Small businesses face an uphill climb when it comes to finding and retaining top performing talent. Experienced and talented workers often tend to aim for jobs with high rates of pay, excellent employee benefits, and job security with a clear path for advancement. Unfortunately, all of these are difficult for startups and small businesses to provide, particularly compared to what larger competitors can offer.
When she joined Ventas in 1999, Debra Cafaro found herself at the head of a business on the verge of financial collapse. Just 10 years later, the company was named the most successful publicly traded company in the first decade of the new millennium. In the past 19 years, she oversaw and implemented a strategy that brought the company’s market capitalisation from $200 million to over $24 billion.
At the beginning of the month, Barclays launched a brand new £500 million fund to empower small businesses in the north of England. This comes as a part of the UK’s Northern Powerhouse Initiative, which seeks to develop the region’s economy as a whole. As Brexit approaches in 2019, this fund, along with the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund and several other smaller initiatives, such as Iwoca’s £100 million pledge, are a welcome resource for SMEs in regions that have seen slow growth and decline even as the the UK economy as a whole has continued to grow.
Most small business owners launch their businesses using a fixed amount of capital, often their personal savings or a business loan. To give themselves as much time as possible to establish their business and become profitable, entrepreneurs tend to work with very tight budgets, keeping costs trimmed down as much as possible. Unfortunately, for many businesses, that means keeping wages low, and often hiring entry-level employees that aren’t fully qualified in hopes of saving money. Often, this turns out to be a mistake.
Though many small businesses rely on equity investment for their startup funding, most entrepreneurs still use their personal savings, private loans from friends, and financing resources to launch their business. This leaves them with a small, fixed amount of capital with which to establish themselves. As a result, most small businesses operate on very tight budgets that leave little room for extraneous spending, and that leaves businesses vulnerable to cash flow issues.
Business owners don’t start companies with the hope of just getting by. Rather, entrepreneurs pour their time and resources into their business because they’re passionate about what they’re doing, and they want to realise a greater vision. That means not just establishing their business, but growing, innovating, and taking a leading position in their industry. Doing so successfully, however, is tricky, and requires a lot of preparation.
Franchisees with Fifo Capital don’t just build their own successful business, they do it by realising the dreams of other entrepreneurs just like them.
“The UK alternative finance sector is predicted to be worth £12.3 billion by 2020.”
Nicolas Boutar joined us as a Business Partner in April 2018, after previously working over 15 years in the Investment Banking industry. He is a seasoned Director in the credit space, having worked with many big institutions on financing solutions, both short term and long term. His expertise in financing solutions and customer service as well as his willingness to work fast and efficiently make him an ideal candidate to transfer his skills to the SME short term financing business.
Time is the most precious, and most limited, resource that small business owners have. There are never enough hours in the day to tackle all the responsibilities an entrepreneur needs to stay on top of. Early on in a business’ life, businesses don’t have dedicated teams to deal with payroll, sales, marketing, legal issues, production, or management. Instead, business owners find themselves trying to do all these jobs to varying extents.
Maintaining steady cash flow is one of the toughest jobs that small business owners face. Since most small businesses operate on very tight budgets, they normally can’t afford to deal with unwelcome financial surprises. Unfortunately late payments, equipment breakdowns, unexpected fees and taxes, and any number of other cash flow issues are a natural part of doing business.
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Fifo Capital understands time is critical when it comes to managing your cash flow – so our process is aimed to be as simple as possible.
A Fifo Capital facility approval typically takes around 24 hours to set-up and depending on the required information supplied by customers, transfer of funds can take place in as little as four hours.
The following covers the terms and conditions required for a four hour funds transfer to take place;
To find out more about the full terms and conditions relating to our 4 hour funds transfer please contact Fifo Capital on 07812 334 564
