Q1 Special Report: Construction Endures Cold Start – Optimism Remains High
Today Experian Business Information Services released a special report on the construction industry, detailing a weather-related slow start to the New Year in cities east of the Rockies, and a...
View ArticleHangout With Experian and Moody’s Analytics for our Post-Webinar Google Hangout
Join Experian and Moody’s Analytics economists for an informal post-webinar Google Hangout on Friday June 20th at 10 a.m. (PST), 1:00 p.m. (EST). We will be answering questions from our Quarterly...
View ArticleQ1 Special Report: Manufacturing recovers from a cold start, spurred on by...
Today Experian Business Information Services released a special report on business credit in the manufacturing industry, which was plagued by poor weather throughout the South, Northeast and Midwest...
View ArticleZombie Apocalypse Meets Polar Vortex for Some Struggling Small Businesses
Bloomberg Businessweek published a really great article in “The New Entrepreneur” section titled “Small Business Borrowers Haunted by Polar Vortex and Zombies.” Bloomberg references our recent Q1 2014...
View ArticleCommercial Credit Consortium Data Offers Huge Upside for B2B Businesses
The Small Business Credit Share℠ program is a consortium of companies that share expanded payment performance data on products like lines of credit, credit cards, loans, leases and first creditors for...
View ArticleSmall Business Brief
In this week’s edition we’ll cover:The President’s SupplierPay/QuickPay Initiative for Small BusinessBank of America and Wells Fargo stepping up to the Small Business lending plateMid-year tax check-in...
View Article6 Debt Collection Tips to Improve Cash Flow
Small business owners have to be extremely versatile. They’re chief marketing officers and salespeople one day, operations managers and human resources heads the next. Because marketing and sales...
View ArticleSmall Business Brief – Women Business Owners Face Gap in Lending, Federal...
Senate report claims $1 in every $23 lent to small business goes to female entrepreneur. Women-owned businesses have taken great strides since the late 1970s. So much so, that between 1972 and 2007,...
View ArticleHow industry and employment has changed since 1990 in the United States
Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a fascinating map of the United States. It was researched by Frances Osei-Bonsu, a Denison University student who recently served an internship at the...
View ArticleThe Most Profitable Kinds of Businesses
There are almost 28 million small businesses in the United States, nearly all of them are privately held, and approximately 22 million are single proprietorship’s run by a single person. If you were...
View ArticleSmall Business Brief – Large loans to businesses rebounding faster than small...
Our stories this week include: A new report from the Federal Reserve Board on small business lending trends.Other interesting findings from the Brookings Institute on new business startup...
View ArticleExperian Releases Q2 Update to Business Information Map
Experian has released an update to the Business Information Map for Q2 2014. Top performing metropolitan areas in Business Risk Score include Portland, Oregon, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Grand...
View ArticleExperian Ranks Top and Bottom Metro Areas For Business Bankruptcy
Experian has released an update to the Business Information Map for Q2 2014. We summarize our Q2 findings for the bankruptcy category in the below video.The Experian Business Information Map offers a...
View ArticleAttend our next Quarterly Business Credit Review Webinar
There are twenty eight million small businesses in the United States, they are the life blood of job creation in America and they out-number corporations 1162 to 1. As such, access to credit and...
View ArticleTop and Bottom Performing Areas for On-time Bill Payment
Experian has released an update to the Business Information Map for Q2 2014. The map offers a state and metro level view of business credit conditions throughout the United States.When it comes to on...
View ArticleCity Mayors Appear on Meet The Press To Talk Progress and Innovation
U.S. Mayors Appear on Meet The Press 9/7/14On Sunday, three U.S. Mayors appeared on Meet The Press with Chuck Todd to offer their perspectives on the economy in their towns and what has been working...
View ArticleWith iPhone 6 Apple Ushers In Wave of Credit Card Innovation
Tomorrow, September 9, Apple will announce a suite of new products including a rumored new wearable device “iWatch”, and a bigger, more durable iPhone 6. Those two product introductions alone will be a...
View ArticleQ2 Small Business Risk Scores Illustrate East/West Divide
Experian has released an update to the Business Information Map for Q2 2014. The map offers a state and metro level view of small business credit conditions throughout the United States.Looking at...
View ArticleAre You a B2B Marketing Expert? Take the quiz
According to a recent Advertising Age survey, in 2014 over 50 percent of businesses will increase their B2B marketing spend. Furthermore, Juniper Research states marketers who segment their lists and...
View ArticleSmall Business Brief – U.S. business ownership drops to lowest level on record
Federal Reserve reports U.S. business ownership drops to lowest level on recordAccording to a recently published report from the Federal Reserve titled “Survey of Consumer Finances”, the share of...
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