Most business owners don't realize that adding just one positive payment to their credit file can boost their scores and ratings by up to 90%, so just imagine how much you can boost your company's credibility if you have 5, 10, or more payments to add! Reach out to me directly if you want to add your existing payment history to your business credit report to boost your business credit scores and ratings.

You're filling out a credit application. Everything is going along just fine until you get to that box at the bottom... You know the one — where you're being asked to provide a personal guaranty — and, suddenly, you hit the brakes. Why is it, when you are working so hard to separate your business credit from your personal credit, those suppliers or lenders wanting you to mix them all together again? Reach out to me directly if you want to boost your business credit scores

You probably already know the best way to build up your business credit is to add payment history. If you don't have any vendors or suppliers, you may try to use some of the more familiar trade lines offered up online. Unfortunately, this can lead to "cookie-cutter" credit where you end up with the same generic payment history as everyone else and nothing of substance that proves your creditworthiness. Believe it or not, using generic suppliers can actually do more harm than

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Its easy to meet the lowest possible requirements for getting a Paydex score. All you need is three payments in the D&B file. Anybody can do that. But there are actually five OTHER credit scores in the D&B arsenal. Achieving substantial (and sustainable) credit requires you to keep working and improving all six of the scores and ratings — and you can't do that if you don't have the knowledge and experience to accomplish that.

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By now, you probably already know that you need payment history to boost your business credit scores and ratings. What you might not...

I guess the real question I should ask is "Are you planning to always be a small home-based business?" Or... "Do you plan on carrying...