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Why Every Business Needs a Backup Payment Plan
If your business relies on a single method for processing payments, consider implementing an alternative. This article explains why it's just good business to have a plan B
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Why Every Business Owner Needs a Business Credit Card
When you're a business owner, it's normal to focus on running and growing your business. But the way you pay for business expenses is equally important, and this is an area where business credit cards can be a huge help.
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Why every leader needs to be a risk manager
When you hear the title Risk Manager, who comes to mind? Typically, it’s the person who procures the corporate insurance program, leads health and
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Will home prices drop if there's a recession?
Home prices are expected to increase moderately throughout 2025. While a recession could lead to a small decline in prices, a full-blown housing market crash is less likely.
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Your Business Needs a Succession Plan: Here Are the Basics
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series on selling your business, we’ve examined the questions facing owners who entered 2020 ready to make their move, breaking down how the COVID-19 pandemic changes the situation and how to increase a business’s value if you decide to delay bringing it to market. There’s another way forwa
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Translating Passion to Business
Meet Elizabeth Colon, who is an honoree of the 2020 Inspiring Women in Business program, sponsored by First Midwest Bank and 101.9 THE MIX. Elizabeth
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4 Ways a Credit Limit Increase Can Help You
If you have a credit card, you've probably noticed that you have a set credit limit. Your credit limit is determined by various factors such as your income, credit history, and credit score.
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5 Steps to a Secure Retirement Plan for Business Owners
When you're planning for how you'll manage your finances when you're retired you can't be hasty. Retirement planning is perhaps a multistep process, and it evolves with time. That being said, retirement planning for the service class and business owners is not the same. In most cases, the service class receives provide
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5 Steps to Creating a 3-5 Year Business Plan
The pandemic has highlighted the importance of having a strategic business plan that you can turn to when the unexpected happens. How do you get
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5 Ways to Avoid Becoming a Victim of ATM Scams
Card skimming fraud — which occurs when a criminal uses a skimmer device to swipe your bank card details from areas where you use your card for payment or to retrieve cash — was up 759% in the first half of 2022, with 20% of those skimming incidents occurring at a branch ATM, according to data from FICO.