Author RSSDealing With Slow Paying Commercial Customers
Slow paying customers can drain your company's resources and create a serious drag on your company's cash flow. In an ideal world, the best way to avoid slow paying customers is not to sign them on in the first place. But in reality things are never that ...
Financing a Pipeline Maintenance Company
Although the natural gas and petroleum industry is doing very well, finding business financing for pipeline maintenance companies that serve this industry remains very challenging. Many are small or medium sized family owned companies that can have a diff...
An Emergency Business Financing Alternative
At one time or another, most businesses will run into cash flow problems. This happens even to the best managed businesses. It's not unusual for a business owner to be so focused in managing operations or servicing clients that they lose sight of their ca...
Business Financing For Companies that Can't Get a Business Loan
Although the recession officially ended a few years ago, the economy is still reeling from the economic after-shocks of the credit bubble. One of the most difficult challenges that small business owners are facing is the lack of conventional business fina...
Business Financing For Companies with Negative Equity
Most businesses are still feeling the effects of the past recession in one way or another. The most affected businesses are finding themselves with more liabilities that assets, leaving them with a negative equity situation. Unless handled correctly, this...
How to Finance a New or Growing Trucking Company
Trucking companies tend to be cash intensive businesses. To grow the company beyond the proverbial one person one truck business you will need access to capital or business financing. The big challenge is finding - and obtaining - business financing in th...
Financing a Property Preservation Company
Out of challenge comes opportunity. The real estate bust has forced a number of banks , trusts and real estate companies to foreclose on properties. Basically, they were transformed from being mortgage holders into being property owners, at least until th...
How an Invoice Factoring Transaction Is Structured
Invoice factoring is a form of business financing that has been gaining a lot of notoriety in recent years. It is a specialized form of business financing that is designed to help companies that offer net 30 to net 60 terms to their customers, but can't a...
Two Ways to Finance Your Government Sales
The U.S. government buys billions of dollars worth of products and services from commercial companies every year. This has held true even during the credit crunch and recession of the past few years, making government sales one of the more attractive oppo...
How to Finance a Growing Transportation Carrier
Now that the recession is over and the economy is growing again, transportation companies are finally seeing some growth themselves. However, conditions are more difficult than they were before and most shippers are paying their freight bills slowly. Invo...
How to Handle a Cash Shortage with Invoice Factoring
Most companies experience cash shortages at one time or another. This article will explain how to address a common problem that causes shortages and will also suggest some strategies to del with them. However, this article should not replace the advice of...
One Way to Solve Your Toughest Cash Flow Problem
One of the most challenging situations a business owner can run into is having a lot of invoices that will be paid in 60 days, a lot of expenses that need to be paid now, and not enough cash in the bank to pay the bills. This is a very common situation fo...
Using Your Slow Paying Invoices to Finance your Company
One of the more troubling by-products of the recent credit crunch is that many companies implemented immediate measures to conserve cash. One of those measures was increasing how long they take to pay invoices. In the past, most commercial transactions we...
Financing a Business After a Recession
Although the recession has been technically over for a while, finding business financing remains almost as challenging as it was during the worst part of it. This is due to a combination of lending institutions being in bad financial shape and lenders bei...
Financing a Freight Carrier During a Credit Crunch
The transportation industry was very affected by the recession that finished in 2009. Although the recession has formally ended, the credit crunch that started with the recession is still ongoing and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Although som...