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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 business [...]

See previous article about bartering for background.
There are about 500 bartering organizations in North America.  How do you know which ones to join?  There is no universal RIGHT answer here, you just need to ask the questions, and see if the answers meet your bartering needs.
First off, membership fees are generally low monthly (occasionally annual) fees.  [...]

Since so many of our clients are in the food service industry, I decided to research books that customers from Amazon.com rated 5 stars for Restaurant Management.  These are the books they recommended:
1. The Restaurant Managers Handbook: How to Set Up, Operate, and Manage a Financially Successful Food Service Operation by Douglas Robert Brown (Hardcover – [...]

Bartering removes the money element; thereby relieving strain on your cash flow.  You are a restaurant in need of advertising?  Great!  You provide catering at a big morning meeting and, voila, you get barter credit which you can use to get those flyers – and maybe also a paint job. 
 A key side-effect (and the reason [...]

Okay, I sat down to do the previously promised top 10 customer rated books on small business taxes, and I see that there are really only about 6 from the last 3 years that have 5 stars, so here they are:
1. JK Lasser’s Small Business Taxes 2007: Your Complete Guide to a Better Bottom Line (J K [...]

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; make [...]

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 [...]

I had a “simple” idea for a blog entry today:  thought I would find the top 10 rated books on amazon.com for small businesses.   I think Amazon needs a new search engine!  In the end, I simply searched in the ‘books’ category for “small business management” and sorted by customer rating.  After taking out books [...]