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Entrepreneuers, improve your credit

By Becky McCray

Improving your personal credit history can help your small business borrow at better rates, secure a better merchant account deal, or negotiate a better lease.

So how’s your credit? If you are like most people, either you don’t know or you only know it’s not good. Time for some resources to improve your personal credit.

TransUnion’s Credit Learning Center includes five terrific pop-up worksheets:

  • Improving your credit
  • Fighting identity theft
  • Building a credit history
  • Reducing your debts
  • Creating a spending plan

The Credit Resolutions article gives you 10 actions to improve your finances overall.

The information there is solid, and the advertising is absolutely minimal.

Thanks, Jeanne, for the link.

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Becky McCray

Becky started Small Biz Survival in 2006 to share rural business and community building stories and ideas with other small town business people. She and her husband have a small cattle ranch and are lifelong entrepreneurs. Becky is an international speaker on small business and rural topics.

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