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Rob Misheloff

Rob is a husband, father, and business owner who is passionate about helping others and has built his career around helping businesses grow.

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Small Business Term Loans Vs. Merchant Cash Advance: Which is Best?

Are you looking for a loan for your business but don't have perfect credit? Maybe you've spoken to some folks about either a merchant cash advance... or a "working capital" loan... ... you know the type that suck payments out of your accounts every...

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5 min read

Gym Equipment Leasing: True Cost of Fitness Equipment Financing

If you're in the fitness industry, you probably can probably spot a scam a mile away when it comes to something about the fitness industry, right? I'm sure that probably every single day, someone asks you a question like: "I read on the internet ...

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Used Equipment Financing: How High are the Rates?

I got a call today from a gentleman with a simple question: "Do you finance used equipment?" I replied with a simple answer: "Yes." It's always funny when I hear that question, because the truth is, most of the equipment we finance is used. We get...

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Can You Qualify for Logging Equipment Financing?

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Can You Qualify for Logging Equipment Financing?

If you've driven anywhere over the past year or so, you may have noticed something... Everywhere you look, there's a lot of construction going on. Houses are being built like crazy, which means builders need a lot of wood. When the houses are built...

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How Much Does Commercial LED Lighting Financing Cost?

If you're thinking about upgrading to LED lighting to save money, you're probably wondering how much you'll actually save, right? It should be pretty simple to figure out - just take your current power bill, figure out the new power bill with new...

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Daily Payment Loans For Your Business: Do They Ever Make Sense?

Have you ever looked into a "daily payment loan" for your business? Daily payment loans are products like some "working capital loans" or "merchant cash advance" products in the marketplace where you end up paying back some enormous amount of...

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Used Truck Financing: How to Finance Older Trucks

If you're in the trucking business, you probably want to be successful, right? Whether you're running a dump truck, a semi, or a water truck, you've got to make sure the numbers work, or else you won't be driving your own truck for very long. A lot...

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Food Concession Trailer Financing: How to Qualify for a Loan

Have you always dreamed of starting your own restaurant, but know you'll never be able to come up with half a million dollars to do it? Concession trucks and trailers can get you in business for about a tenth of the cost of starting a restaurant. ...

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Truck Financing: How to Avoid Being Ripped off for $7,300+

Are you looking for truck financing? You probably want to avoid getting ripped off, right? Maybe you check out some companies online... Did you know that some companies with an A+ BBB rating... Show up all over complaint websites like ...

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Commercial Truck Financing for Good Credit, Bad Credit and Startups

If you're trying to get the information you need about commercial truck financing you may be having some difficulty. The big problem in the truck financing industry - some people that run financing companies learned early on in their career that if...

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Food Truck Financing: How to Qualify to Lease a Food Truck

Food trucks are awesome. Maybe you are considering entering the food truck business for one simple reason: startup costs and operating expenses for a food truck are a fraction of the costs to open and run a restaurant... The problem: you probably...

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Tow Truck Financing: Rates, Requirements & Down Payments

So... Tow truck financing (or leasing)... ...it's pretty hard to find good information on the internet, right? If you want to learn how to get qualified to lease or finance a tow truck... (whether it's a wrecker, a rolloff, a rollback, or anything...

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Ultimate Small Business Loans Guide: 59 Ways to Fund Your Business

When I talk to small business owners, they've usually heard of a few ways to apply for small business financing. Occasionally, an article will come out that lists 5 (or sometimes 10) ways to get a small business loans. The truth is that there are ...

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How P2P Lending Works for Small Businesses [Infographic]

Are you having a tough time securing the capital you need to grow your business? Sure, there are plenty of small business "lenders" out there ready to give you a loan at 100% interest rates, but have you looked into the "other" alternative...

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Used Semi Truck Leasing for Owner Operators: What are the Costs?

Getting a new truck? (Well... new ... to you... right?) Your big question: How much does this cost? The truth is... You need to know how much your truck payments will be. That way you can figure out if the truck is worth it. Bonus: If you hate...

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The Best Small Business Funding Option You've Never Heard of

Today I'm going to show you a real funding option for a real small business. A real small business - not like the banks or the government define it (500 employees or fewer) but how actual people define it. You can have your money in a week, with no...

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15 Ways to Access Small Business Startup Loans

Are you thinking about starting a business, or have you recently started a new venture? You certainly aren't alone. In fact, 543,000 small businesses are started in the United States every month. That's the good news. Less good: half won't make it...

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Backhoe Leasing Rates: How Much Will Your Payments Be?

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Backhoe Leasing Rates: How Much Will Your Payments Be?

With construction demand growing steadily, the amount of people we talk to who need to finance construction equipment such as backhoes is growing as well. The vast majority of companies purchasing construction equipment will end up financing, and...

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How Much Does It Cost to Finance or Lease a Bulldozer?

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How Much Does It Cost to Finance or Lease a Bulldozer?

Bulldozers are one of the more expensive pieces of equipment folks ask about. That makes the process sometimes different than some other heavy equipment we talk about. Before we get started, if: You have credit over 700... and... You aren't a...

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Leasing Caterpillar Equipment: Costs, Prices and Other Variables

We field a lot of calls from people that are looking into buying Caterpillar equipment. Hardly anyone has the cash to buy equipment from Cat without financing it. Cat Finance offers 4.99% and sometimes lower rates on used equipment, but they will...

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