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Small Business Financing: A Few Misconceptions Addressed

Navigating the lending landscape seems to be an eternal struggle for small businesses – thanks to the series of misconceptions associated with small business financing, in general. Small business lending rules that existed 10 years ago, don’t really exist anymore. If you have a credit score of 680 or above, some kind of collateral and some experience to boot, you will easily qualify for a loan right? Not really! As a small business owner, there are still chances of you being turned away.

Small business financing miscoceptions addressed

Considering the difficulties of securing a financial assistance from banks—a bank loan itself is considered to be a myth – i.e.…

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Why Your Home Business Should Have an Office

With more and more people deciding to work from home or starting up their own business venture, the idea of working at an office seems to be fading. Why wouldn’t it when you can work from the comfort of your own home, hang out at a café and log on to their free Wi-Fi or anywhere else you can get work done?

Home business owner working at an office

However, depending on what type of work you are doing, having an office may actually be more beneficial to your business than you realize. Especially if you grow to the point of needed to hire a team, you’ll want a dedicated, organized space meant for your business.…

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Should Small Businesses Adopt Cryptocurrencies?

The ongoing buzz around cryptocurrencies and what they could do for businesses in the future is one that doesn’t look to be dying down any time soon, creating wealth to businesses adopting it, as well as those who are in the forefront of the cryptocurrency revolution, such as The Winklevoss brothers and the others in the Bitcoin Millionaire club. One of the hot topics in the discussion currently, however, is whether or not small businesses should start to accept cryptocurrencies as payments in the near future. Here, we’re exploring exactly that.

An Introduction To Cryptocurrencies

By definition, a cryptocurrency is a digital currency that relies on encryption techniques to regulate and verify transactions, transfers and the generation of new ‘coins’.…

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Ways on How Web Hosting Affects SEO Business

Many entrepreneurs don’t consider choosing the best web host because they don’t realize the impact this could have on business. If you are running an SEO business, you need to invest in quality hosting. With the competition in the SEO field gradually soaring, it could prove difficult to make meaningful progress if your choice of a hosting provider is not the best.

Web hosting for SEO business

To help you see what you could get from choosing the right web host, here are ways in which a good hosting provider will affect your SEO business.

Uptime or availability

While running an SEO business, one of the channels of marketing you could be using is search engine marketing.…

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4 Reasons why Small Business Entrepreneurs should start Blogging

For a business, promoting the product or service is the biggest task that can take away a large part of the investment. This investment cannot be afforded by small businesses which majorly rely on online promotion methods. One of the most effective ways for promoting your product or service is by blogging.

Blogging for business

Yes, blogging when combined with social media will help small business in promoting to wider audience. Unfortunately, many small businesses don’t consider blog effective because:

  • It takes commitment of time and resources in term of money
  • They don’t have the technical knowledge behind running the blog
  • It can be difficult to come up with regular topics for posts about the business

To tackle those issues, you can always hire freelancers to help you out.…

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5 Ways to Connect to In-Store Customers via Mobile

Some store owners bemoan the sight of shoppers peering at their phones as they wander the aisles and pick up what they need, but those owners lack vision. A customer on the phone is an opportunity to reach out, engage, and inspire loyalty — but only if you’re willing to provide the high-tech mobile services that your target market craves. It doesn’t take much, but it’s probably time you at least considered the idea of designing an app to benefit your business and help you with customer outreach.

Let Mobile Customers Skip the Line

The fastest way to a shopper’s heart is through a quick checkout line.…

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The Next Level: 4 Signs It’s Time to Expand Your Small Business

In the highly competitive world of small business, finding a way to carve out a niche in your industry is vital for success. According to recent studies, economic uncertainty is the main factor that prohibits small businesses from growing.

Business expansion meeting

If you are like most business owners, you have a number of ideas you want to put into practice. When the time comes to grow and expand your business, having a game plan in place is essential.

Generally, you will need to secure a business financing loan to fund this type of growth. Working with an experienced and reputable lender is the only way to ensure the loan you get is the right fit for your particular needs.…

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Bringing the Outside In

Some companies just love festooning their hallways, reception areas and meeting rooms with flowers and other plants. The sight and smell of greenery (and any other colours you care to throw into the mix) elevates the feeling in a building and, according to NASA, living plants help to filter out airborne pollution.

Employee working in a green workplace

Other companies think that a floral touch is too frilly and makes the place look fussy and unprofessional; they may also see caring for plants and buying in new flowers each week as unnecessary expenses. On balance, though, if you’re looking for offices to rent in Teddington, you’d be best served by bringing in a bit of the green stuff.…

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5 Investment Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make in 2018

With increasing volatility and frequent market fluctuations, making smart investments is not easy. When you look for information online, several inputs laden with economic jargon tend to perplex you furthermore.

Making investment mistakes

If you have ever invested into something before, you know about the kind of mistakes you can make on the way to the perfect investment. The thing is, there is always some new way of making quick money that everyone is talking about, and usually that’s the investment that one should not make without doing their research.

Let’s take CFDs, for example. Trading CFDs looks promising on paper, but due to the nature of CFD trading, it’s often categorized as a sophisticated form of gambling by the trading community.…

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The Location of Your Business is Crucial

Whether you are opening up a new shop or relocating your existing business, where you decide to go is essential to the overall aspect of your business. The right location can both boost sales and keep your doors open, or it could end up making you close the doors.

High street

There are many factors to consider while you decide where to locate your business. From operating costs, accessibility and even taxes, these all influence the overall performance. Whether you are looking in a small town or at real estate in Calgary, the same goes for both.

Here are a few reasons as to why you need to seriously consider your location before you open up the doors.…

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