How to Create a Smart Credit Policy
An entrepreneur's guide to offering trade credit, crafting a credit application, and evaluating a customer's credit-worthiness Read story
Consumer Credit and Debt
Collection Techniques to Avoid
Past-due accounts present a number of problems, one of which is how to collect them. When faced with this uncomfortable issue, avoid using these collectio... Read story
How can I establish the creditworthiness of a company that's a prospective customer?
Offices & Operations mentor Charles J. Bodenstab responds: A credit report on the potential customer is a good starting point, but I... Read story
Increasing Web-Site Traffic
If you build it, will they come? Last year, Internet sales reached $79 billion, according to Forrester Research, or 3% of all retail sales. Can your busin... Read story
Credit Bureaus
A credit bureau is an agency that collects and sells information about the credit-worthiness, or the ability to meet debt obligations, of individuals and ... Read story
Credit Evaluation and Approval
Related Terms: Cash Flow Management Credi... Read story
Credit History
A credit history is a record of an individual or company's past borrowing and repaying behavior. In the case of individuals, these records are collected a... Read story
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was established as an independent administrative agency pursuant to the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914. The purpo... Read story
Getting Paid
How to make collecting bills as much a part of daily business as making sales. Read story
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Network new queries. Read story
Beware of Credit Reports
The importance of checking personal credit reports before applying for a business loan. Read story
Banking: The One-Page Credit Form
A short article about a bank's attempt to streamline its loan application process in order to reach small business. Read story
New Home Sales Drop Sharply
Dec. 23, 2005 --New home sales plunged in November by the biggest month-to-month decline in over a decade, as rising mortgage rates kept m... Read story
New Home Sales Drop Sharply
Dec. 23, 2005 --New home sales plunged in November by the biggest month-to-month decline in over a decade, as rising mortgage rates kept m... Read story
Experian Launches Report Package
The package offers home-improvement professionals access to ContractorCheck reports. Read story
Experian Unveils New Credit Resource
Experian, the U.S. arm of Experian Group, on Monday announced its new online resource, BusinessCreditFacts.com. Targeted at small businesses, it pr... Read story
Cleaning Up Your Credit
Here are four tips for lowering your interest rate and improving your credit score. Read story
How to Find Funds in a Credit Crunch
Banks are cutting back, but capital is still available for worthy companies that know where to look. Read story
Firing and Personal Finance
When is it time to let someone go? Plus, what to do when your credit is in shambles. Read story
Scoring The Credit You Need
Getting a loan is a faster, more objective process than it used to be -- for better or worse. Read story
Raising Capital Online
From angel directories to person-to-person lending, entrepreneurs' options are growing for finding and research financing options on the Web. Read story
House of Cards
Credit cards can be a valuable tool for the entrepreneur or business owner - or they can be a real bane, quickly putting a dent in a company's financial f... Read story
How to Secure a Microloan
Advice for small businesses on what to expect when applying for a microloan -- and how to seal the deal. Read story
Bankruptcies Rising Among Seniors
A lack of financial planning is putting more retirees at risk, research shows. Read story
Wall Street vs. Main Street
The recent turmoil involving Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and AIG have cost the economy billions of dollars, led to thousands of layoffs, and conjured up ... Read story
Mortgage-backed Securities
Although interest rates dropped for most of this year, consumer loan rates remained stubbornly (from the borrower perspective) or satisfyingly (from the b... Read story
Credit Tighter for Small Firms
More banks are raising lending standards for small businesses, the Federal Reserve reports. Read story
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Protection against erroneous credit reports would be provided for small businesses by a bill introduced by Sen. Lowell Weicker (R-Conn.) . "Availability o... Read story
Don't Start a Business without One
Like many entrepreneurs, you may be relying on credit cards to finance your business. Here are some tips on managing credit card payments. Read story
Cypress Speeds Up SMB Credit Data Search
Cypress Software Systems launched a credit-data search tool that promises to power up its BizMark small-business automated loan judgment software. Read story
Second Mortgages Aid Small Company Growth
Small business owners who have a house, an acre or two of personal or commercial real estate, or even a vacant lot are finding it easier to finance their ... Read story
Employment Lines
Some guidelines for getting the information you need from job applicants -- without breaking the law Read story
Bankruptcy Deadline Prompting Filings
August 26, 2005 --Upcoming changes to the bankruptcy code are expected to create a surge in the number of small businesses filing for bank... Read story
Benchmark: Revving Up Receivables
The results of a survey that asked companies what steps they had taken to speed up collection times. Read story
IRS Allows Tax Payments By Credit Card
Jan. 23, 2006 --Charging federal employment taxes on your MasterCard and paying it off later: Priceless. For the first time this ta... Read story
Secured Bank Cards
Secured credit cards for young companies that want to establish credit. Read story
Business for Sale: Western Credit-Reporting Agency
An overview of a credit-reporting agency offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and con... Read story
Tax Commission to Recommend Major Changes
Oct. 13, 2005 --The President's advisory panel on federal tax reform is scheduled to report its findings to the President on November 1st.... Read story
The Internet Guide to Bankruptcy Law
Even in a booming economy, not every venture turns its promoters into Internet instantaires. There' s still a down side to capitalism. And smart bankruptc... Read story
Six Steps To Setting Up Foreign Reps
"When you have a foreign agent, you must compete with other principals for the rep's time and attention," notes Harry E. McGrath Jr., a former internation... Read story
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