Getting Small Business Loans with No Collateral in this Recession
by ShashiBellamkonda
The global financial crisis has made it quite difficult for companies, especially small businesses, to get business loans. Ironically, it is also in this situation that smaller companies often need additional capital infusion to boost income. You may need to get small business loans to acquire a better business location, construct a new building, renovate your premises, pay for new equipment, fixtures or furniture or increase inventory and working capital.
Most Small Business Loans Require Collateral
To get business loans, even small business loans, is a major challenge.
First you need to identify which among the many types of small business loans you need. Small business loans ranging from ,000.00 to ,000.00 are called micro loans. For larger needs, such as for the acquisition of land, buildings and other major fixed assets, development financing is what you should find. There are also import export loans as well as franchise financing. Do your research to find out if you are qualified for small business loans guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration or SBA.
Any of these small business loans will require extensive preparations and paperwork. As a small business owner, you will need to prove your credit worthiness through a personal credit history report. Lenders will also require a business plan which includes your credentials as the business owner, your company financial statements, business assets and an analysis of your market. All of these should be packaged in a professional loan proposal which presents how the loaned amount will be used to strengthen the business and how you intend to repay the loan. Most of all, you need to present your loan collateral – the assets you will put up to secure the loan.
Quick and Easy Small Business Loans with No Collateral
For smaller acquisitions or day to day business needs, there is a way for entrepreneurs to get small business loans easily and quickly with no collateral. This is through merchant services.
Merchant services provide credit card services to businesses. This enables them to accept and process payments through credit cards or debit cards either through face to face purchases, online transactions, or even by phone or fax. Merchant service providers supply terminal equipment for card swiping, as well as the necessary software and high speed IP solutions.
Most businesses need credit card services since consumers routinely pay for goods and services through credit cards and debit cards these days. If your business has not taken this step yet, you may have been missing out on more than half of your income potential.
These same merchant services also provide the solution for your small business loans. Collateral-free loans can be availed of through their cash advances, with the loan amount computation based on the monthly credit card revenue your business generates. Credit card sales requirements may be as low as ,000.00 a month. You will not be asked for collateral since your future revenue is your collateral.
The best types of merchant cash advances do not require fixed monthly payments nor do they impose deadlines on loan payment. A certain percentage is instead deducted automatically from your credit card revenue each month to go towards loan payment. This way, you never have to worry about loan amortization.
Once your cash advance has been fully paid, you may apply for another one. It is like having a revolving credit line. Make sure that you compare the terms of several merchant service providers, though, and read the fine print on contracts. There are so many merchant service providers competing for your business that you’ll surely find one that fits your needs.
SBA Deputy Administrator Marie Johns answers questions about The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 as well as opportunities available for small businesses under the Recovery Act and Affordable Care Act. September 29, 2010.
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Obama can not create pvt. sector jobs. To do so he would have to embrace & support capitalism, not reject & seek to destroy it.
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@MrTabby5000
I won’t argue that both Bush & Cheney were corrupt, much like every politician before them, but what did Cheney deregulate to make prices go up? Because like I said there were various factors that led to the rise in prices.
@MrTabby5000
That is a contradiction in terms. No one can receive goods or services simply by demanding them. Of course you can use force or some other method of coercion. One can however create demand by supplying a good or service at an equable price. Your focus on the Demand side of economic negotiations reveals much of the morality, or rather lack thereof, that your political philosophy is comprised.
@CapoBallin
bullcrap bushs buddies were big oil and it was deregulated by cheney so speculaters did what they want,it started in 2002,after 2002 gas prices went up and up.
@MrTabby5000
You’re going off tangent with your argument(s). The wealthy didn’t have a tax cut but actually paid a larger blended tax rate under Bush vs. Clinton for example. There were many factors contributing to the rise in gas prices. From “easy money” as a result of the Federal Reserve to record demand at the pump, domestically & internationally.
@CapoBallin
while the bubble was created and bursted.tax cuts to the wealthy always caused a bubble that bursted.Speculation for high gas prices made people realize no more starbucks coffee and no fries with that.
@MrTabby5000
There are multiple causes of of the GD, from the Federal Reserve increasing the money supply & an influx of gold in the US during the 1920′s to the poor policies of the 1930′s.
@MrTabby5000
Bush tax cuts didn’t work in which way? One can argue that as a result of the “tax cuts” federal revenue increased during his administration. In fact, the rich paid a higher blended tax rate under Bush’s admin. vs. Clinton’s. The housing bubble was created as a result of low interest rates & government creating policies to make everyone become a home owner. As for Harding, his tax cuts as well as cutting the Fed. budget, a depression was prevented in 1920-1921.
@CapoBallin
well the bush tax cuts didnt work either,now did it?the tax cuts did create a bubble like when warren harding gave the wealthy a tax cuts which produced the roaring 20s and when the bubble burst the GD.
@MrTabby5000
I was referring to your demand-side comment. Keynesian economics (i.e. stimulus) clearly did not work. After all it was supposed to prevent unemployment from reaching past 8%. And recent history has shown that clearly has not been the case.
@CapoBallin
you mean your rewritten version of history.Job losses started under bush who gave two tax cuts.
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@MrTabby5000
History wouldn’t agree with that notion however.
Never in America’s history have we had, until now, such an? anti capitalism President and an Administration filled with so many misfits, liars, incompetents, tax cheats, marxists, radicals & big government despots.
Obama can not create pvt. sector jobs. To do so he would have to embrace & support capitalism, not reject & seek to destroy it.
@MishuTaste
but bush gave two tax cuts and our jobs left.Even if there was zero taxes.corporations would still leave for cheaper labor.Taxes have nothing to do with anything just look into the former eisenhower administration,he gave zero tax cuts.
@MrTabby5000 A good entrepreneur will recognize the demand for his products/services before he asks investors for capital. What I would like the federal government to do is: get out of the way! Most jobs are created by small business owners. I say we shouldn’t tax their profits. Perhaps they’ll create more jobs! I’d be willing to compromise by having a national sales tax , but I think it’s unnecessary. In my opinion, the tax cuts Marie Johns talks about are not enough.
supply side economics just doesn’t work,but demand side does.
@MishuTaste
but without demand there is no reason for supply.Besides most businesses are small businesses.
@MrTabby5000 The customers sustain the jobs that are created by the business owners who get capital from investors.
@MishuTaste
the customers create jobs because they buy,capital is a different issue.
@MrTabby5000 Investors create jobs. Customers sustain jobs. The wealthiest Americans are the ones w/ the most investment money. So to me, it doesn’t make any sense to tax their income. It also doesn’t make sense to tax the income of the customers.
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