Whats Keeping You Up at Night in These Troubled Times?
I have had the wonderful opportunity to work with 1000's of business owners and they all have the same or similar goals in mind, peace of mind for them and security for their families. It's always the same no matter how you slice it, peace of mind and happiness is extremely important to us business owners for us to be successful in life. I want to take some time to discuss the importance of building business credit during these troubled times. How many of us really know the true value of business credit and what these lenders do for small companies. I mean when you have access to the single largest lending source in the world, interest free WOW! How amazing you mean I can get credit for my new business (with no personal credit by the way) and use that money interest free for up to 60 day's and then pay it off.
What a great tool of leveraging for businesses as they try to grow a new one and have found out that using their own money and credit for that purpose was dragging them down. I have found out that building business credit is hard, especially in these troubled times. I know how difficult it can be to find companies willing to grant your business credit when no one else has. It can be extremely hard to find a bank willing to even grant your company credit even with good personal credit. I think of our economy and the so called new packages that our government wants to roll out for us, I hope it works. I don't think I could stand to see a country in this much trouble throw in the towel. We need to fund businesses; we need to put money back in the economy to grow. We need to find alternate ways to get the credit.
We have for hundreds of years went out and got it. Don't stop now, get it! It's yours for the taking; it is your responsibility to do this. It's out there for us, I know first hand as a business owner myself, having gone through the maze and the struggles of falling down and getting back up only to find out...it was well worth it. Let me start by explaining what it is to be compliant with the lending market requirements and to be able to go out as a company and find these businesses that are willing to grant your company credit. First thing is put yourself in the lenders shoes, if your granting credit to a new business what is it you would want to see from them to feel comfortable lending the credit out? Some of the very basic that everyone should know would be: Business Phone Line, Business Fax line and Business Email. Now not all states and counties in America require a license to do business. As a matter of fact some areas don't have a clue of what your referring to when asked.
Also no using any type of free emails for the company. Now once you're registered with your business phone line nation wide and have the business fax and all other compliance issues covered you then want to register the company with various different directories for free. Think about how it looks to be visible to lenders. It's all about eliminating the risk for the party that's lending the credit. It's not that the economy just died or dried up there is plenty still out there to get. Once registered with the directories it is then important to get registered with the business credit bureaus. You need to wait to get into their national systems before you start building credit for the company. Here is a small piece of an article from www.sba.gov and the direct link to the article for your review on small business lending scoring models and how they look at them:
"For banks that have adopted credit scoring, it appears that there are significant increases in the importance of small business and micro business loans in the total lending portfolio subsequent to the use of credit scoring in the lending decision. Nonetheless, the use of credit scoring is not universal with about 47 percent of banks surveyed using some form of credit scoring for small business lending."
Find the time to do some good researching, find little companies online that will work with your company just because you're a new business. Remember they are in the business of making money also so while they aren't charging interest on the credit they lend they do count on your to pay your bills on time. By doing that with them and establishing relationships they will report that good positive payment history to those business credit bureaus your company is registered with and you will be graded on a scoring model of how your company pays its bills. It's important to remember to keep establishing relationship[s with these smaller companies so that when you need Home Depot or you Need a Lowes Business Credit Card your able to look attractive to the lender, again in "these troubled times" it is important to know where to look for help. May your journey be a success and stay tuned to more articles as they change we change keep yourself up to date....see you there.
Hazen Martin
Director Business Credit
Business Credit Solutions, Inc
http://www.fasttrackcredit.com
About the Author:
Have been a Serial Entreprenuer since the age of 20. Owned and operated my first business doing advertising and marketing when I was 21. I write articles on a dialy basis and do Consuting work for small and large companies. I work with Angel Investment companies and also Venture Capitalist Firms. I am currently working for a firm setting up systems and processes for thier business credit division.
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