting your own company and incorporate them as needed: 1. Recognize your strengths and […]

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Finance & Lending

5 Brilliant Ways to Use A Small Business Loan Successfully

Small business loans are a versatile and powerful tool for many different types of organizations to draw on as they stabilize, secure and grow operations. There are many different applications for a small business loan, from industry-specific uses to very broad ones. Here’s a review of some the most common and useful ways small business […]

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Lending & Finance

How to Get a Business Loan with Bad Credit and No Collateral

Small business owners can develop a successful, vibrant organization and still deal with common problems like bad credit and a lack of collateral. Does that mean your business can’t secure a loan? While having good credit and collateral on hand can help you secure a loan in some instances, there are established, dependable alternative lenders […]

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How Alternative Lending Can Solve Cash Flow Struggles

Maintaining a positive cash flow is one of the most important, and often times, stressful parts of owning a business. Unless you have a hefty bank account, your business is vulnerable to cash flow challenges. Competition, market disruptions, regulatory demands, and even the weather can put the health of your business at risk. And in […]

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Lending & Finance

What’s the Difference Between a Small Business Loan and A Line of Credit?

Small business loans and lines of credit have some important similarities. They both offer businesses the opportunity to leverage existing assets in exchange for liquid capital, to be spent on a variety of relevant operational needs. However, there are some important differences between small business loans and lines of credit. Let’s review these two useful […]

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How To Use Facebook Live For Small Businesses

As a business, it’s important to stay current on trends your customers engage in. A recent social media trend is Facebook Live, a tool that allows users to live stream anything they wish directly to the social media platform. Consumers love to use Facebook Live to share snippets of events they wish to show their […]

How to incorporate a small business

Managing Your Business

Incorporating A Small Business: Why, And How, To Do It

Most small businesses begin as sole proprietorships. That means that you, the owner, are the business, and the business is you – in the eyes of the law, at least. There are a number of benefits to being a sole proprietorship, including the minimal legal expenses involved in forming one, no required corporate tax payments […]

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Managing Your Business

Simplify These 6 Business Functions By Moving Them To The Cloud

As a small business owner, the more time and money you can save without sacrificing quality, the better. That’s why cloud-based technologies have become so popular among business leaders. They are inexpensive, easily accessible and generally uncomplicated to use. Entrepreneur contributor Andre Lavoie pointed out that, because the cloud allows people to access files from […]

Hiring tips for small business owners

Managing Your Business

3 Successful Hiring Tips For Small Business Owners

When your small business begins to grow, you may find that you need an extra set of hands around the shop. This is a good thing! It means you’re succeeding as an entrepreneur. But it’s also a challenging task – finding the right hire can be tricky. To make the hiring process a simple and […]

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David Gilbert, CEO of National Funding, Named Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2017 Award Winner in San Diego by EY

David Gilbert joins three decades of groundbreaking entrepreneurs in the Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2017 Finance category. SAN DIEGO, June 15, 2017 – EY today announced that Founder and CEO David Gilbert of National Funding, one of the country’s leading financial technology companies for small and medium-sized businesses, received the Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2017 […]

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Finance & Lending

What Is Working Capital: A Guide to Small Business Funding

As the saying goes, you have to spend money to make money. When starting or scaling a business, you’ll need to invest in certain assets, like inventory, space or employees, before you start making a profit. But, before you begin putting money toward equipment, supplies or other needed purchases, it’s critical to understand your current financial […]

5 tips for starting a small business

Managing Your Business

5 Leading Tips for Starting a Successful Small Business

Starting a small business is a massive but rewarding undertaking. Part of starting a small business is doing things in a way that makes the most sense to you, but a little guidance can help as well. Consider these tips for starting your own company and incorporate them as needed: 1. Recognize your strengths and […]

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Small Business Marketing Guide – Improve Your Marketing Program

Take advantage of the power of marketing by downloading National Funding’s Small Business Marketing Tips eBook. A solid small business marketing strategy helps ensure that owners in any industry can potentially turn a minor investment into major sales opportunities. Unfortunately, too often, many small business owners mistakenly think they don’t have the resources or tools […]

How to use a small business loan

Finance & Lending

5 Brilliant Ways to Use A Small Business Loan Successfully

Small business loans are a versatile and powerful tool for many different types of organizations to draw on as they stabilize, secure and grow operations. There are many different applications for a small business loan, from industry-specific uses to very broad ones. Here’s a review of some the most common and useful ways small business […]

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Business Trends

4 Ways Companies Can Benefit From Social Responsibility

Companies are taking corporate social responsibility more seriously than ever. According to The Guardian, more than 5,000 corporations release their environmental, social and corporate governance performance on an annual basis. And, nowadays, it’s not hard to find an initiative designed to attract socially​ minded companies. The Guardian explained that today’s trends in social responsibility are a […]

How to get a restaurant business loan

Lending & Finance

3 Goals to Accomplish Before Getting a Restaurant Loan

Many would-be restaurateurs today find that getting a business loan isn’t as easy as it used to be. After the recession, many banks and other traditional financiers cut down on lending to budding entrepreneurs, NerdWallet reported. To obtain the necessary funds, prospective restaurant owners turned to alternate strategies. Asking friends and family for the cash […]