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Minority Business Owner Success

Survey – How Minority-Owned Businesses Can Pave Their Own Path

Now in its second (or third or fourth) leg, the global pandemic – which could soon be called an endemic – made its mark by creating obstacles for everyone. Every business, big and small, experienced its fair share of challenges. Yet, in the height of the pandemic, minority-owned small businesses experienced another level of hardships. Through it...

Know your numbers says Bookkeep CEO

Online Retailers Will Fail If They Don’t Know Their Numbers Says Bookkeep CEO

Every business owner needs to know their financial numbers. Especially retailers. Jason Richelson, co-founder and CEO of Bookkeep says that not knowing your numbers can be one of the detriments to an online retailer. Sure it's great that you're selling items and making a "gross profit". However, what about the taxes, platform fees and other "hidden" costs...

New Banking Services

New Bank Built To Serve Small Businesses – Truly Financial

Recently, I opened up a new bank account. It was a different experience than with a traditional bank. This new business banking service, a partner of SmartHustle.com is Truly Financial. For a growing business, we have several financial challenges.  How do we pay our team and manage their expenses? Especially those team members who...

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How Intuit QuickBooks Is Shaping The Future of Small Business Finances

Intuit QuickBooks has long been the leading software helping small business owners manage their cash flow and bank account balances. Over the years it's extended those services to payroll, accounting help and more. Recently Intuit QuickBooks is moving into directly providing financial services to its customers as well. Ramon Ray, small business expert and founder of SmartHustle.com...

NFTs and what it means for business

NFTS – What Are They and Why Should You Care?

NFTs are making massive waves in the business world. Since the advent of social media, we haven’t seen this much excitement about technological innovation. Non-fungible tokens, also known as NFTs, are the biggest hype item in the crypto world. Collins Dictionary listed 'NFT' as the 2021 word of the year. But what are NFTs, and why...

Money Management

Are Students Loans Impacting Your Business Growth

2021 was the year of booming small businesses. As of September, more than 4 million people filed applications to start a new business, compared to 3 million the previous year. But not everyone has been able to start the business of their dreams, and some are finding their new business expenses going elsewhere each month. Student...

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Borrowing Money for Your Business? Be Strategic.

It doesn’t matter what size your business is, fueling growth and maintaining a successful and thriving business often require borrowed capital. With that being said, borrowing money at the wrong time, borrowing for the wrong reasons, or borrowing the wrong amount can cripple or even ring the death knell for your business. Money Isn’t Always...

Improve cash flow

Three Tips for Improving Your Cash Flow (That Really Work)

By Jon Fasoli, VP and Segment Leader, Small Business and Self-Employed Group at Intuit Financial forecasting can be the lifeblood of your business, especially if you want happy employees, a content landlord, and more opportunities to grow. And part of that involves keeping a watchful eye on your cash flow. Money coming in is great but,...