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Handling Tough Economic Times Via Invoice Factoring

December 28th, 2009
How Do You Handle Tough Economic Times? As the economic crisis isn't over yet, the self-employed and micro small-business owners continue to have to make tough decisions regarding their operations. In the year 2008, the National Association of Self-Employed (NASA) asked its members this same question: How much of an impact is the slow economy having on your business at the present time? 50 percent said it had a significant impact on their business while 21 percent said it had a moderate impact. No doubt that today the percentages would be worse. But here's the good news. Invoice factoring, otherwise known as accounts receivable factoring, has helped save a number of small businesses from destruction. more »

SBA Office of Advocacy Research Points to Loan Falloff

November 9th, 2009
Entrepreneurship is one of the best way of re-energizing our nation’s economy, yet one of the top issues for our nation's small to medium-sized businesses is access to credit, especially during this economic downturn - and loans are falling off. more »

The History of the U.S. Economy

February 27th, 2009
the United States economy can be divided into two periods: the time immediately after World War II, and the past three decades when worldwide economic forces and government policies caused it to soar. Today, President Obama appears tyo be setting out to begin a third period.Therefore for small businesses that are trying to make ends meet during this slow growth perdio, one way to remain solvent is to consider putting accounts receivable factoring in place. more »