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Benefits of Pre-Qualification for your Equipment Financing

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A quick pre-qualification program can: Help you focus on only the equipment you can afford, rather than wishing. Let you consider more equipment once you see how affordable one item might be. Allow you to shop and negotiate with confidence in the buying process. Help eliminate the uncertainty and anxiety in the process. Many small business owners spend significant time…

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Preview the Preheader (A Marketing Moment)

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Email continues to be a huge driver for businesses in almost every industry, and it’s getting easier and easier to access every year. In the last five years, email opens on mobile devices have grown over 30%. While there are many positive aspects to this newfound access, like the ability to reach a customer any time, any place, this can…

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Never use working capital loans for long term funding / lending needs ~ Here’s why.

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There are some really innovative small business working capital providers breaking through in the market today.  However Caution must be used when considering these, despite the fact that they apparently fill a void where banks are no longer meeting the need. In light of these solutions, we also are hearing that they are, somehow, viable alternatives to more traditional equipment…

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Growing sales with the more challenging credits.

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When equipment dealers get a tougher deal done for a customer it’s a pretty great thing. You’ve helped a customer in a challenging circumstance get the equipment they needed and built the road for a long-term relationship. But far too often, dealers pass on tougher deals because it’s too much work and they don’t have a consistent business lender that…

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Moving from negativity and uncertainty to possibility and prosperity in your business.

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In an environment where the airwaves are poisoned with toxic reasons why you can’t grow your business, it makes us wonder: Is business growth consistently attainable in this climate? If it is…what tools can help you get there? The long term failure of “more with less” Eight years ago things were a mess. The great recession was hard on most….

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Increasing sales with payments…without knowing anything about finance

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It’s just hard to be an expert at everything. And we find many manufacturers, dealers and vendors of commercial equipment are frustrated with the complexity of offering finance programs to their customers. Lots of paperwork, bait and switch lenders, customers turned down and it can take a really long time to get paid. But the advantage of offering payments to…

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Do equipment sales team behaviors and the definition of insanity share the same neighborhood?

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The colloquial definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Yeah, but what do they know about commercial equipment sales? Well, nothing. But considering the author of the quote was Albert Einstein and he basically was the smartest dude ever—I wouldn’t count him out when applying this to the behavior of commercial equipment…

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Be honest: Does offering financing to customers intimidate you?

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Intimidate – [in-tim-i-deyt] – v.: To make timid. To fill with fear. Equipment expert and finance expert are not the same thing. Many equipment pros are amazing equipment experts but when the conversation moves out of their comfort zone…money…they’d prefer to let their customers figure it out on their own. Are you afraid to offer financing to your customers? Here…

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