Charity – 5 Reasons Your Business Should Support One
MILLENNIALS & CHARITY If millennials are one thing, it’s socially conscious consumers. Studies show that millennials are more likely to purchase from a company that gives back to its community, volunteers, and supports a charity. By aligning your brand with a cause, you can attract a niche audience and receive more business because of your donation. […]
Why Do Business Owners Use Restaurant Finance? – Guide to Financing a Restaurant
Let’s be real, your tip jar isn’t going to get your restaurant to its next milestone, no matter how many times you provide service with a smile. That’s why so many small, medium and large food service industry businesses are seeking additional financing to meet their working capital needs and take their eatery to the […]
Business News Daily – 6 Small Business Tech Trends
FundKite was recently featured in a Business News Daily article on “6 Small Business Tech Trends,” with quotes from Alex Shvarts, CTO of FundKite, on how influencer marketing will change in 2019. “As a small business owner, you may not be on the forefront of developing technology as enterprise-level businesses often are, but tech still […]
Seasonal Funding Tips 101
Running a business is referred to as a balancing act. A roller coaster. A game of pinball. Like raising a child. Those metaphors are all the more true when operating a seasonal business. Sometimes a seasonal business operates year round but has a peak, other times it closes for several months before reopening. This unsteady […]
Payments Source – Small Biz Lending Market
FundKite executives watched the small-business lending sector evolve – and determined that the trend of mobile point of sale providers offering loans and cash advances was limiting the market. PAYMENTS SOURCE The likes of Square and PayPal have been using their mobile point of sale devices as both a measure of creditworthiness and a means […]
6 Healthy Social Media Habits to Boost Your Following
Social media can be a bit of an enigma. You put a post out there, and people all over the world can see it and like it. When more people like it, your post is boosted in the platform’s algorithm and others are encouraged to like it as well. So how do you turn likes […]
Entrepreneurship – Two Financial Approaches
One of the scariest aspects of entrepreneurship is money: the startup costs, the revenue flow, extra capital for growth. So much money is needed to start and sustain a business, and most people with a product or service idea and a business plan can’t make their dreams happen simply because they don’t have the money, or […]
Bad Credit Business Loan
The strict requirements of obtaining a loan from banks and government institutions leave many business owners wondering “How do I get a business loan with bad credit?” It is completely possible to receive a loan or alternative funding with bad or declining credit, however you can expect higher interest or buy rates due to the higher […]
What it Means To be Stay-At-Home Mother
Stay at home motherhood is the talk of every mommy blog these days. Whether a woman chooses to stay home and raise her kids or go back to work after maternity leave, everyone has an opinion on it and is happy to use the internet to vocalize their views. STAY AT HOME MOTHERS There’s no shortage of […]
How to Get Your Business On Shark Tank
Shark Tank is idolized in the startup world as the angel investor a brilliant but under-appreciated business deserves. Many entrepreneurs think their business is the next big thing (after all that’s why they started), so many in fact that Shark Tank receives over 45,000 applications a year. But out of those applications, only 200 get […]