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...
How do you parlay $375 in startup capital into a business that projects $8 million to $10 million in 2014 sales?
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...
Smart Trends: Fin Buddy App - Making Money In Your Sleep - SCORE Website Smart Hustlers get ahead by taking advantage of every opportunity, whether it's a hot market trend, a new innovation, a program or person offering assistance, or a helpful website, book or app that makes us smarter. In every issue of Smart Hustle,...
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?
Managing Cash Flow 101 By Rieva Lesonsky When you’re running your own business, there’s no one cutting you a paycheck or ensuring you meet payroll. The buck stops with you, and you’ve got to hustle if you want to keep the cash coming in. Part of being a Smart Hustler is staying on top of your...
Getting funding to start your business doesn't mean gearing up to visit your local bank. In fact, a trip to the bank will likely get you nowhere—banks are notoriously tight-fisted when it comes to lending money to startups. Smart entrepreneurs know finding funding is all about the hustle. You have to be flexible, determined,...
An Upstart’s Journey into Payroll: David vs. Goliath By Rieva Lesonsky Remember the Jack and the Beanstalk fairytale where an ordinary person took on a colossus—and, against all odds, won the battle? Makes for a good story, but that couldn’t happen in real life, right? Wrong! It’s happening right now in the seemingly mundane realm of...
