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The Business Owner’s Guide to Understanding and Building Business Credit Section 2: How to Establish Business Credit Files Unlike personal credit, having business credit files isn’t always automatic. You may have to proactively set up your own business credit files at each of the bureaus. Each credit bureau also has […]
The Business Owner’s Guide to Understanding and Building Business Credit Section 1: Learning the Basics: Business Credit, Business Credit Reports, and Business Credit Scores What is Business Credit? Business credit refers to whether or not a business is a suitable candidate to give credit to and/or do business with. Having excellent […]
By Oliver Browne A business owner’s life is not without challenges. Accessing capital and credit is often one of the larger obstacles to successful business growth. This guide aims to assist the business owner in understanding something that can be tricky to new and budding business owners alike: the concept […]
We all may know of a family business torn apart by conflict. But a Columbia Business School professor writes in a Harvard Business Review article that, in fact, not enough conflict is also bad for business. Whether it is too much or two little conflict, “the business can suffer from […]
Even with the best intentions for a lasting legacy, family businesses find the odds stacked against them. Only about 30% of family businesses survive into the second generation, about 12% make it to the third generation, and only about 3% of all family businesses operate into the fourth generation or […]
For Olivia Wong, being a key player in the family agriculture business wasn’t always part of the plan – well, her plan anyway. When she chose her double majors at the University of Miami – motion picture production and history – it was about as far away from produce and […]
Have hiring plans for 2019? You’re not alone – 47 percent of Miami area small businesses plan to hire in 2019, according to a recent Bank of America survey. But with the national unemployment rate at the lowest level in 50 years, the tight job market overwhelmingly favors the job […]
New year, new goals. If as the owner of a business you have resolved to put a sharper focus on training this year, we have some advice for you. Small businesses, of course, don’t have the luxury of the large training budgets that bigger businesses have. But that doesn’t mean […]
Know your customer. We’ve heard that so much our head spins. But the truth is many entrepreneurs think they know their customers — and they really don’t. That can lead to weak product development and weak differentiation – two of the most common challenges seen by the consultants at Florida […]
Charles H. Green, founder and CEO of Trusted Advisor Associates, makes his living offering wisdom on how to build stronger relationships with clients and colleagues. At the core of his work is the study of trust and its importance in business success. The strongest form of trust is always personal, […]