Author: smb
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How to Finance a Business: Startup Financing Options
Every entrepreneur faces the challenge of how to fund their new business venture. Finding the capital necessary to turn your ideas into reality is pivotal to startup success. This comprehensive guide examines the array of financing options business owners have to launch and expand their companies. Bootstrapping Your Business Bootstrapping means relying on your personal…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Payment Processing Fees
If your company accepts payments, you’re paying payment processing fees right now. Most company owners ignore these fees, writing them off as just another cost of running a business. When you start comparing payment processing deals, there’s actually a whole lot of variation in the industry. While the differences between deals might look small…
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5 Things to Keep in Mind before Investing in Real Estate
People always tell us when it is the right to do something. There is always a right time to get married. A right time to eat. Right time to sleep. And of course, a right time to invest in real estate. Talking about the last one, yes it does come down to a few things…
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6 Ways To Make Your DIY Marketing Strategy More Effective
Have you made it through the holiday season while wishing you had been better prepared for the festive rush? Maybe your sales weren’t as good as you hoped, or perhaps you’re reconsidering whether you should continue to do your social media marketing yourself or outsource it to an agency? If you’re a small business owner…
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6 Ways To Increase Remote Team Productivity
There are lots of great reasons to work with a remote team… access to a worldwide talent pool, flexibility for team members, reduced office overheads, time saved commuting – to name just a few. But despite these benefits, remote teams have their challenges as well. Different time zones, cross-cultural communication, lack of visual and verbal…
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12 Ways to Get Startup Funding Like a Boss
All entrepreneurs need money to begin their own small business. But most bank lenders won’t approve you for a company loans. So are entrepreneurs, such as you, stuck between a rock and a hard place? No, here are 12 proven, unexpected and a few new, ways to start your firm and to finance your startup…
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3 Tried and Tested eCommerce Tips to Reduce Chargebacks
So, you’ve attracted users to your site, blown them off their feet with sensational product pages and eased them through the checkout process? The order confirmation pops up and you dispatch their order within the hour. After a couple of hours, the funds arrive in your merchant account. Everyone is happy. Well, everyone is happy…
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Top 5 Career Opportunities in Financial Markets in India
India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Financial services is one of the fastest growing sectors in the Indian economy. It has huge untapped potential. With large middle income population and low penetration of financial services in the country, makes personal finance management an absolute essential. Financial services sector can…
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Advice for Fledgling Companies from a Business Rescue Expert
Back in the 1970s, fresh faced graduate Fred Smith founded a new delivery company called FedEx with $4 million of inheritance and $80 million in loans and investments. Just three years later, Smith’s fledgling company was floundering. With just $5,000 in the bank and a fuel bill totalling $24,000, the future wasn’t looking bright. So,…
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How Online Payments Benefit Small Businesses
It’s hard to believe how fast things advance in the IT world. Some businesses have accepted online payments for over 20 years. But two decades ago, not nearly as many businesses sold online, much less used a global payment gateway to accept online payments worldwide. Some businesses are still stuck in that position, relying on…