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How to Collect Debts During the Holidays

5 Tips to Manage Your Accounts Receivable in the Holiday Season You tend to experience some pressure to end the year on a positive financial note, even as you deal with the fact that you have less working days at the end of the year. You probably have fewer staff members in for work both…
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Why Business Owners Should Outsource Their Accounts Receivable

The Top 5 Benefits to Outsourcing Accounts Receivable As a small business owner, you live and die on your cash flow. You rely on the timely payment of invoices to fund your operations, pay your employees and keep the rent paid on the space you occupy. When that steady cash flow is interrupted, your finances…
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Active Steps to Take If Customer Growth is Slowing Down at Your Business

Customer growth is an important metric that tells you how well your business is doing. This statistic can fluctuate across a variety of fields, and there may be periods of positive or slowing growth as you manage your business over time. An important step in your success strategy involves knowing what to do if you…
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10 Financial Management Tips for a Growing Business

How to Start Using Financial Management Practices in Your Business The growth phase of a business is an exhilarating and hectic time for an entrepreneur. There are people to recruit, products and services to launch, and marketing campaigns to be organized. With so much going on, financial management might not receive the attention it deserves….
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8 Key Sources of Alternative Finance for Small Businesses

Top Funding Alternatives to Traditional Lending Lending standards for business loans tightened during the third quarter of 2022, with weaker demand for commercial and industrial loans for companies of all sizes, according to a recent Federal Reserve survey**. As large banking institutions are reluctant to lend to small businesses, and those that do commonly have…