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How do you find the right business credit card for your small business?

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

Choosing the right payment services provider can really pay off

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. 

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Is a business credit card right for your small business?

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

Hiring a good CPA & business attorney are crucial to any successful business

By: Buck Hollister

The need for a business tax consultant and attorney in Austin

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:

  • Helping you plan out projected financial statements showing how much money your business strategies will cost to execute and at what point you may need external debt or equity financing, manage budgets and value the price per each unit of equity interest (e.g., share for corporation, membership interest for limited

First quarter playbook for business owners

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

How important is a good credit score to a small business owner?

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

8 Musts to Start Your Business With Little to No Capital

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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