FastUpFront Small Business Blog

I felt like revisiting Working Capital today – and wanted to compare a Working Capital Loan to a Business Cash Advance.  Working Capital Loans Working capital loans provide small businesses with the possibility of rapid growth by allowing them to meet their short-term financial needs.  Working capital loans are generally used to pay wages, clear [...]

I just finished reading a long article for small business owners about how he/she needs to prepare for the meeting with a banker when requesting a loan.  It goes over Cash Flow, Balance Sheet, Collateral, etc, etc.  And it tells the business owner to “…remember the old sales adage, ‘Fail to prepare; prepare to fail.’” [...]

The business cash advance is a great alternative loan product that many business owners are cashing in on. The biggest problem with the business cash advance is that most business owners don’t even know they exist. Many people who apply for business cash advances on our website have never heard of advance until reading our [...]

Many business owners have been turning to leasing as an alternative to bank loans.  Now, more and more businesess are also tapping into small business cash advance services as a financing solution.  Cash advances can be used either in combination with or in place of leasing. The following list takes a quick look at various aspects of bank [...]

Growing a hair / beauty salon business requires financing! Lenders know that these business can really struggle with varying receivables and high overhead. A successful salon needs time to develop a loyal customer base. A salon’s success is based on a local following and until that business has established it’s “regulars” overtime, revenue can be very [...]

Here is a reasonably good, apparantly unbiased article with pros and cons of accounts receivable financing from About.com.  I will post more articles as I find them.

Small businesses across the country are trying to survive the current credit crunch.  The recent changes in the credit market have resulted in much more restricted access to capital.  As any small business owner knows, access to capital is crucial to growing and surviving in business. Capital was easy to come by for many small [...]

1)  Bill Your Customers Your clients won’t pay you unless you ask them to.  Many small businesses only send out invoices when they find themselves short on cash.  If you are taking on a regular client, negotiate a regular invoice schedule.  Scheduled and prompt billing is the first step to improving your business’ cash flow; [...]

Today, I got a taste of some of the frustration our clients of trying to research small business cash advancing and bad credit business loans in general.  I was trying to look up some non-biased information (ie not put out by a creditor) so that I could quote it on here.  Although I found a [...]

Welcome to the official FastUpFront Weblog (blog). Our core service is providing businesses with unsecured cash advances. We provide the necessary financial resources to promote, develop, expand or simply maintain small businesses to medium sized businesses. Through this Blog (in addition to other areas of our website), you will be able to find current news, information, and business resources [...]