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[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]Each January, gyms fill up with New Year’s Resolutioners, eager to work off the pounds. As the year goes on, some of those gym members will fall away, their high aspirations of weight loss long forgotten. Yet research shows that excess weight may have an impact on more than your waistline....
[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]A new term has emerged in recent months, leaving many entrepreneurs to wonder what it means. “ Fintech ” is a category of startup tech that includes such disruptive technology as mobile payments, fundraising, and peer-to-peer lending. A combination of the words “financial” and “technology,” the sector merely refers to technology...
5 Apps Your Accountant is Begging You to Have for 2015 Running a small business can be a rewarding and enjoyable experience. Handling the tricky financial side of things is typically not. Income taxes and deductions, sales tax, sales receipts, inventory management, expenses and many other financial responsibilities can be overwhelming. And for those entrepreneurs...
Facing Fear to Become Fearless How the VP of a leading NYC media planning agency overcame fear to strike out on her own and find success. Cara Scharf has loved advertising for as long as she remembers. As a little girl she used to visit the office of television producer Sandy Frank, one of her father’s...
Survey Reveals Small Businesses Optimistic About 2015 A new survey conducted by Xero, a Global leader in one accounting software, shows that small businesses are quite optimistic about 2015 based on the growth they found in 2014. According to the survey of 304 US based small businesses, 81 percent experienced revenue growth this year and nearly...
A fire burned Brad Sterl’s pizza-crust manufacturing plant to the ground, but couldn’t destroy this entrepreneur’s can-do spirit. It was March 2014, and Brad Sterl was enjoying a relaxing dinner with his wife after a long day at the Natural Products Expo West trade show in Anaheim, CA. Suddenly, Sterl found himself facing every entrepreneur’s...
Is Your Small Business Ready for EMV Compliance? The credit card processing industry is currently undergoing a gradual shift. While credit cards have traditionally been processed using a magnetic stripe, a new technology will soon have retailers using a smart chip. This type of transaction is more secure and can store more information than magnetic...
How To Maintain a Strong Business Credit Score When you’re hustling to build your business, you know it’s crucial to have a good personal credit score. But did you know that your business also has a credit score, and that its strength or weakness can affect your ability to get financing, get credit from suppliers...
Are you excited about the possibilities of crowdfunding? Most Smart Hustlers are—perhaps none more than Zack Danger Brown, who, as of this writing, has raised more than $66,000 on Kickstarter to make potato salad. It may have started as a joke, but #potatomadness has gone viral and Brown has hustled his way to crowdfunding...
Business credit cards can be a great way to manage your business’s cash flow, access needed capital for growth and provide an emergency backup plan for when money is tight. But what does a Smart Hustler need to know to choose the right business credit card?
