By Laura Fowler and Susan Littleton
By Laura Fowler and Susan Littleton
By Brian Kieley, SCORE Mentor
Keeping accurate financial records is an important part of running a small business, as is finding the right payment partner. Many small business owners are realizing that business credit cards are one of the most useful tools in organizing accounts and maintaining financial efficiency.
Here are four ways in which a business credit card can be effective:
They help you keep track of your business expenses
In the rush of business, keeping track of expenses can fall through the cracks. In just one day, a small business owner might buy office supplies with
By Brian Kieley
Every company needs to get paid, whether it’s with cash or by accepting payment cards like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. Selecting the right partner to help you manage payments, however, can come with some pricing and service surprises.
The role of a payment services provider
There are many companies, including some banks, that have built businesses processing payments on behalf of merchants, big and small. These processing companies are called “merchant acquirers” and they sit between you, as the merchant, and the payment networks.
At a minimum
By Simple Dollar
Keeping efficient financial records is an important element in running any small business. To do so, more and more small business owners are realizing that business credit cards are a useful tool for organizing accounts and maintaining financial efficiency.
In fact, here are four ways in which a business credit card can be effective for your small business:
1. They help keep better track of business expenses
In just one day, a small business owner might buy office supplies with cash, pay an electricity bill with a check and use a personal credit card to take a client to dinner.
At
By: Buck Hollister
Why do you need a business tax consultant and attorney in Austin? There are two professionals every successful business will need early on: a CPA and a lawyer.
The reasons for hiring a CPA include:
By Patricia Bell, SCORE Mentor and Leadership Development Trainer/Consultant
The beginning of the year brings reflection for business owners and their employees. Whether you have a large organization or a company of five, everyone wants to know the same thing:
“How did we do last year?”
Take a cue from the sports world and set the tone for improvement by providing the proper coaching needed to finish the year strong. Professional athletes depend on the critical and helpful eye of their coaches to perfect their technique, style and ability to execute with success.
It’s the same in the business
By Ralph Coker
A good credit score usually gets you more favorable credit terms and a lower interest rate. Credit scores fall into five categories: bad credit (below 550), poor credit (550-619), fair credit (620-679), good credit (680-739) and excellent credit (740+). Obviously, and especially as a small business owner in Austin (or anywhere), you want excellent credit.
One calculator indicates the difference between fair and good reduces lifetime credit cost by $83,047 for a typical person. The difference between poor and good is:
$236,451 and between bad and good it’s $392,715. The credit costs
by: Jonathan Long
Contributor
Founder and CEO, Market Domination Media
September 02, 2014
Entrepreneurs will often have amazing business ideas, but they put them on hold due to a lack of capital. They assume that their idea will never get far off the ground unless they have major funding behind them.
It seems that every day there is a new startup receiving millions of dollars from venture capital firms, but what you don’t hear about is the several startup failures that burn through millions of dollars only to fizzle out and shut their doors forever.
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