The Real Reason Banks Decline Business Loans For the majority of businesses the main reason they are declined bank finance is never truly understood, it is vaguely concealed in a broad explanation that never really feels justified or right. The reason this happens is that your bank wants to keep you as a client. They
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Getting a Bank Loan or Dating? Businesses get turned down for finance, fact. What it doesn’t mean is that your business proposal or the business itself is wrong. Sometimes it just happens. There is a quote from Sahar Hashemi, co-founder of Coffee Republic; For me it’s a numbers game – you should almost notch up
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The Real Reason Banks Decline Business Loans For the majority of businesses the main reason they are declined bank finance is never truly understood, it is vaguely concealed in a broad explanation that never really feels justified or right. The reason this happens is that your bank wants to keep you as a client. They
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What Is Crowdfunding? With some analysts predicting business lending through crowdfunding in the UK could exceed £1bn by the end of 2015 then you really should be aware of what crowdfunding is. The Perfect Storm For Business Loans? They say that stress can be the best driver of innovation. As the recession took hold and
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Limited Company or Not Limited Company One of the most common questions we get asked by new businesses and start-ups is whether they should be a limited company or not. There are buckets of resources available to help you work out what is best for you, be it sole trader or limited company. If you
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Business Finance Is a Foreign Language When you go to Spain it is fair to say we all know a few words, could order our cerveza, count to 10 and the rest. Not many of us are fluent. Take that then try mixing that with a bit of Mandolin, Flemish, Arabic, and Esperanto. Just how
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The Bank Doesn’t Understand My Business Is this the most common line said about banks, especially in the last few years? Probably is if our straw poll is anything to go by. Why Don’t Banks Understand? The easy answer here is that the small business and the bank have very different views and a different
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Lime Consultancy Video This is the first in a series of new videos. Watch our 60 second introduction to see what Lime Consultancy could be doing for you. We help business raise finance, get critical funding and work with them to enable them to grow and succeed. Watch the ‘Welcome to Lime Consultancy’ video here
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