Business Owners

 We’re a little over a month into 2018. The month of resolution making is over. How have you held up? Staying strong so far? Good. Past the point of making goals, you have to take the steps to achieve them. Our goal last year was to create and expand a blog that would help our customers, partners, and businesses…

When you think about the financiers that power the American economy, you might go to the names that grab the headlines. Fancy investment banks or global commercial banks might race to the top of your mind, and to some degree that’s true. But if 80% of all employment comes from smaller businesses, who is helping them? Who is making the…

Finding today’s “win-win.” Times have undoubtedly changed. Lenders are under exponentially larger regulatory pressure in how they lend money. The days of the lender making a decision with his or her signature while you sat in their office are long over. Lending has become impersonal, distant, judgmental and seemingly…as the survey respondents identified…adversarial. But it doesn’t have to be that…

Equipment Leasing and Financing for Startup Construction Industry Enterprises America, the Beautiful – the Land of Opportunity.   Opportunity often requires capital, and this is most often the case for NEW IN BUSINESS Construction Professionals. The new/newer in business companies carry a higher risk for many lenders ~ so what options do you have out there to buy the equipment…

Breaking down the credit mystery: Capital Would you invest in something that the owners of the investment themselves aren’t invested in? Probably not. As we continue to unpack the core components of credit decisions (called the five “C’s” of credit) in a series of short articles that remove the mystery and arm you with the information to succeed with financing,…

Great by Choice (pt. 3) You can find the last two posts in the Great by Choice series here: Fanatic Discipline (20 Mile March) Empirical Creativity (Fire Bullets, Then Cannonballs) One of the first books our employees are given on their first day at SLS is “Great by Choice” by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen, which looks at why…

We love doing our part to help businesses succeed – we’ve been doing it for 31 years now. We’re not in it for the accolades or the recognition, but it does put a smile on our faces to receive something like this in the mail: “Congratulations! Security Leasing has been nominated as a candidate for Thinking Bigger Business Media’s 17th…

In a world full of “no’s” ~we are a lender with a ready YES! Equipment Financing for Start ups. Equipment Leasing for more challenging credits. Business Lending for all types of equipment. Business Loans for expansion and growth. Yes ~ together we can!   Have a business lending need?   Let’s Grow!   (all programs subject to credit and underwriting…

As the warm summer months end I can’t help but look forward to the first snowfall. Some people shudder at the thought of snow. Sure, the extra commute time dodging out of control vehicles, shoveling snow in the subzero temperatures, and the arrival of flu season can make anyone dread the winter months. However, for me and millions of other…