Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Increasingly, small businesses are turning to private loans to finance business expansions or ongoing operational costs. Private credit accounted for approximately 30% of the credit market in 2021, growing from $400 billion in assets to over 1 trillion dollars since 2012. This type of financing usually comes…

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Disclosure: Our goal is to display products and services that we think you will find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, the Entrepreneur may receive a small portion of the sales revenue from our trading partners. The traditional office setup is no longer the norm as companies increasingly embrace the benefits of virtual teams….

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Decades ago, I went to an open session at a BNI conference called “The Mathematical Formula for Networking Success.” Well, as the founder of the organization, I needed to see this presentation to learn the working formula for success business networking. The speaker began his presentation by…

A new list from Forbes and the market research company Statista ranks top startup employers in place. The startups under consideration had to have more than 50 employees and be founded between 2014 and 2021. They also could not be branches of larger corporations; they should have been launched independently. Statista examined millions of data…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Attending a marketing conference can be one of the most profitable investments of your time and money to strengthen your brand and increase your marketing knowledge. Marketing conferences are the main point to learn the latest trends in the marketing industry, develop your confidence in the world…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. “No.” This little word can be the most excruciating thing to hear for entrepreneurs desperately seeking funding for their dream venture. Unfortunately, most entrepreneurs will hear “no” often. According to a study published in the Harvard Business Review, only 1% of meetings with potential investors become a…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When others link to your website, Google wants to learn what value you can provide to users – the very reason someone gave you a backlink. Here it is Digital Public Relations (Digital PR) comes to. Compared to manual link building, digital PR focuses on teaching a…

This article originally appeared on Business Insider. To a significant extent, TIK Tok it did not grow in the last quarter of 2023. In the US, it actually went in the opposite direction. That's shocking for an app that has experienced rocket ship expansion since Chinese tech giant ByteDance launched it in 2016. The question…

As fast food prices continue to rise, many customers have taken to social media to complain — and some are finding affordable options in unexpected places. In a viral TikTok that has been viewed over 1.2 million times, Eason Trbojevic said that eating at his local Chili's is now cheaper than going to McDonald's. Connected:…