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Capital Investments Your Business Should Make This Year
Capital investments enable businesses to manage growth, expand their offerings and cater to a broader base of customers. The term capital investment is typically used to describe fixed assets like land, machinery or facilities that don’t fall under regular day-to-day...
Head “Back to Business” This Fall With These 5 Tips
While parents, teachers and students across the country are caught up in the excitement of heading back to school, those of us in the business world can drum up some fall fun of our own! Instead of a back to school list, we’ve prepared a list of the unique...
How to Choose the Perfect Location for Your Franchise
A franchise business offers an incredible opportunity for entrepreneurs who want to begin developing their own business without starting entirely from scratch. If you’re interested in investing in a franchise as an owner, it’s important to consider all of the factors...
Fielding the Right Team for Business Success
It’s uncanny how similar running a business is to coaching a football team. You might not be putting on pads and lacing up cleats, but the team's objective is still the same: Execute a strategy, outplay the opposition, and secure a victory. Like coaching football, you...
Is Your Business Growth-Ready? Answer These Questions.
When you started your business, you set out to succeed. You had measurable goals and carefully planned out your growth strategy. So…what have you done to implement that strategy? In a recent article published by Forbes, their Young Entrepreneur Council published some...
Online Business Resources: The Small Business Administration
Owning a small business is incredibly gratifying, and it can open up a lot of excellent opportunities for entrepreneurs, especially if you’re making the most of all of the resources that are available to you as a small business/franchise owner. Having a successful...
Franchise Business Alert: Monster Tree Service
Established in 2008, Monster Tree Service® has quickly become the most trusted, successful and recognized tree service franchise in the nation. The tree care industry is a $17 billion industry, and Monster Tree Service promotes themselves as a national brand with...
Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprises Are Booming
Minority- and women-owned business enterprises (MWBEs) are the pillars of many communities. From Main Street to Wall Street, female entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs who identify with a minority group are leveraging expertise and innovation to create groundbreaking...
What You Need to Know About SBA Loans
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) plays a key role in helping small businesses get the funding that they need to grow. To secure all of the benefits that these loans have to offer, entrepreneurs must work with a funding partner to fulfill the loan terms....
Using a ROBS to Fund Your New Business
There's plenty of time to open your new business or franchise in 2019 and funding is a primary hurdle you’ll need to clear first. If you can answer, “Yes!” to any of the below questions, a ROBS (Rollover as Business Startup) should definitely be a funding option you...