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Transaction or Lifelong Relationship?

Make or Break Moments

Will the proposals that are outstanding come in before the 31st? Do your potential customers become dollar signs or lines on your P&L as you think through your finances? You have financial obligations and if you could get just one more customer before the end of the month you’d hit your break even.

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Small Business World News Round-up – 209/11/24

The Small Business Blog

The proposed agency is called the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, which is intended to protect consumers from making risky financial decisions. One small business financing alternative is the private lender. Private Lender :Where can entrepreneurs go when the bank says, “No&# ? 2010 may be no better.

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Small Business World News Round-up - 2009/11/17

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Concerned about the obstacles that places in the way of economic recovery, President Obama recently proposed a new federal effort to give community banks access to ultra-cheap government loans, which they can then use to expand their local business lending. As always this list is not exhaustive, but I hope it will give you a little overview.

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Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/12/15

The Small Business Blog

RBI draws flank from panel : The carte blanche given to private and foreign banks by the Reserve Bank of India to charge interest rates on credit cards at their whims and fancy has come in for severe criticism by the parliamentary standing committee on finance. per cent in April 2011 has angered small business owners.

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Small Business Failure – Reason: Funding | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Thanks Rob Smorfitt Said on September 2nd, 2007 at 9:13 pm Is a lack of finance not a symptom rather than the cause of SME failure. Is a lack of finance not due to poor planning, uncontrolled growth or a poor business? Unless you propose to only allow start-ups who can demonstrate that they have enough resources and reserves?

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Small Business World News Round-up - 2009/11/03

The Small Business Blog

Big trouble in small business : SMALL business advocates are worried that access to research and development tax incentives will be blocked rather than advanced under proposed changes designed to foster innovation. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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What legal entity is right for your business? | THE SMALL BUSINESS.

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A limited company must obtain approval from Companies House to use its proposed name. do cost cutting do credit control do customer service export find funding grow your business handle problems keep data safe lower overheads manage your time market and sell motivate your staff not to do it! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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