The Entrepreneur's Guide to business credit is an insider's guide on how to build business credit, a business score and profile for your business. This book will reveal how an entrepreneur can be approved for cash and credit cards in your business name. Plus, this ultimate, step-by-step guide tells you exactly WHERE to apply for your first vendor business credit cards. Learn the insider secrets of the business credit world and be approved for more money and credit without using your personal credit. Once you have an established business, discover how to organize and position your business for more capital to replace most full time jobs to become a full time entrepreneur.

Business credit is the ability of a business to qualify for financing. Businesses have credit reports and scores just like people do. Business credit bureaus Dun & Bradstreet, Experian, and Equifax all keep a record of debt payments and other credit information on businesses. Your business credit report may be used by lenders, creditors, suppliers, insurance companies, and other organizations evaluating a credit or insurance application or business deal. This book will tell you why most people fail to secure large amounts of business credit and will also shed light on what you can do today to avoid being part of that statistic. Picture a world where your credit exposure was minimal at worst and non-existent at best. A world where you financially benefit from having all of your common expenses such as utility bills, phone bills, credit cards, store cards, gas cards, and loans under your business's identity.

Small businesses figure importantly in the American economy, yet few resources exist for small business owners looking to build their credit. In The Rational Guide to Building Small Business Credit, Barbara Weltman offers an indispensable new guide that clearly explains how to build and maintain a credit profile for your company. This book covers the fundamentals of credit building, including the five C's of credit analysis and how to register your D-U-N-S(r) number with Dunn & Bradstreet. Advanced concepts include re-establishing poor credit, working with the government, and running credit checks on your customers.This book uses a rational, no-nonsense approach to give you the information you need to proactively manage your credit!

Get APPROVED for $50K or more in Business Credit without giving a personal guarantee. Heard that before? This is NOT just another book on building business credit. This book IS the definitive step-by-step guide to building real business credit fast. Included in this book are 30 business credit sources with specific underwriting guidelines. Do you need to know who actually reports and when? What are the specific requirements to get approved? Where and how do you apply? Are you looking for starter Net 30 vendor accounts, revolving store credit accounts, fleet credit cards, and high-limit cash credit cards? Your search is over. With this business credit playbook in your hands, you'll have the winning strategy for your business' success.

Ask any established business owner to identify his or her toughest challenge when just starting out, and you'll likely get this answer: raising capital. Most aspiring entrepreneurs know far too little about the sources of money that can help start a business or fuel its growth. Where do you get capital? What are investors looking for? How do you ask for money in a way that gets results? This book answers these and many other critical questions. Even more important, entrepreneur and consultant David Nour shows how to develop long-term relationships with financial partner—the people who can help keep a business humming throughout its life. The Entrepreneur's Guide to Raising Capital, designed to help entrepreneurs navigate the money-raising maze, shows how to attract financing to fund the start-up and growth phases any business moves through. It answers the most common—and the most perplexing—questions entrepreneurs have about financing a business: How do I put together a credible request for funds? How do I choose wisely from among the plethora of financial and strategic investors, consultants, investment bankers, and other intermediaries? How do I identify and avoid the risks associated with various sources of capital? How do I plan for the right kind, amount, and source of smart capital as the business evolves? How do I get the highest return on invested capital? How do I avoid the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make when raising capital? This book provides real-life, pragmatic advice from entrepreneurs who have raised money from friends, family, angel investors, and banks, as well as institutional investors such as venture capitalists and private equity firms. It details the process from start to finish while spotlighting the danger spots and ways to avoid them. It will be especially useful to those who are uncomfortable making important financial decisions, and to those who are confused by all the conflicting opinions offered by advisors—both well meaning and otherwise. By showing readers the financing ropes, Nour removes a major source of stress for budding entrepreneurs and moves them closer to their dream come true: a successful business.

The business owner's guide to obtaining credit tied to your EIN number NOT your SSN! This step by step guide will show you why business credit is so important, how to obtain it, why you should monitor it and where it can take you! Everything from beginning vendors to revolving credit is covered in depth. With this guide you will become a business credit expert quickly! Use business credit for real estate, cash flow control, start ups, vehicle financing, marketing, and every business expense you have or may have!