Every business wants to grow, but when your business involves providing credit terms or delivering goods and services before payment, it can be tricky to determine which businesses to work with and which to decline. Historically, some large corporations have been wary of taking on small business clients who can be notoriously hard to evaluate due to having little or no information available on their credit files. Also, small businesses tend to be a volatile group – 49% fail in the first 5 years of operation.

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Tweet We promise that blogging from our product managers will start again soon, but in the meantime, here’s more from the Marketing and PR front… In honor of National Small Business Week, through May 30, 2012, we’re offering a 50% savings on our brand new BusinessIQ Express tool — just $375 for an annual subscription rather than [...]

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Tweet Are you a small business owner or do you know one? At FinovateSpring 2012 this morning, we announced BusinessIQ Express, an exciting online tool designed to help small businesses keep the cash flowing by helping them make smarter decisions about the businesses they work with. The tool helps users: Evaluate prospects, customers, suppliers and [...]

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Tweet In the movie “Casablanca”, the French police chief has a famous line, “round up the usual suspects”.  The Financial Stability Risk Score, or FSR, predicts bankruptcy or severe payment default and the factors used by the scoring model are familiar ones. Among the warning signals used:  61+ and 91+ delinquency trades and derogatories such [...]

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Tweet In the world of Corporate Linkage I often hear, “linkage is never finished”.  What do I mean by this statement?  Change is constant in today’s business environment.  Some businesses are starting up while others are closing their doors.  Businesses are acquired and businesses merge.  That is why at Experian we constantly monitor for changes [...]

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