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Women-Owned Business Certification: Four Heavy-Hitters

4 minute read

March 6, 2025

If you're an entrepreneurial woman, have you noticed that many of your peers have joined organizations offering women-owned business certifications? These groups let mix and mingle in exciting new networks — and perhaps win some...

Small Business

Get a Handle on Your Business Tax Return

6 minute read

March 3, 2025

Did you start a new venture last year? Are you restructuring your current operation? In either case, it helps to understand the basic tax structures for all types of small businesses—and know tax-laws changes for...

Working Capital

Working Capital Cycles: How to Improve Your Business’s Cycle

4 minute read

February 25, 2025

As it is in comedy, success in business is all about timing. When, and how quickly, does money arrive? When, and how quickly, does it leave? This cadence is known as your working capital cycle...

Fora Financial News

Fora Financial Announces Leadership Changes, Appoints Company Veterans to COO and CMO Roles

1 minute read

February 19, 2025

Fora Financial, a leading provider of flexible financing solutions to the nation's small and medium-sized businesses, reported the appointment of two long-time employees to new leadership roles, effective immediately. Co-founder and CEO Jared Feldman has...

Small Business

Is Crowdfunding Right for Your Small Business?

3 minute read

February 11, 2025

For more than a decade, small business owners have been empowered to bypass traditional lenders and appeal to the general public for seed money. This process of "crowdfunding" often works well. In fact, an $8.8...

Working Capital

How to Pick the Best Financing Terms on a Business Loan

5 minute read

February 4, 2025

Businesses can have many great reasons for seeking working capital – getting up and running, expanding operations, or even just buying additional inventory at a bargain price. When used smartly, borrowed capital can reduce the stress...

Working Capital

How to Size Up Your Business-funding Options

5 minute read

January 28, 2025

Last week, one of the ovens at the Serious Dough Bakery baked its last loaf of pumpernickel bread, right before the weekend rush. Wendy, the bakery's owner, wasn't anticipating a large fourth-quarter purchase, which would...

Working Capital

How Much Do You Need to Borrow? Here's Nine Ways to Decide

5 minute read

January 21, 2025

When your catering business's only delivery truck's engine seizes, your business banking account is low, and you're heading into your busy season, you'll need to borrow the funds for a new truck — that's a...

Working Capital

Having Trouble Paying Your Small Business Loan? Consider These 6 Moves

3 minute read

January 14, 2025

Despite your best efforts, there’s always the chance that you may find yourself coming up short on repaying a business loan. If so, you’re not alone. In fact 34 percent of small businesses say that...