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How to Accept Mobile Payments that Build Your Business Credit

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How to Accept Mobile Payments

Does your business accept mobile credit card payments?

Let’s face it you’ll never miss a sale once you have the ability to take credit card payments anytime and anywhere. It’s clear that mobile credit card processing is an idea whose time has come. how to accept mobile card payments

The ability to accept payments wherever your business goes via your mobile device makes getting paid that much easier. It’s so easy that merchants are expected to process $260 billion in transactions on mobile tools next year alone!

Like all great ideas, once it gains popularity everyone starts jumping on the bandwagon. Unfortunately, the bandwagon effect does have its drawbacks when it comes to choosing the best mobile credit card processing solution. Too many business owners have a tendency to go for fast, simple and easy without doing enough due diligence.
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New D&B Viability Rating™: To Do or Not to Do Business with You

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D&B Viability Rating™

Do you have a viable business?

Is it capable of growing, functioning, and developing as an independent entity? D&B Viability Rating

These are important questions any business, investor, or business partner would want to know prior to doing business with you. While you may be familiar with D&B’s Paydex® Score, which is based on your company’s payment performance, the new viability rating analyzes the current and future health of your business.
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Can You Really Get a Cash Advance for Business in 7 Minutes?

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Cash Advance for Business

In the past several posts we covered a variety of ways you can get the necessary cash to grow your business. From business credit cards, to revenue based loans to even using your 401k for funding to name a few. In this post we’ll cover something quite different. cash advance for business

Are you familiar with a merchant cash advance?

Now I know what you’re thinking so don’t worry, I’m not going to cover the typical merchant cash advance, remember I said this was something really different.

If you’re not familiar with a merchant cash advance, it basically provides a business with upfront cash in exchange for a portion of future credit card sales. Now if you ever had to deal with typical merchant cash advance providers you’re probably familiar with all the paperwork, merchant statements, costly fees, and waiting periods you have to deal with.
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The 5 Critical Things Driving Your Business Credit Score Rating

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Business Credit Score Rating

Last week we explored your D&B number, its importance, and how to obtain one. This week we’ll look at business credit scores and what drives them. business credit score ratings

Let’s face it; business credit score ratings can be confusing. Each business credit reporting agency uses various metrics in calculating its business credit scores. For example, Dun & Bradstreet uses up to 875 payment experiences to generate a company’s PAYDEX® Score and up to 80 payment experiences are reported in your business credit report.

So without getting into all the various scoring models, formulas, historical analysis and all that jazz, let’s talk about what you can do on a company level to maximize your business credit scores.
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